The Oracle's Golden Step: The Curious Travels of a Truck Driving Soothsayer (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780976967842)

When Bud, a freshly graduated college student, hitches a ride with a truck driver named the Oracle, he gets taught real-life lessons on what it takes to start his own empire. Through their travels, he learns about the fifty-three Baby Steps to efficiently running a business, such as...

• Writing powerful goals.
• Finding passion for what he does.
• Making solid business decisions.
• Preventing the usual financial mistakes that may devastate his operation in its early stages.
• Prioritizing his schedule to cut the fat.
• Get moving again when stress bogs him down.
• Managing a team of employees, subcontractors, and outsource to experts in his field.
• Following through on all of his objectives.
• Eliminating the emptiness that sometimes appears at the end of the rainbow.

Amidst a summer long journey from coast-to-coast that's filled with adventures and mishaps, he learns what it truly means to be an entrepreneur... But will the Oracle teach him the Golden Step-is it all worth it? How can he succeed without regrets? Is this the best use of his life?