I still remember the book that forever “ruined” me from being able to live as an employee. It was Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki. Sitting there in the bookstore in Knoxville, Tennessee that day, getting extremely excited reading all about a way of life completely foreign to my own is something I…

“How could she do something like this to me?” said a voice in my head. All the time. Every day. Back in 2011, I was stuck in the middle of a pretty bad depression due to my divorce. Thankfully, I think I was smart enough (and had great people around me)…

In June, Regis Philbin – known as a TV entertainer, but a very savvy stock investor – interned for a day in hedge fund manager David Einhorn’s office, as a publicity stunt. One of the things he did was to mystery call and shop the stores of a public-company retail…

The phrase “I’ll meet you halfway” hasn’t existed for me for most of my adult life… and I can thank the lameness of some people I love as much as anyone in the world for that… I have a group of ten buddies from high school who are like brothers…

I am not a spendthrift. But I’m not a cheapskate, either.I know people who are not happy in a deal unless they feel like they’ve beaten the other guy down to nothing. That approach to business is mean and inefficient. Most times, it will end up backfiring.Let me tell you…

A friend of mine is the Executive Director for an organization with global reach. He is intelligent and driven, but constantly distracted. At any given time he will have Twitter, Gmail, Facebook and multiple IM conversations going. The majority of them are useful in some way. Yet, in the back…

One Monday morning, as I finished my breakfast, I overheard an interesting conversation on the radio between the co-hosts… Female Co-Host: Oprah’s in Toronto this week filming her show, but I guess you’re not a big fan? Male Co-Host: Ugh, Oprah. Can’t stand her. Actually, I guess she’s not so bad now. Female: Why…

It’s funny how so many great projects are sparked by the need to impress a girl… When I was 28 I was living in Ottawa, and I had a beautiful girlfriend who I was very serious about. She was a foreign student who came to my university from Japan, and…

Over the past decade, I’ve received dozens of e-mails from folks who write in to ask me: “Dan, is there a secret to finding great investments?” Well, it’s a difficult process… but the answer is yes. If you know what to look for, there’s a definite secret to finding what…

Down on William Street in my hometown of Stratford, Ontario, grand Victorian houses and emerald green lawns back on to the Avon river that cut the city in half. When the sun rose on a recent summer’s morning, a mist surrounded early morning strollers walking briskly on the banks, sidestepping the…