Monthly Archives: March 2011

In This Benighted Land, There Appears Little Choice But Go Into Business

Frankly, going into business is one of the riskiest most difficult proposition there is. The risks and difficulties involved here would make going into other types of investment look like peanuts.

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Time to Prepare – These Are Troubled Times

These are troubled times. It’s difficult to write about the usual topics. Bad news is everywhere and paranoia is building up. Time to prepare.

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About Doomsday Scenarios and the Greatest of Investments

Everybody knows the disaster that is still raging on in some form or another in Japan as of this writing. The conservative estimate is that at least a thousand perished in the 8.9 magnitude quake or from the fires that followed. As to the radiation or possible meltdown from the five or so nuclear reactors which lost cooling systems, well, let’s just hope the problem will be contained soonest. It has been a mini-doomsday, a foretaste of Apocalypse for mankind.

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Are You Willing To Work Long Late Hours and Forego Much of Your Social Life

In the last post entitled “Going Into Business Is Like Swimming Upstream or Going Into War”, we said that “preparing for war” is not a guarantee of success. It only means that through preparation, we get a “fighting chance”. Well, that should be a good start, and for this post, we speak of a very important ammunition to improve or expand our fighting chance.

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