Run Your Own Business: Make Your Company a Success with Help from Classic Thinkers

At some time, many of us have toyed with the idea of starting our own business and/or becoming self-employed. There are many positive aspects to being your own boss, such as choosing the hours you want to work, but it can be daunting, and many of us ditch the dream in favor of the easier yet dreary path, which is why Run Your Own Business is here to help. We've thumbed through classic ideas on work and entrepreneurship and placed them in the context of twenty-first-century business. The perils of running a company are not new, and as far back as the eighteenth century, writers like Benjamin Franklin were advising folks on the best ways to profit from work. If you follow all the ideas in this book, before long you may find that work becomes something you can choose to do rather than something you have to do. Wouldn't that be nice?Run Your Own Business brings together some of the greatest ideas on entrepreneurship from three bestselling books: Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, Benjamin Franklin's The Way to Wealth, and George S. Clason's The Richest Man in Babylon. These self-help classics have inspired generations of readers with simple and effective ideas that continue to resonate today. The wise lessons from these books have been interpreted here using twenty-first-century case studies and modern business finance examples. These 50 short and entertaining chapters, which include practical tips and inspiring quotes, are sure to help you set up and run a successful business.