Your First Hundred Million - As Read by the 50 Billion Dollar Man

CHAPTER 12: Your Grand Exit - Dying or Selling - Pay Yourself First! - How Much is Your Company Worth? - Puffing Up the Hog to Take to the Fair - Timing - The Search for the Perfect Wave - A Clean House Brings A Higher Price - Shoring Up Your Organization Structure - A Credible Board of Directors - Corporate Literature - Clean Financials - Stable Long-term Contracts - Cleaning Up Your Paperwork - Information and Financial Control Systems - The Transition Management Team - Lawsuits in Progress - Structuring Your Deal - The S Corporation "Some long for the glories of this world; and some sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come. Ah, take the cash and let the promise go..."

CHAPTER 11: Acquisitions – The Secret of Quantum Growth (Part 1) - Geometric Exponential Growth - The Perils of the Leap - How to Find Your First Acquisition - Conducting Your Search - Selling the Seller on You (Segment 1) "For the high performer, arithmetic growth in unacceptable. Geometric exponential growth is demanded."

CHAPTER 10: More Capital Ideas for Financing Your Deal (Part 1) - When to Begin Meeting with Bankers - The Value of Your Board of Directors - Using Your Banking Business as Leverage - Types of Finance and Capital - The Care and Feeding of your Banking Relationship - Receivable Financing - Debt Financing VS Equity Financing "The business community offers a universe of funding sources - but not one will ever come to you."

CHAPTER 9: Offering Lenders the Chance to Finance Your Dream (Part 1) - Capital Finances Quantum Leaps – Not Pussyfooting! - Locating Your Financial Partner - How to Deal with Financial Institutions - The Omnipotent Business Plan - What Your Banker Wants to Hear – Most of All, Loud and Clear - What You NEVER Tell Your Banker "Borrowing money from a bank is like having sex. You both want it, but they need reassurance of your intentions – and foreplay."

CHAPTER 7: 11 Steps That Make The Deal - Being careful doesn't mean moving slow any more than taking immediate action means you have to rush in unprepared and do something stupid - Step 1: Identify the Idea - Step 2: Investigate Generalities - Step 3: Investigate Specifics - Step 4: Commitment to the Idea - Step 5: The Preliminary Decision - Step 6: Investigation Continues - Step 7: Formulate Your Action Plan - Step 8: Establish Your Critical Path - Step 9: Implementation and Follow-up - Step 10: Execution - Step 11: Re-evaluation of Monitoring Process "You can leapfrog to Quantum success but you still have to do the deals one sure-footed step at a time."

CHAPTER 6: Creating Your Dream Team (Part 1) - No matter how good you are, you can't do it alone - Your Board of Directors - Retaining the Right Professionals - For the Right Price - Your Mission Statement "The first method for estimating tthe intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him." ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

CHAPTER 4: Getting Comfortable with High Performance - Expand Your Comfort Zone - Being a high performance super success is a learned behavior - The super successful operate in a different atmosphere than most people - Clarify your vision - The 5 Credos of Success - Mastermind Networks: Synergy or Silliness? - Mentor's A Quantum Leap in Wisdom "Success can be as frightening as failure. Begin preparing now for the new style and tempo of life which will come with success."

CHAPTER 2: From the Barrio to the Castle - Begin with Expectations of Super Success - Create Order from Chaos ... And Make A Killing - The Beauties of a Joint Venture: Other People's Money and Other People "If you aren't prepared to die for your dreams, you aren't prepared to live for them."