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Let’s talk about the velocity of money. This isn’t velocity in the sense of the physics term – we’re not looking at how fast a 50 dollar bill can fly through the air if you wad it up into a ball or make it into a paper airplane, no matter how fascinating that experiment...

The key to success isn’t great ideas. Everyone has great ideas. I’ve had so many people come to me with an idea they had and say, “Dustin, isn’t this a great idea?” And, quite often, their idea really is good. But there’s something very important that separates...

Many of us hear about integrity often, but what does integrity even mean? What are we actually talking about here? A good explanation of integrity that I’ve heard is that integrity is what you do and how you act when no one is watching. It is your true, basic self. Integrity, really, is the...

I’ve never loved The Secret, as a book or a movie. Maybe I missed something, but the primary message I came away with after reading and watching it was that if I hope for something long enough, it will happen. That is probably a little bit of an over-simplification, but I still feel like...

Averages rule the universe. You may be more familiar with this statement as the law of averages. Let me give you an example as a refresher on the law of averages. When you roll a typical 6-sided die, what are the chances that you will get a 6 for ten rolls in a row? Everyone knows that that is...

The principle I’m going to share today may not be earth-shattering for you, but it has proven useful for me in my work time and time again. This principle, also called “Parkinson’s Principle” (named for a person; it has no connection to the disease), states that people...