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1 FaverShareViewed: 12 TimesQuoted: The vast majority — 80% — either started their own business or worked for a small company that saw explosive growth. And almost all of them made their fortune in a big lump sum after many years of effort.
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Quoted: Consultant Joel Kurtzman, who evaluated 350 startups for his book Startups That Work, found that successful outlets usually have a team of two or three founders who share a common vision; the success rate for this model was a remarkable 50%. The odds for solo founders were more like the oft-quoted one in 10, in part because they often found themselves working at cross-purposes with hired guns who see things differently.
Choose Your Own Dreams
1 FaverShareViewed: 28 TimesQuoted: Sean Rasmussen Success Communication Blog.
1 FaverShareViewed: 33 TimesQuoted: According to a United States Census Bureau report called the Income, Earnings, and Poverty Data From the 2006 American Community Survey, the richest state in the nation is Maryland, overtaking last year's wealthiest New Jersey.
This is an interesting rationalization for why ever increasing wealth doesn't necessarily buy ever increasing happiness.
1 FaverShareViewed: 6 TimesQuoted: The trouble is, choice is not all it's cracked up to be. Studies show that people like selecting from among maybe half a dozen kinds of pasta at the grocery store but find 27 choices overwhelming, leaving them chronically on edge that they could have chosen a better one than they did
Here's some food for thought as you do your taxes...
2 FaversShareViewed: 3 TimesQuoted: Laboratory game shows people will give up some of their own wealth to ensure equality within a group
1 FaverShareViewed: 2 TimesQuoted: Successful Personal Finance Blog about personal finance, money management, investing, IRA, Roth IRA, 401 (k), budgeting, debt, credit cards, real estate investment and other financial topics.
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