Waterstone's was DTI awarded as one of the three most financially successful business start-ups of the 1980s &, culturally, may be considered to have changed the complexion & scale of bookselling in the British isles & Europe. This massive success is in no small way due to Tim Waterstone's excellent business practices & belief that business can work for the good of the community. In this book, he shares his top ten rules for creating businesses & making lives, using real-life case studies of how businesses succeed, & also how they can fail. It is an essential reading for anyone with a dream of starting up alone.