Darren Hardy is the publisher and founding editor of SUCCESS Magazine and the New York Times Best Selling Author of The Compound Effect. Darren has mentored tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and other achievers through private programs and has done one-on-one mentoring with several top CEOs, world-class entrepreneurs and other high-performance individuals. In his new book The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster, he will prepare you for the wild ride of entrepreneurship. From it, you will learn the best strategies Darren has ever collected from the most successful people on the planet, covering the four essential skills necessary for entrepreneurial success: Sales, Recruiting, Leadership, and Productivity.

 

Show Highlights:

• Darren believes that in the coming years, the amount of entrepreneurs will grow immensely, but most of them are not ready. They will try, but they will fail.

• 66% of all small businesses fail.

• The reasons why entrepreneurs fail are not external factors, but internal. Not technical, but emotional. @DarrenHardy

• Everyone is an entrepreneur. They create and design the life they want to live. @DarrenHardy

• When you separate from the herd, you expect everyone around you to be excited. They’re not. @DarrenHardy

• When you stop being like other people, other people stop liking you. @DarrenHardy

• First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. – Mahatma Gandhi

• How many people didn’t like Jesus of Nazareth? People couldn’t stand him. Yet he made a world changing impact. @DarrenHardy

• Sometimes your ambition calls out the fear in others, making them resist you. @Rory_Vaden

• Dogs don’t bark at parked cars. Once you begin shaking things up, people will notice. @DarrenHardy

• Sales is not pushing and prodding, it’s questioning and listening. @DarrenHardy

• We live in an era of epic distractions. All these tools we built for productivity have advanced far faster than our human capacity can mange them. @DarrenHardy

 

If you are interested in reading Darren’s new book The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster, visit www.rollercoasterbook.com.

 

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