Publisher's Synopsis
As mentioned in Yahoo Finance, Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch, and MSN Money, The Billionaire's Apprentice provides a complete account of the business lives of twenty-one extraordinary billionaires. This book is for people that want to learn the ins and outs of business by studying the examples of the best. Just as a philosopher might study Plato or Socrates to establish a philosophical foundation, so too a businessman can study the greatest businessmen and women in order to establish a business foundation. While reading this book you will realize that these billionaires are ordinary men and women who have achieved incredible success through hard work, determination, luck, and risk. You will be inspired to aim big and most importantly, to learn about business. Included in the selection are accounts from the lives of Amancio Ortega, Andrew Carnegie, Cheung Yan (a.k.a. Zhang Yin), Daniel K. Ludwig, Frederick W. Smith, Frederic Tudor, Friedrich Weyerhäuser, Gina Rinehart, Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, Howard Hughes, Jean Paul Getty, John Jacob Astor, John Paul Dejoria, John Huntsman (Sr.), John Kluge, John D. MacArthur, John D. Rockefeller, Manoj Bharghava, Roman Arkadyevich Abromovich, Sheldon Adelson, Steve Wynn, and T. Boone Pickens.
