Download or read book The Billionaire Raj written by James Crabtree and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India’s new billionaire class in a radically unequal society India is the world’s largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China’s. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly shared, and the country’s top 1% now own nearly 60% of its wealth. In megacities like Mumbai, where half the population live in slums, the extraordinary riches of India’s new dynasties echo the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers of America's Gilded Age, funneling profits from huge conglomerates into lifestyles of conspicuous consumption. James Crabtree’s The Billionaire Raj takes readers on a personal journey to meet these reclusive billionaires, fugitive tycoons, and shadowy political power brokers. From the sky terrace of the world’s most expensive home to impoverished villages and mass political rallies, Crabtree dramatizes the battle between crony capitalists and economic reformers, revealing a tense struggle between equality and privilege playing out against a combustible backdrop of aspiration, class, and caste. The Billionaire Raj is a vivid account of a divided society on the cusp of transformation—and a struggle that will shape not just India’s future, but the world’s.

Download or read book Become an Idea Machine written by Claudia Azula Altucher and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HOW DO I TRANSFORM MY LIFE? The answer is simple: come up with ten ideas a day. It doesn't matter if they are good or bad the key is to exercise your 'idea muscle', to keep it toned, and in great shape. People say ideas are cheap and execution is everything but that is NOT true. Execution is a consequence, a subset of good, brilliant idea. And good ideas require daily work. Ideas may be easy if we are only coming up with one or two but if you open this book to any of the pages and try to produce more than three, you will feel a burn, scratch your head, and you will be sweating, and working hard. There is a turning point when you reach idea number 6 for the day, you still have four to go, and your mind muscle is getting a workout. By the time you list those last ideas to make it to ten you will see for yourself what "sweating the idea muscle" means. As you practice the daily idea generation you become an idea machine.When we become idea machines we are flooded with lots of bad ideas but also with some that are very good. This happens by the sheer force of the number, because we are coming up with 3,650 ideas per year (at ten a day). When you are inspired by an extraordinary idea, all of your thoughts break their chains, you go beyond limitations and your capacity to act expands in every direction. Forces and abilities you did not know you had come to the surface, and you realize you are capable of doing great things. As you practice with the suggested prompts in this book your ideas will get better, you will be a source of great insight for others, people will find you magnetic, and they will want to hang out with you because you have so much to offer. When you practice every day your life will transform, in no more than 180 days, because it has no other evolutionary choice. Life changes for the better when we become the source of positive, insightful, and helpful ideas. Don't believe a word I say. Instead, challenge yourself to try it for the 180 days and see your life transform, in magical ways, in front of your very eyes.

Download or read book The Missing Billionaires written by Victor Haghani and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Economist Best Book of the Year "Making Money and Keeping It" – The Wall Street Journal Over the past century, if the wealthiest families had spent a reasonable fraction of their wealth, paid taxes, invested in the stock market, and passed their wealth down to the next generation, there would be tens of thousands of billionaire heirs to generations-old fortunes today. The puzzle of The Missing Billionaires is why you cannot find one such billionaire on any current rich list. There are a number of explanations, but this book is focused on one mistake which is of profound importance to all investors: poor risk decisions, both in investing and spending. Many of these families didn’t choose bad investments– they sized them incorrectly– and allowed their spending decisions to amplify this mistake. The Missing Billionaires book offers a simple yet powerful framework for making important lifetime financial decisions in a systematic and rational way. It's for readers with a baseline level of financial literacy, but doesn’t require a PhD. It fills the gap between personal finance books and the academic literature, bringing the valuable insights of academic finance to non-specialists. Part One builds the theory of optimal investment sizing from first principles, starting with betting on biased coins. Part Two covers lifetime financial decision-making, with emphasis on the integration of investment, saving and spending decisions. Part Three covers practical implementation details, including how to calibrate your personal level of risk-aversion, and how to estimate the expected return and risk on a broad spectrum of investments. The book is packed with case studies and anecdotes, including one about Victor’s investment with LTCM as a partner, and a bonus chapter on Liar’s Poker. The authors draw extensively on their own experiences as principals of Elm Wealth, a multi-billion-dollar wealth management practice, and prior to that on their years as arbitrage traders– Victor at Salomon Brothers and LTCM, and James at Nationsbank/CRT and Citadel. Whether you are young and building wealth, an entrepreneur invested heavily in your own business, or at a stage where your primary focus is investing and spending, The Missing Billionaires: A Guide to Better Financial Decisions is your must-have resource for thoughtful financial decision-making.

Download or read book Billionaire written by Peter James and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Peter James, the award-winning author of the Roy Grace series, comes Billionaire, an exhilarating financial thriller. City stockbroker Alex Rocq leads a comfortable life – with a luxury flat in London, a country cottage, a very expensive car, and a lucrative job that still leaves time for leisure. But all this isn't enough. After receiving a tip-off, Alex decides to play the commodities market for himself. He soon learns the hard way that fortune doesn't always favour the brave, and his luck comes to an abrupt end. When he is offered the chance to write off his debts – in exchange for special services and silence – Rocq can't believe his luck. But how far will a desperate man go to harness the power players around him?

Download or read book More Than My Billionaire Boss written by Danae Little and published by Little Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fake relationship with her boss was not on Abigail’s Christmas wish list, but neither was falling in love. Ambitious and responsible, Abigail Johnson always puts aside her own needs to fulfill her boss’s. Playing the role of his fake girlfriend, however, is one task that pushed her to her limits. Pretending to be a billionaire’s girlfriend during his family’s white sand Christmas reveals a side of her boss that intrigues her. Their first staged kiss, awakens Abigail to the realization that this invented relationship might actually have become real. When someone leaks her identity to the media, she has to make a decision that will change the rest of her life, and that of her Billionaire Boss.

Download or read book THE BILLIONAIRE S BABY CHASE written by Valerie Parv and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoe is taking care of Genie, her late friend’s daughter, after her husband died. One day, a strangely familiar man appears at the real estate agency where she works. His name is James Langford and he’s the CEO of a world-famous company. Why did such a famous man come to her tiny real estate agency? She shows him a property and he invites her to dinner under the guise of wanting to ask more questions about the home. He’s pushy and seems accustomed to getting what he wants from people. But during the dinner, he reveals the astonishing truth: “The girl you call Genie is actually my daughter.”

Download or read book How to Land a Plane written by Mark Vanhoenacker and published by The Experiment. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a seat—the captain’s seat, that is—and relax. You’re about to land a Boeing 747. “Brilliant.” —The Sunday Times A Daily Mail and Spectator Best Book of the Year A Points Guy Best Book of the Year The mystery of flight is magical; the reality even more so—from the physics that keeps a 450-ton vehicle aloft, to the symphony of technology and teamwork that safely sets it down again. Take it from Mark Vanhoenacker—British Airways pilot, international bestselling author, and your new flight instructor. This is How to Land a Plane. Vanhoenacker covers every step—from approach to touchdown— with precision, wit, and infectious enthusiasm. Aided by dozens of illustrations, you’ll learn all the tools and rules of his craft: altimeters, glidepaths, alignment, and more. Before you know it, you’ll be on the ground, exiting the aircraft with a whole new appreciation for the art and science of flying. “A good choice for anyone who's fantasized about suddenly having to get an aircraft safely down on the ground . . . walks you through some of the basics of flight and landing, from how to recognize a cluster of instruments known as the ‘six pack’ to knowing what purpose the PAPI lights near the runway serve.” —Popular Science “A work of humorous and outright poetic travel geekery.” —National Geographic Traveler

Download or read book Billionaire written by Ivan Fallon and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1991 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Veterinarian s Date with a Billionaire written by Amelia Addler and published by ANJ Press. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She needs to save her clinic. He needs a second chance. A road trip might be just what the doctor ordered… Juliet is at the end of her rope. If she wants to save her vet clinic, she needs money and she needs it fast. The opportunity she’s been waiting for comes in the form of a contest that requires her to travel and make a feel-good video featuring her former patients. Too bad her only mode of transportation just died. And when her charming ex—the man who stomped all over her heart—shows up offering to help, she’s not sure if her luck just got better or worse. James has no doubt that Lady Luck has smiled on him. What are the odds that he’d show up to win back his college sweetheart at the exact moment she needs him most? He’s spent years regretting letting Juliet go, and he’ll do anything for another chance—even if it means chauffeuring her all over the Midwest. As their road trip takes them across hundreds of miles, James and Juliet realize there’s really only one possible destination this time around. Either a happily ever after…or heartbreak.

Download or read book King Larry written by James D. Scurlock and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Howard Hughes to Mark Zuckerberg, the public has always been fascinated by genius entrepreneurs who succumb to their eccentricities. Now, James Scurlock engages, educates, and entertains readers with the captivating story of DHL cofounder and billionaire Larry Hillblom. King Larry begins with an early biography of Larry Lee Hillblom, a mercurial young man who grew up on a peach farm outside of Fresno, California. Hillblom cofounded DHL in 1969 (three years before FedEx), and it became the fastest-growing corporation in history. Hillblom’s expatriate life began in 1981, when he retreated to a small tax haven in the Western Pacific. There he led the resistance to American meddling in the Marianas Islands. Hillblom’s voracious appetite for underage prostitutes is another facet of his unusual story. In 1995, Hillblom’s amoral, thrill-seeking nature caught up to him when his seaplane disappeared off the coast of Anatahan, leaving behind an estate worth billions. Weeks later, five impoverished women and their attorneys came forward to challenge Hillblom’s will in a legal battle for his fortunes that continues to this day. Meticulously researched and thoroughly engaging, King Larry will satisfy fans of such bestsellers as Confessions of an Economic Hit Manand The Accidental Billionaires .

Download or read book The Billionaire Date Series written by Amelia Addler and published by ANJ Press. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handsome. Smart. Crazy in love. This complete sweet billionaire collection includes three full length novels, each featuring a love-struck billionaire, a sassy heroine and heart-warming happily ever after! Over 150 reviews on the individual books! Nurse’s Date with a Billionaire: Nurse Kali is sure she’ll never love again…until she meets Craig. Too bad he’s also a former patient suffering from amnesia. Craig knows Kali won’t consider making new memories with him until the mystery of his past is solved. But what if the truth he seeks is the one thing that could destroy their budding romance before it even truly begins? Doctor’s Date with a Billionaire: What happens when you fall in love… in witness protection? A small town doctor suffers from a killer case of mistaken identity that lands her in WITSEC along with Jason, a man as enticing as he is challenging. Veterinarian’s Date with a Billionaire: Veterinarian Juliet will do anything to save her clinic… even if it means a road trip with the ex who stomped all over her heart. As their trip takes them across hundreds of miles, they realize there’s really only one possible destination this time around. Either a happily ever after…or heartbreak. Get your copy now and get lost in this sweet romance series!

Download or read book Escorting the Billionaire written by Leigh James and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love don't cost a thing... except everything. When billionaire mogul James Preston hires an escort as a date for his brother's wedding, he knows he's taking a risk. One thing he won't be taking? The escort's clothes off. He just wants a date--not a girlfriend. Not a relationship. No strings. No ties. No games. No sex. He has his reasons. He lost someone he loved, and isn't interested in trying again. Too many opportunities for mistakes or worse, heartbreak. Audrey Reynolds became a high-end escort to keep her brother in his expensive group home. James Preston is the client of her dreams--he's offering to pay her more money for two weeks than she's ever made before. But James is... difficult. He's gorgeous, troubled and all too human for Audrey's business-like tastes. Determined to complete her assignment and collect the money, Audrey tries to play by James's rules. But before she knows what's happening, he's rewriting the contract. When Audrey ends up in James's bed, he realizes that she's everything he's wanted... and everything he's been running from.

Download or read book Billionaire James written by Josie Snow and published by Ownit Publishing LLC. This book was released on with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the ten of the Black Brothers, James is the shy one. The quiet, artistic one. He lives his life flying around the globe purchasing art for collectors and sometimes himself. When he stumbles upon a student artist that has painted the most beautiful nude ever, he becomes obsessed. He wants the woman in the painting but when he stumbles up in her in real life and finds out how messy it is, will he stick around? Lindsey ran to London to get away from a problem back home on LA. There she makes friends with an artist and poses for a painting. Little did she know that painting would forever change her life. Back home she meets James and struggles to accept this new happiness. But a darkness is still after her, and she may never be free.

Download or read book How Creativity Rules the World written by Maria Brito and published by HarperCollins Leadership. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Axiom Business Book Award Winner in Entrepreneurship Category Learn to make creativity work for your career. Anyone, regardless of who you are or what you do, can cultivate the habits, actions, and attitudes that inspire creativity and innovation. There has never been a more crucial time than now to develop your creativity and your ability to innovate. Coming up with original ideas of value is today’s most precious skill. How Creativity Rules the World shows that, despite contrary beliefs, creativity can be taught and learned by anyone. Creativity is an inexhaustible resource that is the key to thriving in the business world and beyond. This timeless guide promises to make the creative process of successful seven-figure artists and billion-dollar entrepreneurs—as well as Maria’s own—accessible and actionable for you to take the power of their ideas to the next level. In How Creativity Rules the World, you will learn how to: Overcome limiting thoughts and dispel myths about creativity. Unleash creativity through concrete data, historical passages, and examples of modern entrepreneurship. Develop timeless habits, principles, and tools that worked six centuries ago and continue to work today. Employ creativity in an everyday context to produce extraordinary results. With revealing studies and stories spanning business and art, this book is a deep dive into history, culture, psychology, science, and entrepreneurship; analyzing the elements used by some of the most creative minds today and throughout the last 600 years. Contemporary art curator and founder of The Groove, Maria Brito discovered the power of creativity when she transitioned from being an unhappy Harvard-trained corporate lawyer to a thriving entrepreneur and innovator in the art world. After applying the principles in How Creativity Rules the World to her own business, Maria started teaching them to hundreds of people, ranging from entrepreneurs to artists to CEOs. Proven by her students’ creative successes, Maria will guide you to strike gold with your ideas as well.

Download or read book Billionaire Wilderness written by Justin Farrell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Billionaire Wilderness offers an unprecedented look inside the world of the ultra-wealthy and their relationship to the natural world, showing how the ultra-rich use nature to resolve key predicaments in their lives. Justin Farrell immerses himself in Teton County, Wyoming--both the richest county in the United States and the county with the nation's highest level of income inequality--to investigate interconnected questions about money, nature, and community in the twenty-first century. Farrell draws on three years of in-depth interviews with "ordinary" millionaires and the world's wealthiest billionaires, four years of in-person observation in the community, and original quantitative data to provide comprehensive and unique analytical insight on the ultra-wealthy. He also interviewed low-income workers who could speak to their experiences as employees for and members of the community with these wealthy people. He finds that the wealthy leverage nature to climb even higher on the socioeconomic ladder, and they use their engagement with nature and rural people as a way of creating more virtuous and deserving versions of themselves. Billionaire Wilderness demonstrates that our contemporary understanding of the relationship between the ultra-wealthy and the environment is empirically shallow, and our reliance on reports of national economic trends distances us from the real experiences of these people and their local communities"--

Download or read book The Billionaire s Bride of Innocence written by Miranda Lee and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Logan knew it was time to take a wife and produce an heir. Megan was perfect for his plans: shy, unworldly and quickly seduced by the Sydney advertising tycoon's devilish charm. She was pregnant on their wedding day. The honeymoon was barely over when Megan had a miscarriage and the scales fell from her eyes: she was trapped in a convenient marriage, and James expected her to conceive again soon. She should have demanded a divorce, but Megan was facing the uncomfortable truth: she'd fallen in love with her ruthless husband….

Download or read book James 1 2 Peter and Jude Teach the Text Commentary Series written by Jim Samra and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused Biblical Scholarship to Teach the Text The Teach the Text Commentary Series utilizes the best of biblical scholarship to provide the information a pastor needs to communicate the text effectively. The carefully selected preaching units and focused commentary allow pastors to quickly grasp the big idea and key themes of each passage of Scripture. Each unit of the commentary includes the big idea and key themes of the passage and sections dedicated to understanding, teaching, and illustrating the text. The newest New Testament release in this innovative commentary series is Jim Samra's treatment of James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Jude.