Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&browse=true&N=3+6600+3526 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=646852 You cant afford to manage your finances the way your parents did. While your parents and grandparents paid relatively little in taxes, you lose more than a third of your income to the tax collector. Prices for goods and services were stable for the first 60 years of this century, but you must buy today to avoid tomorrows price increases. The result? You are earning more money than ever but you also save less than ever. And, by living longer, you increase the risk that you will outlive your income. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=645909 The advice is sound, insightful, and can be used by young people just getting started, advanced investors, and everyone in between. - Jack Kemp. As incomes shrink and the cost of living continues to rise, more and more people are searching frantically for ways to build a stable financial future. But in the crowded and volatile world of today1s financial marketplace, the sheer number of available investment options has even sophisticated investors scratching their heads. On this audio, taken from his best-selling book, The truth about money, long-time financial planner and Wall Street guru Ric Edelman has created an accessible and practical approach to money management that cuts through all of the confusion and delivers an unbiased and lucid guide to selecting the right investment strategy. Here Edelman focuses on such key topics as estate planning, tailoring investment strategies to suit income and needs, and choosing a financial advisor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=646023 In his groundbreaking Secrets of the millionaire mind, T. Harv Eker states: Give me five minutes, and I can predict your financial future for the rest of your life! Eker does this by identifying your money and success blueprint. This blueprint determines your financial life. If your money blueprint is not set for a high level of success, you will never have a lot of money, and if somehow you do, you will most likely lose it! The good news is that now you can actually reset your money blueprint to create natural and automatic success. In Secrets of the millionaire mind, you will learn how your childhood influences have shaped your financial destiny. You will also learn how to identify your own money blueprint and revise it to not only create success but, more importantly, to keep and continually grow it. Finally, you will be introduced to the Wealth Files: 17 specific ways rich people think and act. These include specific action steps for you to practice in order to increase your income and accumulate wealth. Its simple, if you think like rich people think and do what rich people do, chances are youll get rich too! http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=646537 DisneyWar is the breathtaking, dramatic inside story of what drove Americas best-known entertainment company to civil war. With access to both Michael Eisner and Roy Disney, company executives and board members, as well as letters and documents never before seen, James B. Stewart gets to the bottom of mysteries that have enveloped Disney for years. Here, too, is the creative process that lies at the heart of Disney, from the making of the movies to the glittering array of stars, directors, designers, artists, and producers. No other book so thoroughly penetrates the secretive world of the corporate boardroom. DisneyWar is an enthralling true story of one of Americas most powerful media and entertainment companies, the people who control it, and those trying to overthrow them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=645957 Have your goals and dreams gotten lost in your daily struggle to earn a living and provide for your family? In Discover the wealth within you, Ric Edelman shows you how to choose fun, enriching and rewarding financial goals and gives you a simple straightforward plan for achieving them. As he reveals in this audio, all you need to become wealthy is to decide what you want to do with your money. With enticing, personal goals in place, youll motivate, excite and sustain yourself in your quest for wealth. Once you set your goals properly, youll embark with Ric on a detailed exploration of personal investing. Ric reveals his formula for creating a plan to achieve your goals, build your financial future and finance your dreams, all through his unique, time-tested investing strategies. By following Rics plans and guidelines, you can achieve a healthy, balanced and richly rewarding life. Anyone can do it, he stresses, with the tools and techniques he provides. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=645801 A corporate moles-eye view of the society in which we all live and toil, creating one of the most entertaining, thought provoking, and just plain funny bodies of work in contemporary letters. Stanley Bing knows whereof he speaks. He has lived the last two decades working inside a gigantic multinational corporation, kicking and screaming all the way up the ladder. He has seen it all - mergers, acquisitions, layoffs, the death of the three-martini lunch - and has himself been painfully re-engineered a number of times. 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Open the birth of plenty and prepare to be amazed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=645475 Business lessons from the leader in the multibilliondollar scrapbook industry. Its a classic American success story: CherylLightle, once an unemployed single mom, goes on to become the cofounder of one ofthe most successful direct selling companies in the United States. Creative Memories reveals the 10 guiding principles she used to create her scrapbooking empire, teaching readers how to use these principles to achieve success in their own lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=645496 Safe strategies for financial freedom shows you how to know in 30 seconds whether you should be in or out of the market. The authors show you how great investors avoid mistakes and win big. With Van Tharps legendary risk-control techniques, learn how the worlds most profitable investors reduce their risk and leave their wealth-generating potential unlimited, and how you can too.Youll learn how to invest wisely in every type of market, protecting what you earn, and developing sources of regular income to achieve financial independence. Safe strategies for financial freedom provides you with a specific program for freeing yourself from the workplace forever. Let it show you how to seize control of your financial life by investing in the assets that will provide you with steady income until the day when your investment income surpasses your monthly expenses and you are, once and for all, financially free. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=646975 Organized crime and criminal organizations can affect great multi-national companies to small, family-owned companies. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=645506 Easy-to-follow personal finance guidelines from #1 rated financial advisor with American Express financial advisors. Charles Zhang became one of todays most nationally known and trusted financial advisers by stressing sanity and sensible investing over dubious, get-rich-quick tricks and schemes. In make yourself a millionaire, Zhang transfers his program to the printed page. Far from a confusing, all-or-nothing approach, this book outlines a clear and rational approach to organizing and planning all aspects of a financial life http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=645484 Sound rules for rebuilding ravaged savings plans and protecting them from todays perilous markets. Kiplingers columnist Kim Lankford has fielded hundreds of questions from readers wondering how to recover from recent market debacles. Rescue your financial life! is Lankfords answer, an easy-to follow, multistep program for setting new financial goals, getting on course to achieve those goals, and using todays new tools and technologies to make recovery as pain-free as possible. Personal financial goals are more difficult to achieve than ever before. Rescue your financial life helps readers bring those goals a little closer by showing them how to: rebuild retirement plans ravaged by stock market losses, find extra money to invest during tough times, lower taxes, cut insurance bills, pay for college, and more. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=645501 In this long-awaited and eagerly anticipated update, Jeremy Siegel provides his legendary perspective and guidance to an investment world turned upside down. Stocks for the long run combines a compelling and timely portrait of todays turbulent stock market with the strategies, tools, and techniques investors need to maintain their focus and achieve meaningful stock returns over time. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=646210 Winning the losers game is considered by many to be a classic analysis of investing. Financial Planning. The premise of the bestselling Winning the losers game that individual investors can achieve far greater success working with financial markets than against them has grown increasingly popular in todays hard-to-predict markets. The latest edition of this concise yet comprehensive classic offers updated strategies to leverage the power of time and compounding, protect against down cycles, and more. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=645521 William Bernsteins The four pillars of investing gives investors the tools they need to construct top-returning portfolios without the help of a financial adviser. In a relaxed, nonthreatening style, Dr. Bernstein provides a distinctive blend of market history, investing theory, and behavioral finance, one designed to help every investor become more self-sufficient and make better-informed investment decisions. The 4 pillars of investing explains how any investor can build a solid foundation for investing by focusing on four essential lessons, each building upon the other. Containing all of the tools needed to achieve investing success, without the help of a financial advisor, it presents: Practical investing advice based on fascinating history lessons from the market , exercises to determine risk tolerance as an investor, An easy-to-understand explanation of risk and reward in the capital markets. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=646469 Learn the 25 keys to selecting and managing outside investment, through mergers, acquisitions and project-specific financing, as well as R&D internal investment, for long-term growth and expansion. Managing Investments is part of The New York Times Pocket MBA Series, a reference series easily accessible to all businesspersons, from first-level managers to the executive suite. The 12-volume series is written by Ph.D.s who teach in the finest graduate business programs in the country, and edited by business editors from The New York Times. The structure of each volume presents an unparalleled synopsis of crucial principles of specific areas of business expertise. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=646112 This was the American Civil War for many who lived it, overwhelming and ultimately tragic, viewed through the eyes of a courageous youth and an unforgettable young woman. In his celebrated bestseller Catch me if you can, Frank Abagnale recounted his youthful career as a master imposter and forger. In The art of the steal, Abagnale tells the remarkable story of how he parlayed his knowledge of cons and scams into a successful career as a consultant to businesses on preventing financial foul play, while revealing to listeners how they can identify and outsmart perpetrators of fraud. Technology may have made it easier to track down criminals, but cyberspace has spawned a skyrocketing number of ways to commit crime, much of it untraceable. In fact, Frank Abagnale has discovered that punishment for fraud, much less recovery of stolen funds, is a rare occurrence. Prevention is the best form of protection. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=645509 Located in the gray area between the lightning-fast day trader and the endlessly patient buy-and-hold investor, the modern swing trader executes intermediate positions that offer highly lucrative results with less volatility. The master swing trader contains a wealth of practical insights and information for using this powerful trading method to profit from short-term price moves often missed by other market participants. After beginning with a detailed background on pattern cycle applications and the trend-range axis, The master swing trader presents: dozens of specific trading strategies and setups that include precise reward, risk, and stop-loss considerations, concrete tips, tactics and workflows to make informed choices at each stage of short-term trade evolution, the 7 Bells unique tools to uncover high-probability short-term trading prospects. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=645514 William Bernstein is one of todays most unlikely financial heroes. A practicing neurologist, he used his self-taught investment knowledge and research to build a popular investors website. Now, in the plain-spoken the intelligent asset allocator, he shows independent investors how to build a diversified portfolio without the help of a financial advisor. A breath of fresh air for investors tired of overly technical investment tomes, this book will help investors: Learn the risk/reward characteristics of various investment types, understand and apply portfolio theory for an improved risk/reward ratio, sharpen their focus, and take control of their investment programs William Bernstein (North Bend, OR) runs a website www.efficientfrontier.com known for its quarterly journal of asset allocation and portfolio theory, efficient frontier. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=645512 Jack Welchs innovative leadership strategies revived a lagging GE, transforming it into a powerhouse with a staggering $300 billion-plus market capitalization. In writing Jack Welch and the GE way, author Robert Slater was given unprecedented access to Welch and other prominent GE insiders. What emerged is a brilliant portrait that tells you what makes Jack Welch tick. Learn how to work the Welch magic on your own company as you find out how he dismantled the boundaries between management layers, between engineers and marketers, between GE and its customers to streamline the process of getting products and services to market. Get details on Welchs far-reaching six sigma quality initiative, and discover how its principles and standards can save billions of dollars, how and why he has made GE a truly global company (and why you must think global as well) and all the other Welch midas touch strategies you can put to work in your organization, at every level!