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If at First You Don't Succeed...: The Eight Patterns of Highly Effective Entrepreneurs
by Brent Bowers
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Broadway Books (2006-04-18)
ISBN: 0385515464
EAN: 9780385515467
Dewy Decimal #: 658.11
Hardcover: 240 pages
Release Date: 2006-04-18
SKU: BA08050712
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Exactly as shown, Ex Library copy with usual stamps and stickers. Clear, protective mylar covering over dust jacket. Book itself is bound strong, has little wear and text is clean and unmarked.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
At age nine, Cameron Johnson started an Internet company.
Pete Amico quit his job on his first day because he didn’t feel like taking orders from his boss.
Greg Herro built a successful business selling diamonds made from the carbon extracted from ashes.
If any of these people remind you of yourself, you just might have the kind of personality to take the small business world by storm.
In If at First You Don't Succeed..., Brent Bowers, the small-business editor for the New York Times reveals the eight patterns that highly successful entrepreneurs share – and what we can learn from them.
Brent Bowers, in covering small business for decades at the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, has chronicled the rise and fall of hundreds of start-ups. In If at First You Don’t Suceed…, he analyzes the common characteristics shared by dozens of successful small-business owners and their companies. Drawing on extensive interviews and research, as well as on the experiences and expertise of business consultants, venture capitalists, academics, and the entrepreneurs themselves, he describes the key traits that successful entrepreneurs have in common.
Among them:
• The ability to spot and seize opportunities
• An overwhelming urge to be in charge coupled with a gift for leadership
• The flexibility to come up with creative, out-of the-box solutions to problems or obstacles
• Incredible energy and tenacity in the pursuit of their goals
• Unwavering faith in their business
• The ability to take smart risks
• The ability to bounce back from setbacks and see failure as just one step on the path to ultimate success
For anyone thinking about starting a business, or attempting a start-up a second or third time, this book offers invaluable lessons and insights.
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Customer Reviews
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Inspiring Fun Reading!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-04-28
Since I was lucky enough to be briefly profiled in one of Brent Bowers' NY Times' business columns, I was curious to read an entire book by this former Wall Street Journal reporter. I found his approach to a how-to business book both original and fun to read.
Each chapter is organized around an essential trait key to the successful entrepreneur such as - seizing opportunities, running your own show, tenacity, willingness to take calculated risks and an ability to tolerate uncertainty until the final pay-off.
Colorful characters inhabit this book and serve as catalysts to our own grand ideas. We find ourselves thinking, Gee, if that particular individual could be so courageous about the validity of his ideas, I can too.
It's also a comfort to know that most of these successes evolved from learning from failure.
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Good read
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-05-02
8 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
A friend told me this was the antidote to boring business books and he has a point.
The book has some pluses: Good warnings about vulture capitalists and the value of the "double P's" passion and pragmatism. I liked his analysis of what makes succesful entrepreneurs tick and examples of how tenacious people turned ideas into fortunes. My favorite was the guy who makes diamonds out of cremated remains as keepsakes for the bereaved. Where did the author find these people?
America should stop whining about the decline of big business jobs and get off its collective butt like these entrepreneurs who showed spunk and made millions.
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