Billionaire In Training (Instant Success Series) [Paperback]

Bradley Sugars (Author), Brad Sugars (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0071466614 | ISBN-13: 978-0071466615 | Publication Date: December 19, 2005 | Edition: 1

Eat millionaires for breakfast.

If there's one thing self-made millionaire Brad Sugars knows, it's that getting rich is a lot simpler than most people realize. In Billionaire in Training he puts you on the fast track to wealth creation through buying, building, and selling businesses-and doing it at a faster pace than you ever thought possible. Discover how to:

• Climb the 5 Levels of Entrepreneurs
• Buy promising businesses, increase their value, and sell them for top dollar
• Transform your innovative ideas into a successful business empire
• Set up businesses that run themselves and provide you with the capital to expand your investments

Get real results right now when you discover all that Instant Success has to offer!

Instant Advertising * Instant Cashflow * Instant Leads * Instant Profit * Instant Promotions * Instant Referrals * Instant Repeat Business * Instant Sales * Instant Systems * Instant Team Building * The Business Coach * The Real Estate Coach * Successful Franchising

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From the Back Cover

Eat millionaires for breakfast.

If there's one thing self-made millionaire Brad Sugars knows, it's that getting rich is a lot simpler than most people realize. In Billionaire in Training he puts you on the fast track to wealth creation through buying, building, and selling businesses-and doing it at a faster pace than you ever thought possible. Discover how to:

• Climb the 5 Levels of Entrepreneurs
• Buy promising businesses, increase their value, and sell them for top dollar
• Transform your innovative ideas into a successful business empire
• Set up businesses that run themselves and provide you with the capital to expand your investments

Get real results right now when you discover all that Instant Success has to offer!

Instant Advertising * Instant Cashflow * Instant Leads * Instant Profit * Instant Promotions * Instant Referrals * Instant Repeat Business * Instant Sales * Instant Systems * Instant Team Building * The Business Coach * The Real Estate Coach * Successful Franchising

About the Author

Bradley J. Sugars is a world-renowned entrepreneur, author, and business coach who has helped nearly a million clients around the world find business success. Brad is the founder of Action International, a global network of business coaches with nearly 1000 offices worldwide. Brad and the Action International team have refined over 500 business strategies and systems that are used by Action business coaches on six continents.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (December 19, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071466614
• ISBN-13: 978-0071466615
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #420,675 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Brad Sugars was born in the city of Brisbane in Australia on May 28, 1971. Today he is a well known international business speaker, author and entrepreneur.

Brad Sugars came from humble beginnings and is a self made multi-millionaire most famous for his global business coaching franchise ActionCOACH.

Along with his family, one of the biggest influences in his life is Jim Rohn. Brad often tells audiences the tale of how as a teenager he scrimped and saved his allowance in order to afford tickets to a Jim Rohn seminar while friends his own age were enjoying spending their money on games and movies. Despite being the youngest person in the audience, the result of his attendance was life changing. During the seminar, Brad recalls when Jim Rohn told the audience to "Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."

Brad Sugars is an avid reader of non-fiction business books and ever since his attendance at this seminar has read an average of one book per week.

He himself has written 14 business books published under the McGraw Hill brand. Called the Instant Success Series - the books were originally custom published. When McGraw Hill bought the international publishing rights in 2006 it was at the time the largest multi-business book deal with a single author.

Brad Sugars has a dynamic stage presence. Brad is first an educator and through that he believes you will become motivated. When you know what to do and how to do it you can act on it.He is known for filling his seminars vast volumes of content. Not one to mince words, Brad's brash Aussie style mean he will tell you what you need to hear, not necessary what you want to hear. He has currently presented to millions of people and has a loyal fan base.


Brad Sugars is the World's #1 Business Coach. His team of almost 1,000 coaches at ActionCOACH, coach tens of thousands of business owners in 22 countries in his simple yet powerful business growth techniques every day.

Now you can learn Brad's simple yet powerful approach to business and wealth ... Visit www.actioncoach.com or www.bradsugars.com to learn more ...

You can follow Brad Sugars via Facebook and Twitter at:

www.facebook.com/BradleySugars

www.twitter.com/ActionCOACHCEO

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47 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good but missing an important element..., November 10, 2006

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Monica Main "Monica Main" (Valencia, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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I have to say that after starting and owning two multi-million dollar businesses that Bradley Sugars knows what he's talking about. His books are the closest you'll get to actually getting the information you need to get started.

However, two things disappointed me about this book:

1) He states that you can't start a business with no money. This isn't true. I've done it TWICE. I started my first publishing company with a few hundred dollars. Within two years it became a $2 million per year empire. My second company was started with a few thousand dollars. Within 4 years it became a $5.4 million dollar empire. In my first fiscal year I grossed $566,000. You don't need money to make money. You just need to know what you're doing.

2) The whole premise of this book is to buy, build, and sell a business. You can't buy a business with no money. Even if you can swing a no money down deal on a business, you need money to build it. Even he admits that you need about $200,000 in your bank account before you consider building a business. So, how do you get the $200,000? You don't get it by working for someone. It's very difficult, if not impossible, to get a business loan from a bank. Venture capitalists will finance people with a history of business success, not a business newbie. Sugars doesn't fill in this gap. He complains that other books don't cover each step to success (business, investing, then true entrepreneurship)...but he left out a critical point: How do you get from NO MONEY to HAVING MONEY FOR A BUSINESS to even start?

This is a good book. It covers some critical information about business that I haven't seen in other books. However, it's missing a huge element (discussed above) that will be an issue for most people reading this book who don't have an extra few hundred grand lying around to start or put into a business.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Absolute waste of money..., September 21, 2007

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Mehdi Safaie "bigray96" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Billionaire In Training (Instant Success Series) (Paperback)

This book is nothing but superfluous stuff that you can easily find on your own. No real world specific examples. He uses his books to sell you his "coaching services" and nothing more. This guy is a BS artist....save your money. Do a search on Brad sugars books on Amazon; they all have "5" star ratings....hmmm, what a coincidence! IMO, the ratings are fake, and put there by his own people.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Buy, Fix, Sell, January 31, 2007

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Kirsty Dunphey "www.kirstydunphey.com - Autho... (Tasmania, Australia) - See all my reviews
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Brad Sugars is a pretty well known name in Australian coaching circles yet this book is clearly written for an American market (while still being useful to Aussies!). Billionaire in Training focuses on building wealth through buying businesses, fixing or "systematizing" them and then selling them. This is NOT a book that will show you how to turn your new business idea into reality. Nor will this book tell you much about other wealth building methods - Brad repeatedly mentions you buy his other books for more info on these areas. What I did enjoy were some of Brad's thoughts on "what makes a good business and what to look for when buying" which were very in line with a lot of e-myth type of philosophies. Would have loved for Brad to say in the book that he himself was a billionaire - that would have been exciting and perhaps a bit more fitting given the title (it says however on the back cover that he's a self made millionaire).