| Here is the joke of the day…
A seaman meets a pirate in a bar, and talk turns to their adventures
on the sea. The seaman notes that the pirate has a peg-leg, a hook,
and an eye patch.
The seaman asks, “So, how did you end up with the peg-leg?” The
pirate replies, “We were in a storm at sea, and I was swept
overboard into a school of sharks. Just as my men were pulling me
out, a shark bit my leg off.”
“Wow!” said the seaman. “What about your hook”? “Well”, replied
the pirate, “We were boarding an enemy ship and were battling the
other sailors with swords. One of the enemy cut my hand off.”
“Incredible!” remarked the seaman. “How did you get the eye
patch”? “A seagull dropping fell into my eye,” replied the pirate.
“You lost your eye to a seagull dropping?,” the sailor asked
incredulously. “Well,” said the pirate, “it was my first day with my
hook”
Question: Would you rather be rich or famous. I was listening to a
story today and it stated that it is a lot less expensive to be rich than
famous. And thinking about it… it would be less work to be rich.
Think about for instance Sandra Bullock… can you imagine the
living hell her life is with what her dirt bag husband did to her? I
mean there is paparazzi following her 24/7
For example, take Siegfried and Roy versus the Blue Men group.
Siegfried and Roy were making 35 million dollars a year. But they
had to do a certain number of shows weekly for 44 weeks a year.
People did not go to see two men and a tiger… they went to see
Siegfried and Roy, right? They were the business and they had to
work to make it work. Then they had the horrible mauling of Roy
by the tiger which basically stopped everything. The hotel ended
up laying off numerous people all because Roy could not work the
act. They were and are famous.
Now the blue men group. Do you know the names of the three men
who started it? Probably not. Could you recognize their faces? No,
they are covered in blue paint. They trained over 30 people to do
their show for them. The group makes $69 million a year and they
do not even work anymore. They are rich, not famous which one
works for you? I think we need to look at business models that will
help us to make money without always punching the preverbal
clock.
For real estate news, Colliers International reported that real estate investors worldwide are convinced the market is at or near bottom and about to shoot up, according to their first survey of global investor sentiment. Investors from Asia, Canada, Latin America, and Western European say financing is increasingly available, while investors in the Middle East and Eastern Europe make the opposite observation. While there was considerable disagreement about what “normal” is, the majority of respondents say their respective markets will return to “normal” within 18 months. Globally, rents are anticipated to hit bottom this year – the first quarter of 2010 for the office sector was the most frequently offered response, followed by the second quarter of 2010 for industrial, and the third or fourth quarter of 2010 for retail. HousingWire.com says that most districts reported improving economies and better residential real estate markets in the third of eight annual editions of the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book – this one published in April. Every district but St. Louis and San Francisco reported that residential sales were up, home prices continued to decrease in the New York and Atlanta districts, with sales particularly sluggish for high-end homes in New York, Kansas City, Dallas, and San Francisco. New residential construction increased in New York, Atlanta, St. Louis, Minneapolis, and Dallas, but was weak in Cleveland, Chicago, and San Francisco. |
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