Buy Back Your Time

Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

By: Dan Martell

Narrated by: Dan Martell

Wall Street Journal Bestseller

Learn to conquer the one real hurdle to scaling your company and growing rich: Time

How you use your free time will make or break your success. The secret? It’s not about working harder or finding more time to do work. It’s about designing the freedom to engage in the high-value work that brings you energy and fulfillment. This is at the heart of the message that has made Dan Martell the world’s most popular SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) coach. Now, in his first book, Buy Back Your Time, he teaches entrepreneurs at every level how to scale their business, fast, while avoiding burnout. Trading money for time—that is, literally buying back free space in your calendar—will give you more financial success than you ever dreamed was possible.

With over two decades of experience as a serial entrepreneur and founder, Dan Martell will teach you the secrets to work less and play more while building an empire. He’ll dig into the practical steps that will allow you to start buying back time immediately, while also developing operating procedures and hiring practices that will ensure rapid and robust growth. And he will teach you how to invest in your newfound time wisely—at work and at home—so you keep building your empire while living your best life.

Buy Back Your Time is the definitive guide for entrepreneurs at every level on how to succeed in business while enjoying more freedom than you ever imagined.

Critic reviews

“A no-nonsense playbook for how to build a thriving business empire all while living your best life. Dan Martell makes complex systems as simple as 1-2-3.”
- Lewis Howes, New York Times bestselling author and host of The School of Greatness

“Dan distills a career of building and scaling companies into a masterclass of simple, actionable steps that will help you regain control of your life. The fact that your customers and employees will love interacting with you even more after you read this book is just icing on the cake.”
- Joey Coleman, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Never Lose a Customer Again and Never Lose an Employee Again

“Buy Back Your Time tells Dan Martell's story of going from prison to successful serial entrepreneur. When the chaos of work threatened to completely overwhelm other meaningful pursuits like family and giving back, Dan devised methods and systems to reprioritize and create balance, crafting the life he wanted to have and also a way to share the fruits of his journey with others.”
- Eric Reis, author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way

"When it comes to building a business that you don't grow to hate, no one shows you how to do that better than Dan. He is the Buy Back King!"
- Michael Hyatt, New York Times bestselling author of Your Best Year Ever

“Dan has read over 1200 business and productivity books, so you don't have to. Buy Back Your Time shows you how to grow your empire without missing family dinners.”
- Gagan Biyani, Co-Founder of Udemy.com and CEO of Maven.com

“Dan is literally the only coach I recommend to founders, and it's because he is truly world-class. His frameworks are the gold standard. I’m grateful to call him a mentor and friend.”
- Leila Hormozi, CEO of Acquisition.com

“They say those that can't do teach, but not here.... Dan did it, then masterfully taught it. A book on living a life you don't want to retire from and how to live your retirement dream today.”
- Garret Gunderson, New York Times bestselling author of Killing Sacred Cows

“This book sits between the E-Myth and 4-Hour Work Week. A playbook to true freedom and growth in your business.”
- Taki Moore, author of The Million Dollar Coach

I loved it because of its core principle but not because of his 10X dreaming.

10x is a nice idea and it's great to have a vision, but the research shows that more you're more likely to stay motivated and achieve something if it's challenging but realistic rather than pie in the sky.

There's nothing wrong with having a pie in the sky vision or trajectory as long as you know it's What you're heading toward rather than a specific day. When you arrive at that day of you still haven't achieved it. You'll likely feel crushed because you have " failed " by your own definition.

Conversely, if it's a trajectory, you haven't failed as long as you're progressing towards it.

work at the top edge of your capacity but you can't go beyond that.

Nobody who's working a 9:00 to 5:00 today will be a billionaire tomorrow.

tim #bgreen🌏

Wow. Amazing

Great resources and amazing ideas to help change the way we view hiring and getting our time and life back!

Actionable Steps

I have been an entrepreneur for 17 years and I feel like I just won the lottery with this book. Each chapter revealed new concepts for me to bring into my growing empire and helped me rediscover my passion for the work I do.

I especially appreciated how Dan incorporated relevant stories of how Buy Back Your Time improves quality time with family. My two daughters work with me and I have felt that our time outside of work is spent talking about work. I look forward to creating a new life with my kids and grandkids that is separate from work.

Thanks Dan for caring so much to improve the lives of entrepreneurs. I am excited to buy back my time and reinvigorate my passion to help more people.

Excelent book!

this book 8s filled with actionable steps you can actually see results right away!

Love this book

I highly recommend this book! Validated a lot of what I am going right while giving me lots of strategies to do better!!