“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there…your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
I consider these words of Steve Jobs from his famous 2005 speech at Stanford University as one of my guiding lights in whatever I pursue in life, including investing.
In not investing the way someone else does, and having the courage to follow my independent thinking and act on the same, I try to put in the hard work whenever and wherever it is required.
Anyways, let’s leave out the heaven and death part from the above statements of Steve Jobs, and concentrate on wealth building.
Everyone wants to get rich someday. Even I do.
But the biggest question is – how many of us ‘prepare’ to become rich, if we weren’t born with a silver spoon?
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