The warrant went up multiple times in many months. That was a big score. A friend recommended a broker who urged her to buy two stocks. Both of them went down to half their value in a year. The loss soured her on the stock market for years.
Brokers are salespeople.
That could mean an MBA, your own business or a fitness club membership. It's just a matter of building equity instead of building equity for your landlord. A former University of Toronto math professor, Hoffman now heads a children's Internet and e-commerce company. I bet you didn't expect that one. It was dumb because it was a company that was not in my industry, not in high tech.