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During a difficult period of time in my life, a wise counselor told me, “Jeff, there are two kinds of things in the world, those you can’t do anything about, and those that you can do something about.” Think only about the ones you can affect and you’ll save a lot of time and energy....

“Angie,” a friend of a friend, called me for financial advice in the early 1980s, saying, “I’m not good with money” and could use some help. I was a rookie stockbroker sitting at my desk “dialing for dollars” and trying to find new clients with money to invest. Frankly, I didn’t know all that much...