Make Your Bed by Admiral William H. McRaven (U.S. Navy Retired) is a little blue-book about little things that can change your life…and maybe the world. It was inspired by the commencement speech McRaven gave on May 21, 2014. Start your day with a task completed. Make your bed. And, as he explains in Chapter Ten: Never Quit. McRaven told Business Insider in an interview: Admiral McRaven: We used to have a saying in SEAL training, "Take it one evolution at a time." Meaning don't look six months down the road. Don't ask yourself or don't look and say, "My gosh, I've got more swims and more … [Read more...]
Target: “We’re not trying to be the catalog of everything”
In a time when it seems Amazon and Wal-Mart are attempting to beat each other to offering the absolute widest selection of products available at the lowest possible cost, Target is taking a different track. Target's digital chief, Mike McNamara tells the Wall Street Journal “We aren’t going to add products to our website and stores just because they exist.” Khadeeja Safdar writes that instead of barreling headlong into the acquisition of any available online retailer, Target has taken a more cautious approach. It remained on the sidelines when Wal-Mart paid $3.3 billion for discount retailer … [Read more...]
Get More Retirement Income and Be Your Own Boss
Who would have thought you could make money fishing in retirement? I’ll explain. “Hey, E.J., quick question. I’ve got a minute before my next pick-up.” That’s when it hit me. He wasn’t joking about working for Uber. Nice! What a great way to pick-up some extra cash. Why wouldn’t you work for Uber? The money is good. Much better than I had expected. And, he told me, “I’m meeting some incredible people.” He is learning a ton. How many retirees can say they’re meeting new people at a part-time job, having fun, while being the boss? It’s meeting people and getting some fresh ideas that … [Read more...]
Portfolio Strategy: How Jeff Bezos Can Teach You to Be a Successful Investor
It may seem ironic that the CEO of America’s least profitable big company has insight to offer on investing in profitable businesses, but he does. Yes, Jeff Bezos ran Amazon.com for years without turning a meaningful profit—decades even, but there is no denying the guy is brilliant. In the span of about 20 years, Bezos managed to turn Amazon.com into one of America’s largest companies. He continues to disrupt and decimate brick and mortar retail, and under his leadership Amazon has spawned an entire new industry in the form of Amazon Web Services. How did Bezos do it? A relentless … [Read more...]
Business Magnate Investing in This Texas Town
Bobby Patel, a local small-business magnate is very optimistic about his home town in Texas. The town is home to ExxonMobil sites including a refinery and a polyethylene facility. Patel is so optimistic about the town's future, he is investing $2.5 million in his businesses there over the next five years. He's not the only one optimistic about Beaumont, Texas though. ExxonMobil is expanding its facilities there, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on upgrading its refinery to remove sulfur. In December ExxonMobil completed a project to increase the refinery's capacity and to give it … [Read more...]
Warren Buffett and Apple Paying a Dividend Would Be Nice
“It’s our job, though, to over time deliver significant growth, bumpy or not. After all, as stewards of your capital, Berkshire directors have opted to retain all earnings,” writes Warren Buffett in his 2016 Annual Report Chairman’s letter. In other words, Berkshire doesn’t pay a dividend. It retains all earnings to invest in its companies or to acquire new ones. If you’re a Berkshire shareholder and need retirement income you need to rely on Berkshire’s capital gains to sell shares. I don’t like that and it's not how Mr. Buffett operates. He loves cash and invests it wisely (most of the … [Read more...]
Apple’s Services Bigger than Starbucks
Only a 13% slice of Apple's sales are generated from services, but the company has become so large that at $7 billion in revenue per quarter, that's more than the entire Starbucks business. … [Read more...]
Here Is a Risk FANG Investors May Be Underestimating
Some investors in FANG stocks have a belief that the businesses they are investing in are so dominant that they can’t be caught by the competition. This may or may not be true. If it is though, are FANG investors ignoring regulatory risk? Here The Economist makes the case that regulators need to new approach to anti-trust to level the playing field in today’s data driven economy. These titans—Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft—look unstoppable. They are the five most valuable listed firms in the world. … The nature of data makes the antitrust remedies … [Read more...]
Could You Be A Millionaire By Thursday?
A new wave of online speculation is erupting around crypto-currencies. If you're keeping up with financial news, you've undoubtedly run across a mention or two of Bitcoin. But have you heard of Muse or Ether? Digital currencies are proliferating, and investors are making ever riskier bets on their success. Despite low volume and high volatility, so called "alt-coin" traders are attempting to get rich quickly. The Financial Times writes that at current rates of return, investors could be dollar millionaires by Thursday. Most organisations have their share of IT workers who slip under the … [Read more...]
WannaCry: A Cyber-Attack With Unprecedented Global Reach
A new cyber-attack named WannaCry has been hitting computer users around the world. Europol Director, Rob Winwright said of the attack "The global reach is unprecedented." The attack uses ransom-ware to extort money from victims. First, their computers are locked. Then they are given a ransom demand. If they don't pay, the files will be deleted. At The Wall Street Journal, Nick Kostov, Jenny Gross and Stu Woo report that progress is being made in fighting the attack, but that it's not over yet. The virus was slowed down over the weekend by the identification and activation of a “kill … [Read more...]
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