Marques Ogden

NFL Millionaire Loses It All and Regains It

by EXCEPTIONAL MAGAZINE
The way you view your failures can determine your success.

How does it feel when you do everything right – and you still fall flat on your face? Marques Ogden can tell you.

The former NFL offensive lineman had heard all the right messages as a kid. Raised by a single dad, he was told early on that his education was more important than sports. A career in football, his dad said, would be short-lived. Planning wisely for the future, on the other hand, would see him through the rest of his life.

So, thinking in the long term, the young man earned a business degree before getting drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars at age 22. But that wasn’t all Ogden did that was right. Unlike most young professional athletes, Ogden drove a pre-owned car, not a tricked-out Maserati. He lived in a condominium, not a sprawling estate. He lived frugally compared to most of his new-millionaire teammates.

After retirement, many of his peers had to file bankruptcy after being preyed upon by unscrupulous accountants and shady venture capitalists. Not Ogden. He’d started a solid construction company which was making impressive profits…until it wasn’t.

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