In my years in China, I have learned that there are only two rules.
In my years as a New York political reporter, I had a ringside seat to the Koch phenomenon.
By contrast the outstanding investors that I have interviewed or studied in my years at Forbes do not not obsess over being diversified.
In fact in my years of elementary school, high school and college not a single teacher or professor asked me once how to build an addition onto a deck.
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In my years of experience marketing brokerage services, virtually the only time I have found a single broker-dealer as a commission recapture or soft dollar broker for a fund is what it is an affiliated broker-dealer of the consultant of the fund.
In my 26 years covering investing for Forbes and in my interviewing of outstanding self-directed investors profiled in The Warren Buffetts Next Door, I can attest to this strategy being effective.
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These experiences in my early years set the stage for my mission driven approach to serving others with dignity and respect.
Ron Paul's message has stirred my heart and mind in ways that no other candidate has done in my 20 years as a voter.
In my 15 years spent running large start-ups, I had a very strict point of view.
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"I am very competitive - probably to a fault in my earlier years, " he said.
In all my years, I have never seen a loss of momentum of these proportions.
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"Never in my 23 years as an MEP have I witnessed such an action, " he said.
In my 25 years of experience, I have learned that accepting a counter-offer is usually career suicide.
In my many years covering the Federal Reserve I have never seen a Fed policy action this controversial.
But in my teenage years I was on a warpath, with one goal in mind: SHOCK AND AWE!
"The worst start to a month I have seen in my seven years with the company, " he added.
That has given me one advantage in my 40 years as a newspaperman.
In my 20 years in the tech industry, I have seen companies dominate an industry only to fall from grace.
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"In my 23 years of law enforcement, I don't think I've ever seen any crime as heinous as this, " Evans said.
In recent years my home in England is my principal photographic subject.
Peter Hutton, a beekeeper in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, described 2012 as "the most difficult year I have known in my 53 years of beekeeping".
In my 37 years in the investment industry I've never, ever seen an early bull market without some version of this theme that was widely embraced.
It is a soap opera like no other I can remember in my 30 years (well 29 years to be precise) of reporting on the City.
"This was about as difficult a quarter as I've seen in my 30 years on Wall Street, " Chief Executive JohnThainJohn Thain told analysts during a conference call.
Lewis and Heikki get along fantastically well and in my 19 years with the team I don't ever recall seeing such an honest exchange of information between drivers.
"This was about as difficult a quarter as I've seen in my 30 years on Wall Street, " Chief Executive John Thain told analysts during a conference call.
Things did change a bit in my last years there.
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If there is one thing that I have learned for sure in my 45 years on Wall Street it is this: When the crowd agrees, it is always wrong.
That said, one of the luxuries I have been able to enjoy in my 30 years of running companies is that 99% of the companies I run are private.
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