I have just witnessed a car accident today. Some teenagers in a Toyota Tercel ran a red light to hit another vehicle trying to make the turn on a amber. Since no one was hurt I used my phone to capture the event.
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Car accident
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Jamaica Trip
July 5th, 2009I have just returned from my business trip to Jamaica. I have set into motion some of my plans and have returned with a checklist of items to be sourced. At this point I would describe my mood as cautiously optimistic.
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Hoping for spring
March 9th, 2009This winter has been very rough this far. Today we got what I hope is the last snowfall for the season.
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Making money the hard way
March 7th, 2009Just by examining the state of affairs we will realise that most of the frauds and ponzi schemes are now being exposed in these bad times. What we should also realise is that most large corporations such as banks and insurance companies are nothing but legal Ponzi schemes. If you examine there operations closely you will realise that they all operate in a similiar manner. What is also very interesting is the fact that all these schemes have flourished for years during the good times, and are only being discovered now that times have gotten tough.
Base on these observations, my conclusions are as follows:
1. The current financial system is inherently flawed.
2. The most wealth being generated over the years is base on trickery.
3. The financial geniuses of our times are people who have noticed the inherent flaws in the system and have fully exploited it.
5. True wealth can only be generated if you are in control of the wealth generation process.
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Machiavelli
March 5th, 2009As I sat here contemplating, I came across the following quotes from Machiavelli:
“Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.”
“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared”
“War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other’s advantage.”
“Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it. ”
“Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage. ”
“A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and it’s rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules, and it is of such force that it not only upholds those who were born princes, but it often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank. ”
“A prince being this obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. ”
My intention is see how these words translate into the world of business. Since business is similar to war in many ways, these words may hold important clues to success in business.
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You have to love the battle
March 3rd, 2009As I sit here contemplating life and it’s high and lows, I realised that the best way to tackle this game of life is to approach it as a war. As I further contemplate I realised that the warrior who is victorious must be a dedicated fighter. This dedication can be achieved in various ways:
1. The fighter believes in the ideology being fought for.
2. The fighter realised that to survive he must fight for the team.
3. The fighter must love the fight.
I believe that to make it in life you have to be a true warrior. As such we must love the battle and cherish the spoils. As with any war, any spoils is shared amongst the army in a fair manner, but most important is the fact that a substantial amount is preserved to finance future wars.
To complete my mental assessment I must quote the words of Theodore Roosevelt:
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
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Sipping my Henessy
February 28th, 2009Nothing soothes the mind like a little alcohol. As I sit here sipping my henessy I ponder on methods to conquer my fear of failure which have trapped me and countless others. I suddenly start to think about the different economic theories which have predicted the rise and fall of various economic systems. The current state of affairs have reinforced how correct this may have been. It may be that the alcohol is a way of relaxing my mind and revealing the obvious. The question is, are we now experiencing what many have predicted?( the self destruction of capitalism). The system which will replace it is the other question. I guess another drink
may reveal this to me.
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Brainstorming Session
February 27th, 2009My brainstorming session finally brought forth some meaningful result. I am actually quite happy about the plan which has resulted. Needless to say I won’t reveal it until execution time. I like this idea to the point where I won’t allow anyone to try to talk me out of it. I will now sit back and decide on the execution strategy.
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Operation Tycoon Update
February 26th, 2009At the present moment Operation Tycoon is not going as planned. This is particularly due to the team building process. Going forward I will have to explore various possibilities or I might be forced to rewrite my strategy.
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Strategy Execution
February 25th, 2009As I mentioned in my previous post, I am in the process of refining my strategy and building a team all with the intention of breaking away from the nine-to-five living. One of my greatest drawback is my lack of patience and as such I have been rushing to get everything off the ground.
As a preliminary step to launching out I am trying to establish the total startup cost. This is proving to be harder than I anticipated. Another potential problem is my outdated market analysis, which is even more useless given the current recession. As I mentioned before my lack of patience and lack of execution time interval mean that I will procede taking into consideration these factors.
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