CHAPTER 1

Your Starting Point … Plus Assumptions

Whether you are starting in your corporate executive position today as a junior, middle-level executive in a mid-sized firm or you are a C-level executive in a large, public firm, you can reach your financial objectives by maximizing the wealth you can accumulate through both your salary and your investment-related fringe benefits (such as stock options and 401k plan).

Your Action Plan Blueprint

The essence of building wealth during your career is a simple premise that has been tweaked and modified a thousand times by all sorts of advisers and financial consultants … and here it is:

1. Inflow: Earn your money … find ways to increase it.

2. Outflow: Spend less than you make … find ways to decrease ...

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