The One Minute Entrepreneur: The Secret to Creating and Sustaining a Successful Business Book Review

One Minute Entrepreneur tells a story of a young man named Jud who wants to change his way of life, from his mistakes to being a successful in the field of business and sales. He was once a young man who was caught acting in the stage of his teenage years, changed his view in life when he met some people who give him best advices and a notebook—putting one minute insights whenever he hears one.

I am very amazed by the fact that guys like him actually put insights in a single pad of note. He jots down every word that he thinks is useful. I somehow wants to be like him. So that on every seminars, pep talks and trainings I attend, I could be motivated everytime I write what they say.

One day, he goes to a seminar with a very intellectual speaker named Mr. Gardner. He also meet some speakers that worth jotting a note every now and then like Mr. Tremendous. He was called Tremendous because in his seminars, he always mention the word Tremendous, and people automatically nicknamed him.

He approaches Mr. Gardner because he badly wants to be trained. He wants to become successful in sales as well as in business. Mr. Gardner agreed, because he knew Jud would be very willing to be trained.

Jud is very excellent in terms of motivating people, so he become a speaker somehow on seminars. He likes to speak to people, motivate them and give confidence to them. He is sometimes confused but Mr. Gardner always talk to him on what he worries. Of course, he always put down on his notebook.

Jud met a woman named Teri who has the same personality, character, goals in life, almost all of the characters they have in common. He said Teri is gorgeous and a complete package. That makes me think that he should not let her go.

There are many speech marks that nailed my mind. These are so-called one minute insights. Some of them are:

What’s right is important than who is right. I think about it a lot of times and it does makes sense. We should know the righteousness of a single thing. Whoever who said that “right” thing, what about him/her? It doesn’t matter. As long as we know what is right, it doesn’t matter who is right.

Associate with people you admire and can learn from. We can always learn incredible things into the people we admire the most.

You never need to cheat to win. Yes. I think this is a universal quotes from exams to sports to everywhere. We can’t erase the fact that everyone was once cheated in their entire life. So, in order to arrange a life into a very good life. Start in no-cheating.

You can get everything you want in life if you help enough other people to get what they want. This is the other version of a famous quote from Confucius, “Do unto others what you want others do unto you.” We cannot live alone. So learn from helping others. We never know what others can do to us.

No matter how good you are, you’ll experience a lot of failure. Even Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Albert Einstein failed. But have they lose their mind and said quit? Sometimes, we can even experience more failures than success. But don’t let failures eat you.

There are also one minute insights that points on the world of business:

To create a successful business, you must first master the basics. To do a simple Algebraic expression, we should know the basic math calculations. Just like in business, in order for us to be a successful businessman, we should master the basics. All things started on a single event, organism or process before it complete into a masterpiece of life.

It’s not just about sales. It’s about positive motivation including self-motivation. Sales is one of the most difficult thing to do if you have no motivation yourself. To motivate others, motivate yourself. To pursue others, try to pursue yourself first.

On the entrepreneurial path, few people come into your life without a reason. I really somehow don’t get it. I read a quote that says people come and go for a reason. But on the entrepreneurial path, there is no reason at all. I think because on that path, a person meets many people, but few of them doesn’t care at all.