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