Recent articles related to

Wealth

Recent articles related to

Wealth

Buy A Pack Of Index Cards Today

By Mark Morgan Ford | 02/13/2001

In Message #185, I recommended that you start to use index cards to keep track of the big and small ideas that come to you at random times throughout the day — ideas that could have a big impact on your life but are too easily forgotten if not written…

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Get Over Your Fear Of Cutting Prices

By Mark Morgan Ford | 02/12/2001

Norm Brodsky, Inc. magazine’’s entrepreneurial columnist, speaks from experience. He’’s one of the few business journalists who do so — most are experts or reporters — and consequently is one of the few I trust. He said something in a recent article that I want to discuss today. He was…

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Promise To Follow Through On Your Career Goals

By Mark Morgan Ford | 02/6/2001

Of all the qualities that contribute to an accomplished life, none is more important than persistence. Intelligence, knowledge, connections, luck — they are all important ingredients in the stew of success, but persistence is the stock. Persistence is a big virtue comprising many large and small ones, including endurance, tenacity,…

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How Smart Is It To Trust Your Employees?

By Mark Morgan Ford | 02/5/2001

EVM, a Wharton School associate dean and professor, used to lecture students about trust. “People are basically trustworthy, honest, and loyal,” he argued. “If you treat them as such, they will act accordingly.” He retired from academe in 1993 and six years later entered the business world — the real…

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Sometimes It’s Smart To Shoot For Second Place

By Mark Morgan Ford | 02/2/2001

It may sometimes seem like I’’m always pushing you in the direction of becoming No.1 — of being your own boss and having your own business. And I won’’t deny that I spend a lot of time talking about the advantages of entrepreneurship and equity. But some people are better…

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Will The Death Tax Go Away (As It Should)?

By Mark Morgan Ford | 02/1/2001

“A son can bear with composure the death of his father, but the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.” – Niccolo Machiavelli With Bush in office, is it only a matter of time before the highly unfair estate tax (which taxes you, at your death, on what…

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Why You Should Listen More And Talk Less When You Want To Impress

By Mark Morgan Ford | 01/31/2001

We’’ve often cited Dale Carnegie on “winning friends.” Carnegie believed that listening well makes you appear to be a better conversationalist than does speaking well — and that it’’s certainly better than speaking too much. He told a good story about sitting next to an important businessman at dinner and…

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Why You Need Professional Management

By Mark Morgan Ford | 01/24/2001

I was talking to someone the other day about how many people you can manage well. Experts say it is six, seven, or eight. My own experience confirms this. At times, I’’ve had more than a dozen people reporting to me — and it wasn’’t good. I was not able…

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Start Your Little Black Book Of Powerful Contacts

By Mark Morgan Ford | 01/23/2001

Your Rolodex and/or address book contains all the numbers you may eventually need to call. But you need another book — a very special book — to keep vital information on your power system. Your power system comprises all the powerful people you know who can make a positive difference…

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Six Degrees Of Seperation

By Mark Morgan Ford | 01/22/2001

“Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.” – W.H. Auden Every time you meet someone, you are given a chance to make a connection…

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Another Good Reason You Need A Lifelong Income

By Mark Morgan Ford | 01/19/2001

ETRs don’t believe in traditional retirement. We think it’s a mistake to count on the government – or even the value of savings – when it comes to our future well-being. The cost of living is always increasing, as are the ways our wealth is taken from us. Personal taxation…

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This Is A Great Time To Pick Up Bargains

By Mark Morgan Ford | 01/17/2001

If my crystal ball isn’’t fooling me, we can expect to see the stock market down for some time. More importantly, businesses are failing – and will continue to fail – at an unprecedented rate. Some of these are good businesses, short on cash. We’ve talked about the importance of…

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