Dragons’ Den Books


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Kevin O’Leary

Kevin O’Leary shares invaluable secrets on entrepreneurship, business, money and life. Can you make millions just by “visualizing yourself rich” as some business prophets suggest? Don’t buy it, says Kevin O’Leary. If you want to be a successful entrepreneur and amass wealth, you’re going to have to work for it. But the good news is: with the right guidance, focus and perseverance, you can turn entrepreneurial vision into lucrative reality and have the personal freedom that only wealth can buy.

Kevin O’Leary would know. The much-feared and revered Dragon on the immensely popular show Dragons’ Den (and Shark Tank in the U.S.) started his company in his basement with a $10,000 loan from his financially savvy mother. A few years later, Kevin sold that company for more than four billion dollars. In this compelling, candid and, above all else, brutally honest business memoir, Kevin provides engaging, practical advice and lessons that will give anyone a distinct competitive edge.

Arlene Dickenson

At thirty, Arlene Dickinson found herself stranded. Recently divorced, she had a high school diploma, no savings and no clue how she was going to feed four young children. But just one year later, she was a partner in Venture Communications. Ten years on, she was CEO, poised to grow the business into one of Canada’s largest independently owned marketing firms. Today, as a co-star of the CBC TV hit Dragons’ Den, she is one of the country’s most sought-after female entrepreneurs. The secret of her journey from poverty to the corner office? The art of persuasion, as she explains with wit and unusual candour in this, her first book.

Blending her own frank and highly entertaining stories with compelling social science, she explains how to persuade both in the boardroom and in everyday life: the crucial importance of a particular kind of listening; how to get people to buy into your ideas; how to attract followers and deal with naysayers; the art of storytelling; how to turn mistakes to your advantage; and how to seize opportunities where others see only roadblocks. Anyone, she believes, can be persuasive—just look how good we are at persuading ourselves we can’t do things. Using the tricks of her trade and insights from her own fascinating experiences with some of Canada’s leading companies, Dickinson explains how to master the art of persuasion, without an M.B.A., to achieve maximum success in business—and in life.

Robert Herjavec

Robert Herjavec has lived the classic “rags to riches” story, from having only $20 in his pocket to starting up technology companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The son of Croatian immigrants, Herjavec overcame the odds and amassed incredible wealth, doing it through pure hard work and determination. Today a star on television’s Dragon’s Den and The Shark Tank, he bankrolls the best inventions and shoots down the best intentions. And now, for the first time, he shares his hard-won wisdom in one of the most inspirational business books of the season.

Driven is organized by the work and life principles that made Robert Herjavec both wealthy and successful (indeed, these terms are not synonymous). Herjavec reveals the secrets that took him from waiting tables to growing his nascent technology company, The Herjavec Group, into a world-class conglomerate. His principles are as valuable in the living room as they are in the boardroom. Anyone can succeed, on their own terms, by following his sage but simple advice — as long as they’re willing to take chances, take control of their future and stay true to their vision.

Dragons Den: The U.K. Edition

Learn how to be a success from the business lessons of the Dragons and the financial advice of Evan Davis. Britain’s best loved business brains —Duncan Bannatyne, Deborah Meaden, Peter Jones, Theo Paphitis, and Richard Farleigh along with economics expert Evan Davis—divulge the secrets of their success in this essential read. Joining them is James Caan, the new Dragon who will be part of the team in the new season of the television show. James is a multi-millionaire businessman and entrepreneur. Dragons’ Den is packed with advice, whether you want to perfect your pitching skills, develop an idea or make more money. The Dragons will look at what’s become of the entrepreneurs who entered the Dragons’ Den. Some went away emptyhanded but have since become successful. Others won the backing of the Dragons but failed to make their dream come true. The Dragons will show you what should have been done, what should have happened next, and how you too could win their backing and become a business success. This is much more than a TV series companion. It is a solid business read with never-before-heard advice and experiences from the Dragons own business ventures. At last, we’ll find out how they became millionaires and their rules for success. This is a unique, accessible ,and useful business read straight from the Dragons’ Den.

  • Gerry

    Can you please change the airing time for Dragond Den. It’s on at the same time as The X Factor and Survivor
    which makes it impossible for me (and I’m sure millions of others) to watch the show.
    At he very least, maybe rebroadcast the same show on CBC later on in the week.
    Thanks.

  • Hedsod

    re: Arlene Dickinson it says that she is one of “the country’s most sought-after female entrepreneurs”. Why can’t she simply be one of “the country’s most sought-after entrepreneurs”? 

  • Brenda Brassard

    I am writing in reguards to a “Very Important Concern”, not only for myself but “Many Others” who have posted “Not Only Their Complaints, But Their Digust” in one of the episodes that was aired on Dragon’s Den last week.  It was the Subject “Pet Mate Find”.  I for one can not express enough how “Appauled” I am to learn of such an insensitve, ridiculous, and most of all unnessessary request to take place and have this so called Pet Mate Find to be financed when our Humane Societies and Animal Shelters are overflowing, overwhelmed and over populated to say the least. God Help Us!!  All we have to do is go to these Humane Societies, Animal Shelters ect. and Adopt a Beautiful, Loving and Adorable Pet.  We do not need to add to the over populated and very overwhelmed animal shelters.  The last thing that we need in society is the creation of hundreds of new ”Puppy Mills”. 

    Arlene Dickinson you are one of my favourite “Dragons”, but your decision to finance this pointless busines venture leaves me disappointed to no end.  My hope is that you would reconsider your decision and prevent the unnecessary suffering of defenceless animals across this country.

    Brenda Brassard, Cambridge, Ontario 

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