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The 4-hour Work Week

Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

By Timothy Ferriss

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| Paperback | 9780091923723

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Hey!! This guy has actually something new to say! How refreshing.

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Luca said on Jan 30, 2010 | Add your feedback

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I was initially skeptical of this book, as I am of all "get-rich-quick" type books. In the end though I've come away with a lot of valuable information. The weblinks provided in this book alone are enough reason to read it. This is not only a guide on how to achieve freedom in your life, but it also ... (continue)

I was initially skeptical of this book, as I am of all "get-rich-quick" type books. In the end though I've come away with a lot of valuable information. The weblinks provided in this book alone are enough reason to read it. This is not only a guide on how to achieve freedom in your life, but it also contains lessons and tips & tricks in many areas of life; entrepeneurship, work, travel, and personal development, which Timothy Ferriss developed through many years of experience. The book is quite motivational and fun to read and empowers you to take charge of your life.

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audioreader said on Dec 17, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

I seems a fake, it's about richness immediatly, everything and now. So I'm very diffident at this reading.

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Valerio Crini said on Feb 9, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

Cannot help sharing this book

Still in the processing of reading and digesting this new mind-punching stuff...Feel like not able to read it faster, while need to think and doubt a lot

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Jack said on Apr 19, 2010 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

although I haven't achieved four hour work week, tips provided really improve my productivity and efficiency.

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36613 said on Apr 15, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | 1 feedback

The purpose of The 4 Hour Work Week is to inspire you and direct you to set up automated processes to produce cash flow from an internet venture. When you exercise the options he presents, those income generating streams give you real power. He says, “This book is about how to see and create those o ... (continue)

The purpose of The 4 Hour Work Week is to inspire you and direct you to set up automated processes to produce cash flow from an internet venture. When you exercise the options he presents, those income generating streams give you real power. He says, “This book is about how to see and create those options with the least effort and cost.”
Effectiveness and efficiency are different. You can be efficient at shuffling papers, but you can be very effective in whatever you do if you set deadlines and work in short time periods. One of the tricks is to cut down the information overload. After all, how much time do you waste when you surf the computer, watch TV, listen to radio, and read magazines?
Ferriss is having too much fun living for that boring junk. He’s actually alive.
Otherwise, aside from his anti 9-5 philosophy . . . (which I deeply agree with) . . . this book is a pleasant read of anecdotes and quotes. Also, more than that it’s a protocol for success by beating the game, not playing it.
You beat the game by
• finding a product.
• test marketing the product.
• finding a saleable-scaleable* product.
• Putting it all on auto-pilot.
*(scaleable means you make $ on one or ten thousand)
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He calls this refined automatic system of cash generation: ‘The muse.’ Probably the most important aspect of ‘The muse,’ as Ferris puts it in the book: “. . . is . . . that you decide how you will sell and distribute your products before you commit to a product in the first place.
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I really liked this book. For the neophyte entrepreneur it may seem difficult. However, for the websites and the information provided it’s a “must have” reference book. It contains a step by step -- easy to follow -- plan to get out of the nine to five job rut and move into whatever world you want. You can make a lot, a lot more money by doing ½ the work you’re doing now.
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He shows you how. Worth the money. Buy the book.
Steve@wisdomgame.org
http://wisdomgame.org

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wisdomgame said on Jan 11, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback