Hello Gorillas, have you ever been in one of those modes where you really
need to make something happen? i mean you need a big deal or at least a
moderate deal ? (yeah like everyday huh?) to come through. Sometimes that one
client you have been working on forever and a day is just dragging their feet
on saying yes. Do they not understand that they are going to mess up the
weekend ? Don’t they know that you will not sleep well for the next 48
hours if you do not secure this deal before the weekend begins ?
jerks…
If there was just one more day in the week i could close them, you say to
yourself. Friday has come too soon and you do not know what to do about it.
Well Gorillas should know that you should never have just one
client on the hook at any given time if you can help it . Volume,volume,volume
is the key to the riddle. When you allow one client to dictate your
happiness in business is just like wearing only one pair of underwear the
whole week. It is bound to make you uncomfortable at some point !!
The first woman to charter a bank in the United States was an African-American woman!
An African-American woman whose mother was a former slave and whose father is said to have been an Irish immigrant.
Maggie Lena Walker, who began working as a child, helping her mother wash clothes in an alleyway in Richmond, Virginia; was the first woman, black or white, to launch a financial institution for African-Americans. She overcame not only the oppression of the racist Jim Crow Era, but even defeated the prevalent sexism of the day that purposefully excluded women as viable economic forces.
This African-American visionary was often quoted as saying, , "Let us put our money together; let us use our money; Let us put our money out at usury among ourselves, and reap the benefit ourselves."
She practiced what she preached by only employing African-Americans within a variety of roles from butler to architect throughout her life. Walker note only owned a bank, but she established a newspaper, The St. Luke Herald, in 1902, and served as one of the national leaders for the St. Luke’s fraternal burial society, which supported the sick and elderly within the African-American community before social security or welfare programs were established.
Many times, a parent will ask me when I think is a good time
to get their children involved in the subject of investing.I really believe that the age at which a parent
gets the ball rolling with their child depends on the financial maturity of the
child.For some, it can be as early as
10 years old, although some may not be ready to broach the subject of investing
until they reach college.Now, you may
already be turned off to this article, because you either feel like you are not
a college student, or you don’t have one yet.No worries, this is still applicable to people who are not college
students.
So let’s assume you are about to send your child away to
college this fall and you want to equip him/her with, at least, a start in
investing.One of the first things that
I tell a teenager who wants to get educated about the stock market is to start
researching a company that they are already interested in.For example, they know the latest sneakers
that are popular right now.They also
know which videogames are extremely hot.I tell them to find out the company’s stock symbol and go to a familiar
website such as Yahoo Finance and start looking at how that stock performed in
the past month or six months or for the past year.Once they do that I'll ask them questions
like why do you think the company did really well in a particular month?And sometimes they’ll answer, “Well, it could
be because on a particular date, Dwayne Wade came out with a brand-new version of
a sneaker.Before you know it, he or she
will be on Google for at least an hour trying to find out trends in what has
been going on with that company or when certain models were released.They engage in their own research and go on a
wild goose chase and they don't even realize that they are doing what a lot of
financial analysts are doing (and getting paid for) everyday.
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The first woman to charter a bank in the United States was an African-American woman!
Many times, a parent will ask me when I think is a good time
to get their children involved in the subject of investing.