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Entries for September, 2009

Why I Blogged a Tweet

On Monday I posted the following:
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” -Antione de Saint Exupéry
All 135 characters of this quote fits snugly into the 140 character limit of Twitter, but instead of just tweeting it (which I did), I blogged it.
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The Case For Less

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” -Antione de Saint Exupéry

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The Playful Entrepreneur

I have a friend who is a very successful entrepreneur, so successful that at 24 he is the youngest CEO listed in the 2009 Inc 500 (a listing of the 500 fastest growing, privately held companies in the country). He is the person who instilled in me that entrepreneurship isn’t about what you are doing, it’s [...]

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The Rules of Haggling

It’s no secret that I enjoy haggling. I have written a great deal on it, and even been interviewed by Forbes about it; but this last week I was interviewed by a local Television station about haggling, and this new experience prompted me to develop some good faith rules to haggling.
Why develop rules for something [...]

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Why Do You Save?

As children most of us learned about money, and what saving meant via some sort of allowance. We got a certain amount of money per week (most likely for doing chores) and that money was ours to do with what we wanted.
When I first started receiving an allowance, I did what any kid in my [...]

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