You'll find no get-rich-quick schemes, just solid, honest, hard work.

Notice in the box (above right) on every line there are dollar signs: $$$$. The link goes to eight different discussions about the kind of money that successful business owners have used along the way.

Again, there are no short cuts. However, within Steps 1-to-4 you will soon find links to many billion-dollar ideas. The goal is to build out 100 such ideas (Warning: these are those impossible dreams about which songs are sung).

By lifting up successful people with warm hearts and big spirits, and studying their motivations, insights and inspirations, SmallBusinessSchool serves eight large constituencies.

Steps 1 to 4 – you create work for yourself.

Steps 5 to 8 – you create work for others.

At each step we examine the ways people also create wealth (an abundance of value). Every story is a very personal story of one person's journey to become successful in his/her work. Each person has worked through (and is constantly reworking) the problems associated with the first four steps of growth. A few have worked through all eight steps. Their insights, advice, and example are powerful lessons for all of us to learn about the meaning of life and work. These people are not Hollywood models, but role models. These are people who give our culture ethical fabric and depth.

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