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No gimmicks. No Hyperbole. No Magic Bullet. The Compound Effect is based on the principle that decisions shape your destiny. Little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default. Darren Hardy, publisher of Success Magazine, presents The Compound Effect, a distillation of the fundamental principles that have guided the most phenomenal achievements in business, relationships, and beyond. This easy-to-use, step-by-step operating system allows you to multiply your success, chart your progress, and achieve any desire. If you’re serious about living an extraordinary life, use the power of The Compound Effect to create the success you want.

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October 2, 2012
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“Darren Hardy has written a new ‘bible’ for the self-improvement space. If you are looking for the ‘real deal,’ a real program, with real tools that can change your life and make your dreams a reality, The Compound Effect is it!”
—David Bach, financial expert and bestselling author of The Automatic Millionaire

“Simple, direct, and to the point—these are the principles that have guided my life and every top business leader I know. This book will show you the way to your own greater success, happiness, and fulfillment.”
—Donny Deutsch, TV host and chairman of Deutsch, Inc.

“Einstein said, ‘Compounding is the eighth wonder of the world.’ To compound your successes, read, apprehend, comprehend, and fully use my friend Darren Hardy’s brilliance to realize all your dreams, hopes, and desires.”
—Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator of the #1 New York Times bestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul

“A treasure chest of ideas for achieving greater success than you ever thought possible!”
—Brian Tracy, speaker and author of Maximum Achievement

About the Author

Darren Hardy is the visionary force behind SUCCESS magazine as its Publisher and Founding Editor. As a business leader in the success industry for two decades, Darren has had unique and unfettered access to the most successful people on the planet, including Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet, Donald Trump, Howard Schultz, Charles Schwab, Jeff Bezos and many more. He has uncovered the secrets to their success and now reveals them to over 2 million people each month through the pages of SUCCESS, his blog, Twitter, Facebook, and before live audiences of entrepreneurs across the country. Darren distills the best of the best information and strategies available, mixing in his own street-tested principles of success.

Darren also mentors many of today's high-performing CEOs, advises many large corporations and sits on the board of several companies and non-profit organizations.

Darren is also a highly sought after keynote speaker and media contributor. Darren lives in San Diego, California with his wife Georgia and his two canine children LucyLu and Tex.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vanguard Press; Csm edition (October 2, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 159315724X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1593157241
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.5 x 7.5 inches

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Darren Hardy is today’s preeminent Success Mentor having been a central business leader in the personal growth and success industry now for more than 25 years. He has led three success television networks producing over 1,000 TV shows featuring most every influential thought leader of our times. And for eight years Darren led the rebirth of SUCCESS Magazine as its publisher and founding editor.

These positions have given Darren unprecedented access to interview, investigate and publish the stories of the most successful entrepreneurs and business leaders in the world, including Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Howard Schultz, Steve Wynn, Jack Welch and many more.

Through this special access Darren has been able to uncover the strategies and methods that have powered the most successful people in the world, mixing in lessons and discoveries from his successful entrepreneurial journey and he now distills these coveted insights to mentor and empower millions of achievers globally.

Darren is also a highly sought-after keynote speaker, media contributor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Compound Effect and Living Your Best Year Ever and his The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster--Why Now is the Time to #JoinTheRide

Darren’s mission is to Positively Influence Influencers… and to be a guide for those who choose to… Be The Exception."

You can connect with Darren each morning with his FREE mentoring program, DarrenDaily.

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K. Perkes

is also EXCELLENT; it has the same message

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2017

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Okay, so you need to know that I have been a serial self-help book junkie! I was hopeless! This was the first self-help book that "cured" me and helped me see the light, so to speak (the other one, read about the same time, The Slight Edge, is also EXCELLENT; it has the same message, and further reinforced my cure)! I had been looking for the magic fix! Of course, there is no such thing! This book helped me see that! But it provides a real and powerful approach to improving one's life! Spoiler alert: you have to put in the effort! And it works sort of like this: slowly, slowly, slowly, . . . SUDDENLY! You'll have to read the book to understand. I HIGHLY recommend this book!

192 people found this helpful

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Always Better Challenge Show

"Preparation + Attitude + Opportunity + Action = 'Luck'."

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2018

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I did a 5-minute video review of this book on my YouTube show "Always Better Challenge Show".

The main premise of this book is the idea that slow and steady wins the race. It is very helpful the way Darren reminds us that even ridiculously small changes can, if applied CONSISTENTLY, produce huge effects over time. He also reminds us of the power in taking responsibility for our own actions, and that if we want to "manage" something, we must first "measure" it. I also love the idea of putting success on "autopilot" through establishing good habits.

There are a million books out there in this space. I should know, I've read most of them! But this is one of a handful that I think belongs on everyone's bookshelf, at least everyone who is interested in personal development and improvement. You can't go wrong with this one.

159 people found this helpful

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Bland and Empty

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2018

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I had to force myself to read it. The book is a whole bunch of nothing. He's just trying to be motivational. You really could summarize the book in less than 10 pages. Would have been better as a blog post. The same idea just repeated 10000x and it gets boring really quick. I don't know how it got such crazy high reviews..A good introductory book for those who are new to self help/business books (if even that..), but not for anyone that's been around. Not recommended.

72 people found this helpful

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Amanda O.

Highly recommend!!! Very giftable, too!

Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2018

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One of the most influential books I’ve ever read. Just read it. You’ll see.

Darren Hardy illustrates how the little things really do add up. Additionally, he gives lots of concrete examples from his own life as well as the lives of many uber successful people he has interviewed and studied as part of his role at Success magazine.

I have gifted this book to ten of my former students for graduation. Pair this with Scott Trench’s Set for Life, and any 18 year old has an unstoppable recipe for success and freedom in their life.

Highly, highly recommend!!!

36 people found this helpful

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Reader

Derivative: Rehash of every self-help, motivational idea

Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2019

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Save your money. Absolutely nothing new here. Just a rehash of everything idea or cliche that's been around in the self-help motivational area for the last 30 years.

Not even useful as a reminder or summary of the ideas . Somehow he didn't even bother to put anything fresh into it-- just comes across as old, tired, worn out. As Job said "Yea, who knoweth not such things?"

Truth? He should be ashamed to have put out such a poor thing.

PS the book itself was poor, there were several pages in it faintly printed. So even the print quality was sub-par.

24 people found this helpful

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victoria

This is a scam

Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2019

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This book is a scam, bought it thinking it would help get ideas on how to be more successful in life, but honestly its just one man rambling about how successful he is and name dropping, sentences used by others with no real direction to it, self absorbed......

it really did not have what was promised !!! it really was awful, page after page of disappointment
If you need a book with success advice, Google will have better answers than this.

25 people found this helpful

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Bookworm Mom

Better Than Expected!

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2016

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I had a hard time seeing how this concept applied to me at first, as I am not a business person and am not seeking large profit. But as I continued to read, the author applied the principle to other things like quitting smoking, eating healthy, and basically accomplishing any goal you have set for yourself. Some of it was tough to read, as in taking responsibility and accountability for not putting my all into my efforts to succeed, but a kick in the butt that I needed to push myself to the next level. The author is entertaining too, so not a boring read.

84 people found this helpful

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Alessandra

If you read a lot of self-help, skip this book.

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2020

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This book is more like a motivation speech than a book of substance. The idea of the "compound effect" is a simple and good one: improvement compounds on itself exponentially. There you go - I saved you the need to buy the book; the rest of this is a repetitive set of anecdotes, random examples from life (everything from actual compound interest, to hypothetical situations where people take small actions daily and lose weight over time), and a charged-up rah rah tone.
All well and good, and if you've never read a self-help book before, sure - give it a shot. But if you're well-read in self-help literature and looking for substance, for science-backed research regarding behavior change, rather than one good idea surrounded by 100+ pages of motivational speech, look elsewhere.
Further, "Motivation" of this sort is ineffective, and there is science to back this up. A much better place to put your money is Atomic Habits, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (basic, but great fundamentals), Willpower (so you understand it's limitations), and books like Deep Work and Digital Minimalism to ensure you have space in your life for these new changes. This sort of thing? Great to make you feel good for 2 days, but not a viable means of sustainable change in and of itself.
I mean no disrespect to Darren Hardy, I'm sure he's a fine person and wish him success - but I can see a lot of people running furiously on a treadmill only to give up a week later with the advice listed in this book.

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Chris

This is not a self-help book, this is a product advertisement

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 29, 2018

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I very rarely write reviews, good or bad, but felt compelled to do so here.
On the plus side, there is some good advice in this book, albeit relatively obvious stuff that most people will have heard before - eat a little less every day and you'll likely lose weight; walk a bit more every day and you'll likely get fitter; save a little bit of money every day and you'll likely build up some savings, etc.. Combine all these things together and you'll have an awesome life.
However, it becomes apparent through the book that there is "something more" on offer, and the hints get more and more blatant as the book goes on, referencing other books / websites / programmes. The closing paragraph is a very blatant suggestion that you should go buy 5 more copies of the book and give them to your friends, because, you know, sharing is winning. If you visit the suggested website for the "free templates", there is a very enticing offer to join a "live webinar", exclusive to you, because you're special. And by an amazing coincidence, this invitation-only exclusive webinar happens to start within about 30 minutes of you reading about it, better click that register button quick... And OMG, I never felt so sullied watching the "live" webinar - it was obvious what was going on but I was fascinated to watch to the end to see how bad it got. It was the worst (or best?!) of clichéd double-glazing sales tactics, the kind where once you've let them into your house, they'll never leave and never stop talking and the amazing exclusive deal is only available if you sign RIGHT NOW. And what's more, because you're so amazing and you're a winner, right, and he really likes you, he's going to offer you this extra package, worth THOUSANDS, for free. And another one. And another one. Aaaaaand another one, holy cow he goes on and on and on. And then we get "you're a winner just for being here, but real winners take ACTION, not like all the losers who don't take action. Are YOU a winner or a loser? I just know you're a winner, so show me by taking action. Take action now and give me $2000 for the full programme with all this amazing free stuff worth $10000 !!!!" I was enthralled at the shamelessness. And was happy to walk away a loser (in his eyes).

215 people found this helpful

Andrew M.

It's not worth the investment

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 14, 2019

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It's not often I'll leave a review, but this book left me quite frustrated. It's my fault, I should have read what the book was about, but after only reading the books title I instantly bought it.

The book is 150 odd pages of the same information, just regurgitated in different ways. It's also very promotional to the other content this author has done, be it books, magazines or businesses.

It's very obvious that saving 10% of your salary each month with interest on top is going to accumulate over time. The same goes for wanting to lose weight, if you reduce your intake by whatever each day then of course you'll lose weight.

This whole book is based on common sense, rather than the motivational 'JUMPSTART' the cover claims it to be.

In all honesty, it's not worth buying - if you just sit for an hour and have a really good think about your goals and break them down step by step, it'll have the same effect on your life and you'll have saved yourself £10.

53 people found this helpful

Summer's Eve Reads

A great message from an insufferable author

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 15, 2019

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Man, this one is difficult to review! I'm completely torn about it but I opted for a 4* instead of 3* rating, simply because I found the actual content about the Compound Effect really strong and it was exactly what I needed to read at this point in my life.

Having said that, Hardy is insufferable and arrogant, and his writing and references to 'Karen' saying this and 'Tom' doing that really grated on me. There was undoubtedly a level of bulls--t with many of his anecdotes, and the constant harping on about SUCCESS Magazine was a bit repetitive and unnecessary.

A mixed bag here for sure, but the message about the Compound Effect is clear and simple and something that I will carry with me for life, as well as recommend to my friends and family...with the caveat of taking Hardy himself with a pinch of salt.

This isn't a 'get rich/fit/thin quick' plan. It teaches the value of hard work and consistency with some action plans included, and that is, I think, something more people need to understand.

11 people found this helpful

Amber

Life changer

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 16, 2018

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Excellent book - love it. I read tonnes - but to be honest there are few books that really hit home. With this one - I have implemented the compound effect not only with saving, but debt clearance, achieving goals etc. Whilst I'm not there yet - my whole perspective on life has changed - because I've made it a rule to keep asking myself how I can enhance my life, in the present moment with the compound effect. So - it's been a positive learning experience for me - really glad I bought and read this.

10 people found this helpful

Moo

A good and sincere reminder of a simple truth

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 11, 2018

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If you’ve read a few of the classic self-help books, there’s nothing new here. And, it has only one message and that is: do good things in small measure repeatedly over a long period and you can pretty much ensure you’ll receive an ever increasing return for your efforts. Despite its lack of novelty and singular message, I’d recommend reading it nonetheless as this really is the only way to get consistent long-term results in all that you do. I found it quite inspiring if only to reinforce and remind me of something I already knew.

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