Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!

If you buy a $28,000 car, in four years it will be worth about 11,000 bucks.

Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right.

Anytime you open a business, you have to be effective in promoting whether it's a franchise or not. You'll need to learn to be a Web marketer extraordinaire. There's plenty of material out there.

Where you are today is the sum of every choice you've ever made. If you don't like where you are, start making different choices!

Teaching kids about money is never just about money.

Instead of just purchasing an ad campaign, target test and measure. Give an ad a small try. If the response is enough to pay for the ad, make it larger. With a franchise, ask the most successful franchisees what they did. Ask the bottom five guys what they did and avoid it.