Billionaire Secrets to Success (Hardcover)

by Bill Bartmann (Author)
Key Phrases: subjective sensory data, objective sensory data, emotionally significant information, Billionaire Secrets, Implementing the Process, Rules of the Road (more...)

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Bartmann has experienced more success and failure as an entrepreneur than anyone I know. Learn from his experience. -- Jim Stovall, Emmy Award winner, President of Narrative Television Network and author of The Ultimate Gift

Follow Bartman’s advice and become a success in life...he shows you how to use the tools you already have. -- Sam Donaldson, ABC News correspondent

His secrets will help readers delve deeply into discovering their greatest self and identifying their highest life purpose. -- Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager® and The Secret

Patron Saint of the Second Chance. A second chance. Who better to offer it than Bill Bartmann. -- The Wall Street Journal

Product Description
There have been plenty of books written on the topic of Success & Failure. This book is remarkably different from all the rest. Billionaire Secrets of Success is the first success and failure book written by a person who has personally experienced being a millionaire three times, being bankrupt twice, and being a billionaire once. Bill's successes have been the subject of more than 470 news articles in publications ranging from Forbes, Fortune, BusinessWeek, Inc., People, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. The author's unique journey from poverty to being the twenty-fifth wealthiest person in America, with several ups and downs along the way, has given him an amazingly unique perspective from which to share his experiences and the lessons he learned. He shares with the reader his nine principles for attaining success. These nine principles are not the product of some academic conclusion. Bill has personally tested these nine principles, not once, not twice, not three times, but four times over the past twenty five years . . . and they have worked every time. These nine principles work for all, no matter education, social status, financial situation, or how many times they failed in the past. Here is what these nine principles did for him, and they can do the same thing for anyone: FROM? ? TO Poverty and welfare? ? 25th wealthiest person in America High school dropout? ? Permanent place in the Smithsonian Institute Working at traveling carnival? ? National Entrepreneur of the Year Gang member ? ? Case study by Harvard Business School Minimum wage? ? $100 million annual income Riding the bus? ? His own personal $25 million jet Homeless? ? $2 million, 12,000 square foot home Drawing unemployment? ? Employing 4,000 Million dollars in debt? ? Billionaire Bill's book is also unique in that it explains in plain language the mechanics of the mental processes that guarantee our success or our failure. Once you understands how these processes work, you can begin to change your life. It is not too late! No matter where you are or what you have done or failed to do . . . you can become the person you deserve to be! Let Bill show you the way.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Brown Books Publishing Group (November 5, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933285311
• ISBN-13: 978-1933285313
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #22,184 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sure, his company blew up, but the book's still 5 stars!!!, August 24, 2007

By	Y. Rhee (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Yes, the reviews below are true; CFS imploded crazily, Bill was like a tyrant, and he called his employees dumbbastard SOBs.

But, so what?

Listen, I've read this book and it makes complete sense regarding how our brain works and how it has worked to preserve the species. Now, in modern society, Bill tells us how our brain's evolved mechanisms influences our behavior in a negative way.

In a nutshell:

1) Our brain gathers ALL information
2) Our brain places priority over information with EMOTIONS or REPETITION
3) Because our society teaches us to be MODEST, we subconsciously downplay our successes, and overplay our failures
4) The subconscious draws information from these priority information and guess what, it thinks we aren't very capable because we have more NEGATIVE information than POSITIVE.
5) Our self-image is tied to our self preservation, which prevents us from being harmed (embarrassed) etc.
6) Consequently, our brain forces us to rationalize, self-sabotage, etc. basically anything that prevents us from reaching our goals.


Do yourself a favor, READ this book. It has all the details that you need. Bill also tells you how to practically utilize our brain's such defense mechanism to do the OPPOSITE of self-sabotage.

I also recommend "Conquer Fear" by Lisa Jimenez, as a good complementary book.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Book for all ages, January 4, 2006

By	Mrs. Dharwarkar (Ireland) - See all my reviews

At age 76, in recent years my goal has been to be able to get out of bed the next morning. Your wonderful book has awakened a dormant mind. Now I feel like I am 76 years young...instead of 76 years old!

I have re-read your book several times in the past week, each time I do I discover more about me and the exciting future I have in fronty of me. Thank you for giving me the most precious gift of all - a clear view of who and what I am and what I an capable of doing.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Damn Good Book, and a response to the 1-star reviews., October 12, 2007

By	G. Huang - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Looking at the 1 star reviewers really got me motivated to sit here & type up this review.

Those people who rated it 1 star only did so because maybe they looked up on Wikipedia and saw that Bill Bartmann's business collapsed and he was left penniless after having been a billionaire.

First of all, the court did not find him at fault - it was his business partner. While he was probably responsible for not seeing the symptoms, the point is he wasn't the one who defrauded people.

Second of all, I say to the reviewers - what has that got to do with the book??? NOTHING! This book is about self esteem, not about how much wealth a person's built up, or how much he's lost. If you're focusing on that, you may as well not read any books by people who've been in the hole before. People like Donald Trump, for example, who's also been bankrupt. Does that discredit his knowledge? No!

The bottom line is, the guy made a 3.5 billion bucks, and if you complainers want to argue, I say go out & make a billion yourself. It's a mindset you have to have in order to be successful, and I truly believe that. People who have success are positive and never give up. And this advice has come from Bartmann, and countless other self made millionaires/ billionaires.

The advice in the book is solid, and it plain works. It's not a whole lot of voodoo like some other motivational writers write about (but have made their money putting bums on seminar seats, not making it in the real world). And Bill's bounced back from being bankrupt twice.

Once, after losing millions, and now, after losing 3.5 billion. Yes it's easy for people to point their fingers and say hey look, that guy's lost 3.5 billion dollars and got over 3900 employees out of jobs - but do you ever wonder how damned TOUGH it was for the person himself?

Do you really think people who have low self esteem bounce back from situations like that?? Do you really think if you made all that and then lost it, you'd still be jolly & positive? It would be tough, wouldn't it? Most people would just drop out of society and feel sorry for themselves the rest of their life.

But Bill Bartmann's overcome that. He's now a millionaire again, and he teaches EXPERIENCE, not theory. One motivational guru has boasted about reading over 1000 books on self help and then developed his own system. That's great, but isn't that a pile of it. That guru has built his system on theory and doesn't know squat about what it takes to be financially independent, what it takes to run a big business. It's just like taking a college textbook and saying, I have all the tools to build me a big business. You don't. Bartmann has done it first hand, and he's seen both the good & bad side of business, and life. And he's bounced back from his bankruptcy. So I think that makes him qualified to teach a thing or two about self esteem.

So yes, he's lost billions, yes, his employees lost their jobs. But he's also MADE billions, and has the self esteem and mental toughness that it takes to bounce back and still become a millionaire. And if somebody can do the latter, I think it makes them someone you can learn quite a few lessons from.