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However, even in boxing he was working on his brand and his business.<\/p>\n<p>Late in the book, George relates that most of his highly successful friends are &#8220;avid readers&#8221;. \u00a0If you consider yourself an entrepreneur, you need to be an avid reader and I recommend this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up watching George Foreman as a boxer, and later in life as a grill salesman, I never really considered him an author that I would be interested in reading. \u00a0However, Foreman has a great book that should be read by anyone who considers himself\/herself an entrepreneur or wants to know what it is like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Book Review - Knockout Enterpreneur - Financial Focus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myfinancialfocus.net\/mainsite\/index.php\/book-review-knockout-enterpreneur\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Book Review - Knockout Enterpreneur - Financial Focus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Growing up watching George Foreman as a boxer, and later in life as a grill salesman, I never really considered him an author that I would be interested in reading. \u00a0However, Foreman has a great book that should be read by anyone who considers himself\/herself an entrepreneur or wants to know what it is like [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.myfinancialfocus.net\/mainsite\/index.php\/book-review-knockout-enterpreneur\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Financial Focus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/financialfocus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-04-20T07:09:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-24T10:39:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Parkey Thompson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Parkey Thompson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.myfinancialfocus.net\\\/mainsite\\\/index.php\\\/book-review-knockout-enterpreneur\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.myfinancialfocus.net\\\/mainsite\\\/index.php\\\/book-review-knockout-enterpreneur\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Parkey Thompson\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.myfinancialfocus.net\\\/mainsite\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5dc1a9b7d2ae31d9322fcfdace3c93e4\"},\"headline\":\"Book Review &#8211; 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