Millionaire Acts

This article is a bit late because Steve Jobs died few days ago. He has always been the visionary man behind the success of Apple, Inc. In fact, during his leadership, Apple’s stock (AAPL) went up from $5 in September of 1997 where he assumed the position of interim CEO after he was to the current price of $370. That’s 7300% or equivalently, 521.4% per year. Can you imagine how much did you gain if you invested in Apple’s stock (AAPL) way back 1997? Without Steve Jobs, there

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Life itself is a race to a finish line. Each one of us are in a race. The finish line are our goals and dreams. Challenges serve as road blocks. To become successful, we need to arm ourselves with will power so as to overcome any road blocks that we might encounter along the way. In this regard, I’d like to share another interesting story, similar to the one I shared on The Honesty Story of the Next CEO.  There once was a bunch of tiny frogs who arranged a running competition, The

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I just watched the Green Lantern Movie a while ago. While the movie generated a lot of negative reviews based on the feedback of most people, I found it attractive especially in terms of the concept of Will Power representing the Green Lantern Corps who each wear a ring enabling them to create anything their mind can imagine versus Fear representing Parallax. We always hear that as humans, we are weak. As the song “Human” says in its lyrics: ‘human, born to make

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The Philippines is going to elect another leader this coming May. Who deserves to be the leader among those contenders? Who has the qualities of an effective leader? There are a lot of people that say leaders are born. Some say that leaders are made. Whatever your opinion on this, leaders should be ‘effective’ in their leadership and should be responsible to their constituents. Let’s discuss some of the qualities of an effective leader and apply these qualities to the

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What does it take to become successful? Success has a lot of meaning to each of us. You can achieve success financially, success emotionally, success spiritually, etc. In a recent addition to my learnings to become a successful entrepreneur and investor, I’ve learned about John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success. John Wooden is a retired American basketball coach. He is a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player (class of 1961) and as a coach (class of 1973). He has

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