Reddit reviews The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime

Tons of stuff here but I will tackle a few:

1. The vast majority of businesses get no outside funding and are self funded so start building up your credit limits.
   
2. I suggest you take a class in finance because if you can't do a Profit-Loss statement or a balance sheet you are flying blind. You can also take classes in drafting a business plan.
   
3. Think bigger. If you start out with a goal just to make enough money to live on what you are really doing is buying yourself a job. You need to build a business that grows and can eventually take on employees.
   
4. Wanna be entrepreneurs spend a lot of time worried someone is going to steal their "awesome idea". There are 7 Billion people in the world, many people have had your idea. There is probably someone doing your business somewhere right now. The question is can you provide that product or service better than anyone else, that is the key to success. As soon as you launch and have any market someone can and will copy you so just concentrate on being the best and building a customer base. Never try to compete on having a monopoly unless you have a patent for a unique item and never compete on price unless you have huge economies of scale.
   
   If you want to go into business for yourself I highly recommend you read these 2 books first:
   
   The Illusions of Entrepreneurship
   
   The Millionaire Fastlane

Here are all the books with amazon links, Alphabetical order :)

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• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1591396190
  
• Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh et al. Link: http://amzn.com/160941280X
  
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown Link: http://amzn.com/0804137382
  
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston Link: http://amzn.com/1590597141
  
• How Google Works by Eric Schmidt et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1455582344
  
• Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World by Gary Vaynerchuk Link: http://amzn.com/006227306X
  
• Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson Link: http://amzn.com/0307720748
  
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1400064287
  
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck Link: http://amzn.com/0345472322
  
• Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi et al. Link: http://amzn.com/0385346654
  
• Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim S. Grover et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1476714207
  
• Rework by Jason Fried et al. Link: http://amzn.com/0307463745
  
• Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin Link: http://amzn.com/1591842948
  
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss Link: http://amzn.com/0307465357
  
• The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth by James Altucher Link: http://amzn.com/150100994X
  
• The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison by Mike Wilson Link: http://amzn.com/0060008768
  
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz Link: http://amzn.com/0062273205
  
• The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton M. Christensen Link: http://amzn.com/0062060244
  
• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries Link: http://amzn.com/0307887898
  
• The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime by MJ DeMarco Link: http://amzn.com/B004BDOUAI
  
• The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday Link: http://amzn.com/1591846358
  
• The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1885167776
  
• The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company by Steve Blank et al. Link: http://amzn.com/0984999302
  
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Link: http://amzn.com/0316346624
  
• Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1591848369
  
• Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out by Marc Ecko Link: http://amzn.com/1451685319
  
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel et al. Link: http://amzn.com/0804139296

>I'm loyal and I can get work done.

I'm not trying to be a dick, but you've gotta look at it from an outside perspective. What "work" have you done in the past? From the sounds of it, this is your first venture of any kind.

From your other comment :

>Well now that I'm thinking about it I can arms deal ammo and guns

Holy shit hold up. Do you know anything about the regulations that revolve around dealing guns online?

Your target market can't just be "adults." I'm gonna stop there. What I'd suggest you do is take a step back from the "I want to be a millionaire" mindset, and spend some time learning.

I appreciate the hustle, but you're not going to become a millionaire overnight. It's gonna take years of luck, perseverance, and differentiation to get where you want to go- and even that's a stretch. You're competing with literally every other twenty-something out there, and only a handful of us are gonna make it.

I recommend The Millionaire Fastlane to any budding entrepreneur. It'll give you a no-bullshit look at building up a business, without any of that preachy stuff many authors are fond of now. It's the only business book I've ever read, and it's a great first step.

Read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Fastlane-Wealth-Lifetime-ebook/dp/B004BDOUAI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1380613408&sr=8-1&keywords=millionaire+fastlane

Then this one: http://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Work-Week-Anywhere-ebook/dp/B006X0M2TS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1380613398&sr=8-1&keywords=four+hour+work+week

Don't be put off by the titles. These are both excellent books. By this point you're going to struggle to ever want to get a job xD. These books are great overviews that give you a solid mindset shift in what's possible and what's required.

Once you've done that, resources like Mixergy, Smart Passive Income, etc will give you a lot of ideas for different approaches (there are heaps more, find the best and listen to what's relevant to you).

Break what you want to do into sections. You'll need to get clients, sell them the idea, have them pay you and be able to deliver the product. So figure out what you need to do to achieve each of those objectives.

Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco