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After failing at 22 other jobs, Barbara Corcoran borrowed $1,000 from her boyfriend, quit her job as a diner waitress, and started a tiny real estate office in New York City. Using 24 unconventional lessons learned from her mom, Barbara built that tiny company into a $4 billion business, and today she's richer than her wildest childhood dreams.

In Shark Tales, Barbara shares her hilarious stories about growing up, getting into trouble, failing miserably, and then starting over again. In each chapter, she comes back to one of her mom's unconventional lessons, and how it applies in the real world of business. Whatever your calling, the homespun lessons that work for Barbara will help you use what you've got to create success in your life.

Learn the 25 keys to unlocking the powerful and useful information buried in corporate financial statements, in this program from the New York Times Pocket MBA series. You can also subscribe to an audio edition of the Times.

In today's volatile market, jittery nerves are the norm when it comes to saving and investing for the future. But with these keep-it-simple, easy-to-understand, and time-tested strategies that, best of all, take very little time or energy to maintain, listeners can relax.

Author Joanne Watson dreamed of full-time motherhood, but she and her husband, like many couples across America, felt they simply couldn't afford it on his salary alone. Instead of going back to work, she decided to help boost her husband's income...and tripled his earnings!

With the dips and turns in the economy, it can be difficult not to stress over one's living expenses, savings (or lack thereof), college tuition, and more. Yet worrying doesn't help these matters, and indeed can make things worse.

This step-by-step guide outlines the necessary preparation and execution you need to know to get a raise, including: salary myths and realities, compensation trends, base pay options, and how to approach your employer. Filled with practical tips, this audiobook will help you identify what you're really worth, clearly communicate that value to your boss, and ultimately improve your financial future.

Learn the 25 keys to the art of the budget in terms of forecasting costs, revenues and profits for short-term and long-term projections. Forecasting Budgets is part of the New York Times Pocket MBA Series, a 12-volume reference tool for all businesspersons.

Learn the 25 keys to selecting and managing outside investment, through mergers, acquisitions, and project-specific financing, as well as R&D internal investment, for long-term growth and expansion. Managing Investment is part of The New York Times Pocket MBA series.

In How To Be A Bargain Junkie, actress and comedienne Annie Korzen, a thrifty woman with expensive tastes, shares her hilarious tales from the trenches - the garage sales, thrift stores, and online auctions. She haggles, scrimps, saves, and stretches her dollars and her imagination so she can afford to travel, dress well, collect art and antiques, and rub elbows with the rich and famous.

Learn the 25 keys to doing business on an international scale, from foreign exchange risks to import/export duties with this program from The New York Times Pocket MBA Series.

Learn the 25 keys to securing the funds to start a business and keep it growing, including planning how much capital you'll need and how you'll use it and achieving the appropriate mix between equity and debt in the capital structure of your firm. Business Financing is part of the New York Times Pocket MBA Series, a 12-volume reference tool for all businesspersons.

Here's more from the fertile - yet frugal - mind of Annie Korzen, actress, comedienne, and author/narrator of How to Be a Bargain Junkie. Annie, a thrifty woman with expensive tastes, shares even more of her hilarious tales from the trenches - the garage sales, thrift stores, and online auctions.

Learn the 25 keys to understanding how financial reporting and cash flow are essential tools to determining success or failure by evaluating strategic cost management, inventory control, pricing and product mix analysis, and cash management. Tracking & Controlling Costs is part of the New York Times Pocket MBA Series, a 12-volume reference tool for all businesspersons.

Businesswoman and public speaker Felicia Harris offers her solutions-based approach, involving self-help and a reliance upon the wisdom of God, to help transform the lives of people. In this audio program, Harris takes on the task of how to fix your credit.

Businesswoman and public speaker Felicia Harris offers her solutions-based, direct approach, involving self-help and a reliance upon the wisdom of God, to help transform the lives of listeners. In this audio program, Harris puts forth four vital steps for making money and growing wealth.

Here's more from the fertile - yet frugal - mind of Annie Korzen, actress, comedienne, and author/narrator of How to Be a Bargain Junkie. Annie, a thrifty woman with expensive tastes, shares even more of her hilarious tales from the trenches - the garage sales, thrift stores, and online auctions.

Here's more from the fertile - yet frugal - mind of Annie Korzen, actress, comedienne, and author/narrator of How to Be a Bargain Junkie. Annie, a thrifty woman with expensive tastes, shares even more of her hilarious tales from the trenches - the garage sales, thrift stores, and online auctions.

Here's more from the fertile - yet frugal - mind of Annie Korzen, actress, comedienne, and author/narrator of How to Be a Bargain Junkie. Annie, a thrifty woman with expensive tastes, shares even more of her hilarious tales from the trenches - the garage sales, thrift stores, and online auctions.

Here's more from the fertile - yet frugal - mind of Annie Korzen, actress, comedienne, and author/narrator of How to Be a Bargain Junkie. Annie, a thrifty woman with expensive tastes, shares even more of her hilarious tales from the trenches - the garage sales, thrift stores, and online auctions.