Get Off Your Assets: Before You Leave Your Day Job


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Get Off Your Assets (GOYA) is for anyone who has ever thought about becoming a full-time entrepreneur. Author Bill McCleskey left a six-figure-income job to start his company. Within ten months of leaving corporate America, he doubled his income. Within four years, his pebble of an idea has grown into a thriving enterprise that builds value, creates jobs, and attracts national clientele weekly. GOYA walks you through his journey from employee to entrepreneur and what it took mentally to make the shift. McCleskey offers high-impact principles to help anyone with a genuine desire to succeed in business. Some of his pithy ideas include: - Don't chase success, attract it. - A reason is an excuse in a tuxedo. - You gotta BE before you can DO. And you gotta DO before you can HAVE. - Discipline pays dividends. - All you can do is all you can. But all you can do is enough. GOYA will give you the clarity you need to know if you have what it takes to excel as an entrepreneur.




Work Your Assets Off


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This book was written for business owners, executives, and other individuals who are simply ready to stop working harder and harder. Join me on a journey to "embrace your suck," leverage your natural talents, and start living your best life with ease. This book is for you--if you are ready to work your ASSets off and stop working so hard in business and in life




The Mom Test


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The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak. They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the point. You shouldn't ask anyone if your business is a good idea. It's a bad question and everyone will lie to you at least a little . As a matter of fact, it's not their responsibility to tell you the truth. It's your responsibility to find it and it's worth doing right . Talking to customers is one of the foundational skills of both Customer Development and Lean Startup. We all know we're supposed to do it, but nobody seems willing to admit that it's easy to screw up and hard to do right. This book is going to show you how customer conversations go wrong and how you can do better.




Get Off Your Assets!


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Desi Williamson is a modern Horatio Alger: Born poor, repeatedly beaten down by life's inequities, he still managed to climb his way to success. Plus, he was able to learn a lesson from every hardship. Get Off Your Assets! is the inspirational message of a man who has addressed tens of thousands of corporate executives, managers, and business owners, showing individuals how to tap their talents to achieve their dreams. Williamson has already sold more than 300,000 copies to his audiences, and it promises to attract a huge following of general business readers.




Venture Capital For Dummies


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Secure venture capital? Easy. Getting a business up and running or pushing a brilliant product to the marketplace requires capital. For many entrepreneurs, a lack of start-up capital can be the single biggest roadblock to their dreams of success and fortune. Venture Capital For Dummies takes entrepreneurs step by step through the process of finding and securing venture capital for their own projects. Find and secure venture capital for your business Get your business up and running Push a product to the marketplace If you're an entrepreneur looking for hands-on guidance on how to secure capital for your business, the information in Venture Capital For Dummies gives you the edge you need to succeed.




The 4-Hour Work Week


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Offers techniques and strategies for increasing income while cutting work time in half, and includes advice for leading a more fulfilling life.




Your Money or Your Life


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A fully revised edition of one of the most influential books ever written on personal finance with more than a million copies sold “The best book on money. Period.” –Grant Sabatier, founder of “Millennial Money,” on CNBC Make It "This is a wonderful book. It can really change your life." -Oprah For more than twenty-five years, Your Money or Your Life has been considered the go-to book for taking back your life by changing your relationship with money. Hundreds of thousands of people have followed this nine-step program, learning to live more deliberately and meaningfully with Vicki Robin’s guidance. This fully revised and updated edition with a foreword by "the Frugal Guru" (New Yorker) Mr. Money Mustache is the ultimate makeover of this bestselling classic, ensuring that its time-tested wisdom applies to people of all ages and covers modern topics like investing in index funds, managing revenue streams like side hustles and freelancing, tracking your finances online, and having difficult conversations about money. Whether you’re just beginning your financial life or heading towards retirement, this book will show you how to: • Get out of debt and develop savings • Save money through mindfulness and good habits, rather than strict budgeting • Declutter your life and live well for less • Invest your savings and begin creating wealth • Save the planet while saving money • …and so much more! "The seminal guide to the new morality of personal money management." -Los Angeles Times




Vagabonding


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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • With a new foreword by Tim Ferriss • “Vagabonding easily remains in my top-10 list of life-changing books. Why? Because one incredible trip, especially a long-term trip, can change your life forever. And Vagabonding teaches you how to travel (and think), not just for one trip, but for the rest of your life.”—Tim Ferriss, from the foreword There’s nothing like vagabonding: taking time off from your normal life—from six weeks to four months to two years—to discover and experience the world on your own terms. In this one-of-a-kind handbook, veteran travel writer Rolf Potts explains how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel. Now completely revised and updated, Vagabonding is an accessible and inspiring guide to • financing your travel time • determining your destination • adjusting to life on the road • working and volunteering overseas • handling travel adversity • re-assimilating back into ordinary life Updated for our ever-changing world, Vagabonding is an indispensable guide for the modern traveler.




Outwitting the Devil


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Originally written in 1938 but never published due to its controversial nature, an insightful guide reveals the seven principles of good that will allow anyone to triumph over the obstacles that must be faced in reaching personal goals.




Cover Your Assets


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Tucker Sinclair's life has returned to normal after her first misadventure with murder in FALSE PROFITS. But that's about to change when her old college flame, Evan Brice, strolls back into her life after a 10-year estrangement that began when he dumped Tucker to marry her closest friend. Evan is now a successful Hollywood agent who has acquired many mistresses and a love affair with drugs. When Evan is found brutally murdered, the police quickly close in on the victim's widow, who turns to ex-best friend Tucker for help. Soon, Tucker runs afoul of the detective in charge of the case and finds herself at odds with a biker gang and a narcissistic soap opera star in a race to sort the innocent from the guilty.