The One Minute Millionaire by Mark Hansen and Robert Allen is two books in one. The book has a story of a widowed women that has lost custody of her kids on the right side pages of the book and a business planning and a how to start a business book on all of the left side pages.
The story of the widowed woman starts with the car accident death of her husband and how she loses custody of her kids but makes an agreement that if she makes a million dollars in one year than she can get them back. The business book side of the book starts with the idea that you can become a millionaire as soon as you shoose and flowcharts every step including weather you are interested in a slow way or long way to make the money. Real Estate, standard investment, internet and starting a new business are the medthods covered.
I found this to be a great book as whenever I lose my way to what my goals are I can look back on the reasons and Millionaire Ahas and refocus my efforts.
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
This mega-selling twosome (Hansen’s name is on every book in the Chicken Soup series and Allen wrote the bestselling real estate guide No Money Down) offers a long-winded pep talk on how just about anybody can make big money. According to the authors, “At this very instant you are standing in the middle of millions.” They maintain that anyone can achieve “enlightened” wealth, a utopia where everyone has money and tithes, creating a better world for all. Hansen and Allen’s approach is a mix of self-help and money talk, though a bit heavier on the former. The left-hand pages are a simplified explanation of how to amass millions, with options such as write a book, buy and sell real estate and start a company. The right-hand pages illustrate the same themes, via fictionalized dramas, e.g., newly widowed Michelle’s struggle to come up with $1 million in cash to get her two children back from her in-laws. Hansen and Allen’s feel-good suggestions run along the lines of “find a mentor,” “use a fulcrum” and “be part of a team.” Full of endless acronyms (e.g., “System: Save Your Self Time Energy Money”), catchy phrases (e.g., “A Dream + A Team + A Theme = Millionaire Streams”) and animal imagery (butterflies, honeybees, owls and hares scamper among the pages), this offering echoes much of the self-help cacophony already out there. But its message is muddled: sometimes the millions are yours for the asking, and sometimes it’s the system that keeps you down.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From AudioFile
This compact edition of the authors’ 1981 bestseller is an excellent example of how great ides can be made accessible in audio format. Going beyond the premise of managing in one-minute chunks, the broader lessons are the values that get expressed in those minutes, such as respecting people, providing emotional security for them, setting reasonable but challenging goals, and expecting them to develop excellent work habits. There’s also the value of being concise in all communication, a practice that confining one’s input to one-minute chunks certainly facilitates. The lessons are both simple and profound, and are crafted and expressed with as much elegance as any management advice I’ve heard in the years since they first appeared. T.W. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine– Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine–This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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