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Outrageous Optimism
Wisdom for the Entrepreneurial Journey

By Jack Roseman and Steve Czetli

This unique view of a life in entrepreneurship by Jack Roseman as told to Steve Czetli offers valuable tips and advice on dozens of topics that can save you time and help your company grow.

Drawing on Mr. Roseman's experience as a negotiator, entrepreneur, professor at Carnegie Mellon University and President of a publicly held company, the book is a quick-read with a tangible payoff. Accessible, warm, and often amusing, this is not a textbook, but a heartfelt collection of columns offering memorable insight into subjects as diverse as evaluating a CEO to the role of money in a rich and satisfying life.

 

Testimonials

“Possibly 1,000 business books come out every year (maybe every month!) so it would take a lot of nerve to claim this one, made in Pittsburgh, as the year’s best. But it just may be.”

Jack Markowitz
Columnist and former Business Editor
Pittsburgh Tribune Review

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Excerpts from the Book

Do something that excites you. Maybe it won’t succeed, but at least in the meantime you’ve enjoyed the huge part of your life that it ate up. At least if you love what you are doing, you have spent each day in eager anticipation of the next. And that to me is what life is all about.

from Chapter 2: Mission or Money?

 

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