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The Key to Creating Wealth - Spend Less than You Earn
One of the key things I have learned over the course of my life is that it is a good idea (great idea) to spend less than you earn. If...

Steve Martin
Oct 19, 20202 min read


117 Things We Do for Our Clients - List in Progress
Click the link immediately following each item to read the full blog post. 1. We care more about you, your life, your hopes, your dreams, your fears, and your money than anyone who doesn’t share your last name. Click here 2. We help you become the visionary for your own life. Click here 3. We adopt a Fiduciary Standard in our relationship with you. Click here 4. We help you determine and manage the complexities of your IRA RMDs. Click here 5. We perform a detailed analysis a

Steve Martin
Oct 14, 20202 min read


117 Things We Do for Our Client - Number 4 - Help You Manage the Complexities of your IRA RMDs.
4. We help you determine and manage the complexities of your IRA RMDs. We help you determine and manage the complexities of your IRA RMDs...

Steve Martin
Oct 9, 20201 min read


The Secret Benefit of Generosity
A few years ago, I read this short post from Seth Godin, one of my all-time favorite sources of wisdom: "Here’s conventional wisdom:...

Steve Martin
Oct 6, 20201 min read


117 Things We Do for Our Client - Number 3
3. We adopt a Fiduciary Standard in our relationship with you. We proactively adopt and implement a Fiduciary Standard in our...

Steve Martin
Oct 1, 20201 min read


Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett on Volatility
"The investor with a portfolio of sound stocks should expect their prices to fluctuate and should neither be concerned by sizable...

Steve Martin
Aug 31, 20202 min read


117 Things We Do for Our Client - Number 2 - Help You Become the Visionary for Your Own Life
2. We help you become the visionary for your own life. We believe that having a vision for your life is essential to your success in life...

Steve Martin
Aug 27, 20201 min read


Two-Hundred Year Thinking - Part 3 - the 200 Year Letter
In earlier blogs, I have talked about the idea of Two-Hundred Year Thinking and related several stories about the importance of thinking...

Steve Martin
Aug 24, 20202 min read


Two-Hundred Year Thinking - Part 2 - Benjamin Franklin
Yesterday, I introduced the topic of "Two-Hundred Year Thinking" ® by talking about Native American Philosophy. Many Native American...

Steve Martin
Aug 20, 20203 min read


Two-Hundred Year Thinking - Part 1 - Native American Philosophy
For more than a decade, I have been encouraging my clients to think 200 years in the future and the difference they want their lives to...

Steve Martin
Aug 18, 20202 min read


117 Things We Do for Our Client - Number 1
1. We care more about you, your life, your hopes, your dreams, your fears, and your money than anyone who doesn’t share your last name....

Steve Martin
Aug 17, 20201 min read


All of Humanity's Problems
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone." Blaise Pascal According to Pascal, a...

Steve Martin
Aug 14, 20201 min read


Less is More
“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Some of the best...

Steve Martin
Aug 3, 20201 min read


The Art of Vision
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others." Jonathan Swift Vision is an art - not a science. It exercises different...

Steve Martin
Jul 31, 20201 min read


Dream No Small Dreams
Photo by Randy Tarampi on Unsplash “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...

Steve Martin
Jul 14, 20201 min read


The Goal is NOT to Live Forever …
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” Chuck Palahniuk – Diary You will not live...

Steve Martin
Jul 13, 20201 min read


Here’s to Being “Good Tired”
Harry Chapin is one of my favorite performers – primarily because of his meaningful lyrics and the emotion he put behind every song and...

Steve Martin
Jul 9, 20202 min read


What is Wealth?
“He is the richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” Socrates Growing up, I always thought of wealth...

Steve Martin
Jul 7, 20201 min read


A Purposeful Life – The Big Question
Photo by Magda Ehlers on Pexels.com “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver A hammer is a...

Steve Martin
Jul 7, 20201 min read


Visions and Cathedrals
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” Antoine de...

Steve Martin
Jun 30, 20202 min read
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