It’s that giving in any form builds wealth faster than getting ever will.

Now that you’re thinking like an insider, you know the rules of the game, and you’ve learned how to make the game winnable, it’s time to make the most important investment decision of your life: Where do you put your money and in what proportions? Asset allocation is what every Nobel Prize winner, every hedge fund manager, every top institutional

will be glad you did: www.economicprinciples.org.

Because what’s obvious is obviously wrong.

the best way to change your life is to find people who’ve already achieved what you want and then model their behavior.

When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis, over reasonably long periods of time, there’s almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund. —DAVID SWENSEN, author of Unconventional Success and manager of Yale University’s more than $23.9 billion endowment

With uncertainty, we default to doing nothing or at least procrastinating. We put off until tomorrow what we need to do today.

It isn’t about the money. It’s about choice; about freedom. It’s about being able to live life on your terms, not anybody else’s.

So if you’re willing to do whatever it takes, you still have to execute your plan carefully, and keep adapting your approach.