How to Salvage Millions from Your Small Business: Management Tools for Extreme Success

by Ron Sturgeon and D. L. Fitzpatrick

A book by two highly success auto salvage operators. Both men recently sold their businesses to a Fortune Five Hundred auto manufacturer. The book shares their secrets to achieving significant success... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971703108
• ISBN13: 9780971703100
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Mike French Publishing
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A simply superb resource

Collaboratively written by experienced and successful entrepreneurs Ron Sturgeon and D.L. Fitzpatrick, and with the assistance of Dwayne Parsons, How To Salvage Millions From Your Small Business is a dynamic, go-getting book for entrepreneurs who want nothing less than economic success from their own business, regardless of the produce produced or the services offered. Individual chapters address the common problems in setting up a business, taking care of money matters, a work sheet for taking action, and much, much more. How To Salvage Millions From Your Small Business is a simply superb resource filled from cover to cover with useful, practical, money making and money saving advice for small businessmen everywhere.

Select the Right Tools and Then Use Them Effectively

Ignore the overheated title. This is a thoughtful, practical, no-nonsense book which will probably be of greatest value to owners/CEOs of smaller organizations. Sturgeon and Fitzpatrick obviously draw upon a wealth of real-world experience as they provide what amounts to a "reality check" for decision-makers who are currently unwilling and/or unable to extricate themselves from day-to-day (hour-to-hour) firefighting. The excellent material is carefully organized within 12 chapters, followed by "A Work Sheet for Taking Action." Throughout the cohesive narrative, Sturgeon and Fitzpatrick suggest almost 200 "tools" and, at this point in my review, I offer a word of caution. As one of my favorite aphorisms suggests, if all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. It would be lunacy to agree with everything Sturgeon and Fitzpatrick say, worse yet to implement all of their suggestions. Think of them as co-proprietors of a "hardware store" for entrepreneurs. Tag along as they show you what they have available. Pretend that you have a "tool box" and fill it only with what will be most helpful now, today, but remember which other "tools" are also available. You may need several of them later, and perhaps sooner than you now think. With regard to "A Work Sheet for Taking Action," I offer the same advice. Modify it to ensure that it is wholly appropriate to your own organization's specific needs, interests, strengths, weaknesses, resources, opportunities, etc. I also recommend this book to those only recently embarked on a business career as well as to others now in middle-management positions who are taking on increasingly more important responsibilities in larger organizations. The business principles which Sturgeon and Fitzpatrick affirm will enable less-experienced executives to make better decisions themselves, and, to play a more active, more productive role when involved with others in a decision-making process. Those who share my high regard for this book are urged to check out Rex P. Gatto's The Smart Manager's FAQ Guide, Mark Allen's Visionary Business, Tom Asacker's Sandbox Wisdom, and Rob Ryan's Entrepreneur America.

Practical and Helpful

I read the book twice and found it very practical and helpful in my business. I'm not a salvage yard owner, like these guys, but they used methods and concepts that were transferable to any business. In the first chapter I found a strategy to apply to my company that has already begun to make a difference in my bottom line. I sincerely recommended that every serious business owner order this book and read it. It is full of excellent advice from two guys with practical experience. It's a thick book with over 240 printed pages, 12 jam-packed chapters and an easy to use index. I like the book because it's a follow-the-dotted-line, do-what-it-says-and-succeed, how-to book. If you've ever wished you could be a "fly on the wall" to find out how these two guys turned their businesses into money making machines, here's your chance to find out how they did it. When you get this book, you must find a quiet place, take your hi-lighter in hand, and get prepared for action.

Excellent resource for the new or established entrepreneur

This is an excellent book with proven ideas for the beginning or established business person, seeking a higher level of success for their business. I recommend it as a resource to be referred to time and again as a business grows and develops. It contains great advice and practical suggestions, presented in a clear and straightforward manner, based on the experience and success of the authors.

A Lifetime of Knowledge Condensed into One book

It has taken me many years, thousands of journals, and hundreds of industry conferences, to learn what this book has simply and accurately stated.