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Rick Day: Business by Day, Entrepreneur by Night

July 6, 2014

Rick Day is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience starting, growing, and selling businesses. From financially meager beginnings, Rick spent 5 years in the Navy, put himself through college, and became an entrepreneur. Now at age 50, he’s a semi-retired investor, coach, blogger, and podcaster with practical business advice that works!

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Resource Mentioned:

  • Your Big Idea: Successful Entrepreneurs have One Big Idea. Follow JLD’s FREE training & you’ll discover Your Big Idea in less than an hour!

Success Quote

  • ‘Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.’ – Christopher McDougall

Business Failure

  • Rick was on top of the world: 60 employees, $26 million in sales, and then – disaster struck.

Entrepreneurial AH-HA Moment

  • Rick’s AH-HA moment came in a flash: ‘”My destiny is in my own hands. It’s up to me to succeed or fail in this life. I choose success.”

Current Business

  • Rick LOVES Podcasting, along with the Entrepreneurial playground he now resides in.

Small Business Resource

  • Sane Box: Automatically filter your email of spam and unimportant messages to only see the emails that are important.

Best Business Book

  • Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
  • The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
  • What They Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School by Mark H. McCormack

Interview Links

  • Rick’s site
  • Ricks Podcast

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Killer Resources!

1) The Common Path to Uncommon Success: JLD’s 1st traditionally published book! Over 3000 interviews with the world’s most successful Entrepreneurs compiled into a 17-step roadmap to financial freedom and fulfillment!

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