| Wealth Secrets of the One Percent: A Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich Contributor(s): Wilkin, Sam (Introduction by), Barrett, Joe (Read by) |
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ISBN: 147893431X ISBN-13: 9781478934318 Publisher: Little Brown and Company OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: August 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Personal Finance - Investing - Business & Economics | Finance - Wealth Management |
| Dewey: 330.16 |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 5.31" W x 5.82" (0.55 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Discover how the super wealthy made it to the top--and how you can too From the richest Romans to the robber barons to today's bankers and tech billionaires, Sam Wilkin offers Freakonomics-esque insight into what it really takes to make a fortune. These stories of larger-than-life characters, strategies, and sacrifices reveal how the wealthiest did it--usually by a passion for finding loopholes, working around bureaucratic systems, and creating obstacles for competitors.Wealth Secrets of the One Percent gets at the heart of our feelings about the 1 percent of top income earners and the roughly 0.0001 percent who achieve billionaire status: we love to hate them, but we'd love to be them. Wilkin's insight into the sources of wealth is thought-provoking and rigorous, and he reveals that behind almost every great fortune is a "wealth secret"--a moneymaking technique designed to defeat the forces of market competition. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wilkin, Sam: - Sam Wilkin is the head of business research at Oxford Economics, one of the world's foremost global forecasting and research consultancies. He received his MA in international relations from the University of Chicago and his BA in economics from Eckerd College. Wilkin was also the 2004 alumni fellow for Eckerd College. Barrett, Joe: -Joe Barrett has appeared both on and off Broadway as well as in hundreds of radio and television commercials. He has earned multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and has been nominated for the prestigious Audie Award. He has narrated books by such authors as Trevanian, Brian Freeman, Don Winslow, and James W. Huston. |