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The Rothschild Legacy: Power, Wealth, and Influence takes listeners on a journey through the fascinating history of one of the most influential and controversial families in the world—the Rothschilds. From their humble beginnings in 18th-century Frankfurt to their rise as banking giants, the Rothschild family has long been synonymous with immense wealth, power, and global influence.

Cohen shows how smart guys like Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg fell in love with a radically individualistic ideal and then mainstreamed it. With these very rich men leading the way, unions, libraries, public schools, common courtesy, and even government itself have been pushed aside to make way for supposedly efficient market-based encounters via the Internet. Donald Trump's election victory was an inadvertent triumph of the "disruption" that Silicon Valley has been pushing. A society that belittles civility, empathy, and collaboration can easily be led astray.

In The Diary of a West Point Cadet, by Captain Preston Pysh, the author teaches essential West Point leadership through the most fun and unique reading of any book in its class. Each intriguing firsthand account of Preston's top 12 enthralling and hilarious stories from attending West Point, will capture your interest and imagination. The stories walk the reader down a personal journey many outsiders never see behind the thick stoney walls.

When 21-year-old Michael Dell asked E. Lee Walker to be the president of his fledgling computer company, PC’s Limited, Walker, in his mid-40s, immediately thought about all the people who had helped him through life - as an undergraduate at Texas A&M, a graduate student at Harvard, and a once-young entrepreneur himself. As he and Dell created the foundation of what would become one of the most successful companies in the world, Walker was guided by the lessons of his past business ventures, his belief in the power of imagination, and his relationships with people.

El retrato demoledor de una dinastía cuya fortuna se construyó gracias a Valium y cuya reputación fue destruida por OxyContin.

GOLD MEMBER WINNER — LIVING NOW BOOK AWARD: SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP and eLIT BOOK AWARD: BUSINESS AUDIOBOOK A timely resource for Black professionals on how to rise to the top of their organizations or industries and, just as importantly, to stay there. Black Faces in High Places is the...

Plan your financial worries away. David Stone has been helping individuals and business owners plan their financial matters since 1992, and in The Power of a Plan, he shares strategies you can use to improve your financial situation now and plan for the future. Markets will fluctuate and investments will falter, but with a plan, you can endure the trying times.

En los años 70 y 80, mientras ABC, NBC y CBS se disputaban cada pantalla, una familia mexicana, junto a un astuto operador estadounidense, construía en silencio las bases de un imperio. Frente a magnates televisivos como Ted Turner y Rupert Murdoch lograron lo impensable: abrirse paso en el cerrado mundo de la televisión estadounidense. Más tarde, tras ser expulsados del mercado por intereses políticos y corporativos, regresaron gracias a una alianza tan improbable como estratégica con el exrepresentante artístico de Ronald Reagan, Elizabeth Taylor y Marlon Brando.

Wouldn't life be better if you were free of the daily grind - the conventional job and boss - and instead, succeeded or failed purely on the merits of your own investment choices? Free Capital is a window into this world. Based on a series of interviews, it outlines the investing strategies, wisdom, and lifestyles of 12 highly successful private investors. Each of them has accumulated £1 million or more - in most cases, considerably more - mainly from stock market investment.

This is the sprawling story of what led to the Ghosn Shock and what was left in its wake. The book chronicles Ghosn's two decades building a colossal partnership between Nissan and Renault. To the world it looked like a new model for a global business, but the alliance's shiny image fronted an unsteady, tense operation. Culture clashes, infighting among executives and engineers, dueling corporate traditions, and government maneuvering constantly threatened the venture.

Steve Jobs was a remarkable man who wanted to unify the world through technology. For him, the point was to set people free with tools to explore their own unique creativity. Chrisann Brennan knows this better than anyone. She met him in high school, at a time when Jobs was passionately aware that there was something much bigger to be had out of life, and that new kinds of revelations were within reach. The Bite in the Apple is the very human tale of Jobs's ascent and the toll it took.

Called the "greatest stock picker of the century" by Money magazine, legendary fund manager Sir John Templeton is remembered as one of the world's foremost investors, known for his pioneering insights and phenomenal investment performance over a professional career which spanned more than half a century. Templeton's Way with Money provides a unique, professional 21st century appraisal of what made this formidable investor the success he was and why his methods remain as valid today as they were during his long and successful lifetime.

Lady, You Got Balls is for anyone wanting to run a successful company and live a life of purpose when the challenges seem too overwhelming to overcome. You will laugh, maybe cry, and gain an understanding of your own journey as Pat shares no-nonsense business and spiritual insights. While her audiobook is primarily for women entrepreneurs, Pat’s life and business wisdom speak to anyone who has a dream.

How did a small business from a regional Aussie town get voted the world's best gin producer THREE times? Four Pillars Gin, a craft distillery in Victoria's Yarra Valley, today is not only an Australian favourite but a global powerhouse. Co-founder Matt Jones shares the secrets behind building a brand that started as a small cult favourite and has become a world-leading success. Including stories, recipes and business lessons from a decade of gin-soaked archives, Lessons from Gin has the ingredients you need to grow your own business and brand.

Feel trapped in the firm you’ve built? You’re not alone. What began as a dream of independence and purpose has turned into a grind. The long hours, constant demands, and endless responsibilities have left you burned out, exhausted, and dreading the workday. Instead of freedom, your firm feels like a burden. It doesn’t have to stay that way. In The Simple Firm, you’ll discover a proven framework to release the overwhelm and build a firm that truly works for you.

Jerry Kroll has been turning the impossible into the possible for decades, from his humble beginnings working in his parents’ greenhouses to his international travels while managing world-class race car drivers to founding Electra Meccanica, the company responsible for the world’s foremost one-seater electric car. With his latest adventure, Jerry has launched a new company—Jevitty Life Science—and is taking on the biggest challenge yet: revolutionizing health care and championing the cure for aging. And not a moment too soon!

Join David Denby, New Yorker critic and otherwise sensible man, on a whirlwind ride through an exuberant stock market, investment feeding frenzy, and the cataclysmic result of greed and illusion.

Raising an Entrepreneur presents 76 stories from the mothers of some of the most successful entrepreneurs today. Entrepreneurs are the new rock stars - they're the ones who turn their passions into ingenious projects, because they're willing to risk failure to make their dreams come true.

So You Want to Start a Brewery? is the first-person account of Tony Magee's gut-wrenching challenges and heart-warming successes in founding Lagunitas Brewing Company. In just 20 years, the company has grown from a seat-of-the-pants, one-man operation to be the fifth largest--and the fastest growing--craft brewer in the United States.

In Airing Out Your Vagina, Allie Trimble-Lozano—a 45-year-old hospital CEO, single mom, and trailblazer in the medical industry—bares it all with raw honesty and wicked humor. This no-holds-barred memoir chronicles Allie's journey from people-pleasing Southern belle to unapologetic boss babe, offering a refreshing take on modern womanhood.