I recently started looking at investment properties with a realtor, when she had made a comment on some North Dakota rural lake lots she had listed that the developer cut the selling price in half in hopes to propel development.

I know I may be stepping out on a limb here, but you either believe in free enterprise or work for someone who does'The book 'Think and grow Rich' talks in one of the first chapters about burning your bridges.if you always have an out(like a job) you'll never take that committed leap forward that will ultimately propel you to success.Burn you bridges and commit to controlling your own success

And if whatever it is you're doing isn't that important to you, then you won't have the fuel you need to propel you forward when times get tough.

One great resource that has helped propel our company in social media is the book "Twitter Power" by Joel Comm.

To paraphrase a wise man: 'it's not how much it costs, it's how much you get in return'.If Bob or anyone else spends $2500 or even $25000 to get educated and this education propels his career to the point that he's making 6 figures every year from his business, then the return on investment is solid.

If anything is going to propel us out of this mess it should be some type of technology, but we don't have the world's best engineers anymore as Vikram pointed out.

Looks like I passed the 10,000 influence mark today and I joined the new elite :mrgreen: Now, I just gotta catch the other guys :)Thanks to all who voted my posts and whatever else you may have done to propel me to kick it with the big dogs

Someday I need to post about the journey since it was significantly propelled by BP.

My experience in REI thus far has led me to cross paths with many incredible people at all stages of experience in investing but with common traits of integrity, professionalism, ambition and a tendency to place a high value on life-long learning and being of value to others to help propel them toward their own goals. 

Giving the seller 2 or 3 different options often will propel things forward.