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How I Lost 5,000,000 ... : Discovered The Secrets to Business Success, and Found True Happiness.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hume, Ronald.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Businesspeople--Biography.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Chicago : Mosaic Press, 2022.
Summary:
The memoir of a radical mass-marketing entrepreneur, an autopsy of a super successful serial entrepreneur told with honesty and a wry sense of humour, revealing intimate details of his journey to massive wealth and the melt-down. This story spotlights essential life lessons for achieving happiness and fulfillment in business and in ones personal life. Ron Hume was genetically programmed to be an entrepreneur. He achieved success because he was able to identify unmet needs and his insights allowed him to build successful businesses. His career included Vice-President of McGraw Hill Canada where he turned a successful educational publisher into a highly innovative best-selling trade publisher. He then turned his entrepreneurial skills into building an empire of self-study publishing programs. At the pinnacle of his success over 5,000,000 individuals in the US and in Canada enrolled in his Successful Investing and Money Management program. He followed that up with other hugely successful self-study programs. He had offices and warehouses in Toronto, Los Angeles and Atlanta with over 200 employees.
Contents:
Cover
Halftitle
Title
Copyright
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: In the Beginning
Chapter 1: Falling Off a Cliff
Chapter 2: Early Signs of a Budding Entrepreneur
Chapter 3 : Lost in the Wilderness
Chapter 4: The Clouds Begin to Break
Part 2: The Thrill of Success
Chapter 5: A First Triumph
Chapter 6: Climbing the Management Ladder
Chapter 7: An Introduction to Publishing
Chapter 8: The Best Job in the World
Chapter 9: A Life Changing Event
Part 3: The Hume Group ofCompanies
Chapter 10: The Impossible Year
Chapter 11: Two difficult births
Chapter 12: Building the Engine Room
Chapter 13: Teaching the World How To Build Wealth
Chapter 14: Marketing to the Masses
Chapter 15: New Horizons
Chapter 16: Hume Group of Mutual Funds
Part 4: Setbacks and Recovery
Chapter 17: A Tsunami strikes
Chapter 18: Slowly, the Sun Breaks Though Again
Chapter 19: Discovering True Happiness
Part 5: Valuable less ons acquired on my journey
Chapter 20: Happiness and fulfilment
Back Cover.
Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Other Format:
Print version: Hume, Ronald How I Lost
ISBN:
1-77161-637-7
1-77161-638-5
OCLC:
1352967686

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