Neither Saint Nor Sinner – Part 2

In my earlier post 'Neither Saint Nor Sinner', I wrote about how we are neither saints nor sinners. We live in the space between perfection and flaw, between intention and emotion, ....
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Neither Saint nor Sinner

Ashish and I were having a conversation the other day about wealth, people, and what money does to a person.He said something that many people believe.“Money is the root cause of ....
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How Much Fuel Is Enough?

When you drive to a gas station, you know exactly what you’re there for.You’re not trying to fill the entire station.You’re not even trying to fill every container you own.Yo ....
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Money Reveals This About You

What does success mean to you?Is it the number in your bank account?Is it the car you drive, the home you own, or the wealth you’ve built?We often equate money with success.But m ....
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When The First Billion Arrives

My last post “What Will You Do With a Billion Dollars?” got people dreaming. Many imagined waking up to that billion-dollar deposit. They felt the rush. They felt the fear. ....
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The Illness of Money

There is a disease spreading in silence.It doesn’t start with pain. It doesn’t announce itself like the flu. It doesn’t show up on an X-ray or an annual health report. But it ....
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What Will You Do With a Billion Dollars?

Let’s say you wake up tomorrow and there’s a billion dollars sitting in your bank account.No typo. No scam. No dream.A real, actual, billion-dollar deposit.It could be inherita ....
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Air and Money

We need air to breathe.But do we need all the air in the world? Do we need unlimited air? Do we need to hoard it, fearing that one day it might run out?No.We just need enough. Enou ....
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What Makes a Person Truly Rich?

Henry Ward Beecher once wrote:“It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is , not according to what he has.”Most people today would scroll past a q ....
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Have You Ever Said This Aloud?

"I want more," says the girl in the Tata Neu advertisement. And it lands. Because it’s familiar. It’s relatable. It’s what most people feel most of the time. More mone ....
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About Amar Pandit

Amar is a CFA Charterholder from CFA Institute, Virginia, USA and a Certified Financial Planner. He is also an alumnus of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Amar Pandit is the Founder of several companies that are making a Happy difference in the lives of people. His first one was “My Financial Advisor”, the happiest and best Private Wealth Management Firm that helps High Net worth Business Owners, Corporate Executives, Doctors and Celebrities to make smart and informed choices about money. He is currently the Founder of Happyness Factory, a world-class online investment & goal-based financial planning platform through which he aims to help every Indian family save and invest wisely. He is very passionate about spreading financial literacy and does so through his sharp and analytical columns published regularly in leading financial dailies, publications and portals. He is the author of 6 bestselling books, 8 Sketch Books and 2000 + columns for various newspapers such as Economic Times, Business Standard, Times of India, DNA, Hindustan Times, Mint, Indian Express and magazines. He has developed a board game “Financial Premier League" which is a fusion of cricket and personal finance. Besides this, he has developed Corporate Workshops on Financial Literacy and has developed the first financial literacy program for children between the age group of 5 and 12.

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Amar's Philosophy

It’s a myth that More Money = Happiness.
Yes, we have all heard that it is better to cry in a BMW than cry on the road. However, what matters at that point is that you are crying and unhappy. Your location is not relevant, you are just like the other person crying on the road. The point is that if “More Money = Happiness” were indeed true, the richest people would also be the happiest; the most seemingly beautiful and rich people would not be depressed.

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