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B.C. Forbes (1880-1954), a Scottish-American financial journalist and founder of Forbes magazine, dedicated his career to uncovering the secrets of personal and professional success. Through his writings and interviews with successful individuals, Forbes shared valuable insights and practical wisdom to inspire others on their journey to achievement and fulfillment.
Bite-sized Servings of Timeless Wisdom SPECIAL: Buy the paperback, get the Kindle version free! The ship on a grand voyage -- whether across the ocean or through the stars -- is kept on the best path through small, measured course corrections. The words of Forbes Wisdom provide just this sort of guidance for anyone seeking meaningful success. B.C. Forbes, founder and editor of Forbes Magazine, often found himself with small spaces left between articles. So he poured his knowledge of business and life into writing short proverbs to fill these gaps. Readers loved them and asked for more. In 1922, this collection of 1000 beloved sayings was published under the title Forbes Epigrams. Their collected message has the power to educate, challenge and entertain. Readers will find wisdom for business and life on numerous topics: Integrity Success Growth Adversity Lifelong Learning Leadership Meaningful Work Initiative Wealth and Contentment and many more! Whether you read the book straight through or pick a proverb each day to reflect on, Forbes Wisdom provides guidance to assist you on your own grand voyage. Note: This publication is not affiliated with Forbes Magazine or Forbes Media.
Excerpt from Men Who Are Making America "How can I attain success?" That is what every rational human being wants to know. This book tells in an intimate way how fifty of America's foremost business and financial leaders of the present day have climbed the ladder of success. The selection of the fifty is based on the replies received from business men all over the country to the question: "Who Are Our Fifty Foremost Business Men, Men Who Are Making America?" In all but a few instances, based on geographical or exceptional circumstances, the list represents those who were accorded the highest number of votes. Having been thus singled out as the most successful American business men now living...
Introducing the new Fisher Investment Series, comprised of engaging and informative titles written by renowned money manager and bestselling author Ken Fisher. This series offers essential insights into the worlds of investing and finance. Over the course of nearly two centuries, the innovations, mistakes, and scandals of different market participants have played an important role in shaping today's financial markets. Now, in 100 Minds That Made the Market, Ken Fisher delivers cameo biographies of these pioneers of American financial history. From Joe Kennedy's "sexcapades" to Jesse Livermore's suicide, this book details the drama, the dirt, and the financial principles of an amazingly inven...
[H]appily, as already said, many modern leaders in business now feel that the mere piling up of millions is not the highest goal attainable in business, but that the supreme purpose of any business must be to render a service equal to the price charged for it, and that the business man or business enterprise that aspires to win the highest recognition for success must distinguish himself or itself, not by the magnitude of profits, but by the value of service performed. -from "What Constitutes Success in Business?" As the founder and longtime editor of Forbes Magazine, B. C. Forbes not only hobnobbed with some of the most successful and respected men in the worlds of high finance, industry, a...
"The future of magazines? Murky. Their past? Glorious. How we got from there to here is told in this compelling history. It's thrilling, funny, disturbing, sad, and ultimately inspiring. And in these pages are broad and helpful hints on how we can return to glorious."---Richard B. Stolley, Founding Editor, People, and Senior Editorial Adviser, Time Inc. --Book Jacket.
PREFACE. THE Author of this very practical treatise on Scotch Loch - Fishing desires clearly that it may be of use to all who had it. He does not pretend to have written anything new, but to have attempted to put what he has to say in as readable a form as possible. Everything in the way of the history and habits of fish has been studiously avoided, and technicalities have been used as sparingly as possible. The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general. This section is interleaved with blank shects for...
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Describes the life of William Randolph Hearst, head of an American publishing empire by the 1930s, strong political presence, and subject of the film "Citizen Kane."