Posts by Mark Morgan Ford
Making Your Ideas Soar
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank Think about how many good ideas you have had or been a part of in the past, either in casual conversation, in business meetings, or at conferences and trade shows. How many of them did…
Read MoreHow to Grow Your Wealth for Decades Without a Single Losing Year
Maybe I’m lucky. Or maybe it’s just common sense. I’ve been involved in the investment advisory business for 30 years. And except for a few early mistakes buying real estate, the big financial hoaxes and bubbles that devastated so many investors never burned me. That made a huge difference over time. It allowed me to…
Read MoreCriticism Is the Price of Success – Prepare for It and Profit From It
One of the most surprising and disappointing things about reaching an important goal is that many people won’t share your happiness when they hear about it. Some will even criticize your achievement.
Read MoreA Life-Changing Early-Morning Routine
Editor’s note: Leading up to next week’s release of Early to Rise Editor Craig Ballantyne’s new book, The Perfect Day Formula, we’ll be sharing with you insights from some of ETR’s most influential and successful achievers in the coming days. All of these essays echo the wisdom of the advice and guidance Craig shares in this powerful…
Read MoreGrow Your Support Network (by adding 25 new contacts)
I hate asking for help and almost never do. (Before Siri, I’d rather spend hours driving in circles than ask for directions.) Yet at moments like this — when I have time to reflect on what I’ve been able to do in my life — I can see most of my accomplishments were due, at…
Read MoreThe Man in the Hathaway Shirt
Have you seen The Most Interesting Man in the World? I’m referring to the TV commercials for Dos Equis beer. They star a rugged-looking, silver-haired man who is always surrounded by beautiful women. In one version of the commercial, he arm-wrestles a Third World general and releases a grizzly bear from a trap. In another,…
Read MoreFour Easy Steps to Banish Fear and Change Your Life, Today
I used to dread the thought of public speaking. And when I was forced to make a speech, I did a terrible job — which only made me dread the next speech even more. It was a vicious cycle. When I became the editorial director of a newsletter business in South Florida in 1982, I…
Read MoreHow to Spot and Develop Big Moneymaking Ideas
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 arrogance… the list goes on.) Having too many ideas can be…
Read MoreWhat To Do With 1,000 Marbles
“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 first to rise, or maybe it’s the unbounded joy…
Read More9 Wealth-Building Lessons From Billionaires
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 U.S. has the world’s largest and most-profitable economy. But, India and…
Read More4 Rules About Business
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 is a real-world, common-sense method for evaluating businesses. Use it the next…
Read MoreHow To Get a Raise – Even If You Were Just Turned Down
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 let me view them that way, either. If…
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