DOC HARRIS
Well-known member
Yesterday's News is REALLY today's News! As I write this topic, The "OCTOBER SURPRISE" of 2008 - the Stock Market p-l-u-n-n-n-g-g-e has just turned the news media up-side-down! The sky has fallen! There is a Wolf in the sheep flock! The worst has happened! The fingernails are completely GONE! What to do? What to do? What DO you do??!
Well - we will get a lot of valuable information and useless advice from many different sources, but the valuable conclusive evidence and iron-clad proof that "Chicken Little" is NOT the sooth-sayer, prognosticator, or prophet of doom that some among us are eager to embrace, occurred just as I was framing this topic in my mind. The Stock Market experienced the largest 'single-day' drop in history - a 782 point drop, as a matter of fact, and, as of a few minutes ago, recovered 463 points (both figures have been 'rounded out - for those in Rio Linda), and the Market is functioning - as to be expected.
Now, this is not to say that we are out of the woods. Not by a long shot in a short room! But the point is - the system works! Particularly for those who have the guts to help it work! Example at hand: this morning, Donald Trump invested several Hundred million dollars in buying a high-level Housing Development (I have forgotten where) because, as he said, "I got it for MILLIONS LESS than I would have had to pay otherwise". (Before the financial crisis).
Granted, Donald Trump has the $Bucks$ available for that kind of investing. But this is exactly the point that I have been striving to make recently. IF, and notice that I said IF, you are in a financial, emotional, progressive juncture, or time, in your beef business career, or even if you just wish to improve your seedstock base a little bit, NOW IS THE TIME TO DO IT!
"They" say (whomever "they" are) that nothing is as old as yesterday's news. Today's news is pretty fresh in our mind's at the moment! And we are being continually bombarded and overwhelmed by the blathering News Media yapping about ". . .crooked Congressmen (and Women!), crooked CEO's, and the Stock Market crashing . ." to the point whereby we go to bed at night and cram a pillow over our heads in an effort to shut out the high-pitched lying and chatter of the ever-present blabber-mouths. No one with whom I have talked recently really enjoys this flow of garbage which is drowning common sense and logical reasoning!
But - there is a bright side to the tempestuous whirlwind! That ray of sunshine is the current "Fall Beef Cattle Sales" schedule that is presently on-going.
"They" also say that when you come to a "FORK" in the road - - TAKE IT! There has been an overwhelming amount of discussion on this Forum recently concerning the opportunities which are possible in the improvment of one's seedstock genetics by the acquisition of cattle (Donor's AND Bulls) which, in another time and era, might never have become available.
But - That was Then - - This is NOW! It is time to take stock of your current "Business" position, analysing ALL aspects of your circumstances, take the "FORK" in the Road, "CARVE" out what you REALLY need, "SPOON" up the goodies and gravy, and take a confident step forward. Don't overload your plate, but take only what you need, and KNOW how to use it to your advantage.
When I was in the Military, there were signs in the mess halls that read, "Take All You Want - BUT - Eat All You Take!"
Good advice.
DOC HARRIS
Well - we will get a lot of valuable information and useless advice from many different sources, but the valuable conclusive evidence and iron-clad proof that "Chicken Little" is NOT the sooth-sayer, prognosticator, or prophet of doom that some among us are eager to embrace, occurred just as I was framing this topic in my mind. The Stock Market experienced the largest 'single-day' drop in history - a 782 point drop, as a matter of fact, and, as of a few minutes ago, recovered 463 points (both figures have been 'rounded out - for those in Rio Linda), and the Market is functioning - as to be expected.
Now, this is not to say that we are out of the woods. Not by a long shot in a short room! But the point is - the system works! Particularly for those who have the guts to help it work! Example at hand: this morning, Donald Trump invested several Hundred million dollars in buying a high-level Housing Development (I have forgotten where) because, as he said, "I got it for MILLIONS LESS than I would have had to pay otherwise". (Before the financial crisis).
Granted, Donald Trump has the $Bucks$ available for that kind of investing. But this is exactly the point that I have been striving to make recently. IF, and notice that I said IF, you are in a financial, emotional, progressive juncture, or time, in your beef business career, or even if you just wish to improve your seedstock base a little bit, NOW IS THE TIME TO DO IT!
"They" say (whomever "they" are) that nothing is as old as yesterday's news. Today's news is pretty fresh in our mind's at the moment! And we are being continually bombarded and overwhelmed by the blathering News Media yapping about ". . .crooked Congressmen (and Women!), crooked CEO's, and the Stock Market crashing . ." to the point whereby we go to bed at night and cram a pillow over our heads in an effort to shut out the high-pitched lying and chatter of the ever-present blabber-mouths. No one with whom I have talked recently really enjoys this flow of garbage which is drowning common sense and logical reasoning!
But - there is a bright side to the tempestuous whirlwind! That ray of sunshine is the current "Fall Beef Cattle Sales" schedule that is presently on-going.
"They" also say that when you come to a "FORK" in the road - - TAKE IT! There has been an overwhelming amount of discussion on this Forum recently concerning the opportunities which are possible in the improvment of one's seedstock genetics by the acquisition of cattle (Donor's AND Bulls) which, in another time and era, might never have become available.
But - That was Then - - This is NOW! It is time to take stock of your current "Business" position, analysing ALL aspects of your circumstances, take the "FORK" in the Road, "CARVE" out what you REALLY need, "SPOON" up the goodies and gravy, and take a confident step forward. Don't overload your plate, but take only what you need, and KNOW how to use it to your advantage.
When I was in the Military, there were signs in the mess halls that read, "Take All You Want - BUT - Eat All You Take!"
Good advice.
DOC HARRIS