How to Make Something From Nothing: Life’s ultimate dilemma and how it influences your decisions, your success and everything you do

John Moon

Nov 2024 · Troubador Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

It’s midwinter in 1968. As an eleven-year-old child, chopping wood in the back yard of his parents’ council house, John Moon made a decision which impacted his world forever: he was not going to live his life this way.

In this delightful book, John tells his story, from the high-speed thrills of motor sport to the gradual building of his property portfolio. With candour, humour and sometimes brutal honesty, he shares the successes, the hard times and the out-and-out disasters. There was no rich relative waiting in the wings to bail him out, no influential contact offering him a lucrative career straight out of school, no university education. John started with nothing and went on to place himself within the top 1% of the UK’s wealthiest households. And the golden nuggets of advice throughout his book will show you how similar success could be yours.

Life’s ultimate dilemma: will you live for the moment or plan for tomorrow? Whatever you choose, How To Make Something From Nothing – the story of an ordinary man who has lived an extraordinary life – is guaranteed to inform and entertain you.

Ratings and reviews

This is two books in one. Firstly it’s a fascinating and well written autobiography of an ordinary man and is one of the best biographies I’ve ever read. I read it in three sittings. I say ordinary because the author isn’t someone famous. So as such it’s highly unusual. But he isn’t ordinary as on his journey through life he has had the insights to recount the lessons which he has learned which have contributed to his successes and from which his readers can learn. This is the second of the two

Great read. Fantasticly informative and inspiring.

About the author

John Moon is a diversely talented businessman. Coming from a humble background, he has built successful enterprises in the world of finance, property, holiday lettings and public relations. John’s abilities also extend to the world of motor sport in which he has had numerous successes in the UK and Europe over a 30 year period.