For a start, the salary begins to have an attraction and addictiveness all of its own. A regular paycheck and crack cocaine have that in common. In addition, and more to the point, working too long for other people can blunt your desire to take risks. This last factor is crucial, because the ability to live with and embrace risk is what sets apart the financial winners and losers in the world.

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.