Perks I would give on a company

If I owned a company, it would probably be related to music, maybe I would produce music. The perk I would give to my employees would be the following:

• I would allow my employees to work the time they want, whenever they want. On the other hand, I don't want them to slack off, my conditions would be that they have to keep up with their work in time and with excellent quality. There would be zero tolerance for slackers.

Essentially I want my workers to be happy, with that perk only they would be allowed to do whatever they want, always they don't slack off.

Homework

If I hadn't decided to give my best when entering this school nine years ago, I wouldn't be how I am. The fact that this school was way easier than my previous school also helped, I had the opportunity to raise my grades and feel accomplished. The first years of school here, I got to give my best, and little by little I started believing I can do what I want if I am persistent and determined enough. I have truly believed since then I'm intelligent enough to work my way out of any problem or challenge. If I had slacked off during that time, I would care less about school and decision making concerning my life. I wouldn’t really be as thoughtful as I am.

If there was a historical event that changed the world completely, it was when America was discovered. If Columbus had never arrived to the New World, there would be two completely different civilizations in the world. In the east, greater technologies and a history full of war and ambition; in the west, civilizations would have persisted and many cultures would've survived, creating a world completely different to the one we live in.

Warren Buffet

Warren Buffet is considered one of the biggest inversionist in the world. He is the fourth richest man with a personal fortune of 58 billion dollars.

Buffet was born in 1930 in Omaha. Since he was a child, he saved his money and figured out ways to gain more, he used to go door to door selling chewing gum, magazines, or Coca-Cola. He also worked handing out newspapers, which got him interested in the stock market and made him make his first investments; one of them in the Washington Post, whi he still has and refuses to sell.

After all the different businesses he tried, he decided to study economy in the Columbia Graduate Business School, where he was taught by Benjamin Graham, also known as "the father of investment".

Later on, Buffet and Graham worked together by studying the stock market, this was from 1950 to 1956, a period in which Buffet raised his fortune from $9'800 to $140'000.

After Graham retired, Buffet founded Buffet Associates Ltd. and Buffet Partnerships Ltd., both companies worked around the stock market.

In 1965 he bought Berkshire Hathaway, and unificated all of his businesses into this it. He kept raising his fortune by buying other companies.

Buffet used to spend his money wisely, or not spend it at all. He started making intelligent investments that little by little earned him more money, which he would use to invest again or buy businesses.

Buffet was really intelligent, and was also very determined which helped him have his objective clear. Even though neither his father or Graham wanted him to go to Wall Street, he insisted and eventually worked there. He became a millionaire by accomplishing small goals that led him to his big objective.

As Shell points out, Buffett has become one of the world’s wealthiest people by following extremely simple philosophies. He buys into solid businesses that he can easily understand and holds onto the investments for long periods of time. According to him, doing decently well in stocks is “very, very easy.”

His advice for amateur investors is:

“You don’t need to look at the prices of the stocks you own from week-to-week, or month-to-month, or even year-to-year,” says Buffett. “If you own a cross-section of American businesses, and you don’t get excited (and buy) just at the very top, and if you buy in over time, you are going to do well.”

Warren Buffet

Warren Buffet is considered one of the biggest inversionist in the world. He is the fourth richest man with a personal fortune of 58 billion dollars.

Buffet was born in 1930 in Omaha. Since he was a child, he saved his money and figured out ways to gain more, he used to go door to door selling chewing gum, magazines, or Coca-Cola. He also worked handing out newspapers, which got him interested in the stock market and made him make his first investments; one of them in the Washington Post, whi he still has and refuses to sell.

After all the different businesses he tried, he decided to study economy in the Columbia Graduate Business School, where he was taught by Benjamin Graham, also known as "the father of investment".

Later on, Buffet and Graham worked together by studying the stock market, this was from 1950 to 1956, a period in which Buffet raised his fortune from $9'800 to $140'000.

After Graham retired, Buffet founded Buffet Associates Ltd. and Buffet Partnerships Ltd., both companies worked around the stock market.

In 1965 he bought Berkshire Hathaway, and unificated all of his businesses into this it. He kept raising his fortune by buying other companies.

Buffet used to spend his money wisely, or not spend it at all. He started making intelligent investments that little by little earned him more money, which he would use to invest again or buy businesses.

Buffet was really intelligent, and was also very determined which helped him have his objective clear. Even though neither his father or Graham wanted him to go to Wall Street, he insisted and eventually worked there. He became a millionaire by accomplishing small goals that led him to his big objective.

As Shell points out, Buffett has become one of the world’s wealthiest people by following extremely simple philosophies. He buys into solid businesses that he can easily understand and holds onto the investments for long periods of time. According to him, doing decently well in stocks is “very, very easy.”

His advice for amateur investors is:

“You don’t need to look at the prices of the stocks you own from week-to-week, or month-to-month, or even year-to-year,” says Buffett. “If you own a cross-section of American businesses, and you don’t get excited (and buy) just at the very top, and if you buy in over time, you are going to do well.”

Advice for success

An advice I've read of is to never be afraid of failure, and to act as if you had nothing to lose.

Because if you're afraid of a negative outcome, doubt will rise and your confidence will lower. When someone has noting to lose, failure doesn't matter, and one will keep trying.

I think it's a good advice that tells you that for success, one has got to take risks. The bigger the risk, the bigger the success one has after hard work and effort. It is important to always be full of determination and confidence.

Things about the future

That smart people--like those who contribute to Edge--won’t do politics. –Brian Eno, musician

One of the things that worry me is this one; that no intelligent people in the future want to take part in politics. Lately, at least in Mexico, the most intelligent persons who have taken part in politics, have stolen lots of money; the rest are dumb people who just follow orders. What will we do in a future if politicians are politicians just for the money and not for the benefit of their countries?

A scarcity of water resources. –Giulio Boccaletti, physicist

This one is pretty obvious. Water is vital for human survival, if water lacks then people dies. With a scarcity of water, world wars would begin, taking millions of lives with them. Several consequences would affect our planet; animals dying, ecosystems burning; life would be taken away. I would have been all our fault.

That “in one or two generations children will grow up to be adults who will not be able to tell reality from imagination.” --Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, psychologist

Nowadays children have iPads and Iphones for themselves. Videogames have replaced the playground. Kids have less imagination than they did 10 or 20 years ago. At the same time, technology is evolving, making possible the things we thought impossible. Someday, everything once imagined may exist; and with the lack of imagination of new generations, only reality will exist.

The only thing that excites me about the future is the new technologies available at our hand.

Since I was a child, I’ve loved videogames. I dream for one day where I can take part of an actual videogame with virtual reality. I am also excited to see if vehicles evolve into something else, something eco-friendly or if they even fly. I also await new gadgets, maybe some lens that work as a cell phone, or even a micro-chip connected into our brains that allow us to “see” a computer screen and operate it as if we had one. Who knows?

Liberalist Theory

I agree with what liberalists say about us constantly getting better as a global society. They say human history is the progress of evolution, and it is true, there might be some cases in which this progress isn’t as big as in other places.

In the past, a monarchy was the most popular form of government, in which a king was supposed to veil for his servants, protect them and fulfill their necessities. Today we’ve got democracy in which we are heard and we vote for our governors, though there are still some cases in where those elections are arranged and there is no democracy at all.

If, through history, we continue making experiences, learning, and develop a critical thinking for ourselves; we might be able, in a distant future, to need no leader. It’s possible for us to develop a sense of responsibility and critical thinking with which we would look not only for ourselves but for everyone else as one, and with all being equal, without a president or a king who wields more power than the rest.

Obviously a utopia is impossible, the “possible future” I describe, would doubtedly be perfect; there will always be ambitious and selfish people who don’t care about anyone else but him/herself.