Leverage: A Key to Success and Wealth (Paperback)

by Ron D. Pate (Author) "Any true lasting success, financial or otherwise, is built upon a strong foundation exemplified by life balance, outstanding character, honesty and hard work, and a..." (more)
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Product Description
Anyone wishing to accomplish all that they can, whether financial success or the achievement of lifelong dreams, needs to understand and harness the power of Leverage.

This easy to read, thought provoking book will unleash a flood of ideas to help you make realistic, practical changes in your approach to life and work, a transformation that can lead you to levels of achievement and success you may have never dreamed possible.

Regardless of your occupation or financial status, Leverage: A Key to Success and Wealth can help you move faster and farther on your journey to success

About the Author
Ron D. Pate

Ron Pate is President and CEO of Key Business Institute, Inc., a training organization focused on helping individuals achieve superior success in life and business. Additionally, Ron leads numerous rapidly growing real estate investment companies holding investments throughout the state of North Carolina. Ron has developed 12 successful companies over the past 25 years, and in the process has realized millions of dollars in profits from his efforts. In the mid 1980’s Ron dedicated himself to learning as much about business, marketing and sales, and personal and professional development as possible, so that he could one day give back to others by teaching them the lessons he learned through experience. Today Ron focuses the majority of his time on helping others achieve success through a variety of training programs, books, and actual business and investment activities where Ron teams up along side clients that show the greatest promise.

In addition to being recognized as a business and personal development expert, Ron is also known for his considerable experience in the field of real estate investing, especially residential investing. Having started working in the field at the age of 12 with his father in the 1970’s, Ron’s companies have conducted well over 1000 real estate investment transactions, and currently have millions of dollars worth of investments throughout the state of North Carolina. Ron’s experience covers mobile homes, mobile home parks, single family homes, small and medium sized apartment complexes, and vacant land. Ron’s companies actively invest in short and long term investments, including up to a dozen single family home and multi-family home renovation projects per month, rapidly growing portfolios of various medium and long term investment projects, and quick turn real estate transactions whereby Ron assists other investors and homeowners in obtaining profitable investments to help! them meet their wealth development needs.

In addition to his business activities, Ron is a published author, holds an active Real Estate Broker's license in North Carolina, and speaks regularly at events in North Carolina and around the US as a personal development, business, and real estate expert.

Ron lives in eastern North Carolina with his wife and two daughters.

Product Details

• Paperback: 148 pages
• Publisher: VP Publishing, LLC (May 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970579306
• ISBN-13: 978-0970579300
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #360,945 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Keys Principles of Leverage, August 22, 2005

By	Michael A. Pate "maxleverage.com" (Corvallis, OR USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In the first chapter Ron talks about setting a proper foundation to build your success upon. He teaches us about goals, staying focused, having a roadmap, and the benefits of a positive attitude.
In Leverage of Time, there are some great personal examples and business examples (from his 20 years or so of consulting and real estate and financial investing experiences). An account who increased her income by 24%, two small business entrepreneurs where one builds a system (like e-myth) and the other dosent - the result one make $50K per year and still has a JOB, and the other makes $500K per year and owns a system by leverage of her time. He also spends a lot of time on a proper mindset when thinking about how to approach your work and use leverage strategically.
In the leverageing money section Ron provides some great examples on his real estate investing methods of using the leverage of his own and other peoples money. (You should check out the fourms on his website, reading these posts and his answers is like getting a free mini consulting lesson from him - great resource).
The wealth concepts section of using leverage is very comprehensive. He discusses the mind set you must have in strategically thinking about wealth and using leverage to obtain it. The section is complete with lots of examples to help reinforce the concepts. He discusses how to generate passive income and income from your creative ideas and calls these money trees, very high leverage activities.
If you want to read about and understand a key wealth and success building strategy using the ultimate tool: Leverage, then get a copy of this high value book.
Michael Pate (no relation), [...]

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The King of Leverage Teaches Us Everything He Knows, July 19, 2004

By	Drew Ludlow "Technoboy" (Raleigh, NC USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have the pleasure of personally knowing the author and I can attest to the fact that Ron Pate practices what he preaches. I was fortunate enough to review this book before it hit the press, and now that I have the final version, I have read it again. Each time, I learn something new.
Although this is an 'easy read', it is quite informative as well. I took it on vacation with me, and as much as I hate to mix vacation with my 'normal life', I didn't feel as if I was guilty of 'working'.
The book uses personal examples to highlight how leverage is one of the key elements to becoming successful in ANY business endeavor.
If you are serious about getting out of the rat race learning how the pros do it, this is a MUST read.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Skin of a Foundation, February 6, 2006

By	G. M. Kitchen "gregk" (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I ordered this book with the hopes of gaining insight through examples and unrealized concepts. Unfortunately this book skimmed the surface of leverage. It discussed several types of leverage each which contained a few examples and commentary followed by questions to develop your untapped leverage opportunities. The concepts were good, the examples were few and brief and the questions were too brief and vague to procure a hint of enlightenment or anything in the same neighborhood.

Summary: Wealthy people are using leverage. There are several types. Find the type that best suits you and read a lot about it to develop a solid foundation before continuing on. Visit my website and tell your friends about my book :)

I also find it strange that several other reviewers who gave 5 stars are from the same state/area as the author.