Rob Berger founded the Dough Roller in May 2007. The mission of the Dough Roller is to help people make sense out of the ever-more complicated world of personal finance, investing, and money management. What started out as a simple blog about money has turned into a website enjoyed by nearly 2 million visitors a year. Rob’s articles on personal finance have been syndicated to Forbes, MSN Money, U.S. News & World Report, and Yahoo! Finance. Rob has invested in the stock market for nearly 20 years and real estate for more than eight. He holds a law degree from Boston University and an undergraduate degree in English from Evangel University. He lives in Virginia with his wife of more than 20 years, their two teenaged children, and their Shih Tzu, Sophie
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Marcus Lemonis
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Time, I was practicing lawful time and so my wife and I and our family, I think our children at that time were in middle school so time was the thing I had to deal with and I overcame it by not sleeping much, for 2 years I was up at 5 AM, I’d worked for 2, 2 and a half hours and I’d get up for work on the subway, work at lunch, work after the kids went to bed and so that was not an easy time although I enjoyed it immensely”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom… Book by Guy Spier
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change Book by Charles Duhigg
Favourite Quote:
“Your time is limited so don’t spend it living someone else’s life” Steve Jobs
Recommended Online Resources:
- Asana – It’s free to use, simple to get started, and powerful enough to run your entire business
- Slack – where work flows. It’s where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done
- Coschedule – Get your entire marketing strategy under one roof with CoSchedule, the 1 marketing calendar for everything you need organized
- Medium – a place to read, write, and interact with the stories that matter most to you. Every day, thousands of voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Do something that you enjoy, find a business that you think will be profitable but you’ll enjoy doing because it’s that enjoyment that’ll help you get through when life sucks, and it will in business at some time and keep your costs down because that’s what’s going to allow you to survive the thin years and they’re going to certainly exist early on and they may even exist at times in your business”…[Listen for More]
More About Robert Berger:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever” Chinese Proverb
Other Quotes From the Chat with Robert Berger:
- “What we miss are the daily habits that created that success, whether it’s getting up at 5 AM every morning and developing the habit of doing that, sitting at your computer and writing, we think about goals as big things, I want to lose 50 pounds or I want to become a millionaire or whatever and I tend to think of it in terms of daily habits, what do I want to do today”
- “You hear success stories; maybe people listen to this interview and hear a success story or you hear on TV success story, when people tell you why they’re successful they’re almost never telling you the whole story and it’s not because they’re keeping anything back but for whatever reason the whole story can’t be told, in my case the biggest factor of success would be that I started in 2007, I got lucky, it wasn’t that I didn’t work hard, I worked real hard, we all like to think we’re good at what we do but the fact of the matter is if I’d have started in 2015 and done exactly what I did in 2007, I wouldn’t have achieved nearly the success that I have, so timing is critical”
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