Wealthy People

The House Small Business Committee is supposed to safeguard the interests of small firms. But the current chairman is a captive of big drug companies.

99 Women made the billionare list for 2008-just 9% of the world's billionares. Check out who is listed and where they started from.

There is one fundamental rule in business - without a plan, no matter the goal, it will fail. Inspiration, hope and prayer can take us all only so far.

Survey results show similarities in UK based entrepreneurs hopes and dreams of becoming a millionaire.

The main marketing message of many business brokers and M&A firms is: "We Have a Buyer for Your Business". Do they? Sometimes. Usually not. Here’s the scoop....

I want to thank all of you for reading my blog. Many of you have found me via links from other blogs or you've used a search engine to look for customer service...

Kansas woman rakes in profit selling tumbleweeds online.

Sure, sensitivity and six-pack abs are all well and good. But, says Abe Smilowitz, founder of WealthyMen.com, his site’s market research has turned up a more important quality to consider.

In Washington these days, everyone is suddenly a friend of small business, even if an issue actually has little to do with small firms, or worse, adversely affects them.

There are as many schools of thought on networking as there are books and speaking engagements promoted by industry pundits. Adopting the approach best suited to your tastes and talents requires cherry picking,...

I watched in horror as the stock market entered what seemed suspiciously like a freefall. Then, I shook myself and began thinking about the opportunities presented.

Have physician incomes topped out - have they hit the income wall? Incomes are down in real terms - is this a permanent adjustment downward resulting from market resistance?

Think of it. You can plop down a big wad of cash, buy the entire bar a drink and be the hero for the night at any bar in the country. You suddenly...

Although the proprietor owns farm land and painstakingly grows much of his own produce, none of that magic was apparent on the menu at all, when it should have been the major marketing...

The anticipation of a new grocer store opening in the old Ralph's space kept the residents of Sonoma on the edge of their park bench.The small town has four grocery stores, yet the...

Reality TV hits the internet and some lucky entrepreneur will win.

Construction companies have long neglected the idea that their employees should know financial management. This is madness. Owners trying to create personal wealth with employees who do not know cost and profit fundamentals....

If you can quantitify something, you can monitor performance easily. Something to remember when your salesperson's whereabouts or progress is uncertain.

If you don't have a plan, you don’t have a business, you have a job.