I just got off the phone with a colleague who was complaining (whining, really) about the fact that nobody seemed to have any money to hire him. It’s the economy, of course. A few years ago, people had money, and he was being hired. Now, it’s dried up. Damn this economy!

To a certain extent, he’s right—things were easier a few years ago. But he was wrong when he said that nobody has any money. Because here’s the truth:

There’s always money for something that’s indispensable.

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Why are the Beatles still popular today, nearly 40 years after they broke up? Nostalgia is a small part (the Baby Boomers still rule the earth)–but the much larger reason is that the music still holds up. The songs the Fab Four created from 1963 to 1969 still sound fresh and exciting today, even if you’ve heard them a thousand times. In other words, the Beatles created something of lasting VALUE. Read More…

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I just finished listening to Breakfast with the Beatles, a weekly two-hour radio program here in Seattle. I listen to it every Sunday morning (unless I’m on the road for business); it’s a ritual for me. One of the songs they played today was the Beatles’ cover of Janie Bradford and Berry Gordy’s song, Money (That’s What I Want), which begins with the lyric:

“The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees, now give me money (that’s what I want).”

That lyric got me thinking about a former employer of mine–a wonderful woman named Dorothy Bullitt. When I first met her she was already into her 90s, still coming to work every day as the owner of the King Broadcasting Company, and the richest person in the state of Washington (until she was overtaken by some young upstart named Bill Gates). Over lunch one day she started talking to me about money. Since she was worth somewhere north of 300 million dollars, and my net worth was substantially south, I listened. Her philosophy was probably not original, but it was new to me. Read More…

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