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Foreword ix <p>Introduction 1</p> <p>Chapter 1 The Shape of Things to Come 3<br />Seeing Around Corners</p> <p>Chapter 2 From Peril to Pivot 25<br />Acknowledging Mistakes & Transitioning Ahead</p> <p>Chapter 3 Fear. Failure. Focus. 33<br />Early Lessons in Entrepreneurship</p> <p>Chapter 4 Snap Out of It! 41<br />Looking Back to Move Forward</p> <p>Chapter 5 An Entrepreneurial Blueprint The Don’ts of Building a Business 49</p> <p>Chapter 6 Holding Grudges Brush that Chip off your Shoulder 63</p> <p>Chapter 7 An Introduction to the Important Things in Life 75<br />The Key to Living a “Rich” Life</p> <p>Chapter 8 Partnering Up 87<br />The J-Curve They Don’t Teach You About in Business School</p> <p>Chapter 9 Negotiating Need Not Be War 101<br />Leaving Money at the Table</p> <p>Chapter 10 Don’t Hire Quarterbacks, Hire Linemen 111<br />The Simple Formula for Building a Successful Team</p> <p>Chapter 11 Person to Person 121<br />From Management to Corporate Citizenship</p> <p>Chapter 12 Image Is Everything 133<br />Owning Your Message</p> <p>Chapter 13 Networking, Sprezzatura, & Being Your Authentic Self 141<br />The Keys to Building Relationships</p> <p>Chapter 14 Sell without Selling Your Soul 155</p> <p>Chapter 15 Be Bold—Marketing Takes Courage 167<br />Standing Out by Sticking Your Neck Out</p> <p>Conclusion I Am Enough 177</p> <p>Acknowledgments 183</p> <p>About the Author 187</p> <p>Index 189</p>

<p><b>ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI </b>is an entrepreneur, financier, bestselling author, and philanthropist. In 2005, he founded SkyBridge Capital, a multi-billion-dollar global investment firm and producer of the SALT Conference, the premier thought leadership forum on alternative investments and alternative thinking. Prior to founding SkyBridge, he co-founded investment partnership Oscar Capital Management.</p> <p>Scaramucci is the co-host of <i>Wall Street Week </i>and a contributor to the Fox Business Network and Fox News Channel. He also hosts a podcast on entrepreneurship called “The Motivation Inside (TMI).” In 2016, Scaramucci was ranked #85 in <i>Worth</i> magazine’s Power 100. In 2011, he received Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur Of The Year^®—New York Award in the Financial Services category. <p>A native of Long Island, New York, he is a graduate of Tufts University and Harvard Law School.

<p>In <i>Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole,</i> Anthony Scaramucci provides firsthand, introspective and candid accounts to help you strategically take control of your future by embracing your inevitable failures and turning them into potential successes.</p> <p>Writing with wisdom, vulnerability, and humor, Scaramucci candidly offers entrepreneurs—and all ambitious professionals—the tools needed to reimagine the ordinary and transform it into a simple, yet revolutionary idea while creating scalable and sustainable businesses. From starting three successful businesses, to creating an internationally renowned brand, to hosting his own television show, this serial entrepreneur inspires you to follow your dreams, pursue your passions, stare failure in the face, and never give up. <p>The path to success is distinctly human—often rutted by unnerving pitfalls and endless self-doubt—but this book offers the necessary inspiration and concrete blueprint to transform your life, turn adversity into accomplishment, and achieve your dreams, again and again.

<p>"In <i>Hopping over the Rabbit Hole</i>, Scaramucci provides invaluable and pragmatic advice on how to start a business, continuously improve your professional acumen and transform failure into opportunity. An insightful and resourceful guide for any entrepreneur, dreamer or Presidential candidate."</p> <p>- <b>Mark Cuban</b>, Owner of Dallas Mavericks & Chairman and CEO, AXS TV</p> <p>“The most valuable thing Anthony Scaramucci teaches us about success is how important, even necessary, failure is. As he shows, we all face setbacks — but it’s how we learn from them that governs whether we ultimately succeed or fail.”</p> <p>- <b>Arianna Huffington</b>, Founder, Huffington Post & Founder and CEO, Thrive Global</p> <p>"A captivating, inspirational, and thoughtful book on dealing with setbacks and successes - and generating more of the latter than the former - by a leading entrepreneur, investor, and television host of extraordinary energy, vision, charisma, and brains.  A great read!"  </p> <p>- <b>General (Ret.) David Petraeus</b>, Commander of the Surges in Iraq and Afghanistan & Chairman of the KKR Global Institute.</p> <p>“All entrepreneurs are risk-takers. There are good days and bad days. But you learn one thing: ‘All sickness isn’t death.’ Anthony’s book is a good blueprint for how to recover from those occasional stumbles. It all begins with a plan. A fool with a plan can beat a genius with no plan any day.”</p> <p>- <b>Boone Pickens</b>, Chairman & CEO, BP Capital</p> <p>"This is something exceptionally rare in the entrepreneurship literature: someone telling you how he overcame his problems and made lemonade out of lemons. Anthony has skin in the game. He is funny, direct, deep, and insightful. The book is so gripping you can read it standing up. A must read."</p> <p>- <b>Nassim Taleb</b>, Bestselling-Author of <i>The Black Swan</i> & Distinguished Scientific Advisor, Universa Investments</p>

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