What Self-made Millionaires Really Think, Know and Do: A Straight-talking Guide to Business Success and Personal Riches [Paperback]

What Self–Made Millionaires Really Think, Know, and Do offers you practical, hands–on advice for turning ideas into money–making business realities. Two self–made millionaires, Richard Dobbins and Barrie Pettman, reveal the secrets of their fantastic business achievements and personal fortunes. The authors provide a complete programme from thinking creatively and setting clear goals to negotiating skills, leadership and liberting time management, the book is also illustrated throughout with great stories and personal anecdotes.

There are better ways of becoming a millionaire than trudging to your local store to buy that lottery ticket every week. The fact is your chances are 14 million to one. If you entered the lottery once every week, then – sure – you can expect to win. About once in every two hundred and seventy thousand years! But still there are those who believe that if they sit and listen as number after number is called out on the TV, that this will be there week. Their lucky break.

Then there are those that know that they must do more than watch spinning balls to make their lives a success; that in order to do more, to have more, to become master of their own destiny – they must change. They must act. And this book is for them...

Enter Richard Dobbins and Barrie O. Pettman, two self–made millionaires who reveal the secrets of the their fantastic business achievements and personal fortunes. What Self–Made Millionaires Really Think, Know & Do does not rely on a mystical system, flimsy hype or unbelievable get–rich–quick schemes. Instead it offers practical and realistic advice for turning your brilliant ideas into a money–making business reality.

What Self–made Millionaires Really Think, Know & Do guides you from business idea to market acclaim. You will discover the secrets of real business – from thinking creatively and setting clear goals to negotiating skills, leadership and liberating time management. It is illustrated throughout with superb success stories and anecdotes from the author′s remarkable careers.

Dobbins and Pettman provide a complete toolkit for the ambititous entrepreneur. they provide proven methods for getting what you want in life. Success, happiness and your first million. It′s not an easy walk in the park, but if you are serious about dramatically changing your life, it′s all within your grasp. And it′s all in here.

"I was hooked...a really useful DIY manual for success" Personnel Today

"Practical, down to earth advice of great value to would–be entrepreneurs" Sir Adrian Cadbury

"Exhilaration...Fright...bewilderment...exultation" Career Development International

"Recommended reading for any frustrated executive considering going it alone" Gulf Business

"I was completely won over" Ivor kenny, University College, Dublin

"A complete toolkit for the ambitious entrepreneur...success happiness and your first million within your grasp" The Citizen

"A gem of a book...a source of ideas and inspiration to any manager" Professor Richard Teare, Oxford Brookes University

"A good easy read. I agree with everything" Philip Vale, Durham University Business School

"That depth of understanding entrepreneurial business which can only come from doing it" baron Presoungrange, Co–founder, MCB University Press

"Hard–wired to reality...hype free and brutally honest" Business Age

"A book that, once read, you will want to have around" Ambassador

RICHARD DOBBINS made his first million in managerial development. He is a management consultant and financial guru. He is a visiting Professor of Management on the MBA programs of North America, Europe, the Far East and Australia

BARRIE O. PETTMAN made his first million in publishing. He is a management consultant and visitng professor at the Canadian School of Management.