Archive for January, 2008

$7.2 billion fraud costs Jérôme Kerviel (Facebook) friends

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

Filed under: Scandals
If someone you know was on the front-page of every newspaper for a scheme that cost France’s second-largest bank $7.2 billion, what’s the first thing you’d do?
Exactly: Delete him as your friend on Facebook. According to DealBook, that’s exactly what happened: Before the story broke, Jérôme Kerviel had 11 friends on Facebook. Now […]

Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires. Shhh…

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Reader’s Digest has an article titled Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires. The “secrets” aren’t exactly groundbreaking:

Set your sights on where you’re going
Educate yourself
Passion pays off
Grow your money
No guts, no glory
Stop spending

… but I always enjoy reading such stories anyway. In addition, sprinkled throughout the article are several interesting quotes which hit home for me.

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