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Why does everyone love Think and Grow Rich
HOT!I've since come across this extensive unauthorized bio of Napoleon Hill: http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-untold-story-of-napoleon-hill-the-greatest-self-he-1789385645 It is tempting to dismiss something like this as a "haters gotta hate" hatchet job except it's very thorough, and long. I...- AntiGuru
- Post #98
- Forum: Books and Educating Yourself
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Ignoring this Brian Tracy rule cost me over $400,000
If you listen to his live speeches (not audiobooks) you'll hear references to his career before public speaking and consulting. It was a lot of sales (by his own admission, the only work you could get when you're largely uneducated and unemployable). Eventually he brought Suzuki cars to Canada...- AntiGuru
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- Forum: Process and Execution
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Why does everyone love Think and Grow Rich
HOT!I can understand your take on that. I actually thought it pretty extreme that he rejected signing or sending his son to a special school (the college I went to had a school for the deaf next door, they do great work, highly regarded.) And in the end it may have been more luck that it ended as...- AntiGuru
- Post #95
- Forum: Books and Educating Yourself
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Why does everyone love Think and Grow Rich
HOT!You mean the entire story about his son?- AntiGuru
- Post #93
- Forum: Books and Educating Yourself
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Why does everyone love Think and Grow Rich
HOT!I've since verified this anecdote about the title of TAGR (I was actually wondering about it) - on the audio series Your Right To Be Rich, which are recordings of a series of Napoleon Hill lectures, he relates this story. (Originally I only knew about it from Maxwell Maltz's telling it in...- AntiGuru
- Post #90
- Forum: Books and Educating Yourself
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Sales #FAILS: Too many salespeople give up right at the point of breakthrough...
MARKETINGLike most of us, I am relentlessly hounded by salespeople. So I make the best of it and keep my eye out for any good ones so that I can offer them a position at my main business where they stand to make a lot more money. What I find is nearly all salespeople give up right at the moment of...- AntiGuru
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- Forum: Marketing Strategy
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Biographies or companies that ascended during depressions or recessions?
BOOKSCool, I have this book but I am not that far in yet. Although I avoid setting foot in any Wal-Mart I appreciate what he built. What intrigued me about Walton is (as I've heard the story) that something like 15 or 20 years elapsed from the time opened the first Wal-Mart to the time he opened the...- AntiGuru
- Post #16
- Forum: Books and Educating Yourself
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Biographies or companies that ascended during depressions or recessions?
BOOKSNot too interested in Musk. Raising capital for money losing unicorns in the manic post-GFC tech bubble isn't really what I'm after here.- AntiGuru
- Post #13
- Forum: Books and Educating Yourself
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Biographies or companies that ascended during depressions or recessions?
BOOKSThanks, I have The Success System That Never Fails. Interesting that nobody seems to have written a biography of the guy. He lived to be 100!- AntiGuru
- Post #11
- Forum: Books and Educating Yourself
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Biographies or companies that ascended during depressions or recessions?
BOOKSCool, which bio is that? Rockefeller: A Titan of Industry (James Hoffman) or Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Ron Chernow)- AntiGuru
- Post #9
- Forum: Books and Educating Yourself
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Biographies or companies that ascended during depressions or recessions?
BOOKSThanks guys, the summary so far: Yes, true - he mentions this a lot in his letters to shareholders and both his biographies (Lowenstein's and Snowball) - in fact Buffet tends to scale back when everybody else is optimistic (like now, for example). This is his contrarianism at work which is a...- AntiGuru
- Post #6
- Forum: Books and Educating Yourself
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Biographies or companies that ascended during depressions or recessions?
BOOKSLooking for books about companies that experienced high growth during hard times, or biographies of entrepreneurs, investors and businessmen who prospered during hard times. Not looking for generic "feel good / motivation" titles or "profit from the coming collapse" type books - I mean...- AntiGuru
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- Forum: Books and Educating Yourself
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STAPLES: The Books you CONTINUE to Re-Read
BOOKSYes, that is a good one, I have 2 copies in fact :) One of them signed by Munger, so I got a second to actually read (I scribble and underline and otherwise defile all my books).- AntiGuru
- Post #47
- Forum: Books and Educating Yourself
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Why does everyone love Think and Grow Rich
HOT!Interesting anecdote about that title - Napoleon Hill couldn't come up with one until his publisher told him "you have 24 hours to give us the title, and failing that, we're going with..." (wait for it) "Use your Noodle to get the Boodle". I am not joking. Napoleon protested vigorously but they...- AntiGuru
- Post #88
- Forum: Books and Educating Yourself
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STAPLES: The Books you CONTINUE to Re-Read
BOOKSThanks, I have ordered a few books in this thread including this one.- AntiGuru
- Post #40
- Forum: Books and Educating Yourself