Saturday, October 18, 2008

Wealth Equation




Well, Everyone seem want to be wealthy n famous. before going after the wealth, how many of them do actually know the meaning of wealth ?

Wealth is actually what you left when you have no money.

The equation of wealth, Value X leverage is a dynamic balance which described as oscillation between two opposites. As our lives revolved around dynamic balance like yin and yang, female and male , day and night.


In this world , majority of the wealth creator did not start their wealth with money but simply their time which is F.O.C. and 10 basic values .

The 10 basic values are divided to 6 internal values which each of us already possesses them and 4 external values are the result of all money on this planet flows.



The internal values are :
1. Passions & Talents- is our core internal value which by simply help us to get a right focus on our talents and passions with our time rather than our weakness as we leave our weakness for someone else whom are have the 'A' to focus on.



2. Knowledge & network- the more knowledge you have , the more attractive you are. While knowledge is what you know. And network is who you know.
The right network can give you resources and magic to happIt simply make people we know tell people that we do not know about our knowledge and networks which help you to 2 steps removed. This will attract people who seek for our knowledge and network.



3. Character & Purpose- The best opportunity are not come from people who know speaking to people they do not know , but from people they do not know speaking to other people they don't know which is 3 steps removed.

Alot of wealth creators making their 1st wealth without knowing each others, but their reputation preceded them. Character & Purpose are what make you reputation in market. Character is determined by your conduct and Purpose is determined by contribution which is measure by what you give but not what you get.
The external values are :

1.'Fulfilling a Need' & 'Fulfilling a Want' are retail value.

-'Fulfilling a Need' is a commodity which mean where the money flows is largely a matter of price; the lower the price, the greater the flows.


-'Fulfilling a Want' is where money flow is not a factor of price but a desire of.



2.'Component value' & 'Investment value' are wholesales value.



-'Component value' requires money investment plus additional creation to deliver a return on investment which like the more they buy, the more they make.




eg; Ray Kroc made far more selling franchises for Mcdonald's
than by selling the burgers.







- 'Investment value' requires money plus timing to deliver a return.




eg; Bill gates would not be the richest man in the world if he
did not listed Microsoft as his wealth come from his listed
shares but not from his pay check.













As we know today , less than 5% of the money flow around the world moves as a result of the retail values and the other 95% moves as a result of wholesale values. In fact, no one become billionaire from retail values but moved up the ladder to 2 wholesale values.



Special Note :

Gross Domestic Price (GDP) of the world's nation exceeded $35trillion USD dollars a year.It is about $700 billion a week and about $100billion a day.

And it is about $4billion every hour and more than $1million every second.





1minute,$60million of new value has been exchanged for cash.

within 10hours, the entire net worth of world richest manwill be come and gone.

within a day, the capital value of the world's largest company will have flowed right by.






So what is actually money? And how hard can it be to make a million dollar if a million dollar just flew by that 1 second.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin





One of the youngest self-made billioniare entrepreneur who worth $13billion in 2006. Sergey Brin born in Moscow and came over to United States with his family in a young age.

With an affinity for mathematic and computer, He took a master degree in computer science in Standord University. There, he got interested in data mining and pattern extraction and met Larry Page.






Both had started ' Backrub' in 1996 ; a search engine based on ranking sites based on the back links to them from other sites. After that , it changed to ' Google' named after " Googol" , the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros.



They also created "toolbar" to allowed viewers to search without visiting the site.



Adwords is simple links paid for by advertisers on a pay-per-click which did not need a sales team to grow.

AdSense enabled website owners to earn income by featuring targeted adWord links to their sites.

With Adwords and AdSense , Google is controlling searches and become " toll Collector " of sponsored search traffic between sites.



In addition to create an unbeatable aggregation of global content , ' Google Earth ' provided global information geographically and ' Google Maps ' provided all local street information.

' Froogle ' aggregates product from online shopping websites and ' Google Groups ' gathers the online discussion groups.



In Google's prospectus is to be ' Don't be Evil '.

The company strongly believe that in a long term, we will be better served - as shareholders and in all other ways - by a company that goes good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains.

Brin said " We always heard the phrase , money doesn't buy you happiness; but I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money does buy you a little bit of happiness."

But if today we were motivated by money , we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Li Ka Shing

Li Ka Shing

He known as 'Superman" in Hong Kong because of his business capability.


The Cheung Kong Holding was named after the Yangtze river that flow through China, a great river that aggregates countless streams and tributaries.


As he said recently,
I loathe the social scene, I don't like cultivating relationship and I'm too emotional. These are weakness in doing business. First, I'm thirst of knowledge.Secondly, I work hard which can compensate for some of weakness. I know what is right from wrong. I long for frugal life. In general, frugal people have more time. This attitude had help me to achieve the best results and best returns for my shareholders.


" To build wealth, you need to control but not own the assets."


" If you think, you will prepared,
If you prepared, you will have no worried."


He is not only good in business but he does always remind and cultivate the people about the important of knowledge. He used to bought secondhand books whenever he had spare money and he absorbed them before trading for more books. Even today, he read before sleep.


He said " Knowledge changed fates ". The reason was knowledge is not a guarantee of lifes of riches but it does open the door for opportunity. Recognised more opportunity is the best that you can expected.


He had build many medical projects and libraries for the society as he know how it feeling to be lonely and helplessly when he see his father suffer and died of tuberculosis. He named it as " Third Child" foundation.

Benjamin Graham




Benjamin Graham



Known as 'The Dean of Wall Street' and recognised as 'father of Value Investing.He is a mentor for many modern investors like Warren Buffet , Irving Kahn and William Ruane.



He created "investor Bible" named Intelligent Investors.

He believes that wealth creation doest come from taking greater risk but from taking less risk. With research and better bargains led to higher margin safety. This is be the lowest risk and the return will be highest.

As he said,
Risk correlation wasn't with reward but with research.

Right time to invest is

The lower the market value was against the calculated intrinsic value more attractive the investment was to buy.

He quoted :

While enthusiasm may neccessary for great accomplishment elsewhere, in Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster.



The birth of Knowledge-daily

Today is the birth of Knowledge-daily.
So let's give everyone a brief ideas on what it is really about and what it will be in future.
I would probably post up my daily knowledges here. It will be major in World of Business & Stock.
The reason I start off this site is to promote the important of knowledges that will drive one's to better understanding of lifes.