Table of Contents

Rules for Renegades: How To Make More Money, Rock Your Career, And Revel in Your Individuality

Rule 1: Everything’s an Illusion, So Pick One That’s Empowering
Pulling a Company Out of Thin Air and Making a Few Million

Rule 2: An MBA is Optional, A GSD is Essential
Kissing the Blarney Stone and Then Some Butt

Rule 3: Problems + Pain = Profit
Only Painful Problems Open Wallets

Rule 4: Build Power Instead of Borrowing It
Attempting World Domination in Bill Gates’s Bedroom

Rule 5: Rock Rejection and Finesse Failure
Making Gallons of Tea in a Geisha Training Room…and a Seven-Figure Mistake

Rule 6: Learn to Love Networking
Making Friends and Influencing People in Unusual Ways at the Clinton White House

Rule 7: Only You Can Lead Your Life
Exploring the Guru’s Spell—the Guru with the Meditation Cushions and the One with the Nerdy Horn Rims

Rule 8: Work Your Money Mojo
Why CEO Really Means Cash Extraction Officer

Rule 9: Resign as General Manager of the Universe
The Control Freak Twelve-Step Program

Rule 10: Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There
Meeting a Corpse at the L.A. County Morgue and Learning the Secret to Life