In this book by former wife and legally recognized widow, Ms. Terry Moore, the private Hughes is finally revealed. Long romantically involved with America’s first billionaire, Terry Moore secretly married Hughes in 1949. They never divorced.
She reveals that Howard Hughes was more than a mysterious tragic character who played out his life before a fascinated world. He was flesh and blood, and perhaps one of the greatest romantics of the 20th century. For the first time, Howard speaks about his passions, his romantic exploits, and his daredevil flying escapades.
This is a compelling account of his passions for flying and his love for Hollywood's most famous starlets. In this steamy true story, Moore shares intimate details of his love affairs and the shocking secrets of his illness. She suggests that Howard received no medical treatment because he was the victim of a plot to take over his empire.
This audio includes conversations between the billionaire and his starlet wife. You'll hear the mysterious Hughes as very few have, speaking with his wife and gossiping about celebrities. Warning: contains strong language and sexually explicit content
Andrew Carnegie, whose lifetime spanned the era from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the First World War was America's first modern titan.
In this magnificent biography, celebrated historian David Nasaw brings to life this period of unprecedented transition-a time of self-made millionaires, scabs, strikes, and a new kind of philanthropy-through the fascinating rags-to-riches story of one of our most iconic business legends.
The Scottish-born son of a failed weaver and a mother who supported the family by binding shoes, Andrew Carnegie is the embodiment of the American dream.
In his rise from a job as a bobbin boy in a cotton factory to being the richest man in the world, he was single-minded, relentless and a major player in some of the most violent and notorious labor strikes of the time.
The prototype of today's billionaire, he was a visionary in the way he earned his money and in the way he gave it away. Nasaw explains how Carnegie made his fortune and how he tried to pull the world back from a war he predicted.
Brimming with new material, personal letters, diaries, prenuptial agreements, letters to and from presidents and prime ministers, Nasaw plumbs the core of this fascinating man, fixing him in his place as one of the most compelling, elusive and multifaceted personalities of the twentieth century.
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life—from cheating and crime to sports and child-rearing—and whose conclusions turn the conventional wisdom on its head. Thus the new field of study contained in this audiobook: Freakonomics.
Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives—how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they explore the hidden side of . . . well, everything. The inner working of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The secrets of the Klu Klux Klan.
What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking, and Freakonomics will redefine the way we view the modern world.
The characters in Then We Came to the End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. By day they compete for the best office furniture left behind and try to make sense of the mysterious pro-bono ad campaign that is their only remaining "work."
Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) and Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992) were perhaps the foremost defenders of the free market and limited government during the mid-twentieth century ascendancy of Keynesian economics.
Mises highlighted the problem of economic calculation in non-market economics. He saw the price system as the basis of economic calculation, and emphasized the importance of sound money for it to work properly. Mises created an all-encompassing theory of economics as a system of human action. Hayek emphasized the role of knowledge in economics, asserting that man "cannot acquire the full knowledge that would make mastery of events possible." He insisted that capitalism has improved the living conditions of workers. Hayek received the Nobel Prize in 1974.
Campbell University
"Thoughtful, highly readable account that brings economics to life."
R. Glenn Hubbard, dean, Columbia Business School
"A curious, enlightening and creative account of the world's three most influential
economists, and why their theories have had such a huge impact on the economic
history of the modern world."
Robert J. Shiller, Yale University
"I love Mark Skousen's book about the history of economistsit is so interesting and
well written, and helps us visualize the big picture."
Jeremy J. Siegel, Wharton School
and University of Pennslyvania
The Big Three in Economics reveals the battle of ideas among the three most influential economists in world history: Adam Smith, representing laissez faire; Karl Marx, reflecting the radical socialist model; and John Maynard Keynes, symbolizing big government and the welfare state.
History comes alive in this fascinating story of opposing views that continue to play a fundamental role in today's politics and economics.
In the twenty-first century, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" model has gained the upper hand, and capitalism has ultimately won the ideological battle over socialism and interventionism. But even in the era of globalization and privatization, Keynesian and Marxist ideas continue to play a significant role in economic policy in the public and private sectors.
Neil Cavuto is one of the few on television who takes his stock in trade - Wall Street - and combines that with his reporting and commentary about life into the same program. It's done with passion, honesty, and credibility.
'Treat yourself to the commentary that sets Neil apart from all the rest in Your Money or Your Life '. --- Rush Limbaugh
As the host of Fox News Channel's Your World with Neil Cavuto and Cavuto on Business , Neil Cavuto reports on today's most influential newsmakers, from CEOs to politicians—getting behind the story by connecting with the men and women who made it. And he ends each show with his own personal commentaries —sometimes witty, often inspiring, and always incisive and thought-provoking. Now, Cavuto collects the best of these essays in one volume, on topics that range from business to family to civility in public life.
Among the essays:
• Where Were You on September 10, 2001 ?... on remembering what America was like before 9/11
• We Are What We Eat... on fast food, lawsuits, and personal responsibility
• Why I Don't Trust My Uncle Sam... on how the surplus of the 1990s was bound to disappear
• Tony Soprano for Fed Chairman... on what Alan Greenspan could learn from the mob
• Tips for Empty Nesters... on how to cope when your kids leave you behind
Covering one of the most tumultuous decades in memory—from the wild and chaotic Clinton years through the sobering challenges of the ongoing War on Terror— Cavuto's words offer a window into our America at its best and its worst.
Neil Cavuto is the host of the Fox News Channel programs Your World with Neil Cavuto and Cavuto on Business and is the vice president and managing editor of business news at the network. Also the author of the NewYork Times bestseller More Than Money , Cavuto has been ranked among the most influential business journalists in America by the Journalist and Financial Reporter, and recognized by the Wall Street Journal as the best interviewer in business news. He lives in Chester, New Jersey, with his wife, Mary, and their three children.
Success means something different for everyone. For Bill Rancic, it meant taking the things he loved - like coming up with exciting ideas and never working a 9-to-5 job - and translating that into a profitable business. By the time he was thirty, he'd achieved every goal he set for himself by creating an online cigar company from scratch and then using those profits to begin a venture in real estate.
Then an opportunity came by he just couldn't pass up-a competition to test his own personal drive and street smarts against a talented pool of professional salesmen, marketers, and MBAs, where the prize was working side by side with the master of the deal himself, Donald Trump.
Being on The Apprentice made Bill Rancic an overnight celebrity. But his winning strategies were developed long before that, and in You're Hired, he uses examples from his own life to prove that the secrets of success can be found within us all.
The Sandy Weill story is truly one for the ages. Starting with $30,000 he borrowed in 1960, he created one of the leading securities firms in the U.S. After selling his company and becoming president of American Express, he then took over a sleepy consumer loan company and, over the next seventeen years, transformed it into the leading global bank: Citigroup. As Citigroup's chairman and CEO, Weill delivered an astounding 2,600 percent return to investors - better than Jack Welch or Warren Buffett during that same period.
Now, for the first time, Sandy Weill reveals the unvarnished truth about his astonishing life and career. He talks about his Brooklyn childhood, his competitors and colleagues, and his daily inspiration: his wife, Joan. And along the way, he shares the most important lessons he learned in business and in life. The Real Deal is the real deal - the true tale of a legendary financial superstar who always loved the game more than the gold.
"I've been friends with Sandy Weill for nearly thirty years, and this book is vintage
Sandy: at every turn it's spirited, passionate, and brutally honest."- President Gerald Ford
"A consummate innovator, Sandy Weill has written a memoir which uniquely brings to life the dramatic evolution of the modern financial services industry." -Alan Greenspan
"The Real Deal doesn't mince words on what it takes to be sucessful in business and life.
Sandy's drive and hard earned lessons resonate throughout this fascinating book." -Henry Kissinger
"Sandy Weill reinvented Wall Street, redefined banking and reshaped the world of financial services. He is a visionary who changed the world of business for all of us, and in doing so became that rarest of all breeds... a legend in his own time." - Ken Chenault
The Sandy Weill story is truly one for the ages. Starting with $30,000 he borrowed in 1960, he created one of the leading securities firms in the U.S. After selling his company and becoming president of American Express, he then took over a sleepy consumer loan company and, over the next seventeen years, transformed it into the leading global bank: Citigroup. As Citigroup's chairman and CEO, Weill delivered an astounding 2,600 percent return to investors - better than Jack Welch or Warren Buffett during that same period.
Now, for the first time, Sandy Weill reveals the unvarnished truth about his astonishing life and career. He talks about his Brooklyn childhood, his competitors and colleagues, and his daily inspiration: his wife, Joan. And along the way, he shares the most important lessons he learned in business and in life. The Real Deal is the real deal - the true tale of a legendary financial superstar who always loved the game more than the gold.
"I've been friends with Sandy Weill for nearly thirty years, and this book is vintage
Sandy: at every turn it's spirited, passionate, and brutally honest."- President Gerald Ford
"A consummate innovator, Sandy Weill has written a memoir which uniquely brings to life the dramatic evolution of the modern financial services industry." -Alan Greenspan
"The Real Deal doesn't mince words on what it takes to be sucessful in business and life.
Sandy's drive and hard earned lessons resonate throughout this fascinating book." -Henry Kissinger
"Sandy Weill reinvented Wall Street, redefined banking and reshaped the world of financial services. He is a visionary who changed the world of business for all of us, and in doing so became that rarest of all breeds... a legend in his own time." - Ken Chenault
SANDY WEILL and his wife, Joan, live in New York City.
JUDAH S. KRAUSHAAR, the former director of the Global Financial Services Equity Research team at Merrill Lynch, lives in Westchester Count, New York with his wife, Michele, and their three children.
HARRY CHASE is an accoumplished voice actor who has narrated countles programs including Tiger Force for Hachette Audio.
"Muhammad Yunus is a practical visionary who has improved the lives of millions
of people in his native Bangladesh and elsewhere in the world. Banker to the Poor [is]
well reasoned yet passionate."Los Angeles Times
"The Grameen Bank's record is illuminating and inspiringThis is an aid program that works."
New York Times
"[Yunus's] ideas have already had a great impact on the Third Worldhearing his appeal for a
'poverty-free world' from the source itself can be as stirring as that all-American myth of bootstrap
success."Washington PostWinner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize
In 1983, Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of
Bangladesh with miniscule loans. Believing that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege
of a few, Yunus aimed to support that spark of personal initiative and enterprise by which the
poor might lift themselves out of poverty forever. Grameen Bank now provides over 2.5 billion
dollars of micro-loans to more than two million families in rural Bangladesh. Ninety-four percent
of Yunus's clients are women, and repayment rates are nearly 100 percent.
In Banker to the Poor, Yunus traces the journey that led him to rethink the economic
relationship between rich and poor and recounts the challenges he faced in founding Grameen.
He provides wise, hopeful guidance for anyone who would like to join him in the burgeoning world
movement of micro-lending to eradicate world poverty.
Brian Cruver first entered the "Death Star," Enron's office complex, in March 2001.
He was twenty-nine years old, an eager MBA ready to cash in as a new hire with one of America's most highly valued companies.
But, from his first day - when his new boss warned him, "there was a mix-up in the hiring process," but that it was "no big deal...just think of it like you're adopted" - to his last, when he and his colleagues were given thirty minutes to leave the building, Cruver found himself enmeshed in a business cult that each day grew only more bizarre.
With dark humor and page-turning momentum, Cruver lays out firsthand: the giddy group-think nurtured by Enron's leadership, whose incessant cheerleading for the company's stock price rendered many Enronians unable to believe that they were routinely being spoon-fed lies; the "rank and yank" peer review process that fostered horse-trading among managers over which employees would be given poor evaluations; the traders who made dubious deals to ensure their own lucrative bonuses; and the sinister designs and funding of Enron's fraudulent off-the-books partnerships.
As Cruver probes the sleazy escapades that Enron executives milked for personal gain, he introduces us, up close and personal, to such storied figures as Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, and Andy Fastow, along with other important Enron personalities like Rebecca Mark; Lou Pai; Thomas White, George W. Bush's Secretary of the Army; Joe Sutton; the "Mr. Blue", a disillusioned Enron executive; and Cruver's trading floor neighbor, a machine he christened "Sherman the Shredder" - who was always working overtime.
Cruver's day-by-day chronicle, which includes a running stock ticker to show the trajectory of Enron's collapse, is instantly reminiscent of such bestsellers as Liar's Poker and Barbarians at the Gate.
Told in a fresh, empathetic voice, Anatomy of Greed is brimming with grist for political pundits and comic relief for victims of corporate collateral damage. It is also the personal story of a young executive, a Houston native, whose dream job and dream company crashed around him in an avalanche of lies and greed.
From the wreckage, this newly hardened veteran of the corporate wars has written a cautionary tale that our leaders must heed - or imperil us all to future disasters.
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? tells the story of IBM's competitive and cultural transformation. In his own words, Gerstner offers a blow-by-blow account of his arrival at the company and his campaign to rebuild the leadership team and give the workforce a renewed sense of purpose. In the process, Gerstner defined a strategy for the computing giant and remade the ossified culture bred by the company's own success.
The first-hand story of an extraordinary turnaround, a unique case study in managing a crisis, and a thoughtful reflection on the computer industry and the principles of leadership, Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? sums up Lou Gerstner's historic business achievement. Taking readers deep into the world of IBM's CEO, Gerstner recounts the high-level meetings and explains the pressure-filled, no-turning-back decisions that had to be made. He also offers his hard-won conclusions about the essence of what makes a great company run.
In the history of modern business, many companies have gone from being industry leaders to the verge of extinction. Through the heroic efforts of a new management team, some of those companies have even succeeded in resuscitating themselves and living on in the shadow of their former stature. But only one company has been at the pinnacle of an industry, fallen to near collapse, and then, beyond anyone's expectations, returned to set the agenda. That company is IBM.
In 1990, IBM had its most profitable year ever. By 1993, the computer industry had changed so rapidly the company was on its way to losing $16 billion and IBM was on a watch list for extinction -- victimized by its own lumbering size, an insular corporate culture, and the PC era IBM had itself helped invent.
Then Lou Gerstner was brought in to run IBM. Almost everyone watching the rapid demise of this American icon presumed Gerstner had joined IBM to preside over its continued dissolution into a confederation of autonomous business units. This strategy, well underway when he arrived, would have effectively eliminated the corporation that had invented many of the industry's most important technologies.
Instead, Gerstner took hold of the company and demanded the managers work together to re-establish IBM's mission as a customer-focused provider of computing solutions. Moving ahead of his critics, Gerstner made the hold decision to keep the company together, slash prices on his core product to keep the company competitive, and almost defiantly announced, "The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision."
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? tells the story of IBM's competitive and cultural transformation. In his own words, Gerstner offers a blow-by-blow account of his arrival at the company and his campaign to rebuild the leadership team and give the workforce a renewed sense of purpose. In the process, Gerstner defined a strategy for the computing giant and remade the ossified culture bred by the company's own success.
The first-hand story of an extraordinary turnaround, a unique case study in managing a crisis, and a thoughtful reflection on the computer industry and the principles of leadership, Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? sums up Lou Gerstner's historic business achievement. Taking readers deep into the world of IBM's CEO, Gerstner recounts the high-level meetings and explains the pressure-filled, no-turning-back decisions that had to be made. He also offers his hard-won conclusions about the essence of what makes a great company run.
In the history of modern business, many companies have gone from being industry leaders to the verge of extinction. Through the heroic efforts of a new management team, some of those companies have even succeeded in resuscitating themselves and living on in the shadow of their former stature. But only one company has been at the pinnacle of an industry, fallen to near collapse, and then, beyond anyone's expectations, returned to set the agenda. That company is IBM.
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