I read E-Myth, Revisited quite a while after being asked to by my boss at work. I found it to be a fascinating book that has a lot of great ideas about start and growing a business.
The skills talked about in the book are not only relevant for small business owners and entrepreneurs, but can also be applied to non-profits and charitable organisations. It is well worth a read, and will be even better as an audio book to listen to during a long commute.
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I’ll cut right to the chase and say that I plan to read the rest of the Oregon Files series.
The book Goden Buddha is a real page turner. You are really thrown into the midst of the mission of the crew of the Oregon. After a brief travel through time to set the stage for the book you quickly get introduced to the main characters of the book.
On the Oregon there is a large crew and you never really get to know any of them too deeply. The person that you probably get to know the most is Juan Cabrillo, who is the “Chairman of the Corporation”. This book is mostly about the action, but I can see how over time, and the course of the Oregon Files book series the character development could grow.
The crew of the Oregon are basically a bunch of mercenaries for hire, but they choose their missions based on being able to not only earn a profit, but also make a difference in the world.
So if you want a good action / war movie, the Golden Buddha
You can read more reviews over at Amazon, Golden Buddha
Over at the Get Rich Slowly Blog J.D. Roth writes a lot about personal finance, including some reviews about personal finance books.
One of his latest reviews is of the book The Incredible Secret Money Machine by Don Lancaster
The book is about starting and running a small business. It isn’t a book about earning millions, but rather a book about earning a comfortable income doing something that you enjoy doing.
The book states that to build a “money making machine” is to stay true to four basic principles:
There are other tips that he shares for building a money machine:
J.D. Roth comes to the following conclusion about the book:
Some of the advice in The Incredible Secret Money Machine now seems quaint, 30 years after the book was published. The author’s “hip” language and many of his examples are outdated. But smart readers can extrapolate, and still learn a lot. You have to be able to read Lancaster’s advice on letterhead, for example, and think of it as advice for web sites.
Although Lancaster believes that you must be into your money machine on a total lifestyle basis, I’m not sure that’s true. I think you can have a part-time money machine. A full-time money machine will be more profitable, of course, but a part-time money machine is a great way to start.
You can read his full review on his blog: Get Rich Slowly – personal finance that makes cents – The Incredible Money Making Machine.
A great short book about debt and how to get out of debt.
Very well presented in a story narrative about a fictional character named Amy who is living with an all consuming amount of debt. Rob Parsons doesn’t preach in this book, but presents life principles in a way that makes it relevant and possible to overcome personal debt.
My personal favourite story was the story of Alice, who used cups to put her money in at the beginning of the month. Each cup represented a category of spending, just as rent, food, etc. At the end of each month she only spent what was in the cup, and nothing more, because there was nothing more to spend.
The story of Alice contrasts quite a lot with our modern world of living of credit card debt. Here in Australia the average credit card debt currently sits around $2200.00. This isn’t a problem if it you can pay it off each month (which we thankfully do), but it is a very large problem if you do not pay if off each month.
So what’s the secret of the “The Money Secret”? Well, put very simply, the secret is to spend less money than you make!
Even though I have told you the secret I would still very highly recommend that you read The Money Secret by Rob Parsons. It has some extremely valuable hints and tips about debt management and how to get out and stay out of debt.
You can read more reviews on Amazon.com about The Money Secret by Rob Parsons over at .
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