How to Succeed in Business by Breaking the Rules: A Plan for Entrepreneurs, by self-made millionaire Dan S. Kennedy, is an unorthodox blueprint for small-business success. It is based on the author's contrarian position that all rules are made to be broken, and is articulated clearly with colorful real examples drawn from the well known (Pulp Fiction director Quentin Tarantino) to the unknown (a group of airport massage therapists). Forget widely accepted principles such as blind optimism and arrogant self-promotion, he writes. Instead, break out of the box using the unconventional ideas and nontraditional techniques that he describes with cliché-busting glee.