Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 5, 2018

So, I am going to hire a full-time assistant to manage my life and my finances. She’ll hire mine. They’ve spent most of their life seeing me with an assistant. My kids feel comforted by hired competence. I have had this type of person before. I know how to do it. Just writing this makes me so happy.

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IQ Matrix

APRIL 5, 2018

Your personal standards are also reflected in the promises you keep, in the way you dress and manage your life, health, finances , and environment. Consider this for a moment, then ask yourself: Are these standards mine? Therefore, to raise your self-esteem requires first raising your personal standards.

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Crestcom

APRIL 22, 2022

You know, somebody from marketing, someone from business development, someone from finance, you know, all the different and technology, we all need to be, you know, working together, coming with very different and diverse mindsets and context and backgrounds. Mine’s locked out. And that was a new, it’s a new category.

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Crestcom

JUNE 17, 2022

She describes herself as an air traffic controller of finances. <Laugh> so because I work in Aerospace a lot of times, I like to say that I’m the air traffic controller of finances because you can picture airplanes coming in and taking off and trying not to crash. And there are so many different moving parts.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Because we are not technically married because my finances would make my husband have a heart attack if he had his financial life legally tied to mine. (Well, okay, not married really. See, that’s the kind of thing the Wikipedia whiners say I lie about.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 21, 2010

Mine left out all the students who somehow didn't manage to get in the info that they earned less than $32k a year, and included some students who had dual degrees. If you have limited resources, we allow you access to credit, in order to finance sanctioned human capital investments. So it's a bit frustrating.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 29, 2009

People who are in great shape and have their finances in order probably don’t set goals to be in good shape or get their finances in order. Mine is to make my website ( [link] ) more famous. They probably set goals of running a marathon or paying off their house. In other words, they think in narrative rather than goals.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 24, 2010

Posted by Vicki on March 25, 2010 at 5:22 am | permalink | Reply I read your piece on credit card financing (Ode to…) [link] and don't remember seeing the past due tax trick. Mine will be on the beach amongst a small group of family and close friends. For the guy who called you a tax cheat tell him to look up the definition.

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StrategyU

JULY 5, 2020

Here is McDonald again (emphasis mine): “The emphasis in the GSO was more on why managers did things, as opposed to how they did them.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

I don’t see a crowd of people holding papers like mine. I say thank you, and then I see there is an LCD above each window in the whole place that shows the number and letter sequence that is almost like mine but not really mine. I'll try to add mine here. It seems mine just work out that way. Posted by Mark W.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Not that you asked for advice, but mine is to focus not on getting him to separate from X, which is his problem, but on how you deal with having a husband who isn't separated from X (the old saw: you can't change someone else, only yourself). But your problem is not that he has a separation issue with X.

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Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 23, 2010

I used to write at Yahoo finance and I learned so much from that gig. About headlines (study their home page ), and finance advertising ( I got fired for that ), and writing for audiences who don’t know me (so many people telling me I'm an idiot that Yahoo removed the comments ). I do it for mine, too.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

About six weeks later when I had the hairbrained idea to start my own business, I could look at the decisions we had made earlier and how they allowed us to move forward with financing our business. I have some pretty crazy arguments for mine, also.) I am a finance geek and he has great ideas and a great tone. Love that one!)

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

That means there are as many irrationals as there are extremely rich from finance, top of their kind in their career, getting stung by bees to death, and winning the lottery. I love your blog or, as a friend of mine says, "I'm pickin' up what you're puttin' down." Interesting comparisons huh?

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Penelope Trunk

JULY 22, 2010

(my husband walked in on me and I felt guilty about sitting here NOT working so I hit the send button before I thought…) I really did love this blog, I love all your blogs, they inspire me with mine,so anyway I know all about stupid questions and comments… I do have a stupid question: I just noticed that all your guest bloggers are men.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 8, 2010

Who feel ABSOLUTELY NO RESPONSIBILITY to add to the finances of their family for whatever reason. It's mine, and I don't judge myself about it. Posted by thatgirlinnewyork on January 9, 2010 at 6:45 pm | permalink | Reply Your mornings are like mine, except yours are earlier and you have half the kids.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

It was a link in an article that was just posted over at Brazen Careerist in the Economics and Finance group ( [link] ) by Caroline Ceniza-Levine. I won't generalize) But I find I want to say, this is mine. Basically entrepreneur Thorkil Sonne's son was diagnosed with autism and he was worried about him when he grew up.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Posted by KateNonymous on December 8, 2009 at 4:35 pm | permalink | You're welcome to your experience, I only try to speak from mine. " The Farmer has said and done things to you that I would never have allowed to pass with the boyfriend of a friend of mine. Finance (as cubandcat at Yahoo), and I was sorry to see you go.

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Penelope Trunk

JUNE 28, 2010

I like having a part of myself that will always be mine, not the community's. Posted by matt on July 1, 2010 at 10:56 am | permalink | Reply I miss Yahoo Finance, I miss you having 4-5 blogs per week, I miss the topics revolving around your work instead of paint colors. I cannot imagine having that taken. " I can hear it now.

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Crestcom

JANUARY 13, 2023

But occasionally finance or engineering. I was a high performance person and it had to be mine, and it went to somebody else. A lot of CEOs, you know, when you look at CEO progression, it’s usually up through sales usually. Maybe 60% of the time. It might be up through marketing, maybe 20% of the time, very seldom. I was devastated.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 12, 2015

“I’ll show you mine if you show me yours” is old school. His peers in the finance department was not approving contracts for a subset of our customers. Show your great idea first without worrying about what comes next. Take a Field Trip. I learned this from one of my direct reports in my sales exec role.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

I'd like to add one idea from a mentor of mine, who led big organizations in both sectors. There ARE some nonprofits that are run this way (mine is!), A friend of mine is thinking of starting a for profit company that serves not for profits. Salesforce.com rocks! Even small not for profits usually have posted org.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 10, 2009

My financial history, and stop whining about your job, March 2007 My personal finances have been sort of a wreck since about 2001. But don't turn off all criticism: Mine your critics for people who can help you understand what it is that you do well. This is not really a post as much as a start of a post. But I like the last line.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Ryan Healy has a degree in finance and an ability to run numbers in his head that looks like magic to me. if you have aspergers that is similar to mine, you probably can focus on one thing for an extended period of time without being easily distracted. using this i almost never EVER get complaints like "exCUSE me!

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Posted by Jacqueline on October 7, 2009 at 3:08 pm | permalink | Reply I stumbled here via mistake from yahoo finance. "I You do it your way…I'll do it mine, and let's refrain from bashing others' because we don't like the layout or style they choose to use or the topic or thought they decide to post that day.

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Penelope Trunk

MAY 30, 2010

It's a huge PITA for the finance guys to deal with. "Truth in all its glorious mucus" is a fine and rare thing, offering uncut gems that we mine for ourselves. There is sooo much to learn from just the dozen or so posts I've read here in the last 24 hours… dating back to a 4th break-up with The Farmer. "Truth

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

The nail in the coffin wasn't the NFL studies – it was a teammate of mine who after playing 9 years of tackle football is having memory problems. Single parents in particular are under-represented, particularly in my age group and area of interest (frugality, finances, etc.) Mine is financial, theirs is physical.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

And found the "shiny shoe" type of salesmen pretty revolting (you know, the type like the high-net worth personal finance salesmen in the office suite close to mine now – shiny hair, shiny shoes, shiny suits, Montblanc pens, and a whole lotta talk with little supporting data). But good God I hated it.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 4, 2009

I hope that the rule of past performance predicting future performance will skew more toward his former exits than mine. Only found your blog this week, and it's a gold mine of real advise, inspiration, and common sense. I couldn't understand how he could choose their wishes and demands over mine, and I refused to accept it.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 23, 2010

Posted by JenG on April 23, 2010 at 7:18 pm | permalink | Reply The thing I've learned, is that the social media platforms aren't mine. Although I still have every letter my best friend wrote to me in Jr and Sr High School, she threw mine away years ago.all of the things I poured my sorrows and joys and hopes into.poof, gone.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 17, 2010

The more professional ones are actually alot better… fwiw Posted by finance girl on January 18, 2010 at 1:00 pm | permalink | Reply Sounds like a real pisser of a day. The author posted this to the public to read and form an opinion on, I formed mine. i just tweeted my first tweet and it was YOUR tweet not mine!

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