How many of you sales guys out there will be able to sell a useless product to a BUSINESSMAN just because it is tax deductible? Not too many I guess…. Now let me give you 3 options. 1. Register your business as a ‘business of buying and selling shares’ and start filing IT returns. This […]

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All the articles in the financial services industry are written by people who have a vested interest in either the advisory business or in the sales business. By ensuring that you have an adviser there is a good chance that you will be nicely domesticated and beaten to submission. This will ensure that you say […]

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Funny when we started life, there was a lot of time and a lot less money. I am not even getting into whether we were happy or sad. Growing old has one great advantage – you fantasize about the past. You think politicians were honest (that’s true Pramila Dhandavate and Madhu Dhandavate were still alive), […]

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To be successful you need to have tremendous Self Image. Now the line between self image, self worth and ego is not easy to draw. So one has to keep learning…. When a kid joins corporate India – he/she could get mauled by a boss with a huge ego. The kid has to know when […]

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Some of the kids I know are going to HATE me for this article…sorry guys n gals but you have really inspired me to write this. Honestly this is dedicated to you. Here it goes! 1. Your cheques bounce: Oh not regularly but 4 times in a year. This could be because your salary came […]

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Earning well but poor…was a title which hurt a few people…so I have blunted it a bit by saying ‘not rich’. Please define your levels of ‘not rich’…so here are the reasons: 1. You are stuck to a job: you hate your job, your boss, your timing, your job location….and ditto for your wife. However […]

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Do you lend money to friends? How do you react when a friend asks for money? Thanks to banks giving loans literally for everything – personal loans, car loans, home loans, these days the number of people asking for loans has gone down. However at one strata of society it is possible that people come […]

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