Ever since the story of his transformation from homeless single father to millionaire became known the world over Chris Gardner
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Start With Scraps" is not just another scrap quilt book. It will actually help your scrap collection disappear. There will be little waste as you make your own fabric by piecing your scraps together. The scrappy piecing technique explained in this book is fast & fun. Once you start scrappy piecing you wont want to stop. All the projects in the book are easy to sew & economical. Most of the materials needed for the projects are no doubt already in your stash. Completing these projects will help shrink your stash making room for new fabrics! So get scrappy & have fun!" ...

Why are some people & organisations more inventive pioneering & successful than others? & why are they able to repeat their success again & again? In business it doesnt matter what you do it matters why you do it. Start with Why" analyses leaders like Martin Luther King Jr & Steve Jobs & discovers that they all think in the same way
- they all started with why. Simon Sinek explains the framework needed for businesses to move past knowing what they do to how they do it & then to ask the more important question
- Why? Why do we do what we do? Why do we exist? Learning to ask these questions can unlock the secret to inspirational business. Sinek explains what it truly takes to lead & inspire & how anyone can learn how to do it."

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Everybody wants to be an entrepreneur. Every single day of my life I am bombarded by people with pitches. But 90 per cent of new businesses fail because their founders failed to ask themselves the simplest of questions. I can save you years of wasted time & thousands of pounds of wasted money by giving you the ammunition to ask the right questions & helping you make the decision that is right for you. I will show you how to spend a maximum of seven days deciding if your idea is workable & bankable. How to say Im in but equally importantly to have the courage to say Im out. How to become your own Dragon. Each piece of advice in this book is based on my thirty years of starting businesses. You will find all the fundamental ingredients for any new company whatever sector you want to be in whatever size of business you have in mind along with the tools to make it work. Answer all the tough questions I am going to get you to ask yourself & you will have a business that genuinely has a chance of success. You can be one of the 10 per cent of businesses that do make it." (James Caan)." ...

In 26 weekly steps this unique & cleverly structured book will walk any budding entrepreneur through everything you need to know & do in the exact order you need to do it to get your new business up & running. Each step contains a to-do list an explanation of what needs to be done useful hints & shortcuts & the contact information you need. Written by an experienced entrepreneur & updated for a new global economy this book contains the most up to date fresh thinking & ideas so you can overcome the challenges of a new business start-up & turn your entrepreneurial dreams into reality. ...

' Positive affirmations helped me in my darkest times to focus on my health & happiness & to remember I was not alone. I know how well they worked for me in regaining my life & now I want to share them with you.' Katie Piper. Start your Day with Katie is a page-a-day book of Katie Piper's most powerful inspirational thoughts plus"es & mantras that helped give her courage & hope after her rape & acid attack. With Katie's guiding messages you can begin every day on the right track. Let these affirmations help you find happiness & inner strength. They are one of the tools that Katie Piper used to rebuild her life. Keep this book with you or by your bedside table to turn to any time you need a little help in finding peace or inspiration. ...

Brought to you by the UK's leading small business website Startups.co.uk Are you starting a business? Do you want expert business advice get your new venture up & running? If you're looking for a practical guide to help you start a business Start Your Own Business 2013 is the book for you. Covering each stage of starting up
- from evaluating your business idea to marketing your product or service
- this new edition

Includes:: the latest information on tax VAT support & legal regulations for budding entrepreneurs & small businesses in 2013 plus advice on taking advantage of today's economic conditions. Whether you're looking to start up a cleaning business set up as a freelancer go into property development or start a new e Bay venture you'll uncover the expert advice to be a successful entrepreneur. Inside you'll find practical pointers & first-hand business insight from successful start-ups & top entrepreneurs including easyjet's Stelios & Betfair's Andrew Black. Find out how to:* Turn an idea into a viable business* Write an effective business plan* Raise finance for your start up* Deal with regulations & laws* Price products or services competitively* Find & retain customers* Market your business on a budget* Hire the best employees. Other books in the Startups.co.uk series:



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From the co-founder & chairman of Linked In & author Ben Casnocha comes a revolutionary new book on how to apply the strategies of successful entrepreneurship to your career: in other words how to run the start-up of you. In a world where wages are virtually stagnant creative disruption is rocking every industry global competition for jobs is fierce & job security is a thing of the past were all on our own when it comes to our careers. In the face of such uncertainty the key to success is to think & act like an entrepreneur: to be nimble & self-reliant to be innovative & to know how to network & stand out from the crowd. & this is precisely what Hoffman & Casnocha show you how to do in a book that is both inspirational & supremely practical. Just as Linked In is the one online community that no professional can afford not to belong to this is the book that no professional can afford to be without. ...

A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse until she makes a shocking impulse purchase. That one moment of madness is all it takes for Tracys humdrum world to be turned upside down the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear & danger at every turn. Witnesses to Tracys outrageous exchange in the Merrion Centre in Leeds are Tilly an elderly actress teetering on the brink of her own disaster & Jackson Brodie who has returned to his home county in search of someone elses roots. All three characters learn that the past is never history & that no good deed goes unpunished. Kate Atkinson dovetails & counterpoints her plots with Dickensian brilliance in a tale peopled with unlikely heroes & villains. Started Early Took My Dog is freighted with wit wisdom & a fierce moral intelligence. It confirms Kate Atkinsons position as one of the great writers of our time. ...

Its 1985 & Brian Jackson has arrived at university with a burning ambition
- to make it onto TVs foremost general knowledge quiz.
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