
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.

Money Is Not a Taboo Subject — With Your Spouse, Your Kids, or Your Friends
We treat money like sex in the 1950s — everyone’s doing something with it, but nobody talks about it honestly.And because we don’t talk about it, most people walk around financially blind, embarrassed,…

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…
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“The biggest regret among recent grads? Not learning about money, credit, or how to actually get a job.”
— U.S. News & World Report





