My poor dad always said to me, “Go to school and get a job.” While he had the best intentions, what he was really encouraging me to do was to grow up and mind somebody else’s business. In other words, become an employee and make somebody else rich. Regardless of who you are, one of the most important things you can do is to take responsibility for your own financial well-being by minding your own business. Your own business is the asset column on your financial statement.
Benjamin, is this your report card?” my mother asked as she picked up the folded white card from the table. “Uh, yeah,” I said, trying to sound casual. Too ashamed to hand it to her, I had dropped it on the table, hoping that she wouldn’t notice until after I went to bed. It was the first report card I had received from Higgins Elementary School since we had moved back from Boston to Detroit, only a few months earlier. I had been in the fifth grade not even two weeks before everyone considered me the dumbest kid in the class and frequently made jokes about me. Before long I too began to feel as though I really was the most stupid kid in fifth grade. Despite Mother’s frequently saying, “You’re smart, Bennie. You can do anything you want to do,” I did not believe her. No one else in school thought I was smart, either. Click Here To Download The Book

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