Small Business Motivation

Tilman Fertitta, also known as the Billion Dollar Buyer, started his hospitality empire 30 years ago with just one restaurant. So he knows the challenges that business owners face, as well as the common pitfalls that cause them to go under. Over the years, he’s stayed true to the principles that helped him scale his business to what is believed to be the largest single-shareholder company in America, with more than four billion dollars in revenue. He’s also sole owner of the Houston Rockets. In Shut Up and Listen!, he shares the key insights that made it all possible.

This book applies the principles of the original Think and Grow Rich to the modern day. It uses updated language, writing, and illustrations. This book is for the ordinary individual who wants to make it big. Its title is critical to the beliefs behind this resource. The surest way to wealth is entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs are dreamers, designers, and doers. Dreams are the ultimate economic engine. All people dream, but not all develop the designs needed to make those dreams come true. A few do, but still within that subgroup; only a few do the things necessary to build a solid business....

Are you sick and tired of working for “The Man”? Or practically begging for some employer to hire you, only to be summarily laid off with barely a “thank you and goodbye,” leaving you struggling to pay the bills? It’s finally time to take matters into your own hands and start your own small business, and begin making money RIGHT NOW while being your own boss! With the skills you already have, or can easily acquire, you can do it, this book will help — explaining in simple, step-by-step format more than 100 of the most lucrative, in-demand, and fulfilling small business and side ...

Discover the potent force of kaizen... and use it to easily, effortlessly achieve any goal or make any change you want to!We've been programmed to believe that change is a "battle" - something hard fought and hard won, something that demands struggle and sacrifice. But as anyone who uses the technique known as kaizen can tell you, nothing could be further from the truth. With kaizen, it's effortless, simple, and inevitable to change your life.

No money? No problem. Discover how to start big with small pockets and bold dreams. Lack of capital does not have to cancel your dreams. Starting Without Money is an inspirational guide for dreamers who feel trapped by financial limitations. Drawing from a decade of entrepreneurship experience, educational pursuits, and personal experiences of achieving things without a fat bank account, C. Ruth Taylor reveals how starting with nothing can actually work in your favor. Through real-life stories, from Walt Disney to Canva’s Melanie Perkins, the author shows that lack of capital does not ...

It's an axiom of business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying business goals. Goals like being great at what they do, creating a great place to work, providing great customer service, making great contributions to their communities, and finding great ways to lead their lives. In Small Giants, veteran journalist Bo Burlingham takes us deep inside 14 such remarkable companies.

Do you have a hobby you wish you could indulge in all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take that passion and make a living doing what you love. In Crush It! Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion, Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses.

Top 10 Reasons Small Businesses Fail: A Real-World Business Survival Guide from Dr. Paul’s Fabled Forest By Dr. Paul Borosky, MBA 🔍 Why do passionate entrepreneurs still fail? Because passion without structure leads to burnout—and that's where this book begins. Blending real-world business strategy with imaginative storytelling, Top 10 Reasons Small Businesses Fail offers a refreshing, easy-to-digest guide for small business owners, startup founders, and aspiring entrepreneurs. Through the lens of forest-based fables, Dr. Paul Borosky—business consultant and creator of the Organize...

With its straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework is the perfect playbook for anyone who's ever dreamed of doing it on their own. Hardcore entrepreneurs, small-business owners, people stuck in day jobs who want to get out, and artists who don't want to starve anymore will all find valuable inspiration and guidance in these pages. It's time to rework work.

Over 5 Million Copies Sold! Imagine a workplace where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude to the job every day. A powerful parable that will help you see your life and work in a new way. It's a rainy day in Seattle, and on the third floor of First Guarantee...

One afternoon - after another failed attempt to get motivated to exercise - I (accidentally) started my first mini habit. I initially committed to do one push-up, and it turned into a full workout. I was shocked. This "stupid idea" wasn't supposed to work. I was shocked again when my success with this strategy continued for months (and to this day). I had to consider that maybe I wasn't the problem in those 10 years of mediocre results. Maybe it was my prior strategies that were ineffective, despite being oft-repeated as "the way to change" in countless books.

What if greatness isn’t about giant leaps—but about the quiet power of small, deliberate steps repeated with purpose? In a world obsessed with overnight success and instant gratification, The Kaizen Effect: Small Steps, Infinite Growth offers a timeless alternative. It’s not a book about working harder. It’s a guide to working wiser—to transforming your habits, mindset, and soul through the simple yet profound philosophy of continuous improvement. Rooted in the legendary Japanese concept of Kaizen, this book redefines what it means to master life, business, creativity, and the ...

What if the smartest people in the world understand something that the rest of us don't? (They do.) What if they know that in order to achieve success, they will sometimes have to do things that others may initially perceive as stupid? The fact of the matter is that the smartest people in the world don't run from stupid, they lean into it (in a smart way). In The Power of Starting Something Stupid, Richie Norton redefines stupid as we know it, demonstrating that life-changing ideas are often tragically mislabeled stupid.

In the new edition of this fascinating book, a book that has appeared on MSNBC, CNBC, Slashdot.org, Lifehacker.com and in the New York Times, best-selling author Scott Berkun pulls the best lessons from the history of innovation, including the recent software and web age, to reveal powerful and surprising truths about how ideas become successful innovations - truths people can easily apply to the challenges of today.

What do Apple CEO Steve Jobs, comedian Chris Rock, prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, the story developers at Pixar films, and the Army Chief of Strategic Plans all have in common? Best-selling author Peter Sims found that all of them have achieved breakthrough results by methodically taking small, experimental steps in order to discover and develop new ideas.

The number-one reason most people don't reach their biggest dreams and goals is what international business coach Howard Partridge calls F.T.I. Failure to Implement. Many times, people know what to do and how to do it; they just don't do it. This book reveals the causes of F.T.I. and offers a proven path to overcoming the tendency toward inaction.

In Shark Tales, Barbara shares her hilarious stories about growing up, getting into trouble, failing miserably, and then starting over again. In each chapter, she comes back to one of her mom's unconventional lessons, and how it applies in the real world of business. Whatever your calling, the homespun lessons that work for Barbara will help you use what you've got to create success in your life.

All of us are looking for practical ways to take control of our lives, whether in our personal relationships, our families, our work, our health, or our future plans. Daily challenges have a way of overwhelming us, making life harder than it needs to be. The good news is that the answers are out there. And they are Easier Than You Think.

Have you got an itch to start your own business, go to the North Pole, retrain, lose weight, get promoted, learn to play the ukulele? Or do you just have a nagging sense that there must be more to life? If there is something you really want to do, but secretly fear you'll never do it, then you need this. This is your kick in the pants! To make your thing happen, you have to climb into the ring. You have to face your fears and move from talking to doing.

Read by the author, Paul Sinton-Hewitt, and his co-author, Matt Whyman. Including an audio-exclusive Q&A between Paul and Matt. This is the story of a simple idea that turned into a global movement. This is the story of parkrun, told for the very first time from the man who started it all...