With this article, we give you an immediate promotion—regardless of whether your employer or anyone else recognizes how valuable you are. We hereby promote you to the coveted position of chief executive officer (CEO) of your financial life. Don’t worry—this transition is painless. Your first task is to determine your bottom line or net worth. (more…)

How would you like to have as much money as Microsoft’s Bill Gates? What about renown investor and businessman Warren Buffett? Talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey? Entertainment giants Gloria and Emilio Estefan?

Impossible, you say? Well, maybe we’re reaching a tad high. But we can point to a number of people who started from nothing and managed to build a net worth of at least $1 million. (more…)