Small Business Motivation

To be on the frontline of entrepreneurship, you must be bold and take risks. But the need to achieve can be as addictive as drugs, with serious side effects. It can make you feel isolated, uncertain, and trapped on an emotional roller-coaster ride full of euphoric highs and devastating lows. But there’s a way to get back onto solid ground. An accomplished entrepreneur and recovering gambling and drug addict, Michael Dash realized his gaming obsession and his drive to succeed were two sides of the same coin.

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.

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.

Serial entrepreneur Paul S. Heirendt unveils the powerful Entrepreneur Means Do! mindset. The ASK Principle — success is achieved through the effective application of one's skills and knowledge, serves as a framework for transforming potential into valuable outcomes by taking intentional actions. Every world-changing venture begins with a single, audacious act: the decision to start. Yet, too often, aspiring entrepreneurs never start — they are held back, not by a lack of ideas or resources, but by a mindset that whispers doubt, delays action, and demands perfection.

In Inner Wisdom, Outer Impact: Leading Your Life from the Inside Out, Timothy Salmans invites you on a transformative journey that goes beyond external achievements. This book is crafted for developing leaders, corporate professionals, and entrepreneurs who know how to produce results but feel frustrated by the gap between their outer accomplishments and their internal experience. It bridges this gap by reconnecting you with a powerful truth: true leadership and impact begin within.

En marzo de 2020, a punto de que el mundo colapsara por una pandemia global, Carlos Master Muñoz sólo pensaba en una idea: «¿Cómo puedo hacerle frente a esta crisis y salir ganando?» La respuesta sigue siendo la misma: innovando. Como resultado, en lugar de perder dinero, Muñoz vivió el mejor año de su vida en términos financieros. La innovación salvó su vida y sus negocios en aquel año que para muchos fue nefasto.Y si tú entiendes esto, algo parecido te sucederá a ti. Para eso ha escrito este libro.

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.

The Guiding Purpose Strategy is a stimulating deep dive into the transformational power of purpose. Looking through the lens of contemporary brand management, The Guiding Purpose Strategy provokes fresh thinking, illustrates through case studies, and offers a hands-on framework to start your very own path toward finding your inner why.

Several years ago as a practicing physician, I was struck by a feeling that I could more broadly impact the world around me. This led me to study, question, discover, and eventually enter the world of investing and entrepreneurship. I co-founded a healthcare service company that is now in multiple states, and also co-founded a venture capital firm that I run full time. These endeavors have since employed thousands, yielded millions in revenues and returns, and influenced people to realize their full potential. Along the way, I shared my journey with fellow physicians and investors.

It's a time of historic opportunity. Learn what it takes to create the life of your dreams by starting your own business from your kitchen table, without compromising your job as a great mom. Find the money you need to start your business, then master the cutting-edge tools of social media to take it to the next level. With the American economy on the ropes, a New Economy is being created, and this time moms are in charge, controlling $8.5 trillion annually in consumer spending in a consumer economy that is in crisis.

If you are an entrepreneur running a business or getting ready to start one, you need to know something. Entrepreneurship is about creating the future. It's exciting, scary, and often like walking a lofty tightrope without a safety net. The INth Degree is the indispensable system I use to find myself, know myself, and differentiate myself in the world. . . and my business has become successful as a result.

Where does the startup journey begin? Startups are the epitome of untapped potential–turning “unsolvable” needs into a whole new opportunity for growth. Companies aspire to learn from the startup rulebook. Yet, when it comes to our personal lives, we opt to avoid those “unsolvable” problems and stick with the familiar and safe options: Do as instructed, walk the line, don’t stick out. In short: Don’t live your life like a startup.

When Marcus Whitney moved to Nashville in 2000, he was a college dropout with a one-year-old and a baby on the way. He waited tables and lived in a week-to-week efficiency hotel. From the outside, Marcus looked like the furthest thing from a budding entrepreneur. But inside, he knew entrepreneurship was his path to a better life. Two decades later, Marcus has founded two innovative companies in the healthcare space, exited a tech marketing company, and co-owns Nashville’s new Major League Soccer team. Marcus walks you through his unlikely journey from waiting tables to building companies.

Why do some businesses go from strength to strength while other's crash and burn? One reason stands head and shoulders above the rest–a willingness to embrace change that ignites their future and leaves everyone else trailing behind. These are the "game-changers", the people who grab the opportunity and make it happen.

In The Innovative Executive, Bella Rushi helps business leaders react to ever-changing environments with flexible thinking and adaptability to create work cultures that thrive on innovation, risk-taking, and creativity. Every executive knows that smart innovation is essential for success. But how do you create new growth strategies and address old business models that are at risk due to competition, global epidemics, or other drastic changes in the marketplace? Today, many companies don’t know how to select the “right projects” to pursue new growth opportunities.

Do you want to be rich before the age of 40? This is the ultimate guidebook for financial success and how to live well and get rich by the age of 40. It shows that with perseverance and dedication to your goal and to a number of basic general rules, it is possible to elevate your life to the right path and achieve abundance, even if the starting point was not at all easy…to soar from the depths to the heights. The wildly successful author of this book will show you the way!

If you're an entrepreneur, you have great ideas all the time. But if you’re stymied by shiny object syndrome or a thousand projects and detours, you need this book. Eureka Results: How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Their Best Ideas into Reality is for you if you think you’re too disorganized or creative to implement your best ideas. You don’t have to steal a productivity expert’s personality to change the world with your work. This book is an indispensable guide you can use to transform the great ideas in your head into bona fide eureka results.

Good communication with colleagues and clients is an important aspect of doing business successfully. But if you're only talking to your associates, you're missing out on half the story and leaving money on the table. Start with Hello reveals how the most successful businesspeople and leaders share an overlooked and underappreciated talent - the ability to engage and communicate with strangers in productive, creative ways.

Pivot for Success tells business leader and entrepreneur Amy Hilliard's stories of success, struggle, and sustainability to inspire you to become resilient. Hilliard offers her hard-won perspective on what it takes to "make it" in American business and in life. She talks about the tough stuff, the stuff that most people who rise to her level of accomplishment aren't eager for others to know.

An inspiring rags-to-riches guide to achieving success in life and business by the founder of Myprotein®. How did a working-class 23-year-old, who left school with almost no qualifications, launch a business with just a £500 overdraft and turn it into more than £350 million? In Bootstrap Your Life, Oliver Cookson shares how he was able to build Europe's number one online brand using nothing more than his own limited resources and the right mindset.