OK, so this one isn’t on the reading list but I have just finished reading it.
This is the real inspirational true story about Jeff Pearce, a man who grew up in a Liverpool slum. He went through most of his life being unable to read or write but through hard work and sheer determination he rises out of poverty and becomes a self made millionaire.
He fills us in about his early life growing up with his brother and sisters, taken care of by his loving mother while his father was almost always at either work or drinking himself silly. A lot of the skills he uses in later life he picks up from his mother and father who show him the ways of life as a market trader.
As he continues telling his life story you can’t help but admire his sheer determination to succeed in business and and his honesty as a person. He moves from market trading into running a successful clothing store before expending to becoming a wholesaler. It’s then that things go horribly wrong for him during the credit crunch of the nineties. He loses everything and is driven to the edge when he decides to start all over again
I would recommend reading this book as it is a truly heart warming story and goes to show how anyone with the right attitude and priorities mixed with the necessary amount of luck at the right time can succeed in life
Admittedly it’s not the best written book but then the author was illiterate for most of his life. It’s much more about what he is saying rather than how he’s saying it.
Favourite quotes from the book:
Look after people as you move up the ladder of success because you never know who you might meet on the way down
Overall: 79%