Wealth = Focus x Grit x Resilience
It changes your life witnessing the incredible accomplishments that hard work and smart planning yield over time.
Dad served in the US Military including Desert Shield and Desert Storm, taught at the Naval War College and retired as a contractor who worked on F-35 and other programs in his twilight years before passing on.
RIP Dad.
Mom owned a publishing company in Newport, Rhode Island before moving to NYC to become an executive at the NY Daily News. Watching her grow her company made me realize how hard employing people and competing in uncertain environments is.
My lessons continued at work in New York.
On Wall St I learned about people and the dynamics of money. Most importantly I learned that was the correct order of importance if you wanted to succeed anywhere: people first, then money.
I was responsible for analyzing the 'Revenue Quality' of private and public companies. With a small team we’d break apart each company’s revenue engine:
How they made money - the revenue engine includes…
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