Small Business Motivation

How to Be a Successful Entrepreneur is a practical and highly detailed guide to the mindset you need to have and the actual steps you need to take to become successful in business. Whether you are starting out and looking for an idea or you already have a business, you will find a whole array of useful information within this fascinating book.

The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur offers overworked and harried entrepreneurs, and anyone who thinks like one, a much-needed guide for tapping into the wisdom that is most relevant to the entrepreneurial life. The book is filled with inspirational meditations that contain the thoughts and writings of notable American authors. Designed as a daily devotional, it is arranged in a calendar format, and features readings of transcendentalist literature and others.

As a former aerospace scientist, Fortune 500 executive, chief innovation officer of two major companies, inventor and software entrepreneur, David Murray has made a living by coming up with new and innovative ideas. In Borrowing Brilliance he explains the origins and evolution of a business idea by showing you how new ideas are merely the combination of existing ideas.

A one-time flight attendant founds a cybersecurity business. A yoga instructor opens an organic mattress company. A former steel industry executive forms a limousine service. A retired nurse creates an international golf clothing line. Late-Blooming Entrepreneurs introduces these and other contemporary entrepreneurs who started prosperous businesses in their forties, fifties, and later. Just about all of them say they wouldn’t have succeeded if they had started their companies when they were younger.

Since founding Orange County Choppers in Upstate New York in 1999, Teutul has grown the business from a hobby into a 70-person-plus operation that produces and sells 150 custom bikes a year at retail prices starting at $30,000 and quickly escalating to six figures. Teutul and his team not only sell their choppers from their world headquarters in Newburgh, New York, but throughout a multicountry dealership network in the US and abroad.

From humble beginnings in the rural South to becoming a Morehead-Cain scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill, Antonio McBroom was always determined to achieve his C. E. O. dream of Creating Extra • Ordinary life. The only thing he didn’t expect was that a minimum wage ice cream scooping job would lead him there. Presented with a chance to franchise his own Ben & Jerry’s, McBroom “scooped his way” to the top before co-founding his company, Primo Partners, in 2008. Within 15 years, he grew a single scoop shop from $200K per year to a vast enterprise that drives over $20 million annually.

Seeing Around Corners tells the inspirational rags-to-riches story of entrepreneur Stan Middleman and shares his principles for achieving business success. Follow Stan's journey from humble beginnings in Philadelphia to building Freedom Mortgage, one of the largest privately held mortgage companies in America.

The founder of Tough Mudder - the world's greatest obstacle course races - takes us inside his unconventional company and reveals how tribes form and grow in surprising and powerful ways.

Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech's Empathy Problem and How to Fix It explores how technology has progressed humanity's most noble pursuits, while also grappling with the origins of the industry's destructive empathy deficit and the practical measures Big Tech can take to self-regulate and make it right again. Author Maëlle Gavet examines the tendency for many of Big Tech's stars to stray from their user-first ideals and make products that actually profoundly damage their customers and ultimately society.

Are you feeling stuck in your job? Do you wish you could walk in and fire your boss? You can! You’re probably reading this from a corporate office - because you want out. You want to be on your own. Free. After being mentored by my friend and entrepreneurial guru Gary Vaynerchuk, I discovered my way out of corporate America and learned that anyone can join me, simply by giving. My new audiobook Jab Till It Hurts is for you…because I used to be you. You’re 40+ and thinking it’s too late to start your own business. It’s not.

The Success Story celebrates the authors, innovators, and entrepreneurs who have become ultra-successful. We tell you what makes these entrepreneurs so special, and why they are so successful. We also tell you how you can replicate their success and become ultra-successful like they are.

Simpleology is the cutting-edge speed-learning psychology that governs success or failure in every endeavor. It provides the explanation for those who succeed in life - because, consciously or unconsciously, they have been following the five laws explained here. Those who fail have been breaking at least one of these laws on a regular basis.

Companies stumble when they imagine that innovation is mostly about ideas. The reality is that ideas are only beginnings. Indeed, even a company with the world’s best idea still faces a devilish challenge: it must build the business of tomorrow without endangering the business of today. Beyond the Idea is an essential book for any business that recognizes that innovation always has been, and always will be, the key to long term growth and vitality.

What if I can tell you that you can design and accelerate the level of success that you always wanted in your life and career? How many times have you wonder if you are wasting your time following someone else plans and dreams instead of following your own? Here is a little tip you need to know today: To be consistent, you need to focus 100 percent on the assignments you have in front of you. As an individual, you are the one responsible to build yourself up. Obviously, that’s easier said than done.

Ser um empreendedor online não é fácil. É preciso coragem. Você precisa estar disposto a correr riscos. Você sentirá vontade de desistir quando as coisas não derem certo. Você trabalha de casa? Então você pode sentir que é muito difícil tentar manter um cronograma e ser disciplinado. Ter ideias é uma coisa, mas se você não tiver a mentalidade adequada, está fadado ao fracasso. Essa é a realidade. Uma mente forte sempre derrotará todas as probabilidades. Por fim, você quer se tornar bem sucedido mais rápido e melhor, certo?

The statistics are grim: Less than 20 percent of the businesses started each year survive their fifth anniversary. Jay Myers, founder of Interactive Solutions, Inc. in Memphis, Tennessee is one such survivor. Jay has built a company that, by tapping into the demand for high-tech video conferencing and communication equipment, continues to grow even beyond the 10 year anniversary.

Building on the success of their previous title, The Oz Principle, Connors and Smith explore the direct link between a company's culture and the results it produces. Journey to the Emerald City details a clear road map for accelerating the move to a culture of accountability in which people focus on achieving the results critical to a company's future.

As an aspiring entrepreneur, you have fallen into a trap that many others like you fall into—the trap of over-analysis paralysis. And even though your high level of planning is crucial for startup success, it has made taking action overwhelming. While there may be many things keeping you stuck in the planning stage, a significant barrier that could stand in your way is fear. Fear of what? The fear of failure, experiencing financial difficulties or having to rebuild your professional network.

Every human conversation is a selling conversation so telling the truth means Selling the Truth. No matter who you are or what you do, this book is for you. By learning the Advisory Selling Method, you develop your natural ability to Sell the Truth. The Advisory Selling Method is an important innovation in the evolution of selling that unleashes your creativity, compassion for others, and the power to make a real difference on behalf of the people you serve. It demands that you put their best interest ahead of all other priorities including yours.

Nous avons choisi de réunir 75 des plus précieux conseils de Steve Jobs, de les détailler et d'y joindre des citations (en français), pour ne pas trahir sa pensée. Les conseils sont destinés à ceux qui veulent réussir leur entreprise, leur travail, ou plus généralement à la recherche de mentors et de conseils pour réussir sa vie. Parfois irrésistiblement enthousiaste, parfois critique et difficile avec ses équipes, Steve Jobs était un leader entrainant, un sentimental, un maniaque de détails, un négociateur né, et un profond humaniste et philosophe.