Unlock Your Inner Entrepreneur: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of the Most Successful Business Owners

T.Daimee: An entertaining and essential book that takes you into the entrepreneurial mindset. It is well written and provides good advice on reaching your goals.

United States on Dec 16, 2023

Maria C.: My brother loved it! The person who wrote it actually contributed to huge successes like Coka Cola. The chapters are divided into lessons/tips and are super useful!

Canada on Dec 04, 2022

Christina Bedal: Worth a read

Canada on Nov 03, 2022

Dan: It's a well-written book with everything you need to know. If you really considering entrepreneurship please read. Thank you again for this great purchase and book.

Canada on Mar 06, 2020

Artemios Vogiatzis: Some 80% of the book of full of good and helpful advice. A 20% is self-promotion, awesomeness, and a bit of arrogance for my taste. If you can skip this part, it will be truly enjoyable to read and insightful.

Reaching the end of the book, I read “He also worked for Arthur Andersen Worldwide as a business consultant and software developer.” and I am left wondering, did he accept or reject the offer he received?

Germany on Aug 18, 2018

Tyson L.: I've been working towards starting a business for some time and I read books that range from sociology to economics to business strategy every day. The Entrepreneur Mind moves quickly from point to point as you move through the material, which allows the ideas to sync together because of the rapid rate at which the information flows. I read this book in one sitting over the course of about four to five hours and found that rapid pace to really allow me to see how each piece fit together.
The section on strategy was by far the largest and, in my opinion, the most valuable as Kevin shares experiences from his own first businesses of where he was successful and some of the golden nuggets he has picked up through his own mentors, such as being creative with your marketing and understanding the value of non-conventional business arrangements while trying to build the infrastructure and reputation of your business. Some of the points and experiences in this book will not relate to every business in the world, but there is definitely plenty of information that can apply to anyone who is trying to improve their mindset on how to succeed in a business atmosphere where the rules are not...

United States on Feb 07, 2015

Douglas Winslow Cooper: Born in 1979, currently the CEO of Atlanta's Johnson Media Inc., which he founded, Kevin D. Johnson had already established several successful enterprises while still in his twenties. In his excellent book, Johnson offers the would-be entrepreneur 100 guidelines, complete with apt quotations, and enriched by his personal experience, expressed candidly.

I liked his comment that going into business to make money is like getting married to get sex. To succeed, one needs more admirable motives. He's not big on "follow your passion" nor "become your own boss," either. Rather, become an entrepreneur if you want to provide goods and services that others value and if you get real pleasure out of doing so. The money will likely follow.

He writes well-clearly, interestingly, with many supporting quotes and examples. Neither overly modest nor unwilling to share his failures, Johnson presents some hard truths, including that the entrepreneur has got to be willing to put his business ahead of his family. Talk about not being politically correct!

Fortunately, he married a woman in synch with his goals and lifestyle. Surprisingly to me, they have a mortgage. Though it is a...

United States on Aug 03, 2014

Diane S: Interesting read. The traditional belief that we must prepare ourselves to be ‘employable’ is under threat. The counter argument encourages us to ‘gear up’ for earning our own money, rather than seeing income as someone else’s responsibility.

With the population dramatically ageing and low-level jobs increasingly swallowed up by machinery, entrepreneurship will be a necessity for many, rather than a life-style choice for some. Diane Shawe M.Ed

United Kingdom on Aug 01, 2014

Gisela Hausmann: Besides the classic advice 1) Think Big 7) Ask for Help 10) Hire a Good Lawyer 12) Require Criticism and Disagreement in Your Company 13) Fire Your Worst Customers 22) Always Follow Up, the author also offers 47) Don't Manage People, Manage Expectations, and other less often heard advice.

My only issues were with rules 38) Spend the Majority of Your Time with People Smarter Than You and
48) Get the Right Mentor.
I read this advice all the time, however, hundreds of small business owners will probably concur that the "right mentors" don't grow on trees, thus may not be available. In connection with 38) and 48) I missed a mentioning of the Internet as a resource. Pete Cashmore, the founder of Mashable, thought up his business concept alone, using only the world wide web as a resource.

The author's very best advice: "Don't waste your Time on People Who Can't Say Yes".

Gisela Hausmann, author & blogger

United States on Jan 03, 2014