6 Key Qualities Of People Who Have Millions

6 Key Qualities Of People Who Have Millions Serena Kappes, DailyWorth Jun. 28, 2014, 10:32 AM 4,109 5 facebook linkedin twitter email print coachoutletonline Anthony Harvey / Getty Images Is there a millionaire gene? Some inherent DNA configuration that makes one person more likely to have a higher earning potential than someone else? If only it were that easy. Elle Kaplan, the CEO and founding partner of LexION Capital Management LLC, a wealth-management firm that focuses on empowering women, makes an important distinction about millionaires.  "There’s a difference between people who make millions and people who have millions,” she explains. “Quite often, we’ll read about celebrities who end up filing for bankruptcy — people who made millions but don’t have millions. Additionally, there are many people who don’t make phenomenal sums of money — who will never make millions, but have millions. What one has in terms of their overall net worth is often different than what they make. Even if we don’t end up falling in the seven-figure financial bracket, there are common traits among millionaires that we can all learn from. Read on to learn the six qualities millionaires — those who as Kaplan explains understand the “slow and steady game” of building wealth — have in common. 1. They see opportunities instead of obstacles. A specific belief system is at play for people who become millionaires. “There’s a ‘no-excuses approach.’ They’re really good at getting past their excuses and saying ‘Why not me?’ instead,” explains Jaime Tardy, a business coach and author of  “The Eventual Millionaire,” a book which includes insights she’s gleaned from interviews she’s done with over 100 millionaires. One of those she interviewed, Amos Winbush III, “wanted to start a software tech company but had no background in tech. He didn’t let the fact that he didn’t know anything about the industry stop him.” Winbush went on to found CyberSynchs, a multi-million dollar technology firm that specializes in universal data transfer and synchronization. For people who become millionaires, “it’s about seeing opportunity where others see obstacles and knowing that there's always a solution,” says Ann marie Houghtailing, the founder of the Millionaire Girls' Movement, a business development firm whose goal is to create more female millionaires and educate women about earning their worth.  “Mindset is really about disrupting and rearchitecting your beliefs around wealth and your ability to create it,” says Houghtailing, who is also the author of “How I Created a Dollar Out of Thin Air.” “You coach purse outlet have to rid yourself of all of the beliefs that are compromising wealth in order to change your behavior to build wealth. Your beliefs inform your behavior.” 2. They understand the power of investing (not just saving). Saving might give you money in the bank, but it won’t make you a millionaire. As Kaplan explains about her millionaire clients, the commonality among them is that they invest their money. “When you save you actually lose money relative to inflation. Interest rates don’t meet up with the cost of living,” she says. “You lose purchasing power. But when you invest, you can make money. So you keep up with inflation plus some. There’s a very big difference. That’s another key reason why people who make a nice living, but not an insane living, end up millionaires and multi-millionaires. They invested and they also understood that compounding is incredibly powerful.” But not only do millionaires invests in stocks, they also invest in key capital: themselves. “They really take the time to invest in themselves personally — most of them are avid learners. They’re continually trying to grow and be better people in all aspects of their lives,” explains Tardy. “Finance is one of them but also stepping outside of their comfort zone. They’re see investing time and money in themselves as an asset.” 3. They have a high tolerance for risk and failure. Tardy’s first-ever millionaire interview was with Frank McKinney, a maverick real-estate investor known for building luxury spec homes. His advice: “Exercise risk like a muscle ... If you exercise that muscle and you take a calculated risk and then see whether it pays off and then take another calculated risk and see whether it pays off, you start to trust your judgment better and your analysis of what you’re doing.”  Tardy points out that millionaires don’t act on a gamble, putting themselves or their families in harm’s way for a dream. But they will assess a situation and take a chance if it seems like a reasonable risk. There’s a sense of continuous forward motion. Failure and setbacks happen to millionaires all the time, but they’re willing to ride the unpredictable waves of those setbacks without getting discouraged.  "Building wealth or a business requires a tolerance for failure and millionaires understand that coach outlet sale risk. Failure is a beginning," Houghtailing adds. "You get up and use what you've learned to be better. If you perceive failure as an ending, there's nowhere to go. You will misstep over and over. What defines you is not how you fall but how you rise. Every failure and rejection brings you closer to success. Lots of people will say no to you — you just have to find those who will say yes." 4. They have a sense of self-discipline. In Kaplan’s experience managing the financial assets of millionaires, they’re “often not the ones walking around with the latest high-end label bag and they don’t necessarily have hugely high-paying salaries. What they have is discipline and so they always lived below their means,” she explains. “And when you live below your means, you get to put money away. They started young and they always lived by a very simple outlook: Spend less than you earn. That’s simple but it’s really hard.” Typically “scrappy and resourceful,” she adds, they have a clear understanding that high fixed expenses make it difficult to invest for the future.  Though not all millionaires eschew the trappings of wealth — a nice home, a luxury car — they know that wealth isn’t about the accumulation of material things. “If you want to earn more to have more stuff you aren't going to be wealthy,” says Houghtailing. “Wealth is really about purchasing freedom and giving yourself more choices. You sell your future when you buy more than you need or can afford. There are plenty of high earners who have low net worth. People earn well into the high six figures and still live paycheck to paycheck, living beyond their means.” 5. They pursue their passions. Not all millionaires choose their professions based on how much money it will earn them — it’s more about how passionate they feel about their careers. “Another thing that links my clients, which thrills me to see, is they didn’t go into things that are necessarily lucrative but went into things that they loved. Success followed,” says Kaplan. “One of my clients who is a very successful entrepreneur, would call me and just say, ‘Are you having fun?’ and then it became, ‘Are you still having fun?’ If you are, of course you’re going to be successful because it’s not work — you live it, you breathe it.” Another of Kaplan’s clients left behind a successful career as a high-paying lawyer to pursue television writing and now earns a seven-figure salary writing for a hit TV show.   Briana Borten started her first day spa when she was 23 year old, five years after breaking her neck in a debilitating car accident and experiencing the benefits of massage. Now in her early 30s, the Portland, Oregon-based wellness entrepreneur owns three day spas, created the Imbue Body Pain Relief Patch with her husband and business partner (which is sold in stores like Whole Foods), and is also a mom who prioritizes a work-life balance. “She worked really hard but she’s earning quite a bit so she can enjoy the life that she wants to enjoy,” says Tardy, who has interviewed coach purse outlet her. “She gets to make the choice of when coach outlet stores she works instead of the other way around.” 6. They’re normal people who play to their strengths. When people think of millionaires, there’s the common perception that they had a huge windfall or earn an enormous paycheck. But Kaplan works with many millionaires “who might make a few hundred thousand per year but they have millions because they understood this is a slow and steady game,” she explains. “They started early and they were disciplined.”  Adds Houghtailing: “It's easy to want to believe that luck and intelligence are the arbiters of wealth, but the fact is ... you create your own luck in life. Luck looks like a lot of work, tenacity, and resilience.” Millionaires are regular, everyday people in all walks of life. coach purses outlet One millionaire Tardy interviewed, a small business owner in Hawaii, has never had her business earn more than $60,000 in a single year. “She told me, `We’ve been saving — we don’t spend frivolously. We’ve made some good investments on some land.’ As it all starts to add up, she can be retired and not to have to work,” Tardy recounts. “They’re normal people — there’s no differentiating innate factor. When you play to your strengths and know what those are, the possibilities are limitless.” Read the original article on DailyWorth. Copyright 2014. Follow DailyWorth on Twitter. More from DailyWorth: How I Stopped Worrying About Money and Learned to Love My Budget 3 Big Reasons Not to Sweat Brexit Fever Your Guide to Federal Student Aid How to Raise Rich (but Not Spoiled) Kids I Paid Off $48,000 in 6 Months — While Starting a Business SEE ALSO: 9 Things Rich People Do Differently Every Day More: DailyWorth Millionaires Wealth Psychology Of Money

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Gordie Howe, known as 'Mr. Hockey,' dies at 88

Gordie Howe, known as 'Mr. Hockey,' dies at 88 Larry Lage, Associated Press Jun. 10, 2016, 1:03 PM 772 facebook coach factory outlet online linkedin twitter email print FILE - This is a Nov. 1967, file photo showing Detroit Red Wings hockey player Gordie Howe. Howe, the rough-and-tumble Canadian farm boy whose boundless blend of talent and toughness made him the NHL’s quintessential star during a career that lasted into his 50s, has died. He was 88. (AP Photo/File) syndication.ap.org DETROIT (AP) — Gordie Howe, the rough-and-tumble Canadian farm boy whose boundless blend of talent and toughness made him the NHL's quintessential star during a career that lasted into his 50s, has died. The man forever known as "Mr. Hockey" was 88. Murray Howe, one of his sons, confirmed the death Friday, texting to The Associated Press: "Mr Hockey left peacefully, beautifully, and w no regrets." Howe died in Sylvania, Ohio, at the coach factory outlet online home of Murray Howe, according to Detroit Red Wings executive Rob Mattina. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman lauded "the incomparable" Howe as a "remarkable athlete whose mastery of our sport was reflected by the longevity of his career and by his nickname, 'Mr. Hockey.'" "Gordie's commitment to winning was matched only by his commitment to his teammates, to his friends, to the Red Wings, to the city of Detroit and — above all — to his family." Howe shattered records, threw elbows and helped the Detroit Red Wings win four Stanley Cups, becoming an idol to Wayne Gretzky and countless other Canadians while also helping the sport attract American fans. His final NHL season came at age 52 when Gretzky was a rookie — a fitting symmetry since Howe was the league's most prolific scorer until the "Great One" broke his career marks for goals and points. Red Wings general manager Ken Holland called Howe "one of the greatest players, if not the greatest," in NHL history and the "greatest Red Wing of all time." Speaking to the AP by phone, Holland said Howe had "as much skill and toughness as anybody who ever played." "As a human being, he was incredible," Holland added. "He loved to be around people and to make them laugh. He was an incredible ambassador for the sport." With finesse and a heavy dose of grit, the Hockey Hall of Famer set NHL marks with 801 goals and 1,850 points — mostly with the Red Wings — that held up until Gretzky came along. Howe was also so famously fierce that a "Gordie Howe Hat Trick" became synonymous with the combination of having a goal, an assist and a fight in one game. Howe suffered a stroke in late October 2014 while at his daughter's home in Lubbock, Texas, losing some function on the right side of his body. He suffered another stroke a short time later and family members said chronic back pain, advanced stages of dementia and high blood pressure were taking a toll. The body Howe relied on as an athlete stayed relative strong, but memory loss became a problem that family members noticed before the death of their mother, Colleen, in 2009. Exactly one year before his death, Murray Howe said his father was "comfortable and happy" after having another round of stem cell therapy in Mexico. Howe participated in a clinical trial, coach outlet sale which the family credited with helping him walk and do some of things he enjoyed, including making people laugh. Howe got one injection of donor stem cells into his spinal column and another intravenously. The previous year before starting stem cell therapy, Howe told his family he wanted to die. "He was saying, 'Take me out back and shoot me,'" Murray Howe, a diagnostic radiologist, recalled in 2015. "He was serious. It wasn't like a joke. I said, 'Dad, let's just see if we can help you first.'" Murray Howe has said the full two-injection treatment is not available in the U.S. Mr. Hockey was a giant of the game and no list of the NHL's greatest players has him anywhere but near the top alongside players like Bobby Orr, Maurice Richard, Mario Lemieux, Guy Lafleur, Bobby Hull and Gretzky. Like few others, Howe's impact on the game stretched over decades. Besides the four Cups, the talented right winger won six Hart Trophies as NHL MVP and six Ross Trophies as the league's coach factory outlet online top scorer. Howe began playing for the Red Wings in 1946, leading them to seven straight first-place finishes in coach factory outlet online the regular season. He was a part of what was known as "The Production Line" with fellow future Hall of Famers Ted Lindsay and Sid Abel during his 25-year run with the franchise. "When Gordie came into the NHL, hockey was a Canadian game. He converted it into a North American game," former NHL President Clarence Campbell said when Howe retired the first time in 1971 because he was playing with arthritis in his left wrist and for a last-place team. Howe's wife orchestrated a plan to get "Mr. Hockey" back on the ice two years later. She helped him live his dream of playing professional hockey with sons Mark and Marty in the World Hockey Association. And at age 45, Howe still had it. He scored 31 goals and had 69 assists, was named MVP of the NHL's rival league and led the Aeros to the 1973 WHA title — a run that was the focus of a movie: "Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story." Howe had 41 points for the Hartford Whalers during the 1979-80 season in what was his 26th and final year in the NHL. When Howe finally retired for good from the NHL, he was 52. And with a single shift with the Detroit Vipers in the International Hockey League in 1997, he played professionally in a sixth decade at the age of 69. He referred to his play as "poetry in slow motion" late in his career, a far cry from his score-and-smash style in his 20s, 30s and early 40s. Howe handled his business with his elbows and fists almost as often as he did with wrist and slap shots. He ranked among the NHL leaders in penalties minutes three times, spending 100-plus minutes in the penalty box during those seasons. When he resumed playing as a parent with sons on the same sheet of ice, opponents often found out not to mess with his boys. "If I can skate, I'll get even," Howe once said. Howe needed more than 400 stitches to close cuts, lost several teeth, broke ribs and nose. He had a serious head injury in 1950 that led to emergency surgery to relieve pressure on his brain. Despite the blood and broken bones, he didn't miss many games during his NHL-record, 1,767-game career and played in all 80 during his final season that ended after his 52nd birthday. "You've got to love what you're doing," Howe once said. "If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time." Mark Howe said his father was "the toughest, meanest guy I've ever seen on a pair of skates," and that's why he was able to play for decades. "No one in their right mind ever wanted to tangle with him," Lindsay has said. "Gordie had a lethal pair of elbows, was strong as a moose and knew every angle." Gordon Howe was born March 31, 1928, in tiny Floral, Saskatchewan, and raised nearby on the Canadian prairie in Saskatoon. His father was a laborer and Howe pitched in early, growing strong with the work. "He was born in a barn and the house he grew up in was no bigger than a garage," Mark Howe said. "They had nothing, like many people during the Depression. Someone was going door to door, selling bags of stuff for $1 and in one of those bags, dad got his first pair of skates." Howe left as a teenager to pursue a hockey career. Howe made his NHL debut for the Red Wings when he was 18. In Howe's second season, he was an All-Star for the first of a record 23 times. "Finally, I saved enough to buy my mom and dad a brand new home — with running water," he once recalled. "I think that's the biggest thing I ever achieved. That's what I wanted, and I saved my money to buy it." Howe was 6-foot and 205 pounds during his career, bigger than most players. His ability to skate, shoot and pass made him a threat every time he had the puck. No one, according to Hall of Fame coach Scotty Bowman, could match Howe's style of play. "He could fight, intimidate, play offensively," Bowman recalled. Howe surpassed Richard's NHL record of 544 goals in 1963. After the turn of the century, Howe, his sense of humor in full gear, would walk around Joe Louis Arena in Detroit carrying a teacup poodle named Rocket. Howe ranked among the top five in scoring for 20 straight seasons. Gretzky would later break his records for goals, points, MVP trophies and scoring titles while wearing No. 99 in a tribute to Howe, who wore No. 9 during a lower-scoring era of the game. He finished his career in 1999 with 894 goals. "I thought I had something they would never touch," Howe said. "But I knew when they started scoring 80 goals in a season I was in trouble." Mark Messier reached 1,887 points in 2004 coachoutlet.com during his 25th NHL season and pushed Howe from second to third in the record books. "I haven't celebrated coming in second too many times in my life," Messier said then. "But I'll tell you, because of what Gordie has done, for us mere mortals who have played this game, being No. 2 is not so bad." Howe, without a doubt, was most proud of his family. He raved about Colleen, whom he married in 1953. They became personal and professional partners as the woman known as "Mrs. Hockey" championed the game for children and later became her husband's agent. She died in March 2009 at age 76 after battling Pick's disease, a rare form of dementia similar to Alzheimer's. Their children, Murray, Mark, Marty and Cathy, each took turns having him sleep at their houses for weeks or months at a time after their mother died. Playing with his sons, though, was what Howe said he was most proud of from his career. "The fact that I had an opportunity to skate five years with them," Howe told the AP in 2011, "I think that's every father's dream." ___ Associated Press Writer Betsy Blaney in Lubbock, Texas, contributed to this report. 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Lakers Coach Phil Jackson on criticizing referees- It's gamesmanship

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Reporting from Oklahoma City — Phil Jackson smiles and shrugs. This is coach factory outlet online fun to him, a bit of gamesmanship, equal parts psychology and satire.
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It was Jackson unplugged, and it led to multiple bursts of laughter from reporters circled around him before the Lakers practiced in preparation for Game 4 Saturday against Oklahoma City.