Posts by Early to Rise
The Most Important Lesson From My Parents
Did you hear the one about CNN host Anderson Cooper losing out on $200 million? It sounds like the start of a bad joke… but there’s no punch line. Cooper, the son of heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, was disinherited from the family fortune. But there’s no bad blood. His mother planned it that way… and Cooper…
Read MoreBold – A Story of Progress and Hope
Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler coauthors of the bestseller Abundance talk about Bold, their new bestseller. Click here to listen to the full interview or read the transcript below. This isn’t your average business podcast and he is not your average host. This is the James Altucher Show on the Stansberry Radio Network. James: So I have Peter Diamandis…
Read MoreETR Question: What Are You Most Thankful For?
The ETR Question of the Week: What Are You Most Thankful For? We have lots of answers to this week’s question from both ETR and AWAI staff members. Their responses are still coming in . . . but here’s a sampling of what we have so far. After reading them on this special day, I…
Read MoreHealth Advice for Men
Aren’t you tired of red-faced, chubby “Santa Claus” doctors giving you health advice? These guys know nothing about potency, fitness, or youthfulness – they look like they’re about to drop any second! As if that wasn’t bad enough, the medical mainstream wants to turn you into a woman. And you don’t even know it! From…
Read MoreDon’t Sleep With Your Boss
When it comes to acquiring wealth and success in business, the important rules are all the same – regardless of whether you are Tall or Short, Black or White, Man or Women. Yet every year, new financial books are published for “minorities.” One such book, “Naked in the Boardroom”, promises to give working women a…
Read MoreThe Best Place to Find Good Employees is Close to Home
“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” – Jane Howard I recently spent weeks trying to find someone to fill a part-time position. After a lot of time and money invested, we hired someone who was…
Read MoreHow to Launch a Profitable New Business
If you want to be a business-building genius — or just make a ton of money this year — learn these five proven (and absolutely true in my experience) secrets of highly successful entrepreneurs. Secret No. 1. Don’t spend too much time planning. When you are entering a market, you don’t know (and couldn’t possibly…
Read MoreDo You Have a Problem with Delegation?
In any endeavor, there is a natural pyramidal structure to progress. You begin doing everything yourself. You have some success and hire two people to help you. Things continue to do well, and you hire four more. Every person “below” you does something you were doing at one time. If you are smart, you give…
Read MoreHow to Get Your Business Going Again
The economy is dragging — and it doesn’t look as if it’s going to improve any time soon . . . if ever. Though most of the businesses I know are still profitable, the margins have fallen and profits are low. Back-end sales are still healthy. But all those sales and marketing tricks that worked…
Read MoreThe Four Critical Success Factors for a New Business
If you spend countless hours and hundreds of pages planning your new business venture, you are wasting a lot of time. That’s mostly because you don’t know the most important secrets about the new (to you) market. What’s most critical to know about any business is invisible to newcomers. No amount of planning or preparation…
Read MoreWhat’s a Woman to Do?
The disparity between the incomes of working men and woman got bigger in 2003, the first time in four years that the gap widened. For every dollar men made in 2003, the Census Bureau reported, women made 75.5 cents. That was down from 76.6 cents in 2002. The median income for men working full-time that…
Read MoreWhat I Learned About Life From My Father’s Death
It’s been a little over two months since my father died. After an unnecessary operation for a “pre-cancerous” stomach condition, the surgeons discovered a large tumor in his lung. They went forward with the removal of a length of gut, sewed him back up, and advised him to see an oncologist. Had they discovered the…
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