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Why High Dividends Destroy Your Wealth

Episode 464 Published 3 weeks, 6 days ago
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Wisdom, Dividends & the Seven Rules for Building Wealth

What can an ancient Babylonian money lesson, the Wisdom of Solomon, and modern dividend investing teach us about building wealth?

In this episode of Trail Boss Radio, we bring the classroom together for a timeless conversation about money, patience, discipline, and ownership. Drawing from The Richest Man in Babylon and the Wisdom of Solomon, we connect ancient principles such as pay yourself first, make your money multiply, guard your treasures from loss, and increase your ability to earn with the modern principles of dividend-growth investing.

Our four Trail Boss mentors—Warren Buffett, Peter Drucker, Zig Ziglar, and Les Brown—help turn those timeless ideas into simple lessons anyone can understand. We explore quality businesses, dividend growth, payout ratios, reinvestment, yield-on-cost, diversification, and perhaps most importantly, why chasing a huge dividend yield can sometimes destroy wealth rather than create it.

The central lesson is simple: wealth doesn't have to be built overnight. It can be built a little at a time—one dollar, one share, one dividend, and one good decision at a time.

And because the Trail Boss classroom now reaches more than 90 countries, this episode is designed as a starting point for anyone, anywhere, who wants to understand the basic language of investing. You don't need to be a Wall Street expert. You need a willingness to learn, a system you can understand, and the patience to let time work on your behalf.

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