Forbes® Greatest Business Stories of All Time | Forbes Magazine Staff, Daniel Gross

Forbes® Greatest Business Stories of All Time | Forbes Magazine Staff, Daniel Gross | Very Inspiring

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	Forbes® Greatest Business Stories of All Time Forbes Magazine Staff, Daniel Gross, 1996 - 362 pages average customer review:based on 18 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

What do Bill Gates, Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, Mary Kay Ash, and Walt Disney all have in common? Uncompromising vision, a willingness to take risks, and exceptional business acumen. Not only did these individuals amass great fortunes, they revolutionized the business world and helped shape society as we know it. Theirs are just a few of the stories collected in this anthology of commercial ingenuity.

Drawing on a wealth of sources, this priceless collection brings to life extraordinary achievements, many of them forgotten or little known: how Robert Morris, the preeminent merchant of the eighteenth century, financed the American Revolution with his personal credit; how Ray Kroc used a shrewd real estate strategy to turn a faltering hamburger franchise operation into the McDonald's fast food empire; and how Mary Kay Ash built a billion-dollar direct sales cosmetics company by preaching a message of economic empowerment to women.

Enlightening and fascinating, Forbes(r) Greatest Business Stories of All Time celebrates larger-than-life ambition, inspired leadership, wheeling and dealing, and hard work.

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Chicken Soup For the Entrepreneurial Soul

This is a quick read of 20 different stories that have historically and tremendously impacted all of us. This book is inspirational and instructional in content, and although I had heard many of these stories before I gleaned many ideas for my own business. The other issue I noticed is that these stories impacted the world and they all took place right here in the US, yet they continue to influence globalization today.

Very Inspiring

This book was very inspiring. It is a very quick read because all of the biography is concise and to the point. Some of the people I had never heard of before and that made it all the more interesting. I don't know whether I would have called it the greatest business stories of all time or not but they certainly are up among the best. Every story was great and very interesting telling how they started and where they finished up. Also how people borrowed huge sums of money in order to buy a business that wasn't making money at the time only to turn them around. Like the guys at Harley for example putting together $1 million of their own and then borrowing $81 million to buy the company. Unbelievable.

Everyone who reads this will enjoy it as it was written very well. You will learn some valuable business and marketing concepts from the leaders of industry. Anyone will enjoy this one especially if you don't have the time to read a long biography. This is a great place for someone to start if they haven't been much of a reader of biographies because this is full of true life people overcoming against the odds!

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Excellent Business book!

This is a great effort by the people at Forbes to categorize historical business trends. They do a wonderful job telling us various stories from the founding days of the United States to Henry Ford to modern day America. They are all very interesting and very well researched stories. The writing is easy to read and interesting and you will want to hear more. I am hoping they put out another one because there are many great stories to tell and this is only the beginning. Highly recommend whether you are interested in business, economics or history.

Another solid piece from Forbes

This book offers a compressive look into many entertaining and inspiring business stories. I found the writing style acceptable and the content exceptional. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in business stories as you will find it difficult to put down.

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Plain Tails from the Hills

Quite inspiring to see what can man achieve when not scared. I think everybody can get from this book a little trigger to his successfull life. Not only for career, but for the life itself. I would prefer more pictures to get a little bit better imagination on their splendid life stories.

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