The Creed Fragrance Collection Post Expansion

I couldn’t resist grabbing a picture of the newly expanded Creed fragrance collection in my bathroom now that I picked up the “Royal Delight” fragrance as one of my birthday-gifts-to-myself.  It’s clear I have the collecting bug once I find something that brings me joy.  Coffee cups, pens, Carl Barks artwork, stocks … I like [...]

from Joshua Kennon

We Added Some New Perfume Factice Bottles to the Company’s Collectibles Portfolio

Through one of the private businesses I control, we have a collectibles portfolio consisting of everything from the Carl Barks artwork I’ve told you about to rare books.  One of the things we acquire is the hard-to-find perfume factice bottles that used to be popular at department stores, especially those in the high-end spectrum, back [...]

from Joshua Kennon

Spoiling the Concert by Carl Barks

from Joshua Kennon

It Was an Amazingly Productive Day

We are having an amazingly productive day.  Thus far, we have: Paid a ton of bills for one of the businesses. Submitted the final tax documents to the accounting firm that handles our business and personal filings. Had lunch / dinner at Panera Bread with Aaron. Went to Michael’s and got a bunch of our [...]

from Joshua Kennon

Breakfast of Tycoons by Carl Barks

We added Breakfast of Tycoons to the official Carl Barks collection at Mount Olympus Awards.  We’ve been selectively acquiring more and more of his stuff when the price is attractive and it just fits with all of the framed stock certificates and financial artwork. I’ve identified a few other pieces we are interesting in actively [...]

from Joshua Kennon

The 5 Levels of Building Wealth

Early in life, I developed a theory that there were five levels of building wealth that most self-made men (and women) go through to reach financial independence.  It was started by my love for Carl Barks Scrooge McDuck comics.  When I started reading the Federal Reserve reports of consumer wealth, empirical studies, and other sources [...]

from Joshua Kennon

Business Should Be Fun … If It’s Not, You’re Doing Something Wrong

When I talk about the idea of tap dancing to work, in the words of Warren Buffett, I’m not kidding or making a joke.  You should wake up every morning and jump out of bed because you can’t wait to spend your time focusing on something that makes every part of you – physically, mentally, [...]

from Joshua Kennon