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Mike Michalowicz

Дата рождения: September 19, 1970

Mike Michalowicz is an American author, entrepreneur, and lecturer specializing in small business and entrepreneurship. He is best known for bestselling books including Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan, Clockwork, and Get Different, which have helped hundreds of thousands of business owners globally. Michalowicz is recognized for creating practical systems and advocating for the eradication of entrepreneurial poverty through his work.

Биография и Путь Автора

Mike Michalowicz, born in 1970 in New Jersey, has emerged as one of the most influential voices in small business entrepreneurship. Raised in Boonton Township, he attended Boonton High School and went on to graduate from Virginia Tech in 1993 with degrees in finance and management science. Early in his career, Michalowicz founded Olmec Systems in 1996, which he sold in a private equity transaction seven years later. He further established his entrepreneurial credentials by co-founding a computer forensic firm instrumental in the Enron scandal investigation, which was acquired by Robert Half International in 2006. Though these early ventures brought him significant financial success, his journey was far from straightforward—by his mid-30s, after a stint as an angel investor, he lost his entire fortune and faced a period of deep personal and professional struggle, including depression and insomnia.

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Excuses are like assholes. Everyone has one, and they all stink
-The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur
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All revenue is not the same. If you remove your worst, unprofitable clients and the now-unnecessary costs associated with them, you will see a jump in profitability and a reduction in stress, often within a few weeks. Equally important, you will have more time to pursue and clone your best clients
-Profit First
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Profit is not an event. It's a habit
-Profit First
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Ideas don’t make money, effort does
-The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur
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Your success is entirely contingent upon your foundation of enabling beliefs, your relentless focus, and your actions consistent with those beliefs and focus
-The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur
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Luck isn’t about fate, or worth, or karma, or tiny green Irish men. Luck is about foresight paired with strategic action. Luck is about planning. Luck is about deliberately putting yourself in the right spot at the right time
-Surge
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Success in business isn’t about being right; it’s about being committed
-Profit First
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Go through everything, line by line, and ask yourself, 'Does this serve my best clients best?' If it doesn’t, let it go
-The Pumpkin Plan
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You can go far on hard work and big dreams, often a hell of a lot farther - and faster - than people with more education and experience
-The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur
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More is not better. Better is better!
-Profit First

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"Mike Michalowicz is the bestselling author of Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan, Clockwork, and Fix This Next"

Penguin Random House

"Fabled author Simon Sinek deemed Mike Michalowicz 'one of the top contenders for the patron saint of entrepreneurs."

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"Mike Michalowicz founded and sold two multimillion-dollar businesses by his thirty-fifth birthday"

Penguin Random House

"Mike Michalowicz is the author of eight business books published by Penguin Random House, including All In and Profit First"

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"Full of stories of other successful entrepreneurs, The Pumpkin Plan by Mike Michalowicz guides you through unconventional strategies"

Audible

"Mike Michalowicz has become one of the world’s most popular speakers on small-business topics"

Penguin Random House

"Mike Michalowicz was a guest small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal"

Wikipedia

"Mike Michalowicz built and sold a computer forensic firm that was a lead examiner in the Enron scandal"

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