Here is an interesting joint study made by Cap Gemini and Merill Lynch.  According to their World Wealth Report,the number of High Net Worth Individuals ( or rather US dollar millionaires since the criteria is the individual has a net worth of at least 1 million US dollars excluding that of his primary residence) increased by 600,000 in 2004 to post a new high of 8.3 million.

For the first time since 2001, North America, with a growth of over  7.3% now has more millionaires than Europe with 2.7 million compared to 2.6 million.  Asia Pacific which posted a growth of 8 percent has now 2.3 million millionaires

Note: This was original a post on June 2005 and reposted:

One night a wife found her husband standing over their newborn’s crib.

The old adage says, ” Winning is not Everything. It is the only thing”.

BusinessWeek runs an article that says Winning is Still the only Thing in the new century.  Some gems:

- the new thing is to excel in everything you do  but not necessarily at the expense of others.

- Despite all the talk about teamwork and balance, about being kind and cultivating emotional intelligence, it is still about winning.  On the positive side, it is called passion Read the rest of this entry »

According to Agence France Presse, the world now has more overweight people than hungry ones. There are about 1.4 billion overweight people and 800 million who are undernourished.