Entrepreneurial Ongoing Education Advice

I would like to give some advice to all the up and coming entrepreneurs; if you really want to be a superstar not only do you have to work harder and smarter than the competition, but you must always keep learning. I built a company from a bucket of water and a sponge into a National Car Wash Franchise System in 23 states. To do this you need to know more than what they taught you in school and you can never turn off your brain. Every person is different and has different interests. But I would like you to read thru my recommended reading list. This is a list I hand out to MBA and Entrepreneurial Students when I give speeches. It is a list of recommended book, biography, audio tapes and movies.

I see the need for the modern Entrepreneur for on going learning, which must not stop after HS. In order to continue a life long education it is important to understand and observe the world, understand our places in it. We must also realize the ideals that got us here and the people who worked so hard to bring about the change needed to propel mankind's future. Below is a list of recommended Biographies, Books, Audio Tapes and Movies, which can assist you in your lifetime of learning and your pursuit of happiness as you Entrepreneur warriors deliver mankind everything we see, every where we go. We owe it all to you; you are the most noble of all people, you are the builders of civilization. I thank you for your continued efforts and urge you to continue your education do you can be even stronger.

People:

Maya Angilou

Bertrand Russell

John Nash

Chuck Yeager

Charles Deming

Milton Friedman

Fredrick Winslow Taylor

Cecil Rhodes

Jane Goodall

Juaque Custaeu

Betsy Ross

Aristotle

Winston Churchill

Alexander the Great

Bill Gates

Steve Balmer

Fred Smith (Fed Ex)

Michael Dell

General Patton

Ronald Reagan

Princess Diana

Jack Welsh

Ray Kroc

Tom Monahan

Richard Branson

Einstein

HP Founders

Greenspan

Volker

Sam Walton

Walt Disney

Thomas Edison

L. Ron Hubard

Gandhi

Thomas Paine

Howard Shultz (starbucks)

Yanklevich

Henry Ford

Lance Armstrong

Pele

Louis Roukeyser

Von Clauswitz

Vince Lombardi

Tiger Woods

Joe Nameth

Wayne Gretsky

Mark Spits

Carl Lewis

Neil Armstrong

Hank Aron

Schwartzkoff

Babe Ruth

Steven Wolfram

Steven Hawkins

Thomas Jefferson

The President

Nelson Mandella

Warren Buffet

Larry Ellison

Dave Thomas

Ted Turner

Craig McCaw

Andy Grove

Steven Spielberg

Gene Roddenberry

Carl Seagan

Books: What they don't Teach You at Harvard Business School

The Death of Competition

Win Win Scenarios

Infoprenuers

Swim With the Sharks...

What Color is Your Parachute

The Sky is not the Limit The Ground is

Winning Numbers

People of the Century By Dan Rather

Profiles of Genius

Winning

It is Always Something

Holographic Universe

Believe to Achieve

The GE Way

The World on Time

Millionaire Next Door

Think and Grow Rich

Bible

500 Year Delta

Finite Capacity Scheduling

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

It Ain't as Easy as it looks

Blown to Bits

A Future Perfect

The Whiz kids

Disruptive Technology

Opportunity in Chaos

Dilbert series

Trump series

Essays of Warren Buffet

If it Ain't Broke, Break it

We Seven

Rocking the Ages

In all His Glory

Big Blue

Shapes of Time

Start Small Finish Big

E-Myth

Psychocybernetics

A Salesmen is a Problem Solver

Innovation

Guerilla Marketing series

Slim Forever

Grinding it Out

Net Centric Warfare

On War

Pour Your Heart Into It

Books to understand reality:

Virus Hunters of CDC

Bin Laden, INC.

Germs

Hot Spot

Cobra Event

Clone

Brief History of Time

The Road Ahead

Most of the reading list of the "Futurists"

Machiavelli

Theory and Practice of Hell

Mien Koff

Proudy's book on JFK

US VS. Microsoft

Confessions of a Stockbroker

Confessions of a VC

Secrets of the Temple

McLibel

The Rotten Heart of Europe

Amsterdam and the History of Commerce

The Art of War

VonClauswitz on War

JFK Reckless Youth

Tapes:

The Psychology of Winning

Benjamin Franklin Series from Franklin Quest

Mega Memory

Executive Summaries

Audio People:

Brain Tracy

Tom Hopkins

Tom Peters

Tony Robbins

*comments: Motivational Tapes tend to be too showy, but have some value.

People should listen to tapes instead of wasting time, if you are not observing things, you should be learning something.

Favorite Movies:

Top Gun

Vision Quest

Karate Kid

St. Elmos Fire

Rocky

Matrix

Star Wars

Authors with multiple books he reads (fiction):

Ayn Rand

Arthur C Clark

Michael Creighton

Ben Bova

Tom Clancy

Tolstoy

Shakespeare Plays and Cliff 's Notes

Charles Dickens Isaac Asimov

Favorite Periodicals:

Foreign Affairs

Aviation Week and Space Technology

Wired

Red Herring

Scientific American

Popular Science

Popular Mechanics

Flying

Economist

"Lance Winslow" - If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs

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