Posts by Mark Morgan Ford
Living Rich: Dine Out on Warren Buffett’s Favorite Foods
Want to enjoy one of Warren Buffett’s favorite desserts? Head over to Dairy Queen for a Dilly Bar. Dairy Queen is just one of Berkshire Hathaway’s holdings that Buffett personally supports. Coca-Cola is another. He’s a big fan of Cherry Coke, and the local restaurants he frequents in Omaha bring it in especially for him.…
Read MoreHow To Read An Extra 52 Helpful Books This Year
You can give yourself a competitive edge—one that could pay you big dividends one day—by doing a little carefully calculated extra reading this year. I know you are busy already, but what I’m about to suggest won’t take too much time—and the benefits you’ll get from it will be wonderful. I’m going to show you…
Read MoreMark Ford’s Advice to Millennials
“I come from a poor family. I want to start a business and make money to help them. But when I see successful businesspeople depicted on TV …”
Read More5 Ways to Get Rich Without Stocks
In my ongoing effort to shock you with contrarian (and sometimes counterintuitive) truths about building wealth, I give you this little nugget to chew on today: You cannot become wealthy by investing in the stock and bond market. (Please keep this on the down low. If my colleagues in the investment newsletter industry knew I…
Read MoreHow The Super Rich Earned Their Money
A breakdown of the 10 most wealthy people and the commonality between each of their businesses. Plus, four elements you need to get super rich fast.
Read More5 Strategies for Living a Simpler, Fuller Life
About eight years ago, I did a little experiment. I wanted to find out if it really is possible to do business from anywhere in the world. So I packed my family off to Rome (one of my favorite cities) for a six-week “working vacation.” I not only learned that, yes, it is possible for…
Read MoreHow to Get Rich as an Employee
I was three months into my new job as managing editor for a start-up newsletter business in South Florida, and I was nervous. With good reason. I was 32, and most of the writers reporting to me were at least twice my age. I needed to quickly develop my management skills, so I enrolled in…
Read More4 Steps to Get Rich
A reader wrote recently to say that although he’s “learned a lot from PBL,” he feels that most of the advice is not for him. Why? Because he is 47 and has a net worth of only $25,000. He is not interested in long-term saving strategies. “I don’t want a million dollars when I’m 70,”…
Read MoreChoosing the Best Possible Life
Someone once said that the three most important decisions in life answer the following questions: 1. What are you going to do? 2. With whom? 3. And where? I thought that was pretty nifty when I first encountered it 15 years ago. Today, I still think it is practical wisdom wrapped in a nutshell. From…
Read MoreHow To Develop a Money Mindset
Do you have the mindset of a natural-born moneymaker? Ask these questions to determine whether you have a money mindset, plus how to get one.
Read MoreTruth and Lies about Creating Wealth
I’ve been writing about creating wealth for a dozen years. Before then, I wasn’t writing about it. I was doing it. My income has actually increased since I stopped actively “creating wealth.” But that’s the thing about getting rich – when you get rich, it is just too damn easy to get richer. It’s not fair, but…
Read MoreThe Four-Hour Workweek, Ha, Ha, Ha
Before Timothy Ferriss became famous for writing The 4-Hour Workweek, he won a martial arts championship in China. He also set a world record for tango dancing.He won the Chinese kickboxing contest by taking advantage of a loophole in the rules… he used his size to push his smaller opponents off the mat. Ferriss’s tango accomplishment…
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