“He’s been chased by Masai warriors in Tanzania. Slept in snow caves to survive. Swum through New Zealand caves to see glowing worms. Stopped a bear from dragging his friend away in a sleeping bag…” So begins an article about Stacy Taniguchi, BYU professor of experience design and management, in the Winter 2019 edition of BYU…
Links to several of my favorite recent articles on money and life: Except for pictures of my family, the picture below is one of my favorites. It is a picture of Warren Buffett buying lunch for Bill Gates, not at a fancy restaurant, but at McDonalds. And to make it even better, Buffett is using…
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. – Warren Buffett The great paradox of this remarkable age is that the more complex the world around us becomes, the more simplicity we must seek in order to realize our financial goals. Never underrate…the majesty of simplicity….Simplicity, indeed, is…
Dallin H. Oaks tells a story I enjoy about two men who formed a partnership to sell watermelons. They obtained a truck and paid a farmer $1 each for enough melons to fill it up. Then they drove the truck to a stand they had built by the side of a busy road where they sold…
“I have listened to thousands of sermons on the urgent need to give. I find myself wondering why it is that preachers never talk about how much fun it is to give.” Jon M. Huntsman Sr. Businessman and philanthropist Jon. M. Huntsman Sr. is a world class giver. He has given away about 1.5 billion…
“Because the pleasure of consumption is purest without the experience of paying for it, anything we can do to separate payment from consumption can enhance the pleasure of the purchase. – Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton from the book Happy Money Close your eyes and reminisce seeing your favorite band in concert or watching…
“Money creates needs or encourages their multiplication.” – Edwin Lefevre “Abundance…is the enemy of appreciation.” – Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton The Washing Machine Paradox My paternal grandmother, Ann Amelia Chamberlain Esplin, was born on January 12, 1896 in the small Southern Utah town of Orderville. She would live to be 82 years old,…
