By Dena Falken — B.A., American University; J.D., Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
A mediator friend said it to me this week about contracts, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it: read every word like it’s yours.
Because it is. The moment you sign, every comma in that document belongs to you — including the one you didn’t read. In thirty years of training legal professionals across fifty countries, I’ve watched fortunes turn on a single letter: one “s” worth $310 million. One comma worth millions more.
Traders learn the same lesson in a different room. An order ticket, an earnings line, a filing at midnight — the people who keep their money are the ones who read like owners.
That’s why I wrote Million Dollar Words — When One Word Costs Millions. Ten real cases. Ten tiny words. Enormous consequences.
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