
BILL BARNETT
Speaker • Author • Entrepreneur • Early-Career Strategist
Sold three companies • Took another public • Mentor to thousands of students and young professionals
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Explore expert insights on reducing college debt, mastering career growth, and building lasting wealth—because financial success starts with the right knowledge.

If You’re Not Fifteen Minutes Early, You’re Already Late
There are very few rules in life that are universally true, but here’s one I would bet my portfolio on: if you’re not fifteen minutes early, you’re late.Not “kind of late,” not “traffic…

If You Don’t Research People, You’re Walking Into Every Room Blind
One of the easiest ways to separate yourself from the pack — in business, in life, in anything — is embarrassingly simple: Do your homework on the people you’re about to meet. That’s…

Why I Don’t Follow the 4% Rule
You’ve probably heard of the 4% Rule — it’s the retirement world’s holy grail. The idea is simple: take 4% of your portfolio each year, adjust for inflation, and statistically, you won’t run…
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