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The Wolf of Wall Street Opens on the 25th
The movie of the year opens on Christmas Day. It’s another pairing of Hollywood heavyweights Martin Scorsese and Leo DiCaprio with the actor playing the notorious real life figure Jordan Belfort who ran a boiler room operation in the 1990s selling penny stocks to the unsuspecting before going to prison. The movie Boiler Room was about a low level salesman who worked for Belfort’s firm Stratton Oakmont. According to people who have already seen it the 3 hours fly by.
Here’s business growth advice from John Paul DeJoria who has built two $2 billion companies since the 1980s.
True rags-to-riches stories are not as common as we sometimes like think, but the story of John Paul DeJoria is a bona fide example of one. At one point he was homeless and at another he was a member of an Los Angeles gang. Then in the early 1980s he launched a hair care products company, John Paul Mitchell Systems, with a startup budget of $700. On top of all that he’s a good speaker and story-teller. Here he is giving the keynote speech at the Stanford 2011 Entrepreneurship Conference.
Yeah, not bad for a City College boy. I bought my way in, now all these Ivy league schmucks are sucking my kneecaps. – Gordon Gekko, Wall Street
I have been hearing rumors about Harvard’s grade inflation for many years but now it’s confirmed.
They’re All Special
The most commonly awarded grade at Harvard is an A
“The median grade in Harvard College is indeed an A-,” the school’s dean of education said today, according to the student newspaper. Even more stunning: “The most frequently awarded grade in Harvard College is actually a straight A.”
The Tycoon Playbook has joined forced with the prestigious Lugen Family Office to promote the Playbook course to the latter’s high net worth clientele base.
- About Lugen Family Office Inc.
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Lugen Family Office Inc. (“LFO”) is a company specializing in empowering intergenerational family stories for affluent business families around the world. As a client of Lugen Family Office, you will have access to LFO’s strategic network of global experts to help guide you through each step of our proprietary Seven Generation Legacy Process.
LFO’s core operations include:
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No one “builds a house.” They lay one brick again and again and again and the end result is a house. Procrastinators are great visionaries—they love to fantasize about the beautiful mansion they will one day have built—but what they need to be are gritty construction workers, who methodically lay one brick after the other, day after day, without giving up, until a house is built.
Step one is to stop procrastinating and take the first step.
If you have a problem starting, read this two part series on how to overcome procrastination. The above quote is from part 2.
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