It’s important to acknowledge those who help foster your abilities and empower you to pursue the life you want. This Thanksgiving I wanted to share my gratitude to my many teachers, mentors, role models, and friends who have influenced my life and given me their support.

Happy Holidays everybody. I wish you all the best and hope that you get a chance to spend some quality time with family and loved ones. If you haven’t heard yet, I am traveling in Spain for the holidays with some good friends, but I wanted to be sure to share my 2007 year-end wrap-up with you here on the [...]

The world’s second richest man gave CNBC an absolutely AWESOME interview in 2006 titled “The Billionaire Next Door.” J.D. Roth has the whole video, broken down with some great supplementary notes! I just LOVE how down-to-earth Warren Buffett is!! I’ve had the chance to meet him briefly, but even in that time, his attitude made an impression on me. He [...]

Looking back at 2006, there were a lot of major events and people that changed the path of history. Rather than a traditional top ten list there is a list of five actual events that made an economic, social, or environmental change, and since everyone loves movies, there is also a list of five thinking-man’s films that are worth your [...]

Ben (from Startup Spark) is hosting a group writing project at his Instigator Blog, and for each participating blog $5 will be donated to charity. The prompt is “What did you learn in 2006?” So here is my contribution to the project! Ben’s call for participation in his group writing project offers me a unique opportunity to look back at [...]

So, it worked out, and the College of Business was invited to a special reception with Warren Buffett at his new RC Willey store in Rocklin. My boss was awesome enough to set aside a ticket for me, so I got to rub shoulders with some of Sacramento’s big wigs at lunch at PF Chang’s in Roseville–Chris Cady (Pulte Homes), [...]

I recently read these two stories about Buffett’s decision to give away 85% of his wealth to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and those of his children. It really shed some light on his strategy. He’s looking for value in giving away his money, just as he does in making it. The Buffett Way of Giving It Away Buffett [...]

So, yesterday at work I learned that Warren Buffett had been planning to come to Sacramento State. Yes, planning is the key word in that sentence. Who is Warren Buffett, you say? Only the second most wealthy person on this planet (!), after Bill Gates. He’s a brilliant investor and huge philanthropist, and has been in the news this week [...]