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:
Or anything else that matters.
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.
30 for 30: Big Shot
One of the recent Tycoon Playbook enrollees tipped me off to this program last week. If you’re fascinated by deal-making and enjoy good caper flicks as well, you should get a kick out of this.
Pretend that it’s 1996 and you’re a 32-year-old businessman who’s just discovered that the once mighty New York Islanders are up for sale. The price tag is $165 million. It’s been your dream ever since you were a boy to one day own a major sports franchise. Nothing says that you have made it in America louder than ownership of an NFL, NHL, MLB, or NBA team. The only problem is that your net worth is just south of $200,000 which means that, in theory at least, you shouldn’t have a hope in hell of being taken seriously by anyone.
So what do you do? Most people would pass on the opportunity because an exercise in futility is just that, an exercise in futility. So why embarrass yourself?
Economist Tyler Cowen Explains Why The Future Will Be Awesome — For About 15% Of Us
The future doesn’t look so bright for 85% of Americans. The American Enterprise Institute interviews economist Tyler Cowen about the findings in his new book Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation.
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