Sometimes the advice we get on running a business makes it all sound too easy. Not so the advice from Ted Turner (one of the founders of CNN and worth about $2 billion). He says: "Early to bed, early to rise, Work like hell and advertise! "...

I don’t know if you remember our banking crises that we’ve been going through. We’ve had appalling customer care, mis-selling, money laundering and of course the LIBOR scandal. I ask if you remember because I am staggered to see that at the year...

Over the Christmas break I have been reading about that wonder whippet Tom Daley – he of the tiny trunks and massive diving ability. He talks about the fear of diving off a 10 metre high board, and retells his first dive aged 7: “I stood at the...

Well wasn’t 2012 one heck of a year?   From the Olympics to the Diamond Jubilee there was positivity and good cheer on every corner. Sadly the good cheer didn’t really extend to the property market itself and the full year movement for property...

Well what a mess this LIBOR and Barclays thing is and we now have the Chief Executive and the Chairman of Barclays looking for work elsewhere. And although the media and watchdog wolves have got their men, there are two problems with that: ...

There has been a lot of talk in the press this last week about the countries richest people (as on the Times Rich List). Apparently the top 1,000 people in theUKhave increased their wealth in the last three years by £155 billion, which is enough...

I have no interest in astrology, only just about remember my star sign if asked, and never read my stars. No idea why I did today, but whilst I was having my breakfast I casually turned to the horoscopes and read that I had to ‘put my big idea...

I am a member of our local amateur dramatic society and this week we are ’in production’ and last night everything went wrong! Firstly the lights front right failed meaning that all of us had to stand on the other side of the stage to be seen...

The IMF half yearly Global Financial Stability Report has just been issued and it contains some very good news and some bad news. First the good news – we are all living longer – hooray!!! And massive improvements in health care are paying...

I’ve been reading about some research conducted for a TV advertising campaign labelled ‘A problem Shared is a Problem Halved’ and apparently as individuals we worry, on average, about 5 things per day. Money is the biggest problem, with ...

I don’t know if you saw the first of 5 episodes of The Syndicate (BBC1) last Tuesday? I didn’t! I know its only drama and all that but when is our culture and our society going to stop making programmes about how destructive and horrible money...

If you are lucky enough to be a first time buyer, the low 5% deposit scheme backed by the government came into being last week. However it’s not all good news because the scheme is only available on new build properties – because the government...