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How to Make Money in Real Estate, Even If You're Not in the Real Estate Business. HOWARD S. DVORKIN GUEST WRITER Entrepreneur, investor, personal finance advisor and author. When I founded a financial services company 24 years ago, I was focused on my core business -- hiring the right people, navigating arcane regulations and recruiting clients. As my business grew, so did my rent. I asked myself why I was paying someone else when I could just buy it myself. That’s how I got into real estate. In fact, it’s how many entrepreneurs get into real estate. It starts with their own balance sheet and gradually grows into a lucrative side practice -- sometimes more financially rewarding than the initial business they launched. Moving forward, I decided to buy my own offices. Throughout the years, I have bought and sold more than 50 properties, from commercial office buildings to single family houses. I even purchased a funeral home. Do you know how much formal real estate trainin

Harvard Commencement 2017 Mark Zuckerberg•Thursday, May 25, 2017 President Faust, Board of Overseers, faculty, alumni, friends, proud parents, members of the ad board, and graduates of the greatest university in the world, I'm honored to be with you today because, let's face it, you accomplished something I never could. If I get through this speech, it'll be the first time I actually finish something at Harvard. Class of 2017, congratulations! I'm an unlikely speaker, not just because I dropped out, but because we're technically in the same generation. We walked this yard less than a decade apart, studied the same ideas and slept through the same Ec10 lectures. We may have taken different paths to get here, especially if you came all the way from the Quad, but today I want to share what I've learned about our generation and the world we're building together. But first, the last couple of days have brought back a lot of good memories. H

How to Get a Raise Without Asking for One Even when it seems you're doing everything right, promotions can be few and far between. Travis Bradberry Guest Writer Co-author of Emotional Intelligence 2.0 and President at TalentSmart We all want to get ahead. Still, even when it seems you’re doing everything right -- you’re never late to work, rarely take a sick day and always meet deadlines -- promotions can be few and far between. You’re putting the work in, so why aren’t you getting rewarded? The answer is simple: you don’t get promoted for fulfilling your boss’s expectations. Related:  11 Habits of Mentally Strong People Your boss’s expectations are the price of entry. Even if you’re making a great effort and doing all that’s asked of you, you won’t stand out. You’ll be seen as

Meeting people and winning their trust is essential to business success and life success.  Deep Patel Contributor Author of A Paperboy's Fable: We are innately social creatures, hardwired to seek each other out and profoundly shaped by our relationships and alliances. Our ability to empathize, relate to one another and communicate our thoughts and ideas is what sets us apart and makes us uniquely human. We naturally seek deeper associations with people as a way of identifying and better understanding others and ourselves. But the truth is, it’s not always easy to make those connections. The bonds we create are key to building our businesses and creating full and happy lives. However, in a busy world full of distractions it can be hard to build friendships, especially when we have limited time. Here are 10 ways you can begin to build deeper connections with anyone you meet. 1. Pay attention. When someone is talking to you, it’s important that you r

GENIUS or MENTALLY ILL? A story is told about a young Thomas Edison who came home one day with a paper for his mother. He told her, “My teacher told me to give this paper only to my mother.” Thomas’ mother read the note and her eyes filled with tears. Thomas asked his mother what the note said, and she read aloud, “Your son is a genius. This school is too small for him and doesn’t have enough good teachers for training him. Please teach him yourself.” And that’s exactly what Thomas’ mother did; she homeschooled her child with devotion and dedication. As the story goes, many years later after Thomas Edison’s mother passed on, and he was now one of the world’s greatest inventors, he found a folded paper among other family items. He opened the very same paper that had been handed to him to give to his mother and read the following message: “Your son is mentally ill. We won’t let him come to school anymore.” At that moment, Edison realized what his mother had done