Toughing It Out

If you ever had a dream to own and run your own business you will love this book. John Holliday started and built nine businesses, in a career which spanned three continents, with varying degrees of success. This book describes each of these entrepreneurial adventures and the lessons he learned from them. As informative and educational as the biography of any rich and famous entrepreneur, this book recalls the experiences and lessons which are far more pertinent to the millions of average business people starting up. Although John’s path did not lead to high wealth or power, the rewards of creating his various business ventures are plain to see. In sharing a life filled with the business decisions unique to self-employment, you will see that the experience of the entrepreneur brims with, not only the impostors of near-ruin and the triumphs of success, but a parade of fascinating characters that give a business life its colour and its pleasures. This network of business personalities, former partners and employees, many of whom remain friends till today, is what spurred John to keep trying new ventures and take on innovative challenges. This book will appeal to budding entrepreneurs who are contemplating the voyage into the unknown of starting a business and seeing it become a success. Every one of John’s business ventures yielded lessons that, for anyone trying to establish or build up a small-to-medium-sized business, offer some valuable insights into the life of an entrepreneur and propose experience-tested guide posts to success.

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Toughing It Out

If you ever had a dream to own and run your own business you will love this book. John Holliday started and built nine businesses, in a career which spanned three continents, with varying degrees of success. This book describes each of these entrepreneurial adventures and the lessons he learned from them. As informative and educational as the biography of any rich and famous entrepreneur, this book recalls the experiences and lessons which are far more pertinent to the millions of average business people starting up. Although John’s path did not lead to high wealth or power, the rewards of creating his various business ventures are plain to see. In sharing a life filled with the business decisions unique to self-employment, you will see that the experience of the entrepreneur brims with, not only the impostors of near-ruin and the triumphs of success, but a parade of fascinating characters that give a business life its colour and its pleasures. This network of business personalities, former partners and employees, many of whom remain friends till today, is what spurred John to keep trying new ventures and take on innovative challenges. This book will appeal to budding entrepreneurs who are contemplating the voyage into the unknown of starting a business and seeing it become a success. Every one of John’s business ventures yielded lessons that, for anyone trying to establish or build up a small-to-medium-sized business, offer some valuable insights into the life of an entrepreneur and propose experience-tested guide posts to success.

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Toughing It Out

Toughing It Out

by John Holliday
Toughing It Out

Toughing It Out

by John Holliday

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If you ever had a dream to own and run your own business you will love this book. John Holliday started and built nine businesses, in a career which spanned three continents, with varying degrees of success. This book describes each of these entrepreneurial adventures and the lessons he learned from them. As informative and educational as the biography of any rich and famous entrepreneur, this book recalls the experiences and lessons which are far more pertinent to the millions of average business people starting up. Although John’s path did not lead to high wealth or power, the rewards of creating his various business ventures are plain to see. In sharing a life filled with the business decisions unique to self-employment, you will see that the experience of the entrepreneur brims with, not only the impostors of near-ruin and the triumphs of success, but a parade of fascinating characters that give a business life its colour and its pleasures. This network of business personalities, former partners and employees, many of whom remain friends till today, is what spurred John to keep trying new ventures and take on innovative challenges. This book will appeal to budding entrepreneurs who are contemplating the voyage into the unknown of starting a business and seeing it become a success. Every one of John’s business ventures yielded lessons that, for anyone trying to establish or build up a small-to-medium-sized business, offer some valuable insights into the life of an entrepreneur and propose experience-tested guide posts to success.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940164257187
Publisher: John Holliday
Publication date: 09/10/2020
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 538 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

John Holliday served in the Royal Air Force before going into the IT industry in the UK, in Canada and then Australia. A visit to a still-functioning orphanage in Jakarta, founded more than 180 years before by his ancestor, Walter Medhurst, kindled his interest in recording Walter's life. So became 'Mission to China: How an Englishman Brought the West to the Orient', published first in England followed by a Chinese version published in Taiwan.

During the research into Walter Medhurst's life, John uncovered the extraordinary life of Clara Colby, whose grandmother was Walter Medhurst's sister. Clara Colby, he determined, must be the subject of my next book. 'Clara Colby: The International Suffragist' has been published in time for the 100th anniversary of American women winning the vote, to which Clara's efforts contributed significantly.

John lives with his wife, Colleen, on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.

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