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Recent articles related to

Wealth

Achieve Something You’ve Always Wanted to Accomplish

By Mark Morgan Ford | 01/2/2002

On January 3, 2001, I promised myself that I’d do something great and frivolous this year — something I’ve daydreamed about but never took seriously. It would be one of those things I would like to try to do had I my life to live over again. You see, I…

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Why You Shouldn’t Expect (Or Want) Our Goverment’s Help

By Early To Rise | 12/19/2001

Recently, Forbes Small Business magazine convened a meeting to poll some of its readers on how they felt George Bush has done with regard to small business. They rated him highly for his efforts to end estate taxation and for dismantling a Clinton proposal that would have forced small-business owners…

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A Lesson Everyone Needs To Learn To Become A Success In Any Field

By Early To Rise | 12/14/2001

“The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors.” – Charles Peguy DF, a friend and colleague, wrote me…

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Agreements: Written? Oral? What?

By Mark Morgan Ford | 12/7/2001

“Wrong must not win by technicalities.” – Aeschylus (The Eumenides, 458 B.C.) A very common question among businessmen: Is it prudent to “paper” deals? During the 25 years I’ve been in business, more than 90% of the deals I’ve made have been oral. Usually, the process is some version of…

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If You Want That Better Job, Go After It Like You Mean It

By Early To Rise | 11/30/2001

“There is one quality more important than ‘know-how’ … This is ‘know-what’ by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.” – Norbert Wiener (The Human Use of Human Beings, 1954) Yesterday (in Message #487), we talked about your career. I…

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Do You Want A Better Job?

By Early To Rise | 11/29/2001

“Every man is the architect of his own fortune.” – Sallust (speech to Caesar, first century B.C.) Few of us are entirely happy with our current work — and if we are for a while, eventually some of it, at least, becomes ho-hum. There’s nothing wrong with wanting a better…

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14 More Good Rules For Getting A Better Job

By Mark Morgan Ford | 11/28/2001

“Do more than hear, listen. Do more than listen, understand.” – John H. Rhoades Jeffrey Fox tells the following story in his book “Don’t Send a Resume”: Douglas MacArthur, the legendary World War II Army general, was looking to hire a new aide. After a staff review of candidates, MacArthur…

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Don’t Send Out Resumes – Send Out Sales Letters

By Early to Rise | 11/27/2001

“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain for himself.” – Epicurus (Vatican Sayings, third century B.C.) As I said yesterday, resumes don’t work because they are all about you. Sales letters work because they are all about…

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When You Want A Better Job…

By Mark Morgan Ford | 11/26/2001

Most people end up with jobs that result from a series of half-baked actions and fortunate accidents. Ask a dozen executives to retrace their careers and you’ll hear a dozen versions of “this happened” and “that happened” but very few saying “I wanted this so I did that.” When you…

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There Is No Limit To The Number Of Ways You Can Make Money

By Early To Rise | 11/21/2001

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky (legendary hockey player who holds numerous NHL records, including most career goals and points scored) Inc. magazine just came out with its yearly issue on the fastest-growing small companies. Looking over the list, you have to be impressed…

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Multitasking: One of the Most Odious Words Coined in the Last Decade

By Early To Rise | 11/16/2001

Let’s spend a few moments today talking about something you should NOT be doing and its opposite — which is the core habit of all successful enterprises. Of all the hot air that inflated the New Economy bubble (new myths about how businesses grow, what they should be about, the…

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Pioneers and Governors: You Need Them Both In Your Business Empire

By Early To Rise | 11/13/2001

“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.” – Walter Lippmann In Message #466, I talked about growth (how much is good and how much is too much) by drawing an analogy between a new…

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