Biography & Autobiography - Business
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"I'm a Magnet to Stuff": The Life and Times of MB2 - A Life Well LivedSome people stumble into trouble. Marybeth "MB2" Buffington seems to attract it. However, when calamity comes knocking, she always manages to meet it with a grin, a quick comeback, or a linebacker-style tackle, depending on what the situation requires.In I'm a Magnet to Stuff,...
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"That Sh*t Will Never Sell!": The Story of the Men Who Sold The World What it Didn't Know it Wanted. Again and AgainDiscover how some of the world's most iconic drinks brands came to life - or didn't. Celebrated creative and marketing guru, David Gluckman, shares insider stories from decades of work in the surprising world of booze branding. From the bootlegging days of the 1930s...
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A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food"If I could have one wish it is that every eater in America would read this book." --Ruth Reichl From a pioneer of the regenerative agriculture movement, a memoir-meets-manifesto on betting the farm on a better future for our food, animals, land, local communities,...
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A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the MarketThe incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall Street. A child of the Great Depression, legendary mathematician Edward O....
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Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk from a Business RebelThe traits that make Sam Zell one of the world's most successful entrepreneurs also make him one of the most surprising, enigmatic, and entertaining mavericks in American business. Self-made billionaire Sam Zell consistently sees what others don't. From finding a market for overpriced Playboy...
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Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global EmpireThis New York Times bestseller is a "masterful" (The Washington Post), "juicy tour of the company [Jeff] Bezos built" (The New York Times Book Review), revealing the most important business story of our time by the bestselling author of The Everything Store. Almost ten...
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An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with DestinyThis 10th anniversary edition of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller includes a new introduction and afterword by the author. Chronicling the lifelong friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy that began with one small gesture of kindness, this...
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Andrew CarnegieA New York Times bestseller! "Beautifully crafted and fun to read." --Louis Galambos, The Wall Street Journal "Nasaw's research is extraordinary." --San Francisco Chronicle "Make no mistake: David Nasaw has produced the most thorough, accurate and authoritative biography of Carnegie to date." --Salon.com The...
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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American FortuneA NPR Best Book of the YearThe number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune.The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American...
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Bag Man: The Story Behind the Improbable Rise of CoachThe longtime CEO of Coach shares stories and strategies behind the company's stunning growth from a $6 million business to a $5 billion global brand.Lew Frankfort knew nothing about fashion when he became assistant to the founder of Coach. By the time he left,...
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World PovertyThe inspirational story of how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus invented microcredit, founded the Grameen Bank, and transformed the fortunes of millions of poor people around the world. Muhammad Yunus was a professor of economics in Bangladesh, who realized that the most impoverished members...
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Barbieland: The Unauthorized History"More than the story of a toy, Barbieland is the story of the 20th century." --Malcolm Harris, author of Palo Alto "Gutsy in its reporting, sharp and ambitious in its analysis, and funny as hell." --Molly Young, author of Privacy The secret history of...
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Beating the StreetLegendary money manager Peter Lynch explains his own strategies for investing and offers advice for how to pick stocks and mutual funds to assemble a successful investment portfolio. Develop a winning investment strategy with expert advice from the nation's #1 money manager. Peter Lynch's...
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Behind the Castle Walls: My Thirty Years at the Happiest Place on EarthFor the first time ever, Bob Chapek breaks his silence on his tenure as the Walt Disney Company's CEO, offering a behind-the-scenes account of the challenges he faced--from getting the job just weeks before a worldwide pandemic, to the shifting political landscape, to his...
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Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American MillionaireThe grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. Gaston was, by any...
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Bloomin' Adventures: The Partners, the Risks, and the Recipe Behind Outback SteakhouseAt nine years old, Tim Gannon was already working, delivering newspapers before sunrise to help his family make ends meet. Most people would have let that be the story. Tim let it be the foundation.He went on to co-found Outback Steakhouse, create the Bloomin'...
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Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary ArtThe meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world -- for contemporary art -- is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers. They can make and break careers and fortunes. The contemporary art market is an international juggernaut,...
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Born to Be Wired: Lessons from a Lifetime Transforming Television, Wiring America for the Internet, and Growing Formula One, Discovery, Sirius XM, andIf you've ever streamed a show on HBO Max, seen a Formula One race, hummed a tune on SiriusXM, bought concert tickets via Ticketmaster, or watched an Atlanta Braves game, you've crossed paths with John Malone. You just didn't know it. John Malone remains...
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Bottom Shelf: How a Forgotten Brand of Bourbon Saved One Man's Life"This book ain't just about whiskey. It's about heart, healing, and finding meaning in the most unexpected places." --Terry Bradshaw, NFL Hall of Fame quarterbackA forgotten bottle. A buried legacy. And one man determined to uncover the truth about his favorite bourbon.Before he became...
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Buffalo, Barrels, and Bourbon: The Story of How Buffalo Trace Distillery Became the World's Most Awarded DistilleryLearn about one of the most impactful distilleries in American history in this comprehensive tale Buffalo, Barrels, & Bourbon tells the fascinating tale of the Buffalo Trace Distillery, from the time of the earliest explorations of Kentucky to the present day. Author and award-winning...
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