Source: http://www.positivelypositive.com
By James Altucher
I lost $15mm cash in one summer. It was about a million a week and then it picked up speed. Ugh, I’m like reading the newspaper twice. I know I’ve written about this before.
But bear with me.
I bought a house. I invested in bad companies. I started worse companies. I bought art. I took A LOT of helicopters.
I thought about money all the time. I wanted to make $100 million. Then…I thought…I can finally feel like I achieved something.
That’s how stupid I was. I then lost my house, lost my marriage, lost my friends, lost my family, lost a lot of opportunities.
It was only when I found things more valuable than money that I was able to easily make money. Money is a byproduct of the following: