MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom

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

THE BANKER’S SECRET

You have to keep cool and have money when your neighbors and everybody else is depressed. You don’t want to have money when everybody else has money, because then everybody else also competes for assets, and they are expensive.

I took a week’s pay and went to a seminar where I met Jim Rohn—the man who became my life’s first mentor.

The average person asks questions such as “How do I get by?” or “Why is this happening to me?” Some even ask questions that disempower them, causing their minds to focus on and find roadblocks instead of solutions. Questions like “How come I can never lose weight?” or “Why can’t I ever hang on to my money?” only move them farther down the path of l

focusing passionately on ways to save more, earn more, reduce fees and taxes, and find better returns with even less risk, you’ll be amazed at how many new opportunities you’ll discover.

minds

The point of living is to believe the best is yet to come.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. —STEVE JOBS