Ergebnis für "Alice" in Wirtschaft

Warren Buffett zählt seit Jahrzehnten zu den reichsten Menschen der Welt. Alice Schroeder erzählt in dieser aktualisierten Ausgabe die Geschichte seines bewegten Lebens. Buffett verbrachte unzählige Stunden mit der Autorin bei der Beantwortung von Fragen zu seiner Frau, seinen Kindern, zu seinen Geschäftspartnern und Freunden, gab bereitwillig Auskunft zu seiner Kindheit, öffnete seine Fotoalben, gewährte tiefe Einblicke in seine Arbeit, seine Denkweise, seine Kämpfe und Triumphe, legte aber auch seine Torheiten offen.

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Esse é o audiolivro definitivo sobre a vida de um dos homens mais respeitados e fascinantes do mundo: Warren Buffett. O lendário investidor pela primeira vez autorizou alguém a produzir sua biografia, concedendo a Alice Schroeder acesso irrestrito a seus familiares, amigos e parceiros–e, é claro, a ele mesmo.

During the 1970s, Alice Combs, undeterred by a former employer's snobbish pronouncement, "You're not corporate material", transformed herself from divorced mother on food stamps to successful entrepreneur. Resolute, Alice overcame her initial ignorance of the recycling trade and recovered from the many novice mistakes she inevitably made while teaching herself to operate Vulcan Wire, which would slowly become a thriving business despite an embezzling partner and cutthroat competitors....

His humble beginnings are found in Alloa and 18th-century Scotland, where a highwayman would be better off robbing himself. Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite rebellion is just around the corner, and so too is the Industrial Revolution. Volcanos, gin wars, and large-scale bankruptcies also play their part in the fortunes of a canny man. But John Jameson's marriage to Peggie Haig, an Alloa tobacconist's daughter, holds the key to his success.