by Mark Morgan Ford | Nov 10, 2015 | Entrepreneur, Wealth
I want to talk about a major impediment to growing a profitable business. It’s actually a major obstacle to almost every avenue to wealth. It’s not the only obstacle. And it may not be the biggest. (A bigger obstacle might be laziness. Or lack of ambition. Or...
by Mark Morgan Ford | Nov 6, 2015 | Motivation, Self-Improvement, Spirituality
“Time . . . is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.” – Sydney J. Harris The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it’s the quiet solitude that comes with being the...
by Mark Morgan Ford | Nov 4, 2015 | Entrepreneur, Wealth
There is no shortage of billionaires today. In 1985, there were fewer than 20 of them. Today, there are more than 1,800. As many as 536 of them are American. That’s nothing to sneeze at. Nor is their collective net worth of around $2.5 trillion. At the moment, the...
by Mark Morgan Ford | Oct 21, 2015 | Investing, Wealth
If you read financial writing for any length of time, the jargon and acronyms will overwhelm you. Consider the many tools used to value a business: P/E ratios, enterprise value (EV), free cash flow (FCF)… The list is endless — and confusing. Fortunately, there...
by Mark Morgan Ford | Oct 20, 2015 | Careers, Wealth
Over the years, I’ve had the awkward duty of declining raises to dozens of employees. Most of them simply sulked and disappeared. But, a few of them took the experience as a wake-up call and fought back. They didn’t see themselves as losers, and they weren’t going to...