For Whom Wealth Matters
March 22, 2014 Leave a comment
“There were no sex classes. No friendship classes. No classes on how to navigate a bureaucracy, build an organization, raise money, create a database, buy a house, love a child, spot a scam, talk someone out of suicide, or figure out what was important to me. Not knowing how to do these things is what messes people up in life, not whether they know algebra or can analyze literature.” ~ William Upski Wimsatt
March 22, 2014 Leave a comment
Here’s another great piece from Cammi Pham:
Have you ever wondered why my motto is “Investing in people”?
It all started from a story my mother told me when I was a little child. The story is about the most remarkable entrepreneur in Chinese history.
Two thousands years ago, during the Warring States Period, China was divided into 7 states: Qin, Chu, Qi, Yan, Han, Wei, Zhao.
One day Lü Buwei, a wealthy merchant saw a rare investment opportunity. He came home and asked his father,
“Father, What is the profit on investment that one can expect from plowing fields?”“Ten times the original investment,” his father replied.
“And the return on investment in pearls and jades is how much?”
“A hundred times.” Read more of this post
March 19, 2014 Leave a comment
After attending a few class reunions we noticed many lady lawyers, doctors and M.B.A.s were still slaving after 40, while lots of less brainy gals were taking long vacations from their day jobs, shopping at Prada and enjoying more than their fair share of hot-stone massages.
We asked ourselves: “Why are these women faring better than the smart chicks?”
Since we think of ourselves as smart girls, here’s the bottom line: Find your fortune while you’re young and marry a man with money.This is what we call the Gold-Digging Imperative–”The GDI.”
We don’t think “gold-digging” should be frowned upon. Why, we wonder, does society applaud a girl who falls for a guy’s big blue eyes yet denounces one who chooses a man with a big green bankroll?What’s the difference? Earning power is, after all, a reflection of his values and character. Big blue eyes? Not so much.
The average guy believes most gals are only looking for money, but the truth is too few of us are interested in their income at all. The modern gal is earning her own cash and is looking for emotional security.Too bad it doesn’t exist.
What’s worse, national statistics show women suffer far more economically than men when marriages fail. With this in mind, we have some advice: Instead of looking for love, let’s look out for our own security, the kind you can count in dollars and cents. Read more of this post
March 18, 2014 Leave a comment
A scenario that often gets people’s goat is when Alphas pick Betas in the mating game.The explanation is to be found in this internet exchange:-
I Don’t Love My Fiancé Anymore, But I Need His Money, So I’m Going To Marry Him Anyway
I think about what my mother would say if she knew, and I cringe. She is a strong feminist — raised in the second wave, where things were loud and new and revolutionary — and she taught me to be the same. I love and embrace my womanhood, and I would embrace my independence along with it, if that were an option. But as of now, it is not, and I could never tell her. I couldn’t watch the way her face fell as she realized that her daughter has fallen into exactly the traps and the lifestyle that she worked so tirelessly to eradicate. She fought to live her own life on her own terms, and I am choosing the comfort and security of living someone else’s.
My fiancé is a good man, much better than I deserve. He is smart, and kind, and extremely generous — with his money, yes, but also with his time and his emotions. He is the friend who would pick you up from the middle of nowhere at three in the morning if your car ran out of gas. He would lend you whatever you needed without asking uncomfortable questions. He believes in the good in people, and life has always rewarded him for it. Until, I guess, life matched him up with me. Read more of this post
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