It's not a traditional America anymore.

I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.

Get punctual, bring energy and creativity to your work, and stay with a project until it's completed (and then double-check the results). These habits will make you indispensable.

Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.

If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.

As a final example, let's remember Jeremy Glick, whose father died in the World Trade Center. After his name appeared in an ad opposing war in Iraq, Mr. Glick was invited on The Factor .. I'm not going to dress you down anymore.

We are all born with a grab bag of gifts and gaps. Identify your true talents, then find out how to use them to make money.