Financial advisors – the media’s new villans have a view point too. A few friends and relatives ‘claim’ that they listen to my financial advise. One of them is my cousin who has now retired. Last week when I met him I realised that all his money was in $ denominated fixed deposits – and […]
I am not sure how many of you have read “My experiments with truth’ – actually it is not such an easy to read book. However there are a few things that I learnt from that book (and my mom keeps saying it so it is reinforced!) 1. It is your duty to take care […]
On the 2nd of October it is surely worth thinking about Mr. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (a.k.a Mahatma Gandhi) and check out his views on Freedom. Most of us know he meant Freedom from the British. He rightfully argued that we can rule ourselves and we do not need an Englishman to rule over us. However […]
Recently a friend passed on an article by Ajit Dayal – Evolution of the barber – or something like that. To summarise the article Ajit had said when he was young he went to a barber he said “chop it off” and the job was done. However today the barber tries to sell you gel, […]
At any age being able to say this is great. It summarizes many of my thoughts…. Power of Money…by Adam Khoo (Singapore’s youngest millionaire at 26 yrs.) Some of you may already know that I travel around the region pretty frequently, having to visit and conduct seminars at my offices in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and […]
There are many people I know who are contemplating retirement 5-15 years before they HAVE to retire. When I ask them WHY do they want to retire, these are the normal answers that I get: 1. Have enough money. However there are a few people who say they have ‘enough’. Then I calculate how much […]
Indian elite (with whom I deal) is an amazing lot. I frankly do not know about people in other countries, so let me speak for Indians alone. We like to complain about – poor service of trains, poor roads, corruption, high taxation, poor policing, poor state machinery, pathetic infrastrucutre in general, fall in the education […]