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Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan–there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, The 4-Hour Workweek is the blueprint.
This step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches:
•How Tim went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per month and 4 hours per week
•How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want
•How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs
•How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist
•How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent “mini-retirements”
The new expanded edition of Tim Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Workweek includes:
•More than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers (including families) who have doubled income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book as a starting point
•Real-world templates you can copy for eliminating e-mail, negotiating with bosses and clients, or getting a private chef for less than $8 a meal
•How Lifestyle Design principles can be suited to unpredictable economic times
•The latest tools and tricks, as well as high-tech shortcuts, for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9780307465351
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Timothy Ferriss | | Hardcover:
| 416 pages | | Publisher:
| Crown | | Publication Date:
| December 15, 2009 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0307465357 | | Package Length:
| 8.35 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.91 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.42 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.1 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 1807 reviews |
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 For all of the haters out thereMar 11, 2010
For starters I only rated this book with 1 star so that the chance it would be read would be greatly increased. My real rating is 5 stars. Nearly every negative review has failed to realize that starting a business that runs itself it merely the vehicle to be successful but not the point of the book. It is a complete re-organization of what you have be taught life has to be like. It is true that not everybody can do this, good, less competition for me, but the only true reason is because they are not laying the foundation that is necessary for your business model to work. That foundation is getting over your fears, being persistent and truly believing that no task is impossible. For all my morals this morals that people, just as spies have to do bad things to make good things happen you can do great things for this world if you have time and money to make it happen. As many have said before me you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. For those of you who still want to give it a try a good start is reading all of the negative reviews. This is a great source of information from all of the losers who this will not work for and teaches you what not to be. I'm not rich, but I no longer slave away and have equaled my previous income. I do agree that this is not for the weak.
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 A good gimmickMar 10, 2010
If nobody noticed while reading this book, the guy started his dot-com business in the dot-com era. Fortunate for him, unfortunate for the rest of you. It's still possible to be a successful entrepreneur, but the advice given here is really motivational, nothing else. The first half of the book is full of stories of his successful life style, which has nothing at all to do with entrepreneurship. The advice he states about applying his Pareto methods to customers is worthless, really. He states that 95% of his revenue came from 5 people, and he simply ignored the rest of his customers. All of a sudden he states his income doubles, which are from new customers. Did this advice work? Of course not. These methods have absolutely no way of affecting new customers. We are also led to believe that these same '5' people are 'still' the biggest customers and that they didn't 'leave'. There are so many unanswered questions to this business, it's just pathetic to witness people believing it's as easy as the author makes it out to be. After you've given up your job and are waiting for your first few successful sales, you might want to have your children live with a relative who can feed and cloth them till it happens while your on your 4 hour work week. Oh, that's right, you'll really be working a full week like everyone else, including the author.
Also I don't know if anyone else noticed but the guy works more than 4 hours a week, and you can find traces of this throughout the book. Let's ignore this fact and just say if everyone were to take his approach and work 4 hours a week, all the major economies in the world would collapse. Give this book to any developer or administrator even, and you'll be sure to get a laugh. Without the people working their asses off to create and maintain these services we use, this guy would be cleaning floors with a tooth brush.
So for anyone interested in this book, just realize the title is misleading. The author is inexperienced with start ups, as striking it lucky young and early. If he were to have more experience under his belt with several successful start-ups, you would have a very different book (with a title that wasn't misleading hopefully). Go to your local bookstore and check it out first. It isn't a big book and you can easily skip the first half of the book because it's filler. I'm sure the majority of reviewers who rated this book so high are just living it up with their 4-hour work weeks.
 Inspiring!Mar 09, 2010
This book is amazing! It has changed my life. My wife and I always knew we wanted more time and freedom than we used to and this book opened our eyes to the possibilities. We aren't all the way there yet, but we are on our way. Thanks Tim!
Handbook to entrepreneurshipMar 09, 2010
The book does read like a mishmash of Tim's addiction to travelling, his frustration with success and money early on and him stumbling upon a successful nutrition company. However this book also sounds like a real unedited account of his life which is why I like this book. This is not too planned to be a certain type of book to appeal to certain type of audience. It turn by turn account of his adventurous life. It is also fair criticism that all Tim did was to establish only one company and he might have gotten lucky. But it is also true that he sold himself as a expert on nutritions and appeared on many TV shows and create d aTim Ferriss brand. And all the other tid-bids if information are priceless...right from outsoucring companies info, internet pay-per-click ad campaign etc. I have listened to his many videos on youtube and on his personal blog and his most recent talk at the TED, and this man is really brilliant and this book just gives a glimpse of his mind.
Genius in looking at things in new ways and helping you see.Mar 09, 2010
Tim's specialty is being able to look at a situation, reverse engineer it and see what, how, and why it is the way it is. Once he knows that he focuses on those factors to do what no one else seems to do. The Genius of this book is he helps you to do the same. The reading, his assignments and his questions help you to look at your own life and you then see what was once thought impossible... actually possible. I loved it, and if it weren't for this book I'd still be at my old job and not my own business. I'm not at a 4 hour work week yet... but I'm getting close!
-Hethe
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