The comprehensive guide to starting and growing your dream business.
In this groundbreaking book, bestselling author Jim Stovall shares the practical wisdom gained from his forty-year career as an award-winning entrepreneur alongside the time-tested strategies compiled by Dr. Kevin Schneider through his experience as the Director of the Stovall Center for Entrepreneurship at Oral Roberts University. Few books have offered both pragmatic, real-world examples and proven academic principles, as readers will find in The Art of Entrepreneurship. Transform your natural aptitudes, interests, and resources into a lucrative business as you discover:
- The key characteristics of an entrepreneur—and whether you possess them.
- Myths and misconceptions about entrepreneurship—it’s not a get-rich-quick scheme, nor is it simply for people who want to work less and not have a boss.
- How to get started as an entrepreneur—keeping your current job as you turn your side hustle or creative idea into an empire.
- Why some entrepreneurs succeed when others struggle—it’s not about trading time for money; it’s about creating a money machine.
- The values of entrepreneurship—first and foremost, service rendered to other people.
- The path of entrepreneurship from start to finish—learning when to pull the trigger and when to pull the plug.
- How to build the dream entrepreneur team that will support you in your journey.
Entrepreneurship is both a science and an art. This book teaches both dimensions—the hard skills and the soft skills, the action steps and the mindset—so that you can seize the opportunities for entrepreneurship in your midst and turn your business idea into a successful start-up that adds value to you, your family, your community, and the larger world.
Over 12 hours of nuggets of wisdom for the busy professional and entrepreneur. For more than a decade, Jim Stovall’s “Winner’s Wisdom” syndicated columns have been read and studied by highly successful people around the globe. Now, this same wit, wisdom, and millionaire experience is available for you in this three-volume series of audiobooks. Listen to one chapter per day on the daily commute, while on vacation or in your favorite chair. Sound advice from someone who has been there. This is the first time this series has been offered in a bundled set.
The first volume in a series that includes three titles: The Art of Communication, The Art of Presentation and The Art of Productivity, by Jim Stovall and Ray H Hull PhD.
The Art of Productivity
- Considering your audience and adjusting communication style
- What your non-verbal communication says about you
- Dressing for maximum success
- Public speaking
- Written words vs. spoken words
- Communication through conduct
- Active listening
- Conflict resolution
- Creating a comfortable environment for effective communication in meetings
The Art of Presentation
- Public speaking as a performance art
- World-changing speakers of the past
- Contemporary, influential public speakers
- Preparing a presentation
- The art of using a microphone
- Speaking tips and techniques
- Elements of a speech
- The art of stage presence
- Business speaking
- Concluding the speech to make an impact
The Art of Productivity
- Defining success
- Establishing a mission
- The art of passion
- The art of discovery
- Motivation
- Customizing goals
- The art of implementation
When you realize that your success journey is really a journey of giving, you will unlock the potential for profound riches. The world’s top entrepreneurs and leaders derive their success and fulfillment from the alignment of their professional endeavors with their search for meaning and impact. Rather than waiting until they feel they have something to offer, they consistently share their resources to better the lives of others. Now is the time for you to discover your unique gifts and create a giving plan so that you can begin to live your legacy.
The Gift of Giving traces the ultimate giving journeys of Jim Stovall and Don Green, who have implemented Napoleon Hill’s timeless achievement principles to live a legacy of generosity. When Jim Stovall committed to finding a driving passion and giving away $1 million to it, he was a broke college student whose dreams of playing in the NFL had been sidelined by a rare condition causing progressive blindness. With the guidance of the successful businessman Lee Braxton and a worn copy of Think and Grow Rich, Jim brought himself from poverty to prosperity and became an award-winning entrepreneur and philanthropist. His journey connected him with Don Green, the executive director of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, who lives out his calling and continues Hill’s work through the Foundation’s many philanthropic efforts. Together, their stories reveal that you can render service and charity at every stage of your giving journey; you simply have to identify opportunities for generosity and take action on them.
You have everything you need to create your legacy. The time has come to live it now, while you can enjoy the gift of giving.
For more than a decade, Jim Stovall’s “Winner’s Wisdom” syndicated columns have been read and studied by highly successful people around the globe. Now, that same wit, wisdom, and millionaire experience is available for you in this audiobook.
Wisdom for Winners contains a unique combination of guidance for the career professional and the entrepreneur, combined with spiritual wisdom that prompts self-reflection. Organized into small sections, the material can be heard incrementally for greater impact.
Authors Jim Stovall and Ray H. Hull, PhD, are lifelong learners and teachers of successful best practices across a wide spectrum of topics including education, communication, and influence.
The Art of Influence, written in Jim's entertaining, story-telling style alongside Dr. Hull's straight-forward, factual approach is a must-listen for businesspeople, salespeople, entrepreneurs, and anyone wanting to improve their place of influence in life.
Listen to this audiobook and understand more about:
What makes someone influential
How to build your life and legacy into one of influence
Why it is important to learn how to gain influence
How the changing world affects how you influence others
Universal in appeal and highly accessible, this book acts as a spotlight on the truth that there has never been a better time to learn the art of influence!
Optimism is your secret weapon in business and in life. It is custom designed specifically for you, and it is capable of bringing you everything you want. Optimism can overcome financial problems, physical disabilities, and personal challenges.
In Jim Stovall's latest audiobook The Art of Optimism, he uses stories, studies, and personal experience to illustrate how adopting an attitude of optimism can change your life.
Listen and learn:
How to fuel optimism
How to find opportunity through optimism
How to overcome negative circumstances
How to maintain optimism in business and in life
How optimism is your most important asset
And much more!
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
Optimism is your secret weapon in business and in life. It is custom designed specifically for you, and it is capable of bringing you everything you want. Optimism can overcome financial problems, physical disabilities, and personal challenges.
In Jim Stovall's latest audiobook The Art of Optimism, he uses stories, studies, and personal experience to illustrate how adopting an attitude of optimism can change your life.
Listen and learn:
How to fuel optimism
How to find opportunity through optimism
How to overcome negative circumstances
How to maintain optimism in business and in life
How optimism is your most important asset
And much more!
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.' - Winston Churchill
"In this book, you will have the opportunity to define your own success, create a life mission to achieve success, forge productivity on your own terms, and then begin to succeed by effectively utilizing motivation, communication, and implementations.Jim Stovall is a prolific author (over 30 published books), columnist, and speaker in the field of personal development. Beginning with a call for an honest assessment of ourselves and where we are in life, Stovall deconstructs the life of a productive and successful individual so that we can learn the steps that lead us from mediocrity to the rewards of life that most only wish for.
Written in an entertaining, story-telling style, this is a must-listen for businesspeople, salespeople, entrepreneurs, and anyone wanting to improve their place in life.
Listen to this book and understand more about:
Defining success
Establishing a mission
The art of passion
The art of discovery
Motivation
Customizing goals
The art of implementation
And much more!"
For more than a decade, Jim Stovall's "Winner's Wisdom" syndicated columns have been read and studied by highly successful people around the globe. Now, that same wit, wisdom, and millionaire experience is available for you in this audiobook.Wisdom for Winners contains a unique combination of guidance for the career professional and the entrepreneur, combined with spiritual wisdom that prompts self-reflection. Organized into small sections, the material can be heard incrementally for greater impact.
"This is the book I wished was available 30 years ago when I was desperate and broke with only a dream of one day being a millionaire. Now, as a multimillionaire, I want to share the wisdom I've gained from the journey and provide other travelers with a map to guide them on their journey." (Jim Stovall)
The Millionaire Map reveals¦
You can't expand your wallet until you expand your mind. Becoming a millionaire is not just about all the things you want to have, but it's about the things you want to do and give. In order to climb to the financial peak, you've got to crawl out of the valley of debt. You will either voluntarily control your money now, or it will force its control on you later. The vast majority of people never arrive at their destination " not because they don't have what it takes but because they don't manage what they have.
Jim Stovall has enjoyed success as an author, athlete, investment broker, and entrepreneur while dealing with the challenge of blindness. During his remarkable life, Jim has been a national champion Olympic weightlifter, as well as the author of 20 books. In addition to his personal achievements, Jim was honored as the 2000 International Humanitarian of the Year, joining Jimmy Carter, Nancy Reagan, and Mother Teresa as a recipient of this prestigious award. As cofounder and president of the Emmy Award-winning Narrative Television Network (NTN), Jim has also helped make movies and television accessible for America's 13 million blind and visually impaired people and their families."
"In The Art of Presentation, the second book of the new Jim Stovall and Dr. Ray Hull Your Ultimate Guide series for personal development and business success, the authors use their decades of combined experience, research, and natural abilities to powerfully illustrate the specifics of effective public speaking. Listen to this book to learn more about:
Public speaking as a performance art
World-changing speakers of the past
Contemporary, influential public speakers
Preparing a presentation
The art of using a microphone
Speaking tips and techniques
Elements of a speech
The art of stage presence
Business speaking
Concluding the speech to make an impact
Stovall's revealing stories mixed with Dr. Ray Hull s straightforward, factual approach combine to make this a must-hear for businesspeople, salespeople, entrepreneurs, teachers, pastors, academics, and anyone wanting to improve their public speaking abilities."
