Download or read book Poverty Proof for Entrepreneurs written by Douglas Kruger and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We face two important questions. The first pertains to who gets rich and what it is that they do. We need to understand that. The second is a matter of who stays poor and why they remain so. We need to understand that as well, in order to avoid it. We are going to discuss these questions, and the answers will change the way you think, live and structure your business. Entrepreneurship is a high-stakes game. Get it right, and you become a self-made millionaire. Get it wrong, and you could lose everything. Douglas Kruger, author of eight business and personal finance books, returns with a follow-up to the bestselling Poverty Proof. This time round, the focus is squarely on what makes or breaks a new business, and how you, as an entrepreneur, can get ahead of the curve. Could your idea change your financial reality? There’s every reason to believe that it could. Most millionaires and billionaires alive today are first-generation business owners. But too many entrepreneurs make simple mistakes when they start out that get in the way of accruing wealth. This book is your road map to avoiding the pitfalls, finding the ‘smart-cuts’, and ensuring that all your efforts amount to an empire rather than financial ruin.
Download or read book Virus proof Your Small Business written by Douglas Kruger and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are always silver linings. There is always hope. There are always smart ways forward, and we should never lose hope. Growth may be just around the corner, both for you and for the nation. Now let’s explore the practical things you can do to keep your own profit-over-cost ratio as healthy as possible, for as long as possible. Here are 50 ways to survive the COVID-19 crisis ... The past two decades were among the most prosperous in history, with over a billion people lifted out of extreme poverty. Then 2020 hit, and along with it the coronavirus pandemic. The effect on economies will be extreme. What can small businesses do to survive the Covid-19 crisis? Business coach and author Douglas Kruger provides actionable answers, with a list of 50 practical formulas in this challenging time.
Download or read book How to Grow Rich written by Douglas Kruger and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a billion people globally were lifted from extreme poverty between 2010 and 2020. This is an all-time record, both in outright numbers and per capita growth, constituting nothing short of an economic miracle. Yet the narrative about worsening hardships for the poor prevails, contrary to all evidence. Why? Few topics are more contentious than money. Yet when weighed against empirical data, most of us would be amazed to discover how embarrassingly wrong our assumptions are, and how badly they have impaired our capacity for growth. Wealth is intimately linked to belief systems, and that presents us with choices. Which ones lead to prosperity, and which, predictably, cause ruin? After a century of trial and error, the answers are clear, and they are fascinating. And they are in this book. The problem is that they do not always agree with the accepted narrative. In fact, the things we are glibly told about wealth and poverty are so demonstrably wrong as to be baffling in their endurance. Sifting through a world of tired clichés and trite truisms, can we separate the useful from the merely politically expedient, the true from the endlessly repeated yet baseless? Can we transcend gloomy platitudes like ‘from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations’? Can we clear out the clutter in our thinking and, as a result, be better equipped to prosper? How to Grow Rich identifies every bad idea about wealth and explains why we don’t have to accept them, and how each one of us can overcome these thought hurdles in order to prosper and grow rich. Start by getting the thinking right, and the money will follow.
Download or read book Poverty Proof written by Douglas Kruger and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is it that some people work hard, yet remain poor? How is it that others seem to rise out of poverty and become affluent in a short span of time? If you want to know how to become rich relatively quickly, and avoid spending years working back-breakingly hard without ever breaking even, then read on. The answers to escaping poverty and becoming wealthy are actually well known and based on a number of powerful principles that have been tested by time and replicated in different countries, by families and individuals who have become astonishingly rich. So, what are these ideas that genuinely lift people out of poverty and ensure their personal wealth? Here are 50. They all work. They will make you richer. They remove the emotion, the politics and the clutter from our thoughts about wealth, and they go straight to the heart of one simple issue: what it genuinely takes to become rich. Prepare to train your brain for wealth. Prepare to become ‘poverty proof’ for life,
Download or read book Entrepreneur written by Asian Development Bank and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Business Solution to Poverty written by Paul Polak and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors Paul Polak and Mal Warwick describe their Zero-Based Design of starting from scratch to create innovative products and services tailored for the very poor to show how their design principles and vision can enable unapologetic capitalists to supply the very poor with clean drinking water, electricity, irrigation, housing, education, health care, and other necessities at a fraction of the usual cost and at profit margins attractive to investors.
Download or read book Creating a World Without Poverty written by Muhammad Yunus and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2007-12-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe. But traditional capitalism has been unable to solve problems like inequality and poverty. In Muhammad Yunus' groundbreaking sequel to Banker to the Poor, he outlines the concept of social business -- business where the creative vision of the entrepreneur is applied to today's most serious problems: feeding the poor, housing the homeless, healing the sick, and protecting the planet. Creating a World Without Poverty reveals the next phase in a hopeful economic and social revolution that is already underway.
Download or read book Is Your Thinking Keeping You Poor written by Douglas Kruger and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Thinking like a poor person will keep you poor. Thinking like a wealthy person will make you wealthy. I would like to show you exactly what the differences between the two ways of thinking are and how you can use them in your favour.’ – Douglas Kruger - Douglas Kruger Being rich is not normal: most people never achieve wealth in their lifetime. The very word ‘rich’ describes a state beyond the median, and therein lies an important lesson. To become rich, you will have to think radically differently from the way most people around you think. Do you know what those specific differences may be? Business and wealth guru Douglas Kruger strips away the feel-good hype and gets right down to the practical principles. He leads you through the types of thinking that hold individuals, families and businesses in generational cycles of poverty. He explores the dramatically different approaches of the self-made rich and super-rich, showing you which behaviours to begin practising and which behaviours are traitorous to your wealth potential. Escape poverty. Raise your value. Change the trajectory of your story. It all begins with the way you think.
Download or read book The Entrepreneurial Solution to Poverty and the Science of What Is Possible written by James O. Fiet and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging and accessible, The Entrepreneurial Solution to Poverty and the Science of What is Possible examines the systematic practice of poverty alleviation. Using the science of informational economics (IE), based on leveraging specific information, as well as decades' worth of experimental evidence, James Fiet demonstrates how poverty may be mitigated through entrepreneurial practices. This visionary book suggests a number of key practical methods by which poverty can be alleviated, even without resources or personal connections. Classifying IE as 'the science of what is possible', Fiet demonstrates how to substitute information - the lowest common denominator of what individuals already possess or can acquire - for resources. The book employs 30 years of experimental results as the basis for its entrepreneurial approach to poverty alleviation, inviting its readers to extend the science of what is possible and succeed regardless of their circumstances. Holding the potential to alter how work is approached and carried out in the area of poverty alleviation, the innovative ideas explored in this book will be of significant interest and inspiration to researchers and students, but also beyond academia to government agencies, foundations, and charities, as well as individuals and organizations invested in solving the problem of poverty.
Download or read book Poverty Costs More Than You Think written by Denise Dixon and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-09-16 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this short read, Denise shares insights she has learned in her journey from a child who grew up in poverty to a young woman who depended on Welfare and now a Serial Entrepreneur who proudly owns thriving businesses."I found out that the first step to success will be to change your mindset." This book will help you take that leap! Now is the time to embark on this journey of self-discovery. Start pursuing your dreams with the right mindset and motivations and you too can go from a poverty mindset to living in wealth.
Download or read book Bootstrapped Millionaire written by Tim T. Mercer and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age Of Opportunity Is Now Growing up in poverty-stricken rural South Carolina, Tim Mercer wasn't exactly set up for entrepreneurial success. Despite the odds stacked against him, he would go on to found the technology consulting business Intelibox, growing the company to a multimillion-dollar business. But Bootstrapped Millionaire is not only the true rags-to-riches story of one man's life; it's also an inspirational guide to budding entrepreneurs hoping to reach similar heights. Follow along as Tim explains the Three Phases of Entrepreneurship (Independent Consulting, Small Business Ownership, Public Corporation), with practical advice to apply no matter where you are on your own entrepreneurial journey. In today's world, it's easier than ever to start your own business, but it will take commitment, strategy, and financial literacy in order to succeed.
Download or read book Give Work written by Leila Janah and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to end poverty for good? Entrepreneur and Samasource founder Leila Janah has the solution—give work, not aid. “An audacious, inspiring, and practical book. Leila shows how it’s possible to build a successful business that lifts people out of poverty—not by giving them money but by giving them work. It’s required reading for anyone who’s passionate about solving real problems.” —Adam Grant, author of Give and Take and Originals Despite trillions of dollars in Western aid, 2.8 billion people worldwide still struggle in abject poverty. Yet the world’s richest countries continue to send money—mostly to governments—targeting the symptoms, rather than the root causes of poverty. We need a better solution. In Give Work, Leila Janah offers a much-needed solution to solving poverty: incentivize everyone from entrepreneurs to big companies to give dignified, steady, fair-wage work to low-income people. Her social business, Samasource, connects people living below the poverty line—on roughly $2 a day—to digital work for major tech companies. To date, the organization has provided over $10 million in direct income to tens of thousands of people the world had written off, dramatically altering the trajectory of entire communities for the better. Janah and her team go into the world’s poorest regions—from refugee camps in Kenya to the Mississippi Delta in Arkansas—and train people to do digital work for companies like Google, Walmart, and Microsoft. Janah has tested various Give Work business models in all corners of the world. She shares poignant stories of people who have benefited from Samasource’s work, where and why it hasn’t worked, and offers a blueprint to fight poverty with an evidence-based, economically sustainable model. We can end extreme poverty in our lifetimes. Give work, and you give the poorest people on the planet a chance at happiness. Give work, and you give people the freedom to choose how to develop their own communities. Give work, and you create infinite possibilities.
Download or read book People Plans Profit written by Business in Development Network and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poverty a Good Business Practice written by Jonathan Woods and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fighting Poverty written by George Walker and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poverty to Riches My Way written by Murry J. Evans and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a poor boy with nothing grow up to become a multi-millionaire with a Lear Jet and 69 Burger King stores? And what can you learn from him to build your own success? All his life, Murry Evans had been poor. He got his first job at the age of 13, to help support his family after his father died. There was never enough, and he knew this was not the life he wanted to live. From the time he was 8, he wanted to own his own business. He put his heart and soul into making that happen, overcoming all obstacles until he realized his dream. He opened his own business at age 25. And then, a few months later, competition moved in down the street. He started losing money hand over fist. He already owed his father-in-law almost half a million dollars in today's money, and things were looking worse by the minute. What did he do? He borrowed more money and opened a second store. Not many people would have the guts to do that, or the business sense to make it work. But that's exactly what Murry did. A true entrepreneur, he went on to build an empire of 69 Burger King restaurants and become a multi-millionaire. This book tells the story of how he did it. You'll learn: - How Murry realized his dream of opening a business at age 25... and how he turned it around when it started losing money - The two most important business principles that he used to succeed - How saving money and playing it safe could actually be the riskiest strategy of all - How to find great people to work with you and build them into a powerful team - How to know when to listen to the experts and when to listen to your gut - The two-part formula for making more money in your business (most people get this wrong!) - The top three keys to business success - How to overcome adversity, and the one factor that will make the difference between success and failure during the hard times in your business This frank memoir offers a rare look behind the scenes, telling the full story of Murry's struggles and successes as he built his business, one day at a time. Murry is not your typical millionaire. He started with no money and no connections. He graduated in the bottom third of his high school class. He had none of the advantages that help most people succeed. Yet, he did succeed, marching to the beat of his own drum and making friends along the way. Along with practical business advice and wisdom, this book offers inspiration and hope. If you've ever wanted to follow your dreams or wondered how millionaires are made, this book is for you.
Download or read book Lessons from the Poor written by Alvaro Vargas Llosa and published by Independent Studies in Politic. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining rigorous economic and political analysis with narrative highlights, this volume chronicles remarkable rags-to-riches stories that will inspire and educate readers. As an important contribution to the literature on economic development, Lessons from the Poor is a must-read for global investors, microlenders, foreign policy analysts, political economists, international relations experts, and anyone interested in helping the poor find a way out of poverty. With stories that look at the textile and soft drink industries in Peru, the growth of Kenya's chain stores and one-person kiosks, the rise of barter clubs in Argentina, and Nigerian clothing design, these studies provide insights into entrepreneurship and the role that government regulations often play in impeding development. Book jacket.
