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In this audiobook, you'll discover everything you need to know about how, exactly, many of America's most famous (and infamous) millionaires and billionaires acquired their fortunes. The big surprise is that all of the super-wealthy it profiles got where they are today by taking one of just 10 possible roads - including starting a business, buying real estate, investing wisely, and marrying extremely well. Whether you aspire to shameful wealth or just a demure fortune, best-selling author and self-made billionaire Ken Fisher will show you how to walk in the footsteps of tycoons.

Lillian Lincoln Lambert rose from humble beginnings as a poor farm girl in the segregated South to become the first Black woman to earn an MBA from Harvard Business School and, later, the founder of a $20 million maintenance company with 1,200 employees. In The Road to Someplace Better, she shares an inspiring personal journey that took her from dead-end jobs in New York City and Washington, D.C., to the ivory tower and the world of entrepreneurship.

In 2020, I made a heavy and very unpopular decision to walk away from my employment at Baylor University in a very public way. In this book, I talk about the why, as well as the what, and all the beauty that has bloomed from the ashes for me and my family.

What if the sales job that was supposed to changed your life ended up breaking your soul? 'The High Road' is a true story, names changed, truths intact. About one spring inside a door-to-door sales cult that promised purpose, power, and paydays... but delivered something far stronger. James Johnson didn't john Astra to make friends. He joined to win. To out work, outhink, and outlast everyone. What he didn't expect was to watch cracks form from the inside. The manipulations, the blind loyalty, the pressure disguised as passion.

Inside one of the world's most dangerous jobs with the star of History's top-rated reality show, Ice Road Truckers. The highest-rated reality show ever to hit the History channel, Ice Road Truckers follows the heart-pounding adventures of the tough-as-nails truckers who risk peril every day to deliver goods and supplies in Alaska and across Canada's frozen north. Alex Debogorski here shares tales of his adventures - and misadventures.

On the Road Less Traveled is the inspirational story of Edmund A. Hajim, an American financier and philanthropist who rises from dire childhood circumstances to achieve professional success and personal fulfillment. At age three, Hajim is kidnapped by his father, driven from St. Louis to Los Angeles, and told that his mother is dead. His father soon abandons him in order to seek employment - mostly in vain - leaving his son behind in a string of foster homes and orphanages.

This book chronicles my 30-plus years in the transportation industry. Starting as a taxi driver during a transit strike, to driving Long Combination Vehicles, measuring over 120 feet long, weighing over 130,000 lbs. My travels have taken me to all of the lower 48 states, and all Canadian provinces except Newfoundland. Some of the stories are quite humorous, others are quite tragic. All have had a lasting effect on me.

A Road Well Traveled offers many lessons to be drawn from the pioneers of the automotive industry and the fascinating lives they led. Some became fabulously wealthy; others died in obscurity. But they developed America's largest industry in the space of one generation and demonstrated the skills and characteristics necessary to achieve such success.

The great American automotive pioneers were entrepreneurial inventors and visionaries who changed the American landscape and brought us a new national culture. The dawn of the automobile ushered away the ubiquitous horse-drawn carriages and the rutted, dusty and wash-boarded dirt roads they traveled on, and replaced them with cars powered by steam, electricity and gasoline.

Lisa Lisson's life seemed perfect: she had married her high school sweetheart, applied her marketing degree to a position at FedEx Express Canada, and would ultimately become president of the company. One night, after putting their four children to bed, her husband, Patrick, marvelled at their lives. Just a few hours later, Patrick had a massive heart attack and was in a coma. Part leadership guide, part memoir of loss, and part personal empowerment primer on how to achieve your goals, Resilience is an inspirational story.

A unique memoir that weaves together stories of personal triumph, love, loss, and lessons learned, Notes for the Children follows Patrick Priestner throughout his life as a son, a brother, a car salesman, an award-winning automotive entrepreneur—and his most rewarding roles, as a husband and a father.

My name is Michael Peres. I am a serial entrepreneur who has founded and currently manages more than five start-ups. I work when I want and how I want. I find time to exercise. I give back to the community. I even sometimes work for free. And I do all of this with, and because of, ADHD. However, this book is not a success story. Nor is it a book about ADHD, or even disability. This is the story of how I gained confidence and learned how to overcome the limitations that were imposed on me. I was able to do this by operating off the well-worn path.

A “fascinating slice of rarely considered American history” (Booklist)—the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison—whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life. In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist John Burroughs...

In 1913, an unlikely friendship blossomed between Henry Ford and famed naturalist John Burroughs. When their mutual interest in Ralph Waldo Emerson led them to set out in one of Ford's Model Ts to explore the Transcendentalist's New England, the trip would prove to be the first of many excursions that would take Ford and Burroughs, together with Thomas Edison, across America.

Dans ce récit aussi palpitant qu’inspirant, Danièle Henkel partage les moments clés de sa vie, de sa naissance au Maroc à sa carrière en affaires au Québec, en passant par son enfance en Algérie, son mariage à un homme choisi par son frère, son arrivée à Montréal et sa vie de mère de quatre enfants. On découvre ainsi la personnalité forte et attachante d’une femme pour qui des obstacles apparemment insurmontables sont autant de conquêtes à remporter. Le portrait d’une femme qui sait allier humanité et sens des affaires.

Andrew Carnegie, à la fois, l’un des plus grands entrepreneurs de l’histoire et l’un des plus grands philanthropes, nous partage ici ses meilleures leçons de vie, dans tous de multiples domaines, à la fois personnels et sur le monde des affaires.

My name is Raul Cristian Săraru, and I'm both the author and the narrator of this journey we're about to embark on together, titled 'Navigating the Adult Industry, Cannabis, Crypto, and Beyond.' This book is my heart laid bare. It's a voyage across the vast seas of resilience, transformation, and reinvention. From the vibrant and challenging world of the adult industry to the pioneering edges of the cannabis market and the uncharted territories of cryptocurrency, this is my story. A tale of facing down the odds, embracing change, and discovering new horizons.