Self-Made
Alexander Vale · Business & Personal Finance · Personal finance
About this book
Twelve people started with nothing. A washerwoman. A bobbin boy. A broke single mother. An immigrant standing in a food-stamp queue. They did not stay there. Self-Made tells the true, documented stories of twelve people who went from nothing to millions — Madam C.J. Walker, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, Harland Sanders, Oprah Winfrey, J.K. Rowling, Howard Schultz, Ralph Lauren, Sara Blakely, Jan Koum, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Ingvar Kamprad — and then does what most story collections never do: it extracts the system. Inside: • 12 true stories, each ending with one named Lesson and one concrete action you can take this week • The Seven Laws hidden in the stories — ownership over salary, selling before scaling, distribution over product, and the boring mathematics of compounding, shown with honest, checkable numbers • A 90-Day Plan that turns the stories into your first system: see the money, sell something small, systemise No invented quotes. No folklore dressed up as fact. No promises — just the documented pattern, and a plan. Your story is chapter thirteen. Start it tonight.