Busting Loose From the Money Game: Mind-Blowing Strategies for Changing the Rules of a Game You Can't Win

Busting Loose From the Money Game: Mind-Blowing Strategies for Changing the Rules of a Game You Can't Win
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not worth your time

This book has NOTHING to do with money. Don't waste your time or money

Is Comfort Important To You?

An Amazing Book

Author FAILS to prove his thesis, to put his money where his mouth is.

Busting Loose From the Money Game: Mind-Blowing Strategies for Changing the Rules of a Game You Can't Win
Robert Scheinfeld
Manufacturer: Wiley
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Book Description

Real people, real transformations!

"Absolutely amazing! It completely shifts your paradigm for life. One of the most wonderful things about it is that the results are immediate. My whole perception and relationship to money has undergone a major, substantial change."
—Chris Attwood, writer and teacher, California

"I've spent most of my life trying to figure out what's true and what's real. I have to say I now have a clear glimpse into what it really is."
—Tom Hill, Colorado

"Before Busting Loose from The Money Game, I was very unhappy and frustrated in my life. I was driven to find more ways to make money. I changed jobs, cities, countries, went back to school, read books. Financially, the stress was causing anxiety attacks and migraines so severe I stayed in bed. The joy I feel now is priceless. Money is there when I need it, in the amount that's needed, no matter what occurs (car repairs, unplanned trips, etc.). It's absolutely amazing!"
—Suresh Thakoor, Texas

"As a retired professor on a fixed and limited income, I always lived from a tight budget and felt compressed by it-especially at the end of the year. I don't use a budget anymore and have opened up new streams of income that were always closed to me in the past."
—Howard Rovics, Connecticut

"It opened a whole new dimension for me and shifted my perspective on life completely. I especially love how practical it is. The application is so simple, so effective . . . and fun!"
—Doris Kahle, Hagen, Germany

"I'd had a lot of success in the corporate arena, made a ridiculous amount of money and lost a ridiculous amount of money. But I was caught in a cycle of making it, losing it. I needed to break that cycle-for myself and my family-and this gave me the keys to do that. Busting Loose from The Money Game opened a window I had no clue even existed. This is very cutting-edge, a revolutionary approach to unwrapping yourself from limitations. If you're not satisfied with where you are financially and you're concerned about your future, get this book!"
—Ben Coleman, Texas

Customer Reviews:

not worth your time.......2007-10-06

I am what my friends call money and self help obsessed...so reading this book was no stretch for me. I can honestly say that I have read a lot of books on money, and a lot of books about freeing you mind...and this is the WORST book written on both subjects. I totally wasted my time, please take my advice and don't waste yours. Every chapter left me thinking...WHAT? no seriously what is he talking about? It was worthless and I would never recommend it to anyone.

This book has NOTHING to do with money. Don't waste your time or money.......2007-09-30

This book has nothing to do with money. It is a book full of vain philosophies, none of which are backed with any proof whatsoever. If you are looking for good books on managing money, getting out of debt, or building wealth I would recommend books such as: The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey; Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kyosaki; Multiple Streams of Income by Robert Allen; and Money, What Financial "Experts" Will Never Tell You by Alan Williams, Peter Jeppson, and Sanford Botkins. Also check out the website and resources found at [...].

Is Comfort Important To You?.......2007-09-28

Like others have said, the idea is the world, including the human experience is holographic. Maybe it's true, maybe it's not. I'd save a lot then expect to lose it over the course of a year or more it would take you to cross the mental point where you 'bust loose' and really convince yourself that life and money aren't real. At the very least, do not owe anyone money. I just could not vibe with this book for long. I'd rather save, invest and get stuff I want.

Try the library. I never read it now.

An Amazing Book.......2007-09-20

This is an amazing book that really helps the reader to eliminate the sources of dissatisfaction in his/her life if one is willing to commit to The Process. After just a few short days of using The Process I have had some incredible personal breakthroughs and I eagerly look forward to what else I create within my life experience.

My inspiration to buy this book came largely from the few really negative reviews written on this site. Thank you to all those who shared their fears in the form of attacks against the book and its author. I have been clearly shown again that there is tremendous value in that which stirs up so much emotion as people keep their death grip on obsolete views of the nature of life. The world never was flat just because people believed that to be true, acted as if it were true, and invested their lives in protecting those beliefs.

In the pages of this book you will not find strategies on how to earn more money or to protect what you already think that you have, however you will find a strategy to recover all of the energy and power that you have given to your life situations. As you recover this power you will have the capacity to act more boldly to pursue the unique authentic life that you came here to live.

If you have any inclination to buy the book, just go for it. Then give yourself the gifts of reading it with an open mind and applying its wisdom to your life.

Whether you liked the book or not - HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!!

Author FAILS to prove his thesis, to put his money where his mouth is. .......2007-08-19

The author proposes that money is an illusion (agreed)and that you can create all the money you want by fully transcending the illusion. He gives a primitive method to eliminate negative beliefs and emotional charges about money --(Psycanics offers a more precise, faster, less painful and more powerful technique.) The book is well written and interesting, even plausible. The reason I fail the book with 1 star is that, at the end, the author states that it is possible to have an infinite abundance of money (one way is writing "magic" checks that are always good). However, the author apparently has never done this. He says he still has multiple streams of normal income from books and businesses and speaking engagements. Until the author proves his thesis by eliminating all human income sources and actually lives wealthy by the means he proposes, this book is just a FANTASY.

How to Buy and Sell a Business: How You Can Win in the Business Quadrant (Rich Dad's Advisors)

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Simplistic Guide in a Complicated Process!
Good Advice
"The richest people in the world learn to buy and sell businesses, not work for them."
beware of reviewers
Excellent Primer for Budding Entrepreneurs

How to Buy and Sell a Business: How You Can Win in the Business Quadrant (Rich Dad's Advisors)
Garrett Sutton , and Robert T. Kiyosaki
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Owning your own business may sound like paradise, but being the owner also means taking the responsibility for the business's health. Now, Garrett Sutton gives potential business owners the practical information they need to fulfill their dream of owning their own business.

Customer Reviews:

Simplistic Guide in a Complicated Process!.......2007-06-27

'How to Buy & Sell a Business' by Garrett Sutton is a very enjoyable read on what really is a complicated subject. It is written with the assumption (I assume) that one is completely new to the process of buying a business and a first-time seller of an existing business.

Written in very easy-to-understand language, Sutton has divided up the processes of buying and selling a business into chapters with case studies presented and key points to look for and/or execute as you are buying and selling your business. Some points and pages worth noting are as follows:

Pg(s) 98 - 107: Valuation of a business is very complicated. It involves everything from the FMV of assets, intellectual property, current and potential revenue, accurate accounting and finance, and of course goodwill. There are books written that cover this topic by itself and Sutton does a good job in outlining the basic concepts of valuation. His coverage of the three principles of valuation (future benefits, substitution, and alternatives) are informative though brief. He manages to provide the IRS-recommend approach to valuing a business as well, which is of course very important.

Pg(s) 114 - 116: The negotiation phase of buying a business next to valuing the business and reviewing accounting and finance records is arguably where it comes down to (along with the ability to obtain the needed financing). Negotiations is an art with a lot of science involved. Specific to Sutton's work the section on Representations and Warranties should prove helpful from a broad view on things to look for when negotiating on the other side of the table.

Pg(s) 120 - 123: Covers structure and the pros and cons of an asset sale versus a stock sale. He manages to cover both pretty well and covers the concept of indemnification, which is often overlooked when one buys and sells a business. The stock versus asset structure is very complicated, but Sutton manages to point out high-level concerns you may have.

Pg(s) 131 - 134: Covers financing structure. Financial structuring can be the key (along with terms) on rather a deal is even "do-able." These pages point out quick-cut ways to obtain the money (at least where to look) while giving you some common sense approaches to obtaining the financing and to have sources of funds compete for your business. A strong section within the above pages is the discussion on convertible securities as a form of payment - common in large-scale sales of businesses (corporate and private), but may be overlooked by smaller businesses owners and prospective buyers.

The case studies are very entertaining (at least to read) and put the chapters in perspective. This book is not designed to be a standalone guide to buying and selling a business, but to give you a quick overview of the process as you proceed forward in buying or selling your business. It is not fluff as many would assume from the Rich Dad's Advisors (TM) book series. Also, Dianne Kennedy's chapter may make your eyes glaze, but this chapter is a must even if you are seasoned at buying and selling small businesses - yes, it covers the tax strategies and consequences. As an managing partner of a capital funding group that specializes in assisting small to medium size business owners obtain cash for their businesses, I see small oversights and mistakes that are made by buyers and sellers of businesses that if one thought about in the beginning would make the buying or selling of businesses a more pleasant experience. That's the key to my review recommendation: You will finish this book with some knowledge and/or key reminders especially if you are a novice at buying or selling a business.

In summary: If you're new to the buying and selling of a business - this book is strongly recommend. If you're a current business owner, but it's been a while since you bought or sold a business - this book is recommend for a quick review prior to going to your team of professionals. If you're a seasoned buyer and seller of businesses this read will be too basic for you. If you work with businesses as a professional adviser - this book is strongly recommended.

Good Advice.......2006-09-23

This book is great for anyone that is just starting off in the business realm. I'll assume that whose who gave bad reviews on this book are people who already have a good amount of expereince in the business world. For them this book is just too basic of information that they already know. I, on the other hand, am just starting out in the world of business. I am 21 years old and this book was perfect for me in teaching me the basics and where I need to go to get some of the information I need. This book was also very motivating for someone starting off like myself. I recommend this book to anyone and everyone that wishes to begin learning about what it takes to buy and sell a business.

"The richest people in the world learn to buy and sell businesses, not work for them.".......2006-04-07

The most motivational part of the book is in the forward when Robert Kiyosaki quotes his rich dad, "The richest people in the world learn to buy and sell businesses, not work for them."

What the book lacks in motivation it makes up for in facts and detail. I would say it's more for someone that has already decided to buy a business and is working through the details than someone looking for the motivation to make that leap from an employee to a business owner.

There is a great Henry Ford quote, "Never complain, never explain."

The topics covered are basic in a business 101 type of layout, sort of like a text book, but well worth pushing yourself through for the basic knowledge you'll get.

Get the foundation with this book then move on to some biographies of business whirlwinds who give you the real drive and push to start doing deals.

By Kivin Kingston author of, A 20,000% Gain in Real Estate: A True Story About the Ups And Downs from Wall Street to Real Estate Leading Up to Phenomenal Returns

My Blog: bloglines.com/blog/KevinKingston

beware of reviewers.......2006-02-11

I find Michaels review disturbing that in the end he points you to his web page that is tempting, tantalizing and then he wants the routing numbers to your check book. What a guy! If he is not really a lawyer, it sounds like he has all the makings!

Keg

Excellent Primer for Budding Entrepreneurs.......2005-08-26

Excellent primer for the budding entrepreneur thinking of buying or selling a business. Will help the novice engage in intelligent conversation with his or her team of experts as well as with the prospective buyer or seller. If you want to get top dollar when you sell your house, you take the time to fix it up and know the market...same goes for a business. Consult with the expert as Mr. Sutton has proven to be time and time again.

You Don't Really Know Me: Why Mothers and Daughters Fight, and How Both Can Win

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useful, but not necessarily helpful

You Don't Really Know Me: Why Mothers and Daughters Fight, and How Both Can Win
Terri E. Apter
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What do teenage girls really want from their mothers? British Psychologist Terri Apter offers uncommon wisdom about the "tricky equation" between a daughter's identity and that of her mother. Challenging the idea that girls want to reject dear old mom, Apter suggests that most battles between mothers and daughters are fought to transform the relationship rather than trash it. Arguments become a daughter's way of asking two essential questions: "How can I get my mother to see me the way I am or the way I want to be?" and "How can I keep this important relationship up-to-date and useful to me?" By focusing on how daughters can remain attached to their mothers as they grow, each chapter underlines conflict as means for a daughter to define herself. Apter avoids generalities and targets smart specifics with examples, strategies and sample conversations. She offers an anatomy of a mother-daughter meltdown, nails four patterns of teen lying, and offers guidelines for dialogue about rules and risk assessment. She explains how to navigate food fights, discouraging words, harsh hyperbole ("you are ruining my life!") and the "I know that already" sex talk. Battle fatigued mothers--and the daughters who want to love them without leaving them--will welcome Apter's hopeful, insightful approach. --Barbara Mackoff

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Understand what your teenage daughter really means—and learn to use your arguments to strengthen your bond with her.

Mothers and teenage daughters argue more than any other child-parent pair—on average every two-and-a-half days. These quarrels, Terri Apter shows, are attempts to negotiate changes in a relationship that is valued by both mothers and daughters. A daughter often feels her mother doesn't know or understand her, and by fighting hopes to force her mother into a new awareness of who she really is, how she has changed, and what she is now capable of doing and understanding. But mothers often misinterpret their daughter's outbursts as signs of rejection, and they may pull back feeling hurt and confused. Through case studies and conversations between mothers and daughters, Apter shows mothers how to interpret the meanings behind a daughter's angry words and how to emerge from arguments with a new closeness.

Customer Reviews:

useful, but not necessarily helpful.......2004-12-22

I'm a mother of 3 daughters - the eldest a teenager. I was excited about a book to help me throught these very difficult years.
I found the book to be very well researched and an easy read. The author was amazingly detached though she is the mother of 2 daughters. The author offered her sympathy to mothers - that's certainly appreciated.
The dialogs were interesting; specifically repeating the horrible things that other girls say to their mothers. The dissections of various conversations were wothwhile.
However, while I understand that including other family members make any analysis more difficult, the fact that these pairs seemed to exist in a vacuum (very little mention of other parents and especially siblings) made the situations appear unreal and therefore difficult to apply to normal families.
The book was useful in interpretting the hidden meanings of some accusations that a teenage girl uses. The strategies and advise on how to improve one life with a teenage girl as part of a familty were scant. Only in those extreme cases of eating disorders were several approaches discussed. In essence, the message I took away was, "we should just get thru this knowing that it can't last forever." I could accept this about the pain associated with childbirth, but not the behavior of a nasty teenage daughter - it can go on for years and affects not only the long suffering mother but everyone in the house right down to the dog.
I found it painful to finish this book since I had some pretty high hopes when I began it and the author clearly understands her subject well. I think fathers could benefit from reading this book as they don't typically understand what might be going on. I would recommend it to other parents.

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Breaking the Shackles
You Can't Win Won
Explore the Hidden West in the 1800's
A fascinating portrait of a bygone world
Jack Black was an unreconstructed yegg, and a real Johnson

You Can't Win
Jack Black
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The favorite book of William Burroughs. A journey into the hobo underworld, freight hopping around the still Wild West, becoming a highwayman and member of the yegg (criminal) brotherhood, getting hooked on opium, doing stints in jail or escaping, often with the assistance of crooked cops or judges. Our lost history revived.. With an introduction by Burroughs. A BookSense 77 selection.

Customer Reviews:

Breaking the Shackles.......2007-08-02

I thought this was a tip-top book. Blacky's adventures out West and in Canada around the turn of the century were very intruiging. I just wish there were more books written by him and not so much of a mystery of what happened to him later in life. Or maybe that's what makes him so appealing. I agree with several others about the "extras" at the end of the book. Especially his article that appeared in Harpers. That could've have been written today.

You Can't Win Won.......2007-04-28

A true story about a house burglar in the Twenties who escaped the law by riding the train to another town where he did the same thing again. It's Americana at it's best. Someone ought to write a ballad about this man using his words. "There's a lot of law at the end of a rope." "A hang man may be your only hope." "In a blind alley you shoot and shoot first." "Old grudges are opened. Old hates are revived. Stool pidgeon's beaten and the turn key's denied." "No one is eating the damned hang man's stew." "I never borrowed money I could not pay back."
Hobo's are not derilicts and after you read You Can't Win you may feel the same. It is a great book that admonishes the prison system where there is no cure for the human condition if you put the human in a jail cell.
He ended up working for a library in San Francisco. How he died nobody knows.

Explore the Hidden West in the 1800's.......2007-03-30

Rare is the book that so vividly captures the spirit of a time and a segment of society. This book does all that and more. We've all heard the classic stories of the Wild West. Gunslingers, bank robbers, saloons and lawmen.

"You Can't Win" covers the less visible people who got by hopping trains, busting safes, and burgling folks, innocent or not so. They had their own code of ethics, which were enforced by this tight group of vagabonds. This lifestyle is not romanticised, but you find yourself rooting for the characters, and bemoaning their losses, even though they were criminals.

It was a tough life for many people. Reading about their stories through the eyes of one of their own (Jack Black), helps us better understand the lives led by thousands of people during the early maturation of the U.S. in the west.

Once started, it is a very hard book to put down. I wish there were more books written as well as this one that detail the underbelly of society. It's a big part of U.S. history, just not well publicized.

A fascinating portrait of a bygone world.......2007-02-23

Black's account of his years as a hobo, burglar, and stick-up man in the West at the turn of the 19th century is chock full of nail-biting capers, memorable characters, and colorful slang. The book gets a little repetitive by the end, and the moralizing final chapter seems tacked-on, but all in all this is an enjoyable read.

For those interested in hobo culture, I recommend Woodie Guthrie's delightful memoir, and for those inspired to catch a freight train, Duffy Littlejohn's "Hopping Freight Trains in America" is the definitive guidebook.

Jack Black was an unreconstructed yegg, and a real Johnson.......2006-11-18

An amazing little autobiography of a criminal from a forgotten time in american history. Jack Black was a burgler, safe-cracker, highwayman and petty thief from the late 1800s to early 1900s. His autobiography gives an amazing view to the underworld of those days; from the train-hopping Johnsons, bums and Yeggs of the hoboe community, to the chinese Opium houses, to the riotous wine-stews, to the straitjacket weilding jailors, to the characters; such as the righteous amazonian fence "Salt Chunk Mary" or the polished, erudite, ultra-smooth burgler "The Sanctimonious Kid." Heady stuff. And true to boot. I have a soft spot for criminal autobiographies of earlier eras. Of all the ones I've reviewed (or read in general), this one is far and away the most compelling. The world Jack Black evokes for us is radically different from anything we've ever heard of before. It is old world. It is modern. There is an entirely foreign and very complete kind of slang, intensely satisfying as a cultural object in itself. Jack Black himself was an amazing writer; his characterizations were powerful and full of flesh.

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You Can't Win a Fight with Your Boss
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Can't Win With You Volume 1 (Yaoi) (Can't Win with You!)

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Satosumi Takaguchi , and Yukine Honami
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100 Ways to Win a Ten-Spot: Scams, Cons, Games You Can't Lose

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100 x 10? THAT'S A $1,000!!!

100 Ways to Win a Ten-Spot: Scams, Cons, Games You Can't Lose
Paul Zenon
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As opposed to offering up typical magic tricks, this hilarious collection of scams, swindles, bets, and stunts features everyday objects and requires no special skills—just nerve. Some of the scams presented include how to drink from a champagne bottle without opening it, guess the date on a coin as it spins on the table, and pull a 10-dollar bill out from under a beer bottle without touching or knocking over the bottle. This amusing guide claims that a cheater, armed with the right skills, always wins and provides a crash course in conning at cards, pool, bets, and pretty much any activity where a sucker can be cornered into taking a chance.

Customer Reviews:

100 x 10? THAT'S A $1,000!!!.......2007-02-04

I'm going to make this short. Let me just saw that half of me wants to tell you how cool, funny, and sneaky this book is -- and the other half of me wants to shut my mouth so people will pass it up. Keep these secrets to myself.

You Can't Win a Fight with Your Boss: & 55 Other Rules for Success

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Lot of useful advice!
I've Seen Better
You'll Pick Up At Least One Really Good Idea, Maybe Two

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Book Description

You can't win a fight with your boss.

If you have ever thought otherwise, then you're dead wrong. And you're career is over, too.

In this lively guide to surviving the pitfalls of the modern corporate environment, Tom Markert, a senior executive at information giant ACNielsen, presents 56 practical rules that every employee, manager, and executive must follow in order to find corporate success.

With rules such as "Work hard and smart" and "Find a good boss" Markert addresses some of the most important questions facing corporate executives today. Here, in colorful and inspiring language, he offers practical advice on how to impress and make your boss look good, how to position yourself for success, and how to address work and social situations that every employee must conquer.

And, most important, Markert covers the number one question in any employee's mind: How do I work with my boss? Here, this book becomes an indispensable guide to corporate life.

Markert draws on his experience to illustrate these rules with telling, and often funny, anecdotes about people who have not followed the rules and paid the ultimate corporate price -- failure, embarrassment, and a career stopped dead in its tracks.

Customer Reviews:

Lot of useful advice!.......2006-03-02

I remember seeing YOU CAN'T FIGHT WITH YOUR
BOSS by Tom Markert and
saying to myself, "I know that!"

Then I remembered when I just began my working
life and the fact that nobody taught me that rule then--much
to my eventual dismay . . . I had to learn the hard way,
and I did.

The same could be said about much of the other practical
advice that Markert, a senior executive with ACNielsen, gives in
this short but insightful guide to both getting and staying
ahead at work--and in life, too . . . some of it may appear
basic ("Put in the Hours," "Write Well," etc.), yet it all
makes sense . . . and are things that even the most
experienced of us need to be reminded about from time to time.

What made YOU CAN'T so valuable to me was the fact that
the author backs up his rules with many actual examples of
situations that he has personally been involved in . . . when
reading the book, I often felt myself nodding in agreement--and
thinking to myself who would be next best for me to get my copy.

There were useful tidbit that I gleaned in my reading; among them:
* If I have an important issue for my boss, would he or she prefer
a short e-mail, a phone call, a voice mail--or some combination?
If you don't know, find out. The first rule of communicating
effectively with your boss: Give it to them the way they want it.

* If you are traveling, get up on time. "I overslept" doesn't cut it.
I always pack a travel alarm, plus I use the alarm in the room, and
I order a wake-up call. Paranoia? Nope, I just want to get to where
I'm going on time.

* A colleague of mine has a plague above his desk that reads:
DWYPYWD

It stands for Do What You Promised You Would Do. These are
certainly wise words to live by. If you always do what you promised
you would do, not only is your boss likely to admire you for life, but
your career will move forward in leaps and bounds.

I've Seen Better.......2005-10-14

This book has an interesting title and premise, the author's background is intriguing and his promise to teach valuable lessons exciting, however, the body of the book delivers on few of these expectation. The text is simplistic, the situtions outlined uncomplicated, and the author's attempts to paint rosy pictures of the business environment just too good to be true. Perhaps it has value for the individual just starting out in business with no people or working experience, yet even here unrealistic situations and clean-cut advice will do nothing but set up the beginner for a career of disappointment and failure.

You'll Pick Up At Least One Really Good Idea, Maybe Two.......2005-06-23

As I look back on my career in business, I do remember some fights with my bosses. They were wrong, but I was the one that got fired. I've always done pretty good on the first eight rules, but No. 9 is the reason that I've spent most of my career working for myself. That way I can't fight with the boss, or if I do, I can win because I'm the boss as well as the employee.

Rule 16, Read Books, is one with which I completely agree. The best business leaders in the world write books on their lives, philosophies, even business rules. I find that I can't read one of these books without picking up an idea or two that makes the small price of the book.

As stated in the title, this book is a little set of 56 rules for a successful business career. Each rule is only two to four pages long. It won't take long to read, but you'll pick up an idea or two

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