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It was the small business that created the United States in the 18th century, and it will be the small business that recreates the United States in the 21st Century.

Today, more than 99% of all U.S. companies are small businesses, encompassing 30 million businesses and 60 million employees, with 80% of those businesses having no employees and 50% operating at home. Those numbers are sure to rise as science and technology utterly transform our country’s landscape, causing more than half of all employees to lose their jobs in the coming years to automation.

What can be done? In this age of peril, we also find an era of promise. The successful will be those who think of the impossible yet achieve the possible; who have an unrivaled imagination and an unwavering determination; and who believe that profits are good but what you do with them is better. Above all, the successful are those who build their own business, make it on their own, depend on no one, and rely on a few. Be that person, and your future is assured. Americans will need to learn—and perfect—the art and science of running their own business, a lesson every person can learn and an ambition every person must pursue. This book will show you how.