Archive for the 'Wealth' Category
Happy Lunary New Year! A new day in the Chinese calendar actually starts at 11pm, one hour before the Gregorian calendar, so it’s already the New Year. Strictly speaking, the year of the Rat already started a few days ago, so if you had just welcomed a new member of your family into the world, […]
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February 6th, 2008 | Posted in Wealth | No Comments
Happy New Year! Now that it is the start of a new year, have you come up with resolutions? 9 out of 10 people drop out of their fitness classes by February because they made a resolution which they could not continue. Perhaps they wanted to lose weight, or they wanted to go to the […]
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January 1st, 2008 | Posted in Wealth | No Comments
According to Master Your Money Type, there are six types of financial behaviours and money habits. The Strivers love to let others know how much money they have. They may demonstrate how successful they are before they are actually successful. The good thing is they have a lot of energy to invest in themselves. They […]
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November 22nd, 2007 | Posted in Wealth | No Comments
How much money do you expect to have in five years time?
I posed this question to a few people, and the answers ranged for nothing, to one million dollars in recurring income in a month. How are they going to survive if they even have a single cent? Such a big gap in the answers […]
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November 21st, 2007 | Posted in Wealth | 1 Comment
Facebook’s owners are multi-millionaires, and if Facebook ever becomes a listed company, the owners are going to be billionaires. The founder is only 23 years old.
Yahoo founders were also young when they first started out.
A popular saying is that out of ten bald men, nine are wealthy. Since I’ve come across many rich people, all […]
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November 13th, 2007 | Posted in Women, Wealth | No Comments
Would you spend $270k on a wedding when you can buy a house with that sum? It’s insane! Just on the wedding décor, this Singapore couple according to Wanbao spent $100k and the wedding dinner for 500 people cost $125k. They have gone to great expense, and as the article writes, this amount of money […]
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November 5th, 2007 | Posted in Wealth | 8 Comments
Once again, looking at the income benchmark is a humbling experience. Yeah, I agree with the author of Salary.sg about the arrogance I had when I was a student, simply because I was in the Top 10% of my cohort, taking Higher Chinese and German as a Third Language, and thought that I was really […]
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November 1st, 2007 | Posted in Wealth | 2 Comments
I found this quiz on Facebook. To know whether you have what it takes to become a Multimillionaire, see how many of the following statements apply to you.
1. You enjoy working. Whenever you start to hate your work, you change your project or job.
2. You save at least 10% of your income.
3. You have at least one role […]
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October 15th, 2007 | Posted in Quiz, Wealth | 4 Comments
Despite Zhang Chunchun’s immense wealth from property buying, she did not forget about her brother. Her father, a super stingy man, had trained his children to hate money unknowingly. It was much later that Zhang Chunchun realised the importance of money, but her brother still thought that money was the cause of trouble.
Her brother was […]
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October 6th, 2007 | Posted in Women, Wealth, Property | No Comments
One of the things to avoid in house-hunting is to avoid buying a house where there was a death, especially when violent death or unnatural death had occurred. Zhang Chunchun, the property magnate, nearly bought one such potential house from the auction.
Auctions usually allow buyers to bid for houses, and sometimes it could be due […]
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October 5th, 2007 | Posted in Women, Wealth, Property | No Comments