A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.

Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.

Most people spend their lives building financial houses of straws, which are susceptible to wind, fire, rain and big bad wolves.

You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique. Be different. Give to others what you want yourself. And do what you were made to do.

By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card.

I'm excited about silver because as I write, it's relatively inexpensive. I'm also excited about silver because -- unlike real estate, which can require a lot of money, some finance skills, lots of due diligence and property management skills to do well -- silver is affordable to the masses, and management skills are minimum.

People without leverage work for those with leverage.