Choose Your Enemies Wisely: Business Planning for the Audacious Few

4.8 out of 5

786 global ratings

National Bestseller! **

What’s the difference between your competitor and your enemy?**

You know who your competitors are. You keep tabs on them regularly, and can list them calmly, along with their strengths and weaknesses.

But your enemies are a whole other matter. They’re the haters and the doubters who said you’d never make it, the ones who stomped on your dreams. When you think about your enemies, you get emotional. You feel like you won’t let anything—or anyone—stop you.

In Choose Your Enemies Wisely, Patrick Bet-David, #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author, founder of Valuetainment, and host of The PBD Podcast, shows how to harness that emotion to turbocharge your business, dominate this year, and grow for generations after.

But first, you need to choose your enemies wisely.

Bet-David has spent years perfecting the system that led to the knockout success of his own financial services company. Now, Bet-David shares the secret behind this system: his 12 Business Building Blocks, which will teach you how to seamlessly blend emotion and logic in your business plan. Both a practical document for achieving goals and the fuel needed to fire up yourself and your team, this plan goes beyond the “how” and digs deeper into the “why”: not only how you’ll get funding, but why you need long-term vision; why you must build a culture that makes employees want to run through walls; why you have to know the enemy you’re out to prove wrong. Straightforward and simple, the steps in this book will lead you to move the levers that create exponential growth and lasting success.

Read Choose Your Enemies Wisely if you are a visionary, dreamer, and big thinker. Where you are now in your business journey doesn’t matter. By following Bet-David’s plan, you will set up your business for sustainable success and accomplish your most audacious goals.

304 pages,

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First published December 4, 2023

ISBN 9780593712849


About the authors

Patrick Bet-David

Patrick Bet-David

Patrick Bet-David is an entrepreneur, founder, and CEO. He is the #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Your Next Five Moves (Simon & Schuster) and Choose Your Enemies Wisely (Penguin Portfolio). He immigrated to America at twelve years old, when his parents fled Iran as refugees during the Iranian Revolution. After high school, Patrick joined the U.S. military and served in the 101st Airborne before starting a business career in the financial services industry. At age 30, he founded PHP Agency, an insurance marketing organization with 66 agents. He grew the firm to more than 40,000 agents before making a multi-nine-figure exit.

A serial entrepreneur, Bet-David founded Valuetainment, which became the #1 YouTube channel on entrepreneurship with nearly a billion views, and expanded into a media, consulting, and production company. He hosts the PBD Podcast, the #1 business podcast on Spotify. Bet-David lives in South Florida with his wife and four children.

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Reviews

R H

R H

5

Worth reading

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2024

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If you want some real-world straight talk about success or are looking to take control of your life, this book is a great read with practical lessons and real-life examples. Pat provides actionable steps you can follow to focus on your goals and achieve them. This book will resonate more with readers seeking to take responsibility and persevere in their goals and it may not be for everyone.

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Neil Machaya

Neil Machaya

5

Great book-Awesome author

Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2024

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Parents I recommend this for your high school students, good read and get them thinking in the right direction

Al Moreno

Al Moreno

5

Great book

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2024

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PBD is the best and this is a must read.

Taylor Morgan

Taylor Morgan

5

Excellent quality

Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2024

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I had pre-ordered this book Excellent quality highly recommended.

Roman

Roman

5

Great book

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2024

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This is a great book about building a business plan of any kind and executing it to its success. The book has a motivational effect and many references to other good books that I want to read now. It helped me to understand some moments of my life better and gave a good tool for moving forward.

Chelsey garibay

Chelsey garibay

5

This book will fire you up if you are looking for a business boost of encouragement.

Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2024

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if you are seeking an how to build a business plan, this is theeeeeeee book to read.

JCS

JCS

5

uniquely actionable way to write your business plan

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2024

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Again, bet David does not disappoint, this is a unique way to write a business plan, it’s important to understand who are enemies are because they will motivate us like no one else

Dr. Wilson Morales

Dr. Wilson Morales

5

Practical! Purposeful! Powerful!

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2024

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As a Pastor of a growing congregation, the insights of this book were solid, principle-centered, and most of all—executable! Well done Sir!!!!

Jerome R

Jerome R

5

Choose your Authors Wisely

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2024

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I really enjoyed Choose Your Enemies Wisely. Patrick Bet-David did an excellent job of describing in specific details how to build a business using the right plan of action. Thanks for sharing.

Amazon Reader

Amazon Reader

4

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer

Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2024

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I watched "The Godfather - Part II" last night, and then I watched Patrick Bel-David leading a discussion on the PBD Podcast. Not only is there much overlap between the values presented in the 1974 film and the contents of this book, but in the podcast he spoke with a voice similar to Al Pacino. I'm not sure I feel particularly at home in most of the values expressed in this book, but I think he makes a good point about balancing emotion and logic. The core message, explained in the early chapters and the conclusion, strike me as insightful, namely that victims of oppression, harassment and bullying should try to make positive use of their negative emotions as means for empowerment.

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