Chapter 23
Knowing Your Numbers and Managing Your Money Wisely
IN THIS CHAPTER
Familiarizing yourself with your numbers
Obtaining support from those people closest to you
Paying yourself
Avoiding some of the dangers of success
Being smart about taxes
Ihear this from business leaders every day: “I’m not a numbers person.”
In reality, there isn’t any part of your life where you don’t work with, and understand, numbers. From the moment numbers wake people up in the morning via their phone or alarm clock, they look at numbers in the weather forecast, their calendars, and their bank accounts. They get in the car and drive to work looking at numbers on the speedometer. They get to work, and if they have an office job, they log in to their computer using passwords, which have obligatory numbers in them to make sure they’re safe. They may pick up the phone, dial phone numbers, and begin their, hopefully, productive day.
It’s not that people aren’t numbers people; some people are just afraid ...
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