tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post5456605836952217046..comments2024-03-14T11:50:14.761-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: In Which I Become Very RichDarwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-39113346807487014252011-09-27T16:32:18.973-04:002011-09-27T16:32:18.973-04:00Shed no tears! I got a good story and a year'...Shed no tears! I got a good story and a year's retirement out of it.Darwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-1971962788728835762011-09-27T16:27:10.702-04:002011-09-27T16:27:10.702-04:00I am here shedding a tear for you.I am here shedding a tear for you.Matthew Lickonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01073464100061129072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-6294104363361329042011-09-27T14:05:28.162-04:002011-09-27T14:05:28.162-04:00I'm well aware of that "It takes money .....I'm well aware of that "It takes money ..." right now trying to promote my book(s) and new blog, Hierogamous News, here at blogspot. When a friend said, "But you already are rich.", meaning rich spiritually, I remembered my grandfather's saying "I wish I was rich and had a lot of money." You can be rich without having money and you can have a lot of money and not be rich.hierogamoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01655546200318259860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-39041518298494179352011-09-27T13:54:10.981-04:002011-09-27T13:54:10.981-04:00I attended a work conference in Chicago in 1993 an...I attended a work conference in Chicago in 1993 and Steve Jobs was our guest speaker! Was he CEO of Next then? I don't know. I wish I could remember one thing he said but I don't. <br /><br />Once we bought an internet stock. Netscape. We bought it for the low teens and within a couple of months it shot up (I kid you not) to 150 something a share. So I told my neighbor who worked at Merrill Lynch at the time. He told me to sell half the shares. I didn't listen to his advice - hey it might even go up higher! Anyway, we ended up selling the shares at a loss at something like 6 bucks a share. Go figure!<br /><br />But the best stock story is this. We outgrew our 3 bed house. The market in our area was just getting hot. We put it on the market and this young couple from NYC bought it for 25K over our asking price. We thought that they were crazy. It turns out he worked for an internet stock company (March 2000) and cashed out on most of his shares to put 50% down on the house. Within 6 months, his remaining stock was worth next to nothing. To this day (they still live in the house and we moved a few blocks away) every time we run into them they thank us for selling our house when we did!JMBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02542004362101344466noreply@blogger.com