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A great man wrote this 1899 book...
- By Wayne on 02-11-17
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Selling You
- By: Napoleon Hill
- Narrated by: Fred Stella, Jeffrey Gitomer
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Few people have ever understood salesmanship as well as Napoleon Hill. He became legend in business circles for creating effective sales courses that turned around failing companies. Hill’s philosophy of success for salesmen was simple - you, the salesman, are the most valuable asset and you need to sell yourself first. Selling You brings together the best of Napoleon Hill's writings from his sales courses with a special introduction by Jeffrey Gitomer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book!
- By Lisa on 10-01-11
By: Napoleon Hill
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The Success System That Never Fails
- By: William Clement Stone
- Narrated by: Jason McCoy
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 153
The search for success has been prominent in the thoughts of countless millions from all walks of life. They yearn for fulfillment and desire to experience life's true riches. This goal is within each person's grasp as they discover those rules, principles, formulas, etc. which if followed properly, will lead to the goal.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Old Text, Bad Direction
- By A. Baker on 09-13-10
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Up from Slavery
- By: Booker T. Washington
- Narrated by: Noah Waterman
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,660
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,011
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,990
Booker T. Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper, and proponent of the "do-it-yourself" idea. In his autobiography, he describes his early life as a slave on a Virginia plantation, his steady rise during the Civil War, his struggle for education, his schooling at the Hampton Institute, and his years as founder and president of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, which was devoted to helping minorities learn useful, marketable skills.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need
- By Gillian on 02-10-17
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Looking Backward
- By: Edward Bellamy
- Narrated by: Edward Lewis
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 153
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 121
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Story4 out of 5 stars 124
The hero is anyone who has ever longed for escape to a better life. The time is tomorrow. The place is a Utopian America. This is the backdrop for Edward Bellamy's prophetic novel about a young Boston gentleman who is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, from a world of war and want to a world of peace and plenty.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This Book is socialist Propaganda
- By Paul on 04-26-04
By: Edward Bellamy
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How to Get Rich
- One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets
- By: Felix Dennis
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 967
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 826
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Story5 out of 5 stars 823
Felix Dennis is an expert at proving people wrong. Starting as a college dropout with no family money, he created a publishing empire, founded Maxim magazine, made himself one of the richest people in the UK, and had a blast in the process. How to Get Rich is different from any other book on the subject because Dennis isn't selling snake oil, investment tips, or motivational claptrap. He merely wants to help people embrace entrepreneurship, and to share lessons he learned the hard way.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A picture is worth his 1,000 words
- By Jerry Fletcher on 09-18-21
By: Felix Dennis
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Taking on the Trust
- The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller
- By: Steve Weinberg
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 51
Long before the rise of mega-corporations like Wal-Mart and Microsoft, Standard Oil controlled the oil industry with a monopolistic force unprecedented in American business history. Undaunted by the ruthless power of its owner, John D. Rockefeller, a fearless and ambitious reporter named Ida Minerva Tarbell confronted the company known simply as "The Trust".
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4 out of 5 stars
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Annoying Narrator
- By Nate on 04-03-15
By: Steve Weinberg
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Titan
- The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
- By: Ron Chernow
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 35 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,811
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,751
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,726
Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist. Born the son of a flamboyant, bigamous snake-oil salesman and a pious, straitlaced mother, Rockefeller rose from rustic origins to become the world’s richest man by creating America’s most powerful and feared monopoly, Standard Oil. Branded "the Octopus" by legions of muckrakers, the trust refined and marketed nearly 90 percent of the oil produced in America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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He makes Bill Gates look like a Pauper!
- By Rick on 11-04-13
By: Ron Chernow
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Bagehot
- The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian
- By: James Grant
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
During the upheavals of 2007-9, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill, and author of Lombard Street, the still-canonical guide to stopping a run on the banks, Bagehot prescribed the doctrines that - decades later - inspired the radical responses to the world's worst financial crises.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I wanted to like it
- By FoxMan on 08-30-19
By: James Grant
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The House of Rothschild, Volume 1
- Money's Prophets: 1798-1848
- By: Niall Ferguson
- Narrated by: Alexander Adams
- Length: 28 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 247
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 214
In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family's phenomenal economic success. He reveals for the first time the details of the family's vast political network, which gave it access to and influence over many of the greatest statesmen of the age. And he tells a family saga, tracing the importance of unity and the profound role of Judaism in the lives of a dynasty that rose from the confines of the Frankfurt ghetto and later used its influence to assist oppressed Jews throughout Europe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great research, poor narrative
- By Amaze on 04-30-19
By: Niall Ferguson
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Once in Golconda
- A True Drama of Wall Street 1920-1928
- By: John Brooks
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 62
Once in Golconda is a dramatic chronicle of the breathtaking rise, devastating fall, and painstaking rebirth of Wall Street in the years between the wars. Focusing on the lives and fortunes of some of the era's most memorable traders, bankers, boosters, and frauds, John Brooks brings to vivid life all the ruthlessness, greed, and reckless euphoria of the '20s bull market, the desperation of the days leading up to the crash of '29, and the bitterness of the years that followed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for investors
- By Brad Gillespie on 06-07-15
By: John Brooks
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Grow Rich While You Sleep
- By: Ben Sweetland
- Narrated by: Jim Killavey
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
Ben Sweetland was widely known for his syndicated column, The Marriage Clinic, and for his many books, including I WILL, and I CAN. He was active on the West Coast as a consulting psychologist, and was much sought after as a lecturerthroughout the United States. Here's what he had to say about this extraordinary book."95% of all human problems stem from a negative mind. This figure includes such traits as timidity,domestic discord, business failure, bad memory, tenseness, unhappiness, worry, etc. You can do something about it... while you sleep!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good book
- By Malinda on 07-19-15
By: Ben Sweetland
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A Gift to My Children
- A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing
- By: Jim Rogers
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 171
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 125
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Story4 out of 5 stars 126
What makes for a successful investor? More important, what makes for a happy and meaningful life? According to legendary investor Jim Rogers, the road to financial success and the road to a meaningful life are one and the same.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just What I Expected
- By OregonCustomer on 12-19-11
By: Jim Rogers
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The Wealth of Nations
- By: Adam Smith
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 36 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,537
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,287
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,276
The foundation for all modern economic thought and political economy, The Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith, who introduces the world to the very idea of economics and capitalism in the modern sense of the words.
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4 out of 5 stars
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ADAM SMITH
- By chetyarbrough.blog on 01-20-15
By: Adam Smith
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Money for Nothing
- The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich
- By: Thomas Levenson
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 76
In the heart of the Scientific Revolution, when new theories promised to explain the affairs of the universe, Britain was broke, facing a mountain of debt accumulated in war after war it could not afford. But that same Scientific Revolution - the kind of thinking that helped Isaac Newton solve the mysteries of the cosmos - would soon lead clever, if not always scrupulous, men to try to figure a way out of Britain’s financial troubles.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Financial innovation's first song of the siren.
- By Michael Barnett on 09-06-20
By: Thomas Levenson
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Finish Big
- How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top
- By: Bo Burlingham
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 128
When pioneering business journalist and Inc. magazine editor at large Bo Burlingham wrote Small Giants, it became an instant classic for its original take on a common business problem - how to handle the pressure to grow. Now Burlingham is back to tackle an even more common problem - how to exit your company well. Sooner or later, all entrepreneurs leave their businesses and all businesses get sold, given away, or liquidated.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Begin with the end in mind
- By D. Hartzell on 02-05-15
By: Bo Burlingham
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- Todd Walker
- 02-20-13
Just average.
The book was just average. I learned very little about JDR that I thought was unique or insightful.
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- Brittany
- 12-05-12
Freaking awesome. Definitely read.
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I thought this wasn't going to be beneficial or instructive, maybe entertaining at best. I was pleasantly surprised however. This book proved to be very instructive and gave me a lot of insight in to what made Rockefeller as successful as he was.
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- Nathan
- 08-06-13
"Random Reminiscences" is a great title.
What disappointed you about Random Reminiscences of Men and Events?
Story, or any good stories in general.
What could John D. Rockefeller have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Write more about how he got where he was, more personal stories.
What didn’t you like about Christopher Crennen’s performance?
Nothing.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Random Reminiscences of Men and Events?
The part where John recounts his interaction with this widow that feels she was unjustly robbed in a sale. John, attempts (and succeeds) at showing HE was in the right.
Any additional comments?
Very short.
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