Health Is Wealth

I have a colleague who is on long MC. It started off with a minor illness which became worse and eventually requiring surgery. So, he kept extending his MC from days to weeks to months. Every time we thought that he was coming back to work, there were new complications and he had to extend …

20 Billionaires Who Dropped Out of College

All roads lead to Rome. While many may think that having a college degree is a good safety net and the pathway to a successful career and great wealth, there are 20 shinning examples to prove otherwise. This list showscases the 20 billionaires who have never finished college. Some have started college, spent some time …

Is Happiness Costly

Often when asked “Does more money make you happier?”, many people agree that it does. In a metropolitan city of Singapore where cost of living is rising, it is hard to disagree why. We will tend to focus on building up our wealth to achieve that desired standard of living. However, little is made known …

The Jar of Life

A professor of philosophy once stood in front of his class with an empty glass jar. With his students watching, he filled the jar with rocks. Then he asked his students if the jar was full. The response was in unison: “Yes!” Upon hearing this, the professor then told them they were wrong. He proved …

1 Hour Of Your Time, Dad

One day, the father was doing some work and his son came and asked, “Daddy, may I ask you a question?” Father said, “Yeah sure, what it is?” So his son asked, “Dad, how much do you make an hour?” Father got bit upset and said, “That’s none of your business. Why do you ask …

How Poor Are We?

How The Poor Live: One day, a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the firm purpose of showing his son how poor people live. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family. On …

The Honest Man And The Rock Lion

Once upon a time a poor family and the rich family lived at the foot of a mountain. There was a large forest at the top of the mountain. Every day the head of the poor family went to the forest to get wood to sell for food and clothing. In the forest, there was …

The Story of The Miser

A Miser had buried his gold in a secret place in his garden. Every day he went to the spot, dug up the treasure and counted it piece by piece to make sure it was all there. He made so many trips that a Thief, who had been observing him, guessed what it was the …

Monkey and Bananas

Thought-provoking & enlightening  With the influence of the environment we live in, together with society's perception, choosing money is like a survival instinct, just as the monkey who will naturally choose food over money. That is what many of us are doing actually, sacrificing our health to earn more money. However, those who have seen …

The Student and The Chocolate Factory

A student asked his teacher, “What is Greed?” The teacher said, “In order to answer your question, go through the chocolate factory next to our school and pick the one chocolate you like the most. But there is a rule. As you pass through the factory, you can not turn back. You must pick the …

8 Lessons I Learnt From Covid-19 Crisis

1. Home Is Where The Heart Is And also the safest place to be in, especially when there is chaos everywhere. 2. Health Is The Most Important Asset At this juncture, what we want most is good health, for ourselves and for our loved ones (or at least not get infected by the Covid-19 virus) …

The Humble Billionaire And His Views On Wealth

Chinese movie legend Chow Yun-fat says he plans to give his entire net worth, a whopping $5.6 billion HKD (that’s $714 million USD) to charity. “My dream is to be a happy and normal person,” Yun-fat recently told Hong Kong movie site Jayne Stars. “The hardest thing in life is not about how much money …