I bought my first business at 27 years old. I had no money. Literally none. I made a deal with the seller to pay him back monthly — essentially buying the business on a note. I just made payments to him every month while I tried to figure out how to run a company. That business...

Tom Howard did not set out to write a book about becoming a multi-millionaire. He set out to prove that the trades deserve the same respect, the same coverage in business publications, and the same cultural recognition as any tech startup or corporate career path. Because the numbers...