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Masters of Success : Proven Techniques for Achieving Success in Business and Life

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Once I picked up Masters of Success it was difficult to put it down.

What I found most refreshing about this book is that each submission puts a unique spin on a common theme - how to be successful. Like the "Chicken Soup" series - the book is moving and, an entertaining and very valuable read!

Reading the book gives one hope that success is not just a wish or dream, that it can be real.

Success means different things to different people and the book captured this message. In our society, more often than not, success is measured only by the $ sign. This book gives us a more meaningful explanation of what success is all about. Success comes from unexpected areas of life and the book has lots of examples illustrating this.

I will read this book over and ever and as I grow I will be able to gain a new perspective every time.

This book gives you tremendous insights of how to build your life and career from some of the best authors in the world. Learning from others successes, seeing how some failed and picked themselves back up, and understanding the persistance and determination from many will help everyone who has a dream, a vision or is seeking success.

I did not read this book cover to cover. I started out by looking through the contents and read each part I was interested in. Before I knew it, I did read the whole book. I am in some of the situations, these success people were in. The stories gave me the motivation to keep on the right track in my journey. It was a great read and a book to keep to review later.

What a great read! Easy to sit down and read many stories at a time, in a variety of areas from personal growth to business.
The best part is the combined effort of MANY business professionals, sharing success stories that everyone can easily understand and actually apply these lessons to their own life and business.

If you are tired of so-called self-help or motivational books that are big on hype but small on delivery, then THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU.

The content is first rate and the packaging is terrific for the busy professional. There are 65 stories, averaging only 4 pages each. This means you can read a story whenever you have ten minutes. Kudos to Dr. Misner for assembling an all-star team that has delivered knock-out material on all aspects of business and personal success. Put the lessons to use and you will see results - I have.

Lovely book which gives anecdotes of those who have risen above adversity and mastered success. Read it along with Optimal Thinking:How to Be Your Best Self (to learn how to master emotions, bring out the best in others and make the most of every situation) and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (to learn how to move from dependence to independence, from personal victories to public victories). The three books together are all you will ever need to be successful and inspire optimal success in others.

What an excellent book! I especially enjoyed reviewing so many different success stories and discovering the secrets of what made so many people succesful.

Inspiring, Insightful, Motivating and Revealing are the words for this book!

I really enjoyed reading the stories of people that are not so different than me and the people that I meet each day. The only difference is that the people in these success stories capitalized on their strengths and looked for ways to help others achieve success in life and in business.

The subtitle of this book refers to "techniques for achieving success" but in my opinion, everything depends on having a mindset for success. This is what Henry Ford meant when observing "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right." Only with the right mindset will a person be motivated to identify and then master the skills and then techniques that success (however defined) can be achieved. Ivan Misner and Don Morgan have collaborated on several volumes (including this one), selecting and then assembling material from a remarkably diverse range of sources, including themselves. For example, among the 65 articles, Misner is the author of "The Fundamentals of Success"; Morgan is the author of "Subconscious and SMART Conscious Goals" and "Goal-Setting Process (GSP)."They also co-authored the Preface and a brief introduction to each of the eight chapters.

There are several different ways to read this book, including cover to cover. My guess (only a guess) is that most readers will check out the Contents and then cherry-pick those articles whose author and/or title catches their eye. A word of caution: with all due respect to eminences such as Brian Tracy, Anthony Robbins, Tom Hopkins, Wayne Dyer, Mark Victor Hansen and Robert Allen, and Michael Gerber, some of the most valuable material is provided by those who are generally unfamiliar. Case in point: Peter Schutz, former head of Porsche, who shares his thoughts about "a culture of success." He differentiates success from excellence, noting that success "must come quickly and may be fleeting and fickle" whereas excellence is "lasting and dependable," adding that "an obsession for success can burn up the manager who seeks it. Excellence will build the manager who strives for it."

Credit Misner and Morgan with selecting 65 articles that offer diverse and thought-provoking perspectives on how to achieve "success in business and life." At this point, I presume to include one thought of my own. First, a great deal has been said and written about the importance of "balance." Is it possible to be a devoted spouse and parent and still have a success business career? For whatever reasons, many men and women have found that very difficult to fulfill all of their obligations in both areas. I have become convinced that a person cannot balance everything but it is possible to balance what is most important, and be willing to accept compromises, adjustments, trade-offs, etc. with regard to everything else.

It remains for each of us to decide what is most important, both in business and in life, and then maintain a proper balance of these priorities. Directly or at least indirectly, all of those who contributed material to this volume can help readers to develop the right mindset so that they can make that determination, and then maintain that balance.

Those who share my high regard for this book are urged to check out other works authored or co-authored by Misner and Morgan well as two books by Tom Butler-Bowdon: 50 Success Classics and 50 Self-Help Classics.