The Quotable Billionaire: Advice and Reflections from and for the Real, Former, Almost, and Wanna-Be Super-Rich . . . and Others Contributor(s): Price, Steven D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1602397295 ISBN-13: 9781602397293 Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2009 Annotation: Quotations about money-lots of it-and how to make and use and lose it from the world's richest men and women, past and present. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Personal Finance - Money Management - Business & Economics | Motivational - Business & Economics | Investments & Securities - Stocks |
Dewey: 658.409 |
LCCN: 2009015794 |
Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6.14" W x 7.12" (0.72 lbs) 304 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: What the super-rich and others have to say about money in these pages is sometimes enlightening, sometimes profound, often entertaining, and always revealing. Topics include wealth ("If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man."--J. Paul Getty); investing ("Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years."--Warren Buffett); success ("The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well."--John D. Rockefeller); and leadership ("The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks."--Rupert Murdoch). In addition are proverbs, quips, and other commentary on all aspects of having a fortune. |
Contributor Bio(s): Price, Steven D.: - Steven D. Price is the author or editor of more than forty books, including the bestselling The Whole Horse Catalog, the prize-winning The American Quarter Horse, The Quotable Horse Lover, and All the King's Horses: The Story of the Budweiser Clydesdales. He lives in New York City, rides whenever and wherever he can, and numbers Don Burt among the finest horsemen he's known. |