The Richest Person In The World

Author : Ronald Kessler
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781538762547

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The Richest Man in the World by Ronald Kessler Pdf

New York Times bestselling author and award-winning reporter Ronald Kessler goes inside the infamously lavish life of billionaire Adnan Khashoggi, once the richest man in the world. He made more money than anyone in history. And he spent it at a dizzying clip of $330,000 a day, every day of the year. He was Adnan Mohamed Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian middleman who started out with nothing and in twenty-five years parlayed his connections to the Saudi royal family and genius at dealing with people into a fortune of colossal proportions. Uncle to Dodi Al-Fayed, Princess Diana's once boyfriend before a fatal car crash and Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist allegedly murdered in Istanbul, Adnan Khashoggi's American Express bill often exceeded $1 million. When he felt like having spaghetti, he flew to Venice for dinner on one of his three commercial-size airplanes. One of his luxury yachts, the 282-foot Nabila, was considered the most opulent modern yacht afloat and was borrowed for a James Bond movie. He even sold Donald Trump one of his 285-foot luxury super yachts for $200 million, although it is now in the hands of Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal. This remarkable book is a rare glimpse into a life of opulence beyond most people's wildest imaginings--a compelling closeup of a complex and driven man who has explored the outer reaches of success, power, and all that money can buy.

Author : James Bartholomew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015042014079

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The Richest Man in the World by James Bartholomew Pdf

Author : Ashish Kumar
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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10 Richest Person of the World by Ashish Kumar Pdf

They say money can’t buy you everything. But it is also true that money is a necessary evil. When we think of money, we have a number in mind which we feel should suffice for the rest of our life. What distinguishes the men and women in this list is their ability to allow this evil to not only run wild but master it at the same time.

Author : Greg Steinmetz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451688573

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The Richest Man Who Ever Lived by Greg Steinmetz Pdf

“A colorful introduction to one of the most influential businessmen in history” (The New York Times Book Review), Jacob Fugger—the Renaissance banker “who wrote the playbook for everyone who keeps score with money” (Bryan Burrough, author of Days of Rage). In the days when Columbus sailed the ocean and Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, a German banker named Jacob Fugger became the richest man in history. Fugger lived in Germany at the turn of the sixteenth century, the grandson of a peasant. By the time he died, his fortune amounted to nearly two percent of European GDP. In an era when kings had unlimited power, Fugger dared to stare down heads of state and ask them to pay back their loans—with interest. It was this coolness and self-assurance, along with his inexhaustible ambition, that made him not only the richest man ever, but a force of history as well. Before Fugger came along it was illegal under church law to charge interest on loans, but he got the Pope to change that. He also helped trigger the Reformation and likely funded Magellan’s circumnavigation of the globe. His creation of a news service gave him an information edge over his rivals and customers and earned Fugger a footnote in the history of journalism. And he took Austria’s Habsburg family from being second-tier sovereigns to rulers of the first empire where the sun never set. “Enjoyable…readable and fast-paced” (The Wall Street Journal), The Richest Man Who Ever Lived is more than a tale about the most influential businessman of all time. It is a story about palace intrigue, knights in battle, family tragedy and triumph, and a violent clash between the one percent and everybody else. “The tale of Fugger’s aspiration, ruthlessness, and greed is riveting” (The Economist).

Author : Tanni
Publisher : Agate Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781572847347

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The World's Richest Man: Carlos Slim In His Own Words by Tanni Pdf

When Carlos Slim claimed the top spot on Forbes’s annual list of the world’s richest people in 2010, it was the first time since 1994 that the spot wasn’t occupied by an American and, even more impressively, the first time that a person from a developing country topped the list. Although Slim is fabulously wealthy, he lives a relatively modest life, residing in the same house in Mexico City for the last 40 years. His extreme wealth and steadfast humility make him a unique creature in the world of the rich and famous. The most revelatory book available about this Mexican business magnate, comprised entirely of Slim's own thought-provoking and inspiring quotes, The World's Richest Man: Carlos Slim In His Own Words is a comprehensive guidebook to the inner workings of the world's wealthiest man and one of its most prominent philanthropists. Over 200 quotes on business, investing, entrepreneurship, leadership, management, wealth, and life provide an intimate and direct look into the mind of this modern business icon.

Author : Forbes Magazine Staff
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0471177512

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Forbes? Richest People by Forbes Magazine Staff Pdf

Who is the richest person in the world? The wealthiest American? bl12 You will find the answers to these questions, and much more, in Forbes Richest People, the most complete and informative guide to the wealthy ever published. Based on investigative reporting by the editors of America's leading business magazine, Forbes Richest People includes the lists and complete text of these popular features, assembledææ for the first timeæin a single volume: The Forbes Four Hundred Complete profiles of America's richest individuals and families, where their money came from, and how it might be divided in the next generation. The World's Billionaires A regional survey of the planet's great capitalist fortunes, including a list of the world's Top 10 Billionaires. The Forbes Super 40 Athletes Salaries and endorsement income of the top boxers, basketball players, race car drivers, and other athletes from around the world. The Forbes Top 40 Entertainers The authoritative ranking of the men and women who bring us a little pleasureææand get a lot of money for doing so. The 800 Highest-Paid CEOs A complete compilation on salaries and bonuses paid to the nation's top chief executive officers. Forbes Richest People is an indispensable book, whether you are interested in the heavy hitters of Wall Street or the heavyweight champion of the world. With an Introduction by Jonathan T. Davis. Forbes is a registered trademark of Forbes Inc. Its use is pursuant to a license agreement with Forbes Inc.

Author : Jose Martinez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Biography
ISBN : 0985247819

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Carlos Slim by Jose Martinez Pdf

Carlos Slim has become synonymous with business success and economic power. Starting to build his fortune at the age of 14, this authorized biography reveals the boy and the man behind the name, complete with advice from the richest man on Earth on how to maintain a balanced life, inspiring readers to achieve their own destiny. He is a blueprint for how to turn adversity into success.--Publisher.

Author : Steven K. Scott
Publisher : Crown Currency
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780385517775

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The Richest Man Who Ever Lived by Steven K. Scott Pdf

In this short, powerful book, multimillionaire and bestselling author Steven K. Scott reveals King Solomon’s breakthrough strategies to achieve a life of financial success and personal fulfillment. Steve Scott flunked out of every job he held in his first six years after college. He couldn’t succeed no matter how hard he tried. Then Dr. Gary Smalley challenged him to study the book of Proverbs, promising that in doing so he would achieve greater success and happiness than he had ever known. That promise came true, making Scott a millionaire many times over. In The Richest Man Who Ever Lived, Scott reveals Solomon’s key for winning every race, explains how to resolve conflicts and turn enemies into allies, and discloses the five qualities essential to becoming a valued and admired person at work and in your personal life. Scott illustrates each of Solomon’s insights and strategies with anecdotes about his personal successes and failures, as well as those of such extraordinary people as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, and Steven Spielberg. At once inspiring and instructive, The Richest Man Who Ever Lived weaves the timeless truths of one of our greatest works of literature into a detailed roadmap for successful living today.

Author : Diego Osorno
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786634368

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Carlos Slim by Diego Osorno Pdf

Can one of the richest men in the world be a good person? The rich are not like us. Great wealth brings both power and immunity, a pairing that opens a yawning moral abyss at the feet of the world’s billionaires. Carlos Slim is one of eight people whose combined wealth equals that of the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorest half of humanity. A businessman who dominates telecoms and global real estate, and a major shareholder of the New York Times, Slim exerts a degree of power in Mexico unmatched by any politician. The biography of Carlos Slim, one of the richest people of all time, is a case study in the ethical and psychological effects of extraordinary wealth. Not just the tale of the first man from a developing country ever to reach the top of the Forbes list of billionaires, it presents a living embodiment of the financial mentality of our time, a man who mistrusts politicians and believes the market to be the answer to everything—even corruption. In short, Slim’s story is that of Latin America’s last half century and indeed the wider world. After years of thorough investigation, Diego Osorno has produced an extraordinary portrait detailing the effects of great wealth. His time with Slim forces Osorno to pose an age-old question: What does it profit a man if he gains the world and loses his own soul?

Author : Ben Hewitt
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781609614096

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Saved by Ben Hewitt Pdf

When Ben Hewitt met Erik Gillard, he was amazed. Here was a real-life rebel living happily and comfortably in small-town Vermont on less than $10,000 per year. Gillard's no bum. He has a job, a girlfriend, good friends, and strong ties to the community. But how he lives his life—and why—launches Hewitt on a quest to understand the true role of money and mindless consumerism in our lives. By meeting and befriending people like Erik Gillard, Hewitt realized that their happiness was real. What was he—and the rest of a deeply unhappy population—missing? Saved is the humorous, surprising, and ultimately life-changing result of Hewitt's quest, a narrative that challenges everything we know about the meaning of money. Hewitt uses his sharp eye for story, exhaustive reporting, and his own experience living below his means to bring what he learned into an even larger context. How does money really work? How can a bankrupt society move forward? The answers are not what you think, and Hewitt has written an important book for our times.

Author : Brad Stone
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780316219259

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The Everything Store by Brad Stone Pdf

The authoritative account of the rise of Amazon and its intensely driven founder, Jeff Bezos, praised by the Seattle Times as "the definitive account of how a tech icon came to life." Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now. Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, giving readers the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. Compared to tech's other elite innovators -- Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg -- Bezos is a private man. But he stands out for his restless pursuit of new markets, leading Amazon into risky new ventures like the Kindle and cloud computing, and transforming retail in the same way Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing. The Everything Store is the revealing, definitive biography of the company that placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet and forever changed the way we shop and read.

Author : Bernd W. Wirtz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030634827

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Digital Business and Electronic Commerce by Bernd W. Wirtz Pdf

This textbook introduces readers to digital business from a management standpoint. It provides an overview of the foundations of digital business with basics, activities and success factors, and an analytical view on user behavior. Dedicated chapters on mobile and social media present fundamental aspects, discuss applications and address key success factors. The Internet of Things (IoT) is subsequently introduced in the context of big data, cloud computing and connecting technologies, with a focus on industry 4.0, smart business services, smart homes and digital consumer applications, as well as artificial intelligence. The book then turns to digital business models in the B2C (business-to-consumer) and B2B (business-to-business) sectors. Building on the business model concepts, the book addresses digital business strategy, discussing the strategic digital business environment and digital business value activity systems (dVASs), as well as strategy development in the context of digital business. Special chapters explore the implications of strategy for digital marketing and digital procurement. Lastly, the book discusses the fundamentals of digital business technologies and security, and provides an outline of digital business implementation. A comprehensive case study on Google/Alphabet, explaining Google's organizational history, its integrated business model and its market environment, rounds out the book.

Author : Jonathan Conlin
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782834441

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Mr Five Per Cent by Jonathan Conlin Pdf

Winner of the BAC Wadsworth Prize for Business History 2020 When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known as 'Mr Five Per Cent' for his personal share of Middle East oil. The son of a wealthy Armenian merchant in Istanbul, for half a century he brokered top-level oil deals, concealing his mysterious web of business interests and contacts within a labyrinth of Asian and European cartels, and convincing governments and oil barons alike of his impartiality as an 'honest broker'. Today his name is known principally through the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, to which his spectacular art collection and most of his vast wealth were bequeathed. Gulbenkian's private life was as labyrinthine as his business dealings. He insisted on the highest 'moral values', yet ruthlessly used his wife's charm as a hostess to further his career, and demanded complete obedience from his family, whom he monitored obsessively. As a young man he lived a champagne lifestyle, escorting actresses and showgirls, and in later life - on doctor's orders - he slept with a succession of discreetly provided young women. Meanwhile he built up a superb art collection which included Rembrandts and other treasures sold to him by Stalin from the Hermitage Museum. Published to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth, Mr Five Per Cent reveals Gulbenkian's complex and many-sided existence. Written with full access to the Gulbenkian Foundation's archives, this is the fascinating story of the man who more than anyone else helped shape the modern oil industry.

Author : Steve Siebold
Publisher : Simple Truths
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Finance, Personal
ISBN : 1492697346

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How Rich People Think by Steve Siebold Pdf

"Originally published in 2010 in the United States by London House Press. This edition issued based on the hardcover edition published in 2014 in the United States by Simple Truths, an imprint of Sourcebooks"--Title page verso.

Author : Steven Naifeh,Gregory White Smith
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060039661

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Final Justice by Steven Naifeh,Gregory White Smith Pdf

Story of Cullen Davis who believed money could buy anything, and his trial for murdering his twelve year old stepdaughter.