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Donald J. Trump is an icon: the very definition of the American success story. The star of The Apprentice and developer of some of the planet’s most prestigious real estate, he’s been on the bottom and risen to become one of the world’s wealthiest men.
Bill [...]
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“Entertaining…both Adam Smith and Horatio Alger would find something to like in the rise of T. Boone Pickens.”—Wall Street Journal
“The latest memoir from the Texas oilman…Pickens’ sauciness does entertain.”—Time magazine
“Sassy…breezes along…salted with earthy aphorisms.”—Bloomberg.com
“Self-deprecating and audacious…overall, it’s decidedly informative about the machinations of business.”—Dallas Morning [...]
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What do you do if you’re running the worst airline in the country,one that customers hate and that’s been through Chapter 11 twice in the last 10 years? If you’re lucky, you’ll call Gordon Bethune. Before Bethune arrived, Continental had been ravaged by the likes of Frank [...]
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The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America’s Greatest Woman Entrepreneur is back in print and updated to reflect developments in today’s business environment for the modern entrepreneur. You will find inspiration and real, proven success principles that represents the forty-five year old success story of Mary Kay Ash, founder Mary [...]
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From Publishers Weekly
Without education or contacts, Andrew Carnegie rose from poverty to become the richest person in the world, mostly while working three hours a day in comfortable surroundings far from his factories. Having decided while relatively young and poor to give all his money [...]
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“A smart business book detailing some vicissitudes of retailing, wrapped in a vivid biography of an engaging tycoon.” — Kirkus Reviews, July 15, 2007
“If (Conor O’Clery’s) compelling narrative becomes a blue-print for future efforts to record the life stories of philanthropists, then the [...]
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Country boy makes good in this down-home tale of self-made multimillionaire Wyly. In his humble post-Depression Louisiana roots, Wyly learned his first business lessons from football strategy, his father’s tiny newspaper business and his mother’s bargaining skills. A lucky meeting propelled him to [...]
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Sir Richard Branson is one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs and his Virgin Group is one of the most recognised lifestyle brands, trusted and enjoyed by many millions of people. Now, in his trademark charismatic and honest style, Richard shares the inside track on some of his greatest achievements over [...]
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Pelfrey’s biography of the two founders of General Motors, Billy Durant and Alfred Sloan, evokes times when what was good for General Motors was good for America. Pelfrey, a journalist and author, makes the auto business in its early days sound like Silicon [...]
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In 1968, a young man named Richard Branson began an improbable journey. From opening a tiny record store, called Virgin Records, on the second floor of a building in London, Richard went on to become the head of one of the world’s most universally recognized and respected groups of companies. The [...]
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