I'm sorry, but the first thing that popped into my mind about the delivery of the gold coins in front of a paying? audience was . . . how convenient.
You are 100-percent correct when you say investigate the credentials of anyone you're going to take financial advice from. My addendum would be, immense wealth doesn't always indicate wise investing or money management. It could merely be the P.T. Barnum philosophy at work.
True, but if you've ever attended a
Tony Robbins seminar, read his books, seen an interview or one of his infomercials, you know how deliberately splashy & sensational he is. Since Steve & I learned from Tony, it followed suit that Steve leaned some of his sensationalism from Tony.
Learning how to trade in the stock market, which is what we were there for, not how to buy gold, from the wrong person can be a real snoozer.
Managing money is one of the things we need to learn the most about, and learning from the wrong person can be detrimental if you are asleep through most of it or don't retain it. Both Tony & Steve have learned to be splashy, so people
remember crucial
details later. I wouldn't have even been in this thread conversation originally if buying gold hadn't been deliberately impressed upon me to retain. That wasn't what I was there for. For example, how many kids can recite everything that happens in a Disney movie, down to the dialogue and smallest details - after seeing it
once - yet can't remember their addition/subtraction tables after going over them multiple times?
Something to think about.
How one learns can really make a difference.
However, I DO know that Steve did buy the house he was negotiating during that seminar. It was a multimillion dollar foreclosure, as the poor guy he was buying the house from, never learned to manage his money correctly and bankrupted himself. That guy was great at making it during the big financial dotcom boom. Then spent it all unwisely. The house was the latest casualty to go.
The thing about working for the same company as one of the people you are learning from is that you can check through
other mutual sources who know that person well, what that person's true integrity & credentials are and what his real situation is behind all the glitz. I also know other people who use the same trading strategies successfully. We all are doing fine, even in an economic downturn. I'm not a millionaire yet, but working on it.
