Why, oh why, I say with a sigh Am I the only one left in a suit and a tie? Should it be that I claim that the reason Is cause suits and ties are always in season Or am I just a man who likes to stand out I am awfully stubborn without any […]
If there is anything in the world I know a lot about, it is real estate. It has been my life for 40 years. The Real Estate Philosopher combines my knowledge and experience in real estate with my love of thinking (philosophy). If you are in the real estate world, or thinking of going into it, […]
I wrote this one about five years ago. I don’t mean to sound humbuggish – God forbid – but it is one of the best books you will ever read about marketing and sales. I spent a ton of my life in marketing – and have been extremely successful with it; indeed, my rainmaking has […]
T’was a family secret it was true And that meant no one knew So she only told her mother Who swore to tell no other Of course she also told her sister And her husband when he kissed her This was by no means spilling the beans After all these were not […]
Along the way, I formed an investment company called Objective Investments. After ten years I think we broke even and my wife wondered why I didn’t just give our money to one of my clients because – in her words – ‘every time we give them money they give us back more.’ This whole business was […]
Business failures — there have been a bunch of them. My most prominent was that I created and opened The Plumpling House, which was a creative dumpling cuisine. I lost a (large) fortune and could write a book on how not to open and run a restaurant. My only intelligent action was closing it up in 87 days […]
Sh_tty Investor – unfortunately, I am a terrible investor. My instincts seem to start from the view that I am smarter than everyone else and then lose money. Not the best plan. The most salient of these was my investment career in the stock market where I found stocks that went down – and even […]
VC Investor – I regularly provide seed capital to creative sponsors with interesting business ideas. My checks are not large; however, I try to be strategically useful as well as providing funding. Most of these end in failure but there are some big winners now and then so overall I guess it does “okay”.
Publishing Business – I teamed up with a good friend to buy into a publishing company – called Easton Press. This is the company that has published my fiction book, Faythe of North Hinkapee, and I find my partner there – David Wilk – to be just about the most knowledgeable person in the entire publishing industry. Through […]
Real Estate Investor: I have invested with various clients in their real estate endeavors; however, so far I have been smart enough not to dabble directly in real estate itself, since, being honest with myself, I would have no clue how to do it. See my book, How to Invest in Real Estate if You Know […]