Biography & Autobiography - Business

The Long Waves in Economic Life is a book written by Nikolai D. Kondratieff in 1935. It is a pioneering work in the field of economics that explores the idea of long-term economic cycles, also known as Kondratieff cycles or waves. Kondratieff argues that...

The Complete Servant is a practical guidebook written by Samuel Adams in 1826. It provides a comprehensive overview of the duties and responsibilities of servants in various roles, including butlers, footmen, cooks, housekeepers, and chambermaids. The book covers a wide range of topics, from...

Wild Flowers, Where to Find, and How to Know Them: With Remarks on the Economical and Medicinal Uses of Our Native Plants is a book written by Spencer Thomson and published in 1864. The book is a comprehensive guide to identifying and understanding wildflowers...

The Society Of Tomorrow: A Forecast Of Its Political And Economic Organization is a book written by Gustave De Molinari in 1904. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the future political and economic organization of society. Molinari, a Belgian economist and philosopher, was...

An insider's look at the Jim Beam brand, from a 7th generation Master Distiller Written by the 7th generation Beam family member and Master Distiller, Frederick Booker Noe III, Beam, Straight Up is the first book to be written by a Beam, the family...

In the tradition of Kitchen Confidential and Waiter Rant, a rollicking, eye-opening, fantastically indiscreet memoir of a life spent (and misspent) in the hotel industry. Jacob Tomsky never intended to go into the hotel business. As a new college graduate, armed only with a...

In this tale of grit and glamour, setbacks and comebacks, business and pop culture icon Tommy Hilfiger shares his extraordinary life story for the first time. Few designers have stayed on top of changing trends the way Tommy Hilfiger has. Fewer still have left...

Courtier to the Crowd is the full-length biography of the public relations pioneer Ivy Ledbetter Lee.This book traces the story of Lee through his early training in the family of a Methodist minister and in schools, in the newspaper office, as a fledgling publicist,...

The high-tech world moves at lightning speed. To sell in that world, you need to be even faster. What do you do when everyone around you - your customers, your co-workers, and even your support teams - tells you NO How do you change...

In a new, updated edition is the famous story of an ex-GI named Stuart Brent who turned his passion for reading into a bookstore that became a mecca for book lovers across America. The Seven Stairs is Stuart Brent's exuberant memoir reveals the strategies...

Ever since the banking crisis started in 2007, obtaining bank loans for commercial proposes such as lines of credit, inventory, or equipment loans has been a daunting task. But Think Outside the Bank is a timely book full of timeless wisdom about how entrepreneurs...

Tim Taylor's story is not simply that of a single individual, but a metaphor for an era that took us to the moon. Launch Fever is an inspiration not only to the rocket scientist but also to every entrepreneur starting or dreaming of starting...

After graduating from Harvard Business School, James L. Ferguson worked at Procter & Gamble for a decade. Both tenures served to prepare him for success at General Foods Corporation in White Plains, New York. Looking back to his childhood in Evanston, Ilinois, Ferguson sees...

Author: Wilber HardeeISBN-10: 0595140017ISBN-13: 9780595140015Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2000Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d

Transform Doubt and Despair into Confidence and SuccessHaving grown up learning disabled, Dan Leever spent much of his life feeling like a failure. But he turned his difficulty into a drive to succeed, eventually overseeing the fiftyfold growth in value of MacDermid Inc. in...

Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle-Class Investors focuses on the spectacularly successful career of financier Charles Merrill (1885-1956), the founder of Merrill Lynch & Co., the world's largest brokerage and investment firm. Merrill was the most innovative entrepreneur in the United...

A native of Scotland, Andrew Carnegie emigrated to Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in his youth and through voracious reading and personal initiative became one of the richest men in American history. His autobiography recounts the real-life, rags-to-riches tale of an immigrant's rise from telegrapher's clerk to...

Jack Welch steht an der Spitze eines der erfolgreichsten internationalen Mischkonzerne und ist sozusagen der Goldstandard, an dem alle anderen CEOs gemessen werden. "Jack Welch Speaks" ist das einzige Buch, das Jack Welch in seinen eigenen Worten portr舩iert. Es gibt einen einmaligen Einblick in...

Eine gelungene Mischung aus historischen Fakten, Anekdoten und Einblicken in die moderne Finanzwelt! Der Lebensweg von Andre Meyer, der von Rockefeller als einer der kreativsten Geister des Investmentgeschäfts bezeichnet wurde, wird anschaulich nachgezeichnet - von seiner Emigration aus dem besetzten Frankreich über seine bahnbrechenden...

"Adventures of a Bystander" is Drucker's autobiographical collection of stories and vignettes that create a social portrait of his life and times. This personal and informal work portrays Drucker as a leader and thinker of infinite curiosity, imaginative, sympathetic, and enormously interested in people,...

Benjamin Graham ist eine der legend舐en Gestalten der Wall Street. Mit der Zeit stieg sein Ruf, und heute ist seine Investment-Philosophie bemerkenswert popul舐 und anerkannt. Janet Lowe fderte durch akribische Forschung Schriftst?ke, Artikel, Briefe und Abhandlungen der illustren Perslichkeit zutage, bisher selten oder nicht...

David Ogilvy schuf eines der grö ten Imperien der Werbebranche der Welt - quasi aus dem Nichts! Seine Autobiographie, gespickt mit fesselnd erzählten Anekdoten, lä t den Leser teilhaben am Auf und Ab seines keineswegs geradlinigen Werdeganges, an seinen ersten Eindrücken von Amerika, seinem...

The biography of one of the most controversial figures in sports: New York Yankees owner George SteinbrennerFor 34 years, he berated his players and tormented Yankees managers and employees. He played fast and loose with the rules, and twice could have gone to jail....

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: Dan RottenbergISBN-10: 0415935229ISBN-13: 9780415935227Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2003Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.48h x 6.02w x 1.13dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 09/22/2003 pg. 96

This book is the true story of H. L. Hunt and family. It is not an authorized biography. However, in the course of researching the book and the Texas Monthly and Playboy articles which preceded it, the author was able to interview members of...

"Engaging--. Terrific--. Takes us over the collar line with grace and authority."--The New York Times As a veteran reporter throughout the "downsizing" years of the auto industry in the United States and Canada, Queens-born Solange De Santis covered her fair share of auto plant...

He is Thomas Edison and Henry Ford rolled into one -- except that William Henry Gates III maybe smarter and more successful than either. He is America's richest man, and on the corporate landscape, he may well be the most feared. In less than...

How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford's outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this engaging and superbly researched biography. The real Henry...

A little over a century ago, the world went wireless. Cables and all their limiting inefficiencies gave way to a revolutionary means of transmitting news and information almost everywhere, instantaneously. By means of "Hertzian waves," as radio waves were initially known, ships could now...

Jonathan A. Knee had a ringside seat during the go-go, boom-and-bust decade and into the 21st century, at the two most prestigious investment banks on Wall Street--Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. In this candid and irreverent insider's account of an industry in free fall,...

Barely literate, and supporting his mother and sisters from the age of ten, Abu Chaker built up a business empire--despite twice losing everything he had. Diana Darke follows his tumultuous journey, from instability in Syria and civil war in Lebanon, to his arrival in...

Denby's writing has made him one of the country's most sought-after critics, and Great Books was a New York Times bestseller. Here Denby tells the story not only of his own decline, but of his new friends Sam Waksal, indicted founder of ImClone, and...

Victor Zarnowitz is a world-famous economist. Victor Zarnowitz is also a man who grew up in the Polish town of Oswiecim, known in German as Auschwitz. Zarnowitz and his brother fled the area as the Nazis advanced in September 1939. Moving eastward, he landed...

The Lady Upstairs is the dramatic story of Dorothy Schiff--liberal activist, society stalwart, and the most dynamic female newspaper publisher of her day. From 1939 until 1976 she owned and guided the New York Post, the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the United...

Out on the Deep Blue is the first collection of dramatic, first-person accounts of commercial fishing written by the men and women who work in the nation's most dangerous occupation. Nineteen diverse fisher-writers, from the famous to the unknown, take the reader swordfish harpooning...

It's Never Too Late to Top Your Personal Best. Both a riveting account of a life spent pulling off improbable triumphs and a report back from the front of the global-energy and natural-resource wars, The First Billion Is the Hardest tells the story of...

Before the robber barons there were Civil War barons--a remarkable yet largely unknown group of men whose contributions won the war and shaped America's future. The Civil War woke a sleeping giant in America, creating unprecedented industrial growth that not only supported the struggle...

This is the first biography of William McChesney Martin, Jr. (1906-1998), the first paid president of the New York Stock Exchange and the chairman of the Federal Reserve System under Presidents Truman to Nixon. The extent of Martin's influence on the course of American...

In Myself and Strangers, John Graves, the highly regarded author of Goodbye to a River and other classic works, recalls the decade-long apprenticeship in which he found his voice as a writer. He recounts his wanderings from Texas to Mexico, New York, and Spain,...

I should be dead today. Instead, I am gifted with a life beyond my wildest dreams and have yet taken that for granted. It is my responsibility to pass it on, the future is now. As I continue to witness the rising amount of...

Paul Cabot (1898-1994) was an innovative mutual fund manager and executive known for his strong character, charismatic personality, and trendsetting financial achievements. Iconoclastic and rebellious, Cabot broke free from the Boston Brahmin trustee mold to pursue new ways of investing and serving investment clients....

A fascinating and comprehensive look into the life of American fashion designer Ralph Lauren, now with an afterword."Deep-dish...sharp-clawed...honestly admiring."--New York TimesThere are at least two Ralph Laurens. To the public he's a gentle, modest, yet secure and purposeful man. Inside the walls of Polo...

An honest, sharp-witted, practical guide to help you get and keep the job you want--from an outsider whose been there and done it, a woman who went from being a broke, divorced, college dropout to running some of the biggest websites in the world.Jennifer...

This female Mad Men-like story chronicles the legendary Cosmopolitan magazine editor's rise to power as both a cultural icon and trailblazer who redefined what it means to be an American woman."Engaging.... Nimble-footed.... Amusing....Throughout, Hauser weaves in passages connecting Brown to her contemporaries and the...

From the author of the acclaimed Mr. China comes another rollicking adventure story--part memoir, part history, part business imbroglio--that offers valuable lessons to help Westerners win in China.In the twenty-first century, the world has tilted eastwards in its orbit; China grows confident while the...

In this long-awaited memoir, illustrated with over 100 never-before-seen photos from his personal collection, the groundbreaking record producer chronicles his struggles, his success, and the celebrated artists that made him a legend.Over the last twenty-five years, legendary music producer and record man LA Reid--the...

A revealing, no-holds-barred portrait of the legendary Eileen Ford--the entrepreneur who transformed the business of modeling and helped invent the celebrity supermodel.Working with her husband, Jerry, Eileen Ford created the twentieth century's largest and most successful modeling agency, representing some of the fashion world's...

A portrait of a great American dynasty and its legacy in business, technology, the arts, and philanthropyMeyer Guggenheim, a Swiss immigrant, founded a great American business dynasty. At their peak in the early twentieth century, the Guggenheims were reckoned among America's wealthiest, and the...

Rags-to-riches stories abound in American lore, but even Horatio Alger would have been hard-pressed to write one as powerful as Richard Grasso's: the son of a working-class family whose childhood dream was to become a cop. He grew up in New York City's outer...

This book describes the author's unintended immigration to America. After arriving in the USA, he spent thirty years traveling the globe for a new scientific employer before finally settling down with the love of his life to enjoy a happy and peaceful retirement. Despite...