18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
Great Fun for Dreaming! Now if I'd just get off my duff!, 2002-11-18
This book was great for explaining practical ponts about making it in your business independently. The best feature of the book is the inspirational tone and content. The book lifts your spirits and encourages you. It is not a How To book, but rather a "You CAN!" book.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
Sound Advice for the Journey, 2002-07-03
While the advice on making money is not revolutionary, the book is well written and well organized. The title is a little misleading as the book does not describe a perfect business but instead seeks to offer some inspiration and some sound advice about creating a low overhead micro enterprise. If you do not have a lot of experience in business and are considering starting your own enterprise, the book is worth your time to read. It will help to inspire you and give you a useful roadmap on the journey to find a perfect business for you.
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
Probably his best book, synthesizes a lot of material, 2002-06-04
Some of his earlier books were a little light, but this one is excellent and I highly recommend your reading it. My copy is heavily underlined.
He covers a lot of territory and synthesizes this material down to essential points. The book is interesting to read.
You might want to also read "Getting Business to Come to You" by Paul Edwards, Sarah Edwards, Laura Clampitt Douglas, Laura Clampitt. This is an excellent book on starting up a small business. And, don't forget Don Lancasters "Incredible Secret Money Machine" regarding making money from technical crafts.
You should also read any of the E-Myth books by Michael E. Gerber - who takes a different view... that of creating a growing company with employees. Comparing these views will help you decide your course of action.
This book by LeBoeuf will remain in my library for periodically reviewed books.
John Dunbar
Sugar Land, TX
34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
An excellent book with a misleading cover., 2001-04-20
I would give this book a perfect score were it not for the fact that the title and cover material does not represent the book's contents entirely accurately, so some readers may feel misled. The book presents itself as a practical guide for home-based businesses when in fact it is more of a self-help success guide in the genre of "Think and Grow Rich". This may be exactly what most aspiring home-businesspeople need; still, I would imagine that readers seeking practical specifics may be disappointed.
As a self-help success guide, however, this is a fantastic book; one of the best I've ever read. It contains no original or revolutionary ideas. Instead, it distills the best ideas of the countless success manuals written over the past 100 years into a clear and logically consistent philosophy, and applies this philosophy to the subject of self-employment.
16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
A comprehensive book, 2000-10-22
The Perfect Business by Michael Leboeuf is a very comprehensice book about starting a home-based business.
It did not give you specific example of what business to start, but rather, he gives tips on networking, marketing, self-discipline etc. If you are looking for a all-in-one type of business guidiance book, this may be the one.
However, some of the stuff Michael talks about are just stating the obvious, like sell something that customers want to buy and not what you like (isn't this obvious?). The chapter on buying office equipments, I think, is a waste of time.
All in all, I hope to see some specfic example, but were disappointed. But still, this is quite an inspirational book.