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This is the true story behind Wall Street legend Richard Dennis, his disciples, the Turtles, and the trading techniques that made them millionaires. What happens when ordinary people are taught a system to make extraordinary money? Richard Dennis made a fortune on Wall Street by investing according to a few simple rules.

When André de Ruyter took over as Eskom CEO in January 2020, he quickly realised why it was considered the toughest job in South Africa. Aside from neglected equipment, ageing power stations and an eroded skills base, he discovered that Eskom was crippled by corruption on a staggering scale. De Ruyter takes the listener inside the boardrooms and government meetings where South Africa’s future is shaped, with ministers often pulling in conflicting directions, and candidly reflects on his three years at the power utility.

Rockefeller was the quintessential industrialist. He created an industry out of nascent oil and gas start-ups during a time when none existed. His strategies and tactics may not have been approved by all, but he was certain he was doing God’s work. We live in a world today that is based on the actions of John D. Rockefeller. Everything we do and how we live are the result of oil and its power. This inherent structure is based on what one man did when the oil industry was just starting off.

Ever wondered what would happen to your life if you just said "screw the rules"? Drayton Bird is one of the world’s best-known copywriters and direct marketing experts, having taught many thousands in 55 countries and worked with some of the world’s biggest organisations. A former member of the worldwide board of Ogilvy and Mather, he was a close associate of the late David Ogilvy - perhaps the most influential advertising man of the 20th century.

From Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben to the Jolly Green Giant and Ronald McDonald, corporate icons sell billions of dollars’ worth of products. But only one of them was ever a real person—Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC. From a 1930s roadside café in Corbin, Kentucky, Harland Sanders launched a fried chicken business that now circles the globe, serving “finger lickin’ good” chicken to more than 12 million people every day.

When we left Buffett at the end of volume two, he had reached a fortune of one billion dollars. In this enthralling next installment, we follow Buffett's investment deals over the decade from 1989 to 1998, as Berkshire shares jumped 14-fold from $4,700 to $68,000 and its market cap grew from five billion to one hundred billion. Buffett was as driven as ever to seek out great companies at good prices. By studying the decision-making that went into his investment deals, and the successful and unsuccessful outcomes, we can learn from Buffett and become better investors ourselves.

Découvrez les 33 lois qui ont fait le succès de Steven Bartlett, investisseur à succès et star des réseaux sociaux !

Conventional wisdom says most startups need to be in Silicon Valley, started by young engineers around a sexy new idea and backed by VC funding. But as Mikkel Svane reveals in Startupland, the story of founding Zendesk was anything but conventional. Founded in a Copenhagen loft by three 30-something friends looking to break free from corporate doldrums, Zendesk Inc. became one of the hottest enterprise software companies, rapidly growing with customers in 150 countries. But its success was anything but predestined.

「結婚式は不要不急なんかじゃない」大切な人生の節目をふたりとともに創る。どんなときも「最高の結婚式」を追求する――コロナ禍でウェディングプランナーは何を想い、新郎新婦にいかに寄り添ったのか。

Bestselling author A. E. Hotchner's intimate account of his 53-year friendship with his pal Paul Newman. A. E. Hotchner first met Paul Newman in 1955 when the virtually unknown actor assumed the lead role in Hotchner’s first television play, based on an Ernest Hemingway story. The project...

James Harmon has always had a passion for ambitious causes. As a banker, he successfully advised corporations, like Starbucks, and helped them to become cultural institutions. Dabbling in the movie and music industries, he found meaning in funding the art he felt would make people happy and add to the public good. His unique perspective on investment led him to the Clinton White House as head of EXIM Bank and, eventually, to Egypt, where he represented the State Department shortly after the Arab Spring. Still ​"up and doing," today he co-chairs the board of the World Resources Institute.

When I bounced the idea of An Accidental Life off Jim Browne, my financial manager with a keen understanding of the human condition, he said that all of us benefit from serendipity, from the accidental life. (We in fact met by happy accident.) He added that my life was and is typical, or perhaps a tad off the norm. Surely he's correct in that we all benefit from fortuitous events, but I think he's incorrect in saying that such events in my life are typical or normal.

In this “intimate celebration of queerness”, readers will meet the LGBTQ+ heroes who are changing the world on step at a time (OUT Magazine). Collecting deeply personal conversations with inspirational LGBTQ+ trailblazers (from Troye Sivan to Margaret Cho) about how they leveraged the...

Audiobook, który widzisz przed sobą to trzecia część z serii zawierającej łącznie pięćdziesiąt krótkich biografii nieprzeciętnych ludzi – przedsiębiorców samouków, którzy często wbrew ciężkim warunkom, biedzie i brakowi szkolnej edukacji odnieśli w życiu wielkie sukcesy, w sposób zasadniczy wpływając na świat, jaki znamy.

In this revealing and beautifully written memoir, Mark Obama Ndesandjo recounts his complex relationship with his older half brother, President Barack Obama, including their first meeting in Kenya over 20 years ago. The book also offers the author's inspiring personal story about identity and multiculturalism.

चालू वर्ष हे महामानव डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर यांच्या एकशे पंचविसाव्या जयंतीचं आहे. डॉ. आंबेडकरांनी दलित समाजाला मोकळा श्वास घेण्याची संधी दिली, नवं आकाश दाखवलं. त्या समाजाचा आवाज बुलंद केला. प्रत्येकानं शिक्षण घेतलंच पाहिजे असा आग्रह धरला. त्यातूनच कर्तबगारीची नवनवी शिखरं दलित बांधवांनी काबीज केली.

आय.टी.मध्ये नोकरी करणाऱ्या पल्लवी उटगी यांनी स्वत: आई झाल्यानंतर नोकरीला रामराम करून एका उद्योगाची सुरूवात केली. हा उद्योग त्यांना सुचला तो त्यांच्या मातृत्वादरम्यान, बाळाला लागणाऱ्या उत्तम, आरोग्यदायी डायपर्सच्या गरजेतून. भारतात अनेक प्रकारची डायपर्स मिळतात, शिवाय जुन्या काळापासून लहान बाळांकरता लंगोटही वापरले जातात, तरीही हे पर्याय पल्लवी यांना का सोयीचे वाटले नाहीत? मग त्याकरता त्यांनी कोणता पर्याय शोधून काढला? त्याचंच रुपांतर पुढे उद्योगात कसं झालं, त्याचीच ही कहाणी! ऐका, मिलिंद कुलकर्णी यांच्या आवाजात.

दैनंदिन वापराच्या बहुराष्ट्रीय कंपन्यांनी उत्पादित केलेल्या वस्तू सर्वसामान्य ग्राहकाच्या आवाक्यात नसतात, पण त्या वापरण्याला पर्यायही नसतो. गेल्या काही वर्षात पतंजली या ब्रँडने अस्सल भारतीय बनावटीच्या अशा अनेक वस्तुंचं उत्पादन सुरू केलं आणि रास्त किंमतीत त्याची विक्री केली.