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Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life

Kevin O'Leary shares invaluable secrets on entrepreneurship, business, money and life.

Can you make millions just by "visualizing yourself rich" as some business prophets suggest? Don't buy it, says Kevin O'Leary. If you want to be a successful entrepreneur and amass wealth, you're going to have to work for it. But the good news is: with the right guidance, focus and perseverance, you can turn entrepreneurial vision into lucrative reality and have the personal freedom that only wealth can buy.

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Kevin O'Leary would know. The much-feared and revered Dragon on the immensely popular show Dragons' Den(and Shark Tankin the U.S.) started his company in his basement with a $10,000 loan from his financially savvy mother. A few years later, Kevin sold that company for more than four billion dollars. In this compelling, candid and, above all else, brutally honest business memoir, Kevin provides engaging, practical advice and lessons that will give anyone a distinct competitive edge.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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