Carnegie, Rockefeller, Astor, Vanderbilt and Rothschild are all names of families with wealth – wealth held across many generations. Just hearing the names causes pictures of polished silver, wood paneling and yachts to form...
Why is it that our ancestors didn’t figure out how to pass along their wealth to us? Here are my top three reasons they failed to do so.
What is the difference between focusing on wealth creation and pursuing it single mindedly? Is it the difference between having a life and missing out? Is it the difference between success and failure?
Ronald Reagan once proclaimed Andy Williams’ voice a “national treasure”. His career was in full bloom when I was reaching my late teens and early twenties. One of my best friends and I used...
One of the benefits of having wealth is the ability to trade money for time. Multimillionaires and billionaires often hire household help – whether it be just an occasional cleaning or lawn service or...
According to estimates done by Carl Haub and others at the Population Reference Bureau and reported on the Mother Nature Netork, there have been 108 billion individual people who have walked the Earth over...
My 64th birthday was earlier this week. You may remember that the Beatles released a song about this way back in 1967 as part of their album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Not...
One of my fears when I joined my husband in retirement is that we would be together way too much. Don’t get me wrong, togetherness in a married couple is a good thing, but...
Hello all, I’m on a week of self discovery this week and so am going to avoid writing one post and instead, give you a tour of the best of the past years posts...
The Daily Beast says: “Economists have long recognized what’s been dubbed the “beauty premium”—the idea that pretty people, whatever their aspirations, tend to do better in, well, almost everything. Handsome men earn, on average, 5...
