Sunday, April 01, 2007

Nobody starts a business from nothing

www.43hbb.com

You might have seen the TV commercial regarding the above website. It used to run as an informercial after midnight, but now, it's running on TV in prime time!

Basically, you register your info and have to pay about $10.00 with a credit card to receive the "money-making" kit.

I don't buy it, but feel free to check it out if you wish.

A lot of ads claim that you can start a home business from scratch, but the truth is, nobody starts a business from nothing. You can only start a business from your mind, that is, starting with what you know and are capable of intellectually.

By "intellectually," I don't mean fancy university degrees; I mean the habit of actually using your brain and simple stuff like adding, substracting, multiplying and dividing. Of course, there's also percentages and statistics to master, but they are fairly easy.

Those are precisely the skills that Warren Buffett says a person should master, to be successful in life. I highly recommend the latest book on the wisdom of Mr. Buffett, titled The Tao of Warren Buffett (by Mary Buffett).