Focus on trimming the fat in your personal finances, if you can.

Of course, the impact taking another 40% bite out of one's assets (including inflation fat as well as capital gain muscle) is not readily susceptible to measurement except, perhaps, through a longitudinal study. 

The tech sector obsessed with skimming more and more off the top of those fat STR margins: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/property-management-platform-guesty-raises-50m-in-series-d-funding-signaling-a-year-of-recovery-for-the-short-term-rental-ecosystem-301277520.html

Due to this guess who sold my house and got a fat commission fee?

Then you take over the payments of their current mortgage and the headaches of the termites, toilets, and tenants and they just get a nice fat check every month.

Generally, we buy small to medium companies, create synergies between existing investments and partnerships, restructure management teams, cut the fat and then either spin them off or hold for income.

You know that pigs gets fat while hogs get slaughtered.

Leave some fat on the numbers and if the appraisal comes in a bit low on the ARV, you still have a good chance of getting the financing.   

If the CEO says they will have $x of EPS and the profit centers miss some tgts, its not hard to envision a situation where they look to trim costs, risk being an attractive area since humans tend to miss weight fat tailed risk, especially in light of quantifiable certainty. 2.

Once you trim the fat off of the typical north American life you can reach your goals much more quickly.