Millionaire's Notebook : How Ordinary People Can Achieve Extraordinary Success
Author: Steven K. Scott
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ISBN: 0684803038
Publisher: Fireside (05 January, 1996)
Sales Rank: 74,744
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
Content Good but needs a little less marketing analysis
Steve Scott was one of those men who seemed to be drifting, in his early life. This book chronicals his drift and failures in great detail. It shows warts and all. It should give most people a sense, that, I'm Surely Not As Bad As That. By detailing his many failures he shows, that anyone can turn their life around and create success.From this standpoint, YOU CAN TURN YOUR LIFE AROUND, type of inspiration, I award it 5 stars.
But and I must say it is a big but, much of the content of this book is a Masters Degree Course in Marketing and the in's and out's of producing and creating INFO-COMMERCIALS. Quite what this type of treatise on marketing analysis, has to do with success beats me.
I cannot call this book a clear blue print for success. If you want that buy; Success is not an Accident by Tommy Newberry, or The Simple Way to Success by Larry Winget. Both these books beat this book hands down. It is not a Think and Grow Rich type of book either.
This book must be bought on the merit that it is an honest account of an ordinary life, and how an ordinary debt ridden life can be turned around. It is an inspirational book, and as far as that goes it is awarded 5 stars. On any other criteria, this book would get 2 to 3 stars, as it can be way off subject, if a blue print for success is what you are looking for.
There are better books on the subject, but this book is worth reading.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Great book for Corporate Drones who want to start a business
If you find yourself being able to relate all to well to the characters in the Dilbert comic strip, this book may be for you. The inventor of the infomercial, Steve Scott is a self-made multi-millionaire. But if you were to look at his resume for the first five years after he graduated from college, you would never have guessed it to be possible. He went through nine different jobs in six years, and on one occasion was told by his boss "You'll never succeed in marketing. You're fired! Clean out your desk right now."
The book is full of hope and old fashioned business ideals and principles. Being a marketing guru, Scott has not failed to include lots of his marketing secrets. My personal favorite was "salting your communication" (want to know what it is? read page 180). At the end of each chapter, he has included a summary of insights and laws for achieving success, followed by a series of tasks you can immediately begin applying to your life. The book is a quick read, and offers great p
Rating: 2 out of 5
nice autobiography.... but little useful info
this guy writes a nice autobiography about how he did it in marketing... maybe interesting for some but not for me. I guess I was expecting something more than a horn blowing fanfare of an "I did it my way" brag-o-rama. Similar Products
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