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Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time
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Forbes Inc. (corporate author) and
Daniel Gross
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publication date
October 24, 1996
Pages
362
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780471143147
ISBN-10
0471143146
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.75 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.75 lbs.
Original list price
$50.00
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My Father's Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General into a Billion-Dollar Company | Asset Protection for Physicians and High-Risk Business Owners | Asset Protection for Physicians and High-Risk Business Owners | Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's | Wheels for the World | 100 Great Businesses And The Minds Behind Them | The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time | Management Cases
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Profiles such innovators as James Pierpont Morgan, Ray Kroc, Bill Gates, and John D. Rockefeller, who have the ability to seize opportunities and fulfill their own dreams, and the pioneering business ventures that changed the world. 75,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo.
(view table of contents)Amazon.com description: Product Description: What do Bill Gates, Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, Mary Kay Ash, andWalt Disney all have in common? Uncompromising vision, awillingness to take risks, and exceptional business acumen. Notonly did these individuals amass great fortunes, theyrevolutionized the business world and helped shape society as weknow it. Theirs are just a few of the stories collected in thisanthology of commercial ingenuity.
Drawing on a wealth of sources, this priceless collection brings tolife extraordinary achievements, many of them forgotten or littleknown: how Robert Morris, the preeminent merchant of the eighteenthcentury, financed the American Revolution with his personal credit;how Ray Kroc used a shrewd real estate strategy to turn a falteringhamburger franchise operation into the McDonald's fast food empire;and how Mary Kay Ash built a billion-dollar direct sales cosmeticscompany by preaching a message of economic empowerment towomen.
Enlightening and fascinating, Forbes(r) Greatest Business Storiesof All Time celebrates larger-than-life ambition, inspiredleadership, wheeling and dealing, and hard work.
Forbes is a registered trademark of Forbes Inc. Its use is pursuantto a license agreement with Forbes Inc.
Drawing on a wealth of sources, this priceless collection brings tolife extraordinary achievements, many of them forgotten or littleknown: how Robert Morris, the preeminent merchant of the eighteenthcentury, financed the American Revolution with his personal credit;how Ray Kroc used a shrewd real estate strategy to turn a falteringhamburger franchise operation into the McDonald's fast food empire;and how Mary Kay Ash built a billion-dollar direct sales cosmeticscompany by preaching a message of economic empowerment towomen.
Enlightening and fascinating, Forbes(r) Greatest Business Storiesof All Time celebrates larger-than-life ambition, inspiredleadership, wheeling and dealing, and hard work.
Forbes is a registered trademark of Forbes Inc. Its use is pursuantto a license agreement with Forbes Inc.
Editions
Hardcover
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from John Wiley & Sons Inc (October 24, 1996)
9780471143147 | details & prices | 362 pages | 6.75 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.75 lbs | List price $50.00
About: Tells the stories of twenty successful entrepreneurs, including Cyrus McCormick, John D.
About: Tells the stories of twenty successful entrepreneurs, including Cyrus McCormick, John D.
Paperback
Reprint edition from John Wiley & Sons Inc (August 21, 1997)
9780471196532 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $24.95
About: Tells the stories of entrepreneurs, including Cyrus McCormick, J.
About: Tells the stories of entrepreneurs, including Cyrus McCormick, J.
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