Category: budgeting

4 Tasks You Must Do Every Day to Grow Your Business

The ability to grow your business is what will make it break it. Often times, this looks like being consistent with certain tasks. These tasks are usually those that keep eyeballs on you while also getting you paid. The problem is many beginning business owners don’t know what that means. Many also fall into a false narrative and…


James Dyson Created 5,127 Versions of a Product That Failed Before Finally Succeeding. His Tenacity Reveals a Secret of Entrepreneurship

By Aytekin Tank “Failure is interesting—it’s part of making progress. You never learn from success, but you do learn from failure.” —James Dyson, British inventor Imagine spending five years of your life creating 5,127 versions of a product that failed. That’s exactly what the inventor of cyclonic vacuum technology, James Dyson, did. Until finally, one magical day,…


Top 9 Free Online Budgeting Tools Benefit Your Life

You don’t want to spend an arm and a leg on online budgeting tools. In my frugal opinion, that just defeats the purpose. Additionally, you don’t want to use overly complex tools that generate such meticulous reports that the thought of it gives you a panic attack. “Budgeting has only one rule: Do not go…


Amazon CEO of Worldwide Consumer Business Resigns After 23 Years: ‘It’s Time for Me to Build Again.’

By Madeline Garfinkle After 23 years with Amazon, Dave Clark, who most recently served as CEO of its worldwide consumer business and as a top lieutenant to CEO Andy Jassy, announced he’ll be leaving the company effective July 1. Clark’s position made him one of the highest-ranking executives at Amazon, and the company had yet to name a…


9 Things You Should Know About Billionaire Philanthropist George Soros

By Entrepreneur Staff George Soros’s name is synonymous with a slew of adjectives: billionaire, investor, philanthropist, and activist. (For many right-wing conspiracy theorists, that laundry list also includes political puppet master.) Soros’s philanthropy has spanned the globe, beginning with scholarships for black South Africans suffering under apartheid in 1979 and later expanding to the United…


Debt-Related Stress Affects Body and Mind

Being in debt feels like you’re always a step behind. It doesn’t help that debt is spoken about as something that’s your fault—too much online shopping, or too many pricey pitchers of mimosas at brunch. “In our culture, in our country, we have a lot of noise about debt,” says Lindsay Bryan-Podvin, an Ann Arbor,…


PGA Championship Payout: How Much Do the Winners Take Home?

By Emily Rella It’s no new news that professional athletes are paid quite handsomely to play their respective sports. For sports like tennis and golf, where big-name tournaments draw in players and spectators a few times a year, the purse payouts for winners tend to come in a large lump sum. This year’s PGA Championship, which took place at Southern Hills…


Hitting the Road for Summer Travel? Sticker Shock at the Pump Is Going to Burn: What to Expect

By Amanda Breen With the first day of summer arrived, many hopeful vacationers are considering their options for the season—some enthusiastic about their first real chance at travel after more than two years of pandemic-induced lockdowns and restrictions. But planning that dream trip just got a lot more complicated; between exorbitant airfares, rising vacation rental scams, and, of course,…


6 Types of Budgets and How to Choose

In hindsight, it makes sense that at and after the height of the COVID-19 pandemic Americans hoarded more money than ever. BEA notes that personal income increased $107.2 billion (0.5 percent) in March 2022. While understandable, this is still should raise concerns. After all, Bankrate found that only 41 percent of Americans would be able to cover…


Motivation Tips From Today’s Most Successful Entrepreneurs

You’re alarm clock goes off bright and early on a Monday morning. Your first thought isn’t how you’re going to tackle the day. It’s questioning why you ever embarked on this entrepreneurial journey. Whether you’re an 18-year-old aspiring entrepreneur or Bill Gates, we all have those mornings when the motivation tank is on empty. Instead of…