Bruce Tognazzini: "In the cold, early morning hours of a Winter morning in 1980, Apple Computer went public. By the end of that frantic day, 64 people had become millionaires. I was one of them. Had I locked those stock certificates away in a safe deposit box that day, they would now be worth more than 18 million dollars. Instead, I "put them to work." Within 24 months, I had less than $300,000 left... My ostensible purpose in writing this rather embarrassing treatise is, with luck, to prevent others from following in my footsteps. The person I want to influence the most, however, is myself. I just hope I'm listening..."
[via SteveJ]