Informationen zum Autor Patrick Bet-David immigrated to America at twelve years old, when his parents fled Iran as refugees during the Iranian Revolution. After high school, Patrick joined the U.S. military and served in the 101st Airborne before starting a business career in the financial services industry. At age thirty, he founded PHP Agency, an insurance marketing organization with sixty-six agents. He grew the firm to forty thousand agents before making a multi-nine-figure exit. A serial entrepreneur, Bet-David founded Valuetainment, which became the number-one YouTube channel on entrepreneurship with nearly a billion views and expanded into a media and production company, as well as Bet-David Consulting. He hosts the weekly PBD Podcast , the number-one business podcast on Spotify. He lives in South Florida with his wife and four children. Klappentext National Bestseller! What's the difference between your competitor and your enemy? You know who your competitors are. You keep tabs on them regularly, and can list them calmly, along with their strengths and weaknesses. But your enemies are a whole other matter. They're the haters and the doubters who said you'd never make it, the ones who stomped on your dreams. When you think about your enemies, you get emotional . You feel like you won't let anythingor anyonestop you. In Choose Your Enemies Wisely , Patrick Bet-David, #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author, founder of Valuetainment, and host of The PBD Podcast , shows how to harness that emotion to turbocharge your business, dominate this year, and grow for generations after. But first, you need to choose your enemies wisely. Bet-David has spent years perfecting the system that led to the knockout success of his own financial services company. Now, Bet-David shares the secret behind this system: his 12 Business Building Blocks, which will teach you how to seamlessly blend emotion and logic in your business plan. Both a practical document for achieving goals and the fuel needed to fire up yourself and your team, this plan goes beyond the how and digs deeper into the why: not only how you'll get funding, but why you need long-term vision; why you must build a culture that makes employees want to run through walls; why you have to know the enemy you're out to prove wrong. Straightforward and simple, the steps in this book will lead you to move the levers that create exponential growth and lasting success. Read Choose Your Enemies Wisely if you are a visionary, dreamer, and big thinker. Where you are now in your business journey doesn't matter. By following Bet-David's plan, you will set up your business for sustainable success and accomplish your most audacious goals. Leseprobe Chapter 1: The 12 Building Blocks The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. Sun Tzu I was working on a massive deal. Millions of dollars were on the line, and I needed to focus. I told my assistant to hold all calls and tackle anyone who tried to walk through my door. In retrospect, I should have hired a bigger assistant. Actually, I don't think even Lawrence Taylor, in his prime, could have stopped this guy. He stormed into my office and screamed, "I'm so sick of my life!" He was shaking. "I can't live like this anymore. I've got nowhere to go and nowhere else to turn. I want to win so bad. I'm telling you, right now, that I'm going to be the best agent in this office! Nothing can stop me!" His rage turned to sadness, and for thirty minutes the tears didn't stop. Ernie was nineteen at the time. He had four hundred dollars to his name, a high school degree, and no business skills. Ernie had all the desire in the worl...

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Patrick Bet-David immigrated to America at twelve years old, when his parents fled Iran as refugees during the Iranian Revolution. After high school, Patrick joined the U.S. military and served in the 101st Airborne before starting a business career in the financial services industry. At age thirty, he founded PHP Agency, an insurance marketing organization with sixty-six agents. He grew the firm to forty thousand agents before making a multi-nine-figure exit. A serial entrepreneur, Bet-David founded Valuetainment, which became the number-one YouTube channel on entrepreneurship with nearly a billion views and expanded into a media and production company, as well as Bet-David Consulting. He hosts the weekly PBD Podcast, the number-one business podcast on Spotify. He lives in South Florida with his wife and four children.

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**National Bestseller!

What’s the difference between your competitor and your enemy?**

You know who your competitors are. You keep tabs on them regularly, and can list them calmly, along with their strengths and weaknesses.

But your enemies are a whole other matter. They’re the haters and the doubters who said you’d never make it, the ones who stomped on your dreams. When you think about your enemies, you get emotional. You feel like you won’t let anything—or anyone—stop you.

In Choose Your Enemies Wisely, Patrick Bet-David, #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author, founder of Valuetainment, and host of The PBD Podcast, shows how to harness that emotion to turbocharge your business, dominate this year, and grow for generations after.

But first, you need to choose your enemies wisely.

Bet-David has spent years perfecting the system that led to the knockout success of his own financial services company. Now, Bet-David shares the secret behind this system: his 12 Business Building Blocks, which will teach you how to seamlessly blend emotion and logic in your business plan. Both a practical document for achieving goals and the fuel needed to fire up yourself and your team, this plan goes beyond the “how” and digs deeper into the “why”: not only how you’ll get funding, but why you need long-term vision; why you must build a culture that makes employees want to run through walls; why you have to know the enemy you’re out to prove wrong. Straightforward and simple, the steps in this book will lead you to move the levers that create exponential growth and lasting success.

Read Choose Your Enemies Wisely if you are a visionary, dreamer, and big thinker. Where you are now in your business journey doesn’t matter. By following Bet-David’s plan, you will set up your business for sustainable success and accomplish your most audacious goals.

Leseprobe
Chapter 1: The 12 Building Blocks

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

Sun Tzu

I was working on a massive deal. Millions of dollars were on the line, and I needed to focus. I told my assistant to hold all calls and tackle anyone who tried to walk through my door. In retrospect, I should have hired a bigger assistant. Actually, I don't think even Lawrence Taylor, in his prime, could have stopped this guy.

He stormed into my office and screamed, "I'm so sick of my life!" He was shaking. "I can't live like this anymore. I've got nowhere to go and nowhere else to turn. I want to win so bad. I'm telling you, right now, that I'm going to be the best agent in this office! Nothing can stop me!"

His rage turned to sadness, and for thirty minutes the tears didn't stop. Ernie was nineteen at the time. He had four hundred dollars to his name, a high school degree, and no business skills. Ernie had all the desire in the world, but I wondered if it would be enough for him to compete.

Earlier that day, Larry had presented his business plan. He displayed all the polish and professionalism that you would expect from a UCLA grad…