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I spent a lot of time fantasising about winning the lottery when I was younger. Daydreaming about how I’d spend the money and how my life would change was a frequent pastime. At 22, I decided to get real. Having just discovered the world of personal development, I had my think big hat on. Full of youthful …
The secret stock market dividend millionaires I have written about all seem to share similar characteristics. Firstly, they were all ordinary people. None were highly paid or were entrepreneurs themselves. But they did know and understand the wealth generating power of business and thus aimed to be partial owners in big blue chip companies via …
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Twenty years ago, if you’d bought $5,000 worth of Amazon stock and held it, you’d be sitting on more than $2.4 million today. Or if you bought $5,000 worth of Microsoft stock over thirty year ago and reinvested the dividends, you’d be sitting on more than …
If you had to do a double take of the title, I wouldn’t blame you. But Kenny G is in fact a secret buy and hold dividend millionaire. Yes the same Kenny G who rose in stardom during the 80’s and 90’s with hits such as Duotones, Going Home, Forever in Love and Sentimental. So …
We all know Berkshire Hathaway as the vehicle that made Warren Buffet the richest man in the world. But what most people don’t realise is that due to Berkshire’s fantastic annual compounded returns, it minted a number of millionaires and billionaires along the way. Today we focus on Stewart Horejsi, a billionaire born through Berkshire …
Herbert Wertheim. Does the name ring a bell? I bet not. Up until a Forbes piece a few days ago, the Philadelphia native was mostly anonymous. Heck, if you had to walk past him on a street, you would think he was just another pensioner. You cannot tell it by his appearance or lack of …
Donald and Mildred Othmer were a couple like any other from Omaha. Except they had a secret. They both knew Warren Buffet when he was starting out and had the foresight to invest their money into his partnership. The rest as they say is history
Today’s secret millionaire story comes from the vault. It starts all the way back in 1893, the year our secret buy and hold millionaire Anne Scheiber. Like most other secret stock market millionaires, Scheiber did not come from a family of means. In fact, her early childhood was worse than most. Anne grew up in …
Phyllis A. Stone was a typical New Yorker. There was nothing special about her. She wore frumpy house dresses, drove a beat-up old Chevy Cavalier, lived modestly in a two-family house and frequented her local church. A friend of hers described her as “an average person and a lovely lady who was not at all …
When it comes to investing, evidence and concrete numbers are everything. Nothing beats the hard facts. It may be one thing for me to write about achieving financial freedom using dividend growth investing. But can this strategy work in practice. Does buy and hold investing work in the real world. Can you become a millionaire …