Download or read book 13 Rules for Being an Entrepreneur written by Alan Knott-Craig and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of an entrepreneur is not all roses. But it can lead you to happiness, and with some luck, you can make a small dent on the world.You can make the world a better place.Entrepreneurship is an exercise in faith.Stepping into the unknown. Believing in yourself.Risking embarrassment and financial failure.It's not for everyone. And there is no map.There is only a compass. This book acts as a compass comprising short tips and pointers for entrepreneurs. "An entrepreneur is someone who works harder than most people will so she can live a life that most people can't."
Download or read book Be a Hero written by Alan Knott-Craig and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroes. For most of human history, the hero has been held up as a role model-a symbol of something better that young men and women could aspire to. Somewhere over the course of the last century, it became unfashionable to be a hero-to be better than the rest. Shameless, perfect heroes were abandoned in favor of gritty, flawed antiheroes. Forging your own path is now considered less important than assimilating with the crowd. The results have not been encouraging. We still need heroes, just as we always have. More than ever, we need those who are willing to do what needs to be done and stand up for what's right. For those bold enough to strive for the heroic life, entrepreneur and best-selling author Alan Knott-Craig offers the wisdom and advice of heroes past and present. Heroes do still exist, because heroism doesn't concern itself with popular thought or social trends. Heroism is about sacrifice, courage, humility, and a willingness to make the world a better place. It's not an easy road-but it's a rewarding one for those brave enough to overcome adversity and strive for more than merely existing.
Download or read book Raising an Entrepreneur written by Margot Machol Bisnow and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, a political powerhouse and mother of two thriving entrepreneurs interviews the moms of over fifty of today’s most successful innovators and—based on her findings—provides ten rules for raising confident, fearless, self-made individuals whose ideas and drive will change the world. Is your child passionate about something? Maybe it’s music, sports, theatre, writing, building things, or helping others—the kind of creative pursuits that create distinguished leaders and make change in the world. All parents want their kids to have success, but how do you help them cultivate their talent and vision for a personally fulfilling and financially successful life? Once you’ve recognized their drive and passion, how do you set your little trailblazers free? Raising an Entrepreneur presents seventy-six stories from the mothers of some of the most successful entrepreneurs today. Entrepreneurs are the new rock stars—they’re the ones who turn their passions into ingenious projects, because they’re willing to risk failure to make their dreams come true. Highlighting the various achievements of innovators from a wide range of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds—such as Geek Squad’s Robert Stephens and Nantucket Nectars' Tom Scott, nonprofit founders like Mama Hope’s Nyla Rodgers and Pencils of Promise's Adam Braun, profit for purpose creators like TOMS Shoes' Blake Mycoskie and FEED Projects’ Ellen Gustafson, activists like Mike de la Rocha and Erica Ford, and artists like actress Emmanuelle Chriqui and songwriter Benny Blanco—and with photos of the entrepreneurs as children, these inspirational interviews will provide guidance and support on nurturing your own change maker. Not every kid will be an entrepreneur, but all kids have something that makes them unique. If you’re seeking a way to nurture your children’s passions and help them harness their talent, drive, and grit into a fulfilling life purpose, this book is for you. With these ten rules and numerous inspiring stories, you’ll gain confidence in raising your child into a creatively successful adult.
Download or read book Joe Girard s 13 Essential Rules of Selling How to Be a Top Achiever and Lead a Great Life written by Joe Girard and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World's Greatest Salesman Reveals the Techniques of His Astounding Success This newest book from sales phenomenon JOE GIRARD--The 13 Essential Rules of Selling--provides all the ammunition you need to succeed in an economy where budgets are being slashed and decision makers are scared to spend. Named the offi cial world's greatest salesman by Guinness World Records, Girard covers everything from maintaining a positive attitude and staying organized to dressing appropriately, telling the truth, and making clients' needs and wishes priority one. WHY JOE GIRARD IS #1 . . . JUST A FEW RAVES: "Fantastic! The auditorium was jam-packed. They were sitting in the aisle! . . . Inspirational!" -- Harvard Business School "It takes guts to be an entrepreneur. In that quest, Joe Girard's riveting book will empower you to become tomorrow's entrepreneurial legend." -- Warren E. Avis, founder, Avis Rent-A-Car "[Girard is] the consummate salesman!" -- Forbes "Girard captures the essence of rising to the top in any endeavor: Set ambitious goals and visualize success, work hard, persevere, and stick to your principles." -- Mary Kay Ash, founder and Chairman Emeritus, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc.
Download or read book How to Succeed in Business by Breaking All the Rules written by Dan S. Kennedy and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In How to Succeed in Business by Breaking All the Rules, Dan S. Kennedy debunks twenty treasured maxims to show would-be millionaires that the techniques they thought were helping them are actually holding them back.A successful entrepreneur and highly sought-after motivational speaker, Kennedy writes in a brisk, no-nonsense style to show how the advice of so-called ?experts? run against the experience of most successful people. The first rule of success, he argues, is to throw out all the other rules.For instance:? Forget just about everything you were ever told about positive thinking. Optimism is helpful, but blind optimism is just plain stupid. Identify and plan for every possible objection or setback that could come your way or be prepared to be thrown for some real loops.? The customer is not always right. Make an effort to understand people?s dissatisfaction, but a pain in the neck is a waste of time. Be prepared to ?fire? customers who are never satisfied and concentrate on those you can make happy.? Forget about creativity. Plain, ordinary ideas make people rich every day, as long as they are willing to work very, very hard at the run-of-the-mill things they do.Full of anecdotes about people who defied convention, this energetic, plain-talking guide offers practical, hands-on advice to help you become a successful entrepreneur.
Download or read book Disciplined Entrepreneurship written by Bill Aulet and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 24 Steps to Success! Disciplined Entrepreneurship will change the way you think about starting a company. Many believe that entrepreneurship cannot be taught, but great entrepreneurs aren’t born with something special – they simply make great products. This book will show you how to create a successful startup through developing an innovative product. It breaks down the necessary processes into an integrated, comprehensive, and proven 24-step framework that any industrious person can learn and apply. You will learn: Why the “F” word – focus – is crucial to a startup’s success Common obstacles that entrepreneurs face – and how to overcome them How to use innovation to stand out in the crowd – it’s not just about technology Whether you’re a first-time or repeat entrepreneur, Disciplined Entrepreneurship gives you the tools you need to improve your odds of making a product people want. Author Bill Aulet is the managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship as well as a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. For more please visit http://disciplinedentrepreneurship.com/
Download or read book Street Smart Entrepreneur written by Jay Goltz and published by Addicus Books. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small firms in Chicago employ more than 1.6 million individuals—nearly 50 percent of the private work force, according to a new study released this fall by the Small Business Administration. The survey, which defines small firms as those employing less than 500 people, also shows that these businesses generate 47 percent of the area's total receipts of $278 billion dollars. However, SBA statistics also reveal that, on average, of the small businesses starting today, 53 percent will not be in business four years from now. Of these closings, it's estimated that 15 percent will close due to business failures. Chicago businessman Jay Goltz understands what it takes for a small business to succeed. During the past twenty years he has owned and operated Artists' Frame Service in Chicago. Goltz started the business in 1978, and today it's the largest, custom retail picture framing facility in the world. Now, Goltz shares some his secrets of success.
Download or read book Think Like an Entrepreneur Act Like a CEO written by Beverly E. Jones and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education plus experience once guaranteed a successful career, but no more! Today, success depends on your ability to adapt. You must be agile, willing to adjust your professional expectations, and able to respond quickly to opportunities and threats.“br> In Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a CEO you will learn practical ways to handle vexing workplace challenges. Each chapter uses true stories to illustrate the answers to common questions, including: How to leave your old job smoothly and start your new one with confidence and flair. How to gracefully accept praise for your work. How to recover from stress, setbacks, or the upheaval of a major project. How to stay steady in the midst of endless change. It’s not enough to know how to manage common work-life challenges; you must also deal with the uncommon ones. Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a CEO gives you proven, easy, go-to techniques for handling even the biggest career surprises, one step at a time.
Download or read book Small Town Rules written by Barry J. Moltz and published by Que Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology and economics are transforming business in a completely unexpected way: suddenly, even the largest companies must compete as if they were small, local businesses. Suddenly, your customers can talk to everyone else across the nation, and people listen to them, not your carefully crafted advertising or branding. It's just like doing business in a small town, where "reputation is forever." Suddenly, communities and personal connections are critical to your success - just as they've always been in small towns. The best small-town and rural entrepreneurs have been successfully overcoming these challenges for centuries. Their lessons and techniques are suddenly intensely valuable to even the largest companies, most dominant brands, and most cosmopolitan businesses. Small Town Rules adapts these lessons and techniques for today's new "global small town": one knitted together through the Web, Facebook, and Twitter. Two pioneering entrepreneurs and social media experts show how to: * Survive seasonal cycles and year-to-year fluctuations the way rural farmers and businesses do * Use "small town entrepreneur secrets" for coping with limited access to people and capital * Reduce risk by "piecing together" multiple income sources * Start using customer-driven communication to your advantage * Interact with customers on a more human scale, no matter how big you are * Rediscover your company's local roots, and more
Download or read book The Founder s Dilemmas written by Noam Wasserman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Founder's Dilemmas examines how early decisions by entrepreneurs can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of research, including quantitative data on almost ten thousand founders as well as inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them.
Download or read book The Entrepreneur in Rule Based Economics written by Georg D. Blind and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together three areas of interest: the rule-based approach, the entrepreneur, and Japan as an empirical application. It highlights the advantages of the rule-based approach for economic analysis by linking different methodological underpinnings. Using these, the author exemplifies how rule-based economics allows a systematic analysis of the entrepreneur as the key figure in bringing about economic change and diversity. The book includes an empirical methodology for applied research in rule-based economics, which it puts to the test in an empirical study of entrepreneurship in contemporary Japan. The choice of entrepreneurship and Japan showcases the integrative power that rule-based economics brings to further breaking a theoretical deadlock and to analytically capturing a very particular economy investigated very little so far. By offering a body of new and original research, the monograph shows how the idea of entrepreneurship as a rule helps to resolve the Schumpeter-Kirzner divide and to develop an empirical approach to the determinants of entrepreneurial activity.
Download or read book Small Business Ru es written by Mathew Dickerson and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small business owners and managers face increasing challenges in a difficult economic climate. One way to deal with daily struggles is to gain awareness of the obstacles and pitfalls.and know how to overcome them. Mathew Dickerson, one of Australia's leading IT entrepreneurs, makes this possible with his exciting and instructive book, Small Business Ru!es: The 52 Essential Rules to Be Successful in Small Business. In a logical and very readable format, Dickerson describes fifty-two rules that, if followed, help a small business to succeed. Dickerson covers it all: setting high standards, turning perceived failures into positive learning experiences, being clear about commitment and purpose to evaluating attitudes toward the workplace. He also delves into interfacing with clients, and co-workers, identifying the strengths of one's staff and using them to the fullest. Every aspect pertinent to running and growing a small business is covered in this exceptional book.
Download or read book Live Love Learn written by Ashnie Muthusamy and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fourth Industrial Revolution requires a greater focus on skills such as collaboration, building relationships, compassion, empathy and ingenuity. Whether you're a student in school or a professional looking to grow your career, Live, Love, Learn will help you to: - identify your governing values; - live your authentic self; - discover your life purpose; - build new relationships; - be open to new opportunities; and - manage the talent within. Live, Love, Learn will show you that you don't have to sacrifice your values or hide your authentic personality to be successful. In fact, you'll discover how to successfully use your strengths to get to the next level in your career and life. This self-coaching guide will give you powerful exercises, tips and resources you can apply right away to gain more confidence, authenticity and effectiveness. Live, Love, Learn is essential reading for anyone who knows what they want and is looking for real advice to take their career to the next level without losing themselves in the process.
Download or read book The Power of Broke written by Daymond John and published by Currency. This book was released on 2016 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The star of ABC's "Shark Tank" demonstrates how starting a business on a shoestring can provide significant competitive advantages for entrepreneurs by forcing them to think creatively, use resources efficiently, and connect more authentically with customers. --Publisher's description.
Download or read book The Rebel Entrepreneur written by Jonathan Moules and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone wants to start their own business and there are many of books telling you how to go about it. The only trouble is that many of them are simply wrong. The Rebel Entrepreneur by Financial Times journalist Jonathan Moules explains why, in many cases, the received wisdom on entrepreneurship just isn't the best way of doing things. Full of examples of successful entrepreneurs, who've made the grade by doing things differently, this book will show you: - Why you don't need to stick to a business plan; - There's nothing wrong with learning from the ideas of others ; - Why, if things get tough, you should put your prices up; - How cutting costs can kill your business. The Rebel Entrepreneur is the alternative guide to starting your own business and succeeding that no entrepreneur can afford to be without.
Download or read book The Creator s Code written by Amy Wilkinson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on in-depth interviews with more than 200 leading entrepreneurs, [including the founders of LinkedIn, Chipotle, eBay, Under Armour, Tesla Motors, SpaceX, Spanx, Airbnb, PayPal, JetBlue, Gilt Group, Theranos, and Dropbox], a business executive and senior fellow at [the Harvard Kennedy School] identifies the six essential disciplines needed to transform your ideas into real-world successes, whether you're an innovative manager or an aspiring entrepreneur"--
Download or read book Make Your Own Waves written by Louis Patler and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the ocean, the marketplace constantly changes and today's cresting?reward?becomes tomorrow's crashing?risk. Even the best surfers fall, but they learn from their wipeouts and paddle back out again, knowing that with big waves come big opportunities. Innovation expert Louis Patler explores why 8 out of 10 business ventures fail and offers lessons learned from elite athletes that apply to business.?Before you venture out, take some advice from unlikely experts: Big Wave surfers who ride waves the size of a five-story office building using only a 9-foot piece of styrofoam. Like successful entrepreneurs, they must rely on preparation, planning, patience, and passion--and they relish a challenge. Packed with stories of innovators, entrepreneurs, and legends, Make Your Own Waves reveals 10 Surfer's Rules that will guide entrepreneurs and innovators including: Learn to swim--the basics set the stage for everything Get wet--you can't succeed if you stick to the shore Always look "outside"--watch for what's coming or you may miss a better opportunity Commit, charge, shred--you have to go all out to be all in Never turn your back on the ocean--always stay in touch with the marketplace and the customer Stay stoked--desire drives success Discover the do’s and don’ts for innovators and entrepreneurs that will lead you to success.
