This collection of essays offers insights into everything from how to get ahead to entrepreneurship to maintaining individuality in the corporate world. A diverse group of business leaders talk about success. Each entry is preceded by an introduction to each leader offering information about their life and career.

The first-ever biography of the man who created America's most famous whiskey
Born in Lynchburg, Tennessee, in 1850, Jack Daniel became a legendary moonshiner at age 15 before launching a legitimate distillery ten years later. By the time he died in 1911, he was an American legend-and his Old No. 7 Tennessee sipping whiskey was an international sensation, the winner of gold medals at the St. Louis World's Fair and the Liege International Exposition in Belgium. Blood and Whiskey captures Daniel's indomitable rise in the rough-edged world of the nineteenth-century whiskey trade-and shows...

Charles H. Dow, Benjamin Graham, George Soros, Peter Lynch, Warren Buffett, Mario Gabelli, and Donald Trump. You won't find a seminar or lecture anywhere that boasts a panel quite like this-a group of the great stock-pickers and market gurus, both past and present, brought together to instruct you on the art of investing. The Book of Investing Wisdom offers you a unique insight into how these professionals and many others achieved financial success through intelligent investing-all from the comfort of your armchair. Never before have the writings of such a large and diverse group of brilliant...

This volume presents a collection of 50 speeches, essays, anecdotes, and other short pieces about entrepreneurship by legendary masters of the art. Self-made celebrities including Richard Branson, Barry Diller, and Michael Dell offer advice, inspiration, and experience in their own words. The contributions are organised by theme, permitting readers to easily locate information on specific topics, and each is preceded by an editor's introduction providing interesting and relevant background on its author. Topics discussed include: the basic qualities needed to become a successful entrepreneur;...

Jack Welch, Bob Galvin Weill and Alfred P. Sloan are among the super-successful managers who share their advice and strategies in this, the fifth instalment in the Business Wisdom series. Offering insights on a wide range of management issues, this volume looks at an array of key global issues, including such critical topics as recruitment and selection and the impact of IT on management. As with all the books in the series, editor Peter Krass introduces each selection, highlights comments of particular significance and provides background information on each subject.

One of the major figures in American history, Andrew Carnegie was a ruthless businessman who made his fortune in the steel industry and ultimately gave most of it away. He used his wealth to ascend the world's political stage, influencing the presidencies of Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt. In retirement, Carnegie became an avid promoter of world peace, only to be crushed emotionally by World War I.
In this compelling biography, Peter Krass reconstructs the complicated life of this titan who came to power in America's Gilded Age. He transports the reader to...

While the entire world knows Mark Twain as the renowned author of many classic American novels, few people are aware that he was also a highly successful businessman. In fact, more than half of his life was consumed by moneymaking pursuits, which often resulted in writing projects being neglected--but at the same time, these adventures were the inspiration behind many of the characters found in his books.

In Ignorance, Confidence, and Filthy Rich Friends, Peter Krass captures a little-known side of this American icon and details the roller coaster ride of his business ventures...