“While Choose Your Enemies Wisely is an excellent guide to creating a business plan that will accelerate your company’s success, it is also, at its core, an ode to American capitalism—and Bet-David is living proof that anyone can achieve their wildest dreams, with the right motivation.”
-Ken Langone, co-founder of The Home Depot

"One of the best lessons my dad taught me is that 'adversity is a terrible thing to waste.' You can’t control what challenges life throws at you, but you can decide how you react to them, how you let them fuel you. In this inspiring book, Patrick Bet-David unpacks this idea brilliantly, and lays out a step by step path that will help you bring your business dreams to life."
-Will Guidara, national bestselling author of Unreasonable Hospitality

"Patrick understands and can see the entire big picture, which very few can do. He is able to use that insight to inspire and motivate individuals to reach their highest goals."
-Tommy Mottola, former Chairman and CEO of Sony Music

"The foundation for business plan design shared by Bet-David is reminiscent of the identification of inspiration and perspiration as the formula for genius—with a twist... An accessible guide for anyone needing to come up with a business plan."
-Booklist

Patrick Bet-David immigrated to America at twelve years old, when his parents fled Iran as refugees during the Iranian Revolution. After high school, Patrick joined the U.S. military and served in the 101st Airborne before starting a business career in the financial services industry. At age thirty, he founded PHP Agency, an insurance marketing organization with sixty-six agents. He grew the firm to forty thousand agents before making a multi-nine-figure exit. A serial entrepreneur, Bet-David founded Valuetainment, which became the number-one YouTube channel on entrepreneurship with nearly a billion views and expanded into a media and production company, as well as Bet-David Consulting. He hosts the weekly PBD Podcast, the number-one business podcast on Spotify. He lives in South Florida with his wife and four children.