50 Success Classics: Winning Wisdom for Life and Work from 50 Landmark Books

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In pursuit of a better career, more money, a new direction, or a higher purpose? Millions of readers relentlessly search for the one great book that will inspire them to chart a course to personal and professional fulfillment. Tom Butler-Bowdon, best-selling author of the 50 Classics series, is back with 50 Success Classics: Winning Wisdom for Work and Life from 50 Landmark Books, a wide-ranging collection of enduring works by pioneering thinkers, philosophers, and corporate America's most powerful leaders who have shown us how to Think and Grow Rich, develop The Habits of Highly Effective People, become The One-Minute Manager, discover The Art of Worldly Wisdom, and solve the challenging puzzle of Who Moved My Cheese? From amusing and enlightening parables to the inspirational rags-to-riches stories of industrialists, philanthropists, and entrepreneurs, 50 Success Classics summarizes each industry's key ideas and clarifies how these insights and techniques promote self-growth. Learn the secrets on how to be successful by reviewing works from authors including: Horatio Alger; Warren Buffett; Andrew Carnegie; Stephen R. Covey; Spencer Johnson; Michael Dell; Henry Ford; Benjamin Franklin; John Paul Getty; Napoleon Hill & W. Clement Stone; Abraham Lincoln; Nelson Mandela; Eleanor Roosevelt; Ernest Shackleton; Sun Tzu; Sam Walton; Wallace D. Wattles; Zig Ziglar. TeamLiB......Page 1 Cover......Page 2 Contents......Page 7 Acknowledgments......Page 9 Introduction......Page 11 1 Horatio Alger......Page 23 2 Warren Bennis......Page 29 3 Frank Bettger......Page 35 4 Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson......Page 41 5 Edward Bok......Page 47 6 Claude M. Bristol......Page 53 7 Warren Buffett......Page 59 8 Andrew Carnegie......Page 67 9 Chin-Ning Chu......Page 73 10 George S. Clason......Page 79 11 Robert Collier......Page 85 12 Jim Collins......Page 91 13 Russell H. Conwell......Page 97 14 Stephen R. Covey......Page 101 15 Michael Dell......Page 107 16 Henry Ford......Page 113 17 Benjamin Franklin......Page 119 18 W. Timothy Gallwey......Page 125 19 John Paul Getty......Page 131 20 Les Giblin......Page 137 21 Baltasar Gracian......Page 143 22 Earl G. Graves......Page 149 23 Napoleon Hill......Page 155 24 Napoleon Hill & W. Clement Stone......Page 161 25 Tom Hopkins......Page 167 26 Muriel James & Dorothy Jongeward......Page 173 27 Spencer Johnson......Page 179 28 Robert Kiyosaki......Page 183 29 David S. Landes......Page 189 30 Abraham Lincoln......Page 197 31 Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz......Page 203 32 Nelson Mandela......Page 209 33 Orison Swett Marden......Page 215 34 J. W. Marriott Jr.......Page 221 35 Catherine Ponder......Page 227 36 Cheryl Richardson......Page 233 37 Anthony Robbins......Page 239 38 Eleanor Roosevelt......Page 245 39 David J. Schwartz......Page 251 40 Florence Scovel Shinn......Page 257 41 Ernest Shackleton......Page 263 42 Thomas J. Stanley......Page 269 43 Brian Tracy......Page 275 44 Sun Tzu......Page 281 45 Sam Walton......Page 287 46 Wallace D.Wattles......Page 293 47 Jack Welch......Page 299 48 John Whitmore......Page 305 49 Richard Wiseman......Page 311 50 Zig Ziglar......Page 317 Chronological list of titles......Page 321 Credits......Page 323