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Foresight & Hindsight

Say, “I hold not for myself [the power of] benefit or harm, except what Allah has willed. And if I knew the unseen, I could have acquired much wealth, and no harm would have touched me. I am not except a warner and a bringer of good tidings to a people who believe.” [7:188]

Watch this conversation of investors Jim Rogers, Marc Faber, and Daniel Yergin recorded in 2003. It is interesting to see their forecast.

Click here to see the video

Things discussed: save, invest, China, India, US, Japan, Netherlands, Turkey, Europe, entrepreneurial culture, gold, oil, stock, trends, globalization, infrastructure, currency, debt, system, population, policy, power play, consumption, English language, Chinese language, world economy

Here is the video posted on YouTube:

The Riverside Conversations: a series of conversations for television hosted by Jim Rogers. Each installment will be 50 minutes long and concentrate, in depth, on one important issue.

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How Interpersonal Skills Pay Off

Professor Bob Bontempo reveals how to self-awareness and emotional intelligence can enhance your income and career. Bontempo is the faculty director of Columbia Business School Executive Education’s “Persuasion: Influencing Without Authority.”

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Get rid of the middleMAN :)

Dan was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business.

When he found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly father died, he decided he needed a wife with which to share his fortune.

One evening at an investment meeting he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.

Her natural beauty took his breath away. Therefore he compelled to approach her, and he said,

“I may look like just an ordinary man, but in just a few years, my father will
die, and I’ll inherit $200 million.”

Impressed, the woman obtained his business card
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she became his stepmother…

Women are so much better at financial planning than men….

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Work your passion, and money will follow

You can literally find wealthy people in any industry/profession. Yes, the average and the medium income differs from one industry to another, but why waste your life as an average-jo in something you don’t like when you can excel in something you do like?

So, work your passion, and money will follow you, inshaAllah.

Click here for the article: Jake Burton puts his personal stamp on Burton Snowboards

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JAK Bank

JAK Bank and Swedish interest-free model.

Here is another article about it published by Feasta: The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability.

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