Coming off what was one of the worst performance years for my equity holdings in 2011, it would have been easy for me to lose confidence in my ability to pick winning stocks.

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Some have lost money that they could ill afford to lose and what made me think about answering your question in this way was when I saw the phrase 'small sum of money'.

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The girl had begun to lose weight and would have nightmares in which she would scream "get them off me", it was heard.

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You might have seen me on the cover of the New York Times Bestseller "Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: How I Went from Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur" where I share the philosophies I used to propel me to success, from the jail cell to the boardroom.

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The fact that people were still willing to buy after seeing Bitcoins lose 90 percent of their value suggested to me that the currency was likely to have long-term staying power.

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However, with the European economy struggling it would not surprise me to see the weak banks in weaker countries not just have their shares underperform but lose their value since they may have to merge with stronger banks or be taken over by their central bank.

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And to have a label based in Africa telling me I'm not international enough, it's enough to make anyone lose their way.

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