If you've ever dreamed of owning a business, but have been holding back because you think it's too much trouble and hassle and not worth the money you'll make, then this article is going to shock the life out of you.

Here's why: The thing you have to keep in mind, and I found this in the early years of buying businesses and teaching others how to buy businesses, is most people only think about the negative things in business.

They have all these preconceived ideas about all these "nightmare" scenarios that will happen if they do this or that, or make mistakes.

And so I used to tell people at my seminars, “Make a list of 50 different things that are going to keep you from succeeding in business." And people would begin writing down all the things they’ve heard from their mother, their father, and all the scary stories out there, and I'd tell them to take the list of 50, put them in a drawer or safe deposit box, and then after they bought a business, take the list out.

And I told them, “If any one of you run into one of these things you wrote on that list, come back to me because none of them exist. You’ve all held back and you have not succeeded in business because of things that aren’t true."

And guess what happened?

Without exception, the people who went out and bought a business would come back and tell me I was right. None of the things they had on their list happened.

Now, the lesson here is if you have all these nightmare ideas, then chances are it's because the only people you've talked to are people who have failed in business. How can I be so sure? Because I've been in business for a long time, and people that are successful in business don’t go out and complain. So if you have a bunch of negative ideas about how this all works, then I know all you've heard is feedback from people who have screwed up and quit.

Here's the bottom line: If you understand the basics of buying a business, what to do and what not to do, and if you talk to the right people -- those who have actually succeeded in business, and not people who have given up and failed -- you're going to find that buying a business is a LOT easier -- and a lot more profitable -- than you ever dreamed it was.

Arthur B. Hamel has bought over 200 businesses in the past 40 years, and is a well-known author, consultant, investor, business owner, and dynamic lecturer who has shared the stage with such business greats as Robert Allen of "No Money Down" fame. For the past 20 years Art has taught thousands of people around the world -- even so-called "little guys" with no formal education or money -- how to quickly and easily buy large, multi-million dollar businesses with no credit, banks or prior business experience. He has recently decided to share his unique business-buying secrets and tactics free of charge at: http://arthurhamel.com

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