Archive for June 20th, 2008

  • Entrepreneurs Are Strange People

    Entrepreneurs are considered strange people in Japan. How “strange” are you?
    From Boomtown USA
    “Entrepreneurs are considered strange people in Japan,” Dr. Takashi Yamamoto, economics professor at Akita International University told the Economic Gardening Gathering in Steamboat Springs. When asked about some of Japan’s more famous entrepreneurs like Akio Morita who co-founded Sony in 1946, Yamamota [...]

  • Just Because You’re Rich, It Doesn’t Mean Your Investments Prosper

    Here’s the headline: Meltdown of real estate company hits ‘A’-list jocks
    We like to wallow in our self pity by saying things would just be easier for us “if”…
    …we were handsome or beautiful
    …we were rich
    …we had professional advice
    Etc.
    I don’t know if you’d describe these professional athletes as handsome, but they had money and professional advice and [...]