Michael Masterson Archive
The Reluctant Entrepreneur: Practical Advice From the Best Wealth-Creator I Know
by Alexander Green, Investment U Chief Investment Strategist
Monday, July 9, 2012: Issue #1810
It’s a truism in our capitalist society: You don’t get rich working for someone else. You get rich working for yourself.
Yet the overwhelming majority of Americans don’t understand how to start their own business. They feel like they don’t have a good enough idea or enough capital to make a go of it. To top it off, most are understandably scared to leave their current job or risk their savings on a new enterprise. Still… they understand that they will never achieve financial independence – or significantly upgrade their lifestyle – without becoming an entrepreneur of some sort.
If this sounds familiar, let me make a recommendation. Pick up a copy of The Reluctant Entrepreneur by my friend and colleague Michael Masterson.
And buy a highlighter, too. You’re going to need it.
Michael Masterson is the real deal, an astonishingly successful wealth creator who has launched dozens of businesses in many different industries. He retired more than 20 years ago but, fortunately for the rest of us, found it unspeakably boring. Today he devotes his business life to instructing and mentoring others.
His new book is something special. It’s a call to action – and a step-by-step plan – to embrace your fears and start your own business without a lot of investment capital and with as little risk as humanly possible.
Of course, Masterson has written many business bestsellers, but this book is different. Here he focuses only on the first two stages of business growth – from zero to $1 million and from $1 million to $10 million. However, he begins with an even earlier stage of entrepreneurship – the point where you may be now: a “would-be” business owner. As the chapters unfold, he describes, in detail, how to develop a good, workable idea for a business and how to carefully put that plan into action.
The advice here is anything but theoretical. Using examples from his own business career – and from those he’s mentored – he shows you exactly how to proceed, how to overcome your fears, how to achieve business success without leaving your current career (at least at the outset) and without risking a lot of money. I personally know dozens of individuals who have seen their lives – and their fortunes – transformed by guidance and advice from Michael Masterson.
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by Alexander Green, Investment U Chief Investment Strategist
Monday, November 15, 2010
I receive thousands of questions from readers each year. But there’s one that I’ve never been able to answer satisfactorily:
“How do I get more money to invest in your recommendations?”
My traditional answer is, “Work harder, spend less, and save more.” As generic advice goes, it’s not bad. But it doesn’t change lives.
Michael Masterson does, though – and that’s why you should get to know him…
Michael Masterson: Your Own Personal Time Manager
Michael is one of the wealthiest and most successful people I know. He’s launched dozens of businesses in several different industries, some of which have grown beyond $100 million. (One has grown beyond $300 million.)
He’s too discreet to tell you this himself, but he has fabulous homes and offices all over the world. Standing on the back patio of his oceanfront home one day, I told him the word spectacular is overused. People should save it for special occasions… like when they’re looking out at his view of the Pacific coastline.
Michael Masterson is the real deal – an astonishingly successful businessman who now devotes most of his business life to mentoring others.
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