The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,173 Thoughts on the Business of Life

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Expensive binding, 14173 pieces of wisdom.

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The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,173 Thoughts on the Business of Life

Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1579124844

Book Description

This well-organized desk reference is packed with nearly 15,000 enlightening and useful witticisms about the world of business, drawn from across the centuries and from all corners of the globe. It features the timeless wisdom of such wide-ranging luminaries as Mahatma Gandhi, Henry Ford, Helen Keller, John D. Rockefeller, Katherine Graham, Leo Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf, the Forbes men themselves, and several thousand others.

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A Great Reference Book.......2007-04-17

I have used this book for the last 10 years when I need a little filler for a quarterly newsletter. I pull the book off of the shelf and open it up and always find a great quote. I have even gotten calls from clients who have commented "Great quote. Where did you find it?" There are quotes on so many different subjects. Here are just a few of the many subjects: Beginning-Beliefs, Cooperation, Education, Family, Happiness, Leadership, Planning-Please, Self, Trouble and many many more. Highly recommended.

Love this book.......2006-08-30

This is one of my favorite books. It's packed with tons of great quotations by a diverse mix of people. I would highly reccommend it.

Somewhat disappointing.......2005-09-23

For some reason, the Forbes quotes seem pithier when I read them in the magazine.

Expensive binding, 14173 pieces of wisdom........2004-03-01

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end." I bought this book because it was on a discount huge sale and the binding looks so great on my shelf. Once I got it home I find that I frequently find wise quotations on lots of subjects. The topics are arranged alphabetically from Ability to Zeal. I find that I sometimes pick it up and just read a few quotations, and invariably find them interesting and inspiring, or sometimes funny, but never dull. If you ever need a quick source for a quote on almost any topic, say "books" for example, just look in the book. Not just for business, but for lots of your life.

THE quote book.......2002-12-28

Look no further. Whether you're a writer or just would like to have a resource for business quotes, this is it.

When buying a quote book, the number one criteria I suggest you use is to select a book that is grouped by topic, not by he/she who said the quote. When I'm writing, I know I want a quote, for instance, on "opportunities." So I look it up that way. 99/100 times I'm not going to know a person who may have said something intelligent on opportunity and look it up that way.

I highly suggest you pick this up and read through it every so often. It will make you a more well-rounded person in the end.

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The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,173 Thoughts on the Business of Life (Paperback)

Manufacturer: Tess Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000E1D93K

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Just who were the youngest soldiers, Union or Confederate, of the Civil War? The culmination of 25 years' research, Professor Hoar presents the heroic, and sometimes tragic, aspects of the war, exemplified in the "littlest" Billy Yanks and Johnny Rebs. More than 40 concise biographies.

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Interesting data, dull treatment.......2002-07-04

This book is a dry, amateurishly presented report of the youngest participants of the Civil War. How valuable you find it depends on what you're hoping for: for statistics on the ages, regiments, and names of the war's youngest soldiers, it's probably the only source out there where all this information is compiled; but for an emotionally engaging or moving account of youth's experience of the war, you're better off elsewhere.

Interesting data, dull treatment.......2002-07-04

My heart has been touched, the civil war is now real to me........1999-11-08

I loved the poem Impressive Little Grown-ups. I have so enjoyed reading the biographys of these little boys and girls. I have a question for the author. On page five paragraph one it states that Clarence David McKenzie before departing read one chapter of the bilble to his folks before he left. Do you know which chapter that might have been? I am only curious to see which book was so important to Clarence.

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Unique. Captivating. Profoundly moving........1999-01-20

This is a remarkable work by a young man who was held captive for several years by a tribe of Native Americans on the coast of Vancouver Island during a time when European vessels visited these shores only once every few years. As a result, the account provides a unique insight into the lifestyle of these people prior to European intervention.

I read the work while visiting the area and found it irresistable. The natives have many surprising habits, including a preference for rotting rather than fresh whale blubber (this creates many difficulties for our protagonist) and a penchant for midnight raids on slumbering neighbors. Jewitt is a good writer and his dated prose has a tendancy to amuse the reader. He does a good job both of mentioning the details of every day existence and of capturing the emotional bonds he develops with other members of the tribe. The end of Jewitt's adventure leaves the reader deeply saddened, sharing the conflicting emotions that he himself was torn by.

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Communities Of Work: Rural Restructuring In Local & Global Contexts (Research in International Studies. Global and Comparative Studies Series, No. 2)
William W. Falk
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Communities of Work: Rural Restructuring in Local and Global Contexts [A book review from: Journal of Rural Studies]
B. Rogaly
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Rural Studies, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Communities Of Work : Rural Restructuring In Local & Global Contexts (Research in International Studies. Global and Comparative Studies Series, No. 2)

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Communities Of Work : Rural Restructuring In Local & Global Contexts (Research in International Studies. Global and Comparative Studies Series, No. 2)
William W. Falk
Manufacturer: NY
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ASIN: B000MUFTIQ

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Within is a masterful assembly of the most personal details and gorgeous minutiae of Frank Sinatra's way of living--matters of the heart and heartbreak, friendship and leadership, drinking and cavorting, brawling and wooing, tuxedos and snap-brims--all crafted from rare interviews with Sinatra himself as well as many other intimates, including Tony Bennett, Don Rickles, Angie Dickinson, Tony Curtis, and Robert Wagner, in addition to daughters Nancy and Tina Sinatra. Illustrated with scores of photos, The Way You Wear Your Hat captures the timeless romance and classic style of the fifties and the loose sixties and is a stunning exploration of the Sinatra mystique.

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Frank had style, like no other before or since.......2007-10-16

This is a fun read. It's not really biographical; simply a collection of anecdotes and memories that paint a picture of a man over the years. I get a real sense of Frank Sinatra -- we all knew him, and yet perhaps no one really knew him at all.

Great guide for living life like it should be lived.......2007-10-09

This book takes a turn away from Sinatra the Musician, and focuses on Sinatra the Man. Sure, he had a temper. Which one of us doesn't? Sure, he made some mistakes in his life. Which one of us hasn't? The flaws that FS had were overshadowed by the good qualities, with one that stands out in particular - LOYALTY. He stood by his friends just as fiercely as he stood up to his enemies.

This book doesn't take the angle of a biography like so many others do. It only gets into biographical details as they relate to how Frank lived his life. It's full of great stories told by his friends and family on how Frank lived his life. It was a different time, and while all the specifics may not apply to today, the ideals are still very relevant. Everybody should take a least a page from Frank's life through this book, and apply it to their own life.

A flower's not a flower if it's wilted.
A hat's not a hat 'till it's tilted.

Frank rules..................2007-01-10

I bought this book for my boyfriend. He loves Frank Sinatra. I gave it to him at Christmas along with a fedora (like Frank wears on the cover of the book). He read the whole book on Christmas. He said it was great!

"Cock your hat- angles are attitudes"~Frank Sinatra

The Way You Wear Your Hat:Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'.......2006-11-10

The pictures are black and white, I would have preferred colored photos.

The Man!.......2006-09-15

If I could trade places with anyone in history in would be Frank Sinatra.
This book shows you the man and his unmatched charm,wit,and his overwelliming appeal,not just to beautiful woman but to everyone he met.
I opened it and read it it one sitting.
If you are a Sinatra fan,you gotta read this,and then read it again.
However,it does help if you have some background of Sinatra to appreciate it fully.
Loved it!!!

The Way You Wear Your Hat. Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'

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The Way You Wear Your Hat. Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'
Bill Zehme
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NUUEXU

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The Way You Wear Your Hat (Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin')
Bill Zehme
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
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If you're approaching retirement age or are just a long-range planner here's the perfect primer to help you make your future secure. CliffsNotes Planning Your Retirement for Canadians gives you helpful background information on the benefits and uses of annuities and pension plans. With government cutbacks affecting all social programs, you need to know what safeguards to put in your personal financial plans. You'll find: helpful worksheets for calculating your net worth and taking inventory of your estate; explanations of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and what it offers for you; how to determine what your company pension plan is and how it works.

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Effects of the Civil War seen thru a Southern teenage life.......1999-12-17

The diary of a single, young Southern Belle who gives us glimpses of her life from before the Civil War, to when the fighting comes close to home and when they have to flee to the West. You experience her emotions and innermost thoughts.

Excellent social history.......1999-08-02

Often overlooked, diaries are the primary source of women's history during the Civil War. Here this elite South Carolina woman documents her life, not for prosperity, but as the custom of her day, via her private diary. Poignant and enjoyable to read, Emma carries through this time of war with the true dignity of Southern womanhood. Excellent social history of the daily life of a Southern woman. Thank you for bringing this wonderful diary to light. Joy Melcher, Civil War Lady Magazine

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This Is A Very Useful Book!

The Art of Collaboration: A Guide For Nonprofit & Government Organizations
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This Is A Very Useful Book!.......2000-12-02

Collaboration has become an important topic in the nonprofit world and this book does a good job of showing nonprofits how to use collaboration. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in this subject. Not only does it cover the basics, but it also includes information and tips for those already collaborating.

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Skillman's _Moving to the Country_.......2002-02-02

Having just checked this book from the library... Perhaps no more a gamble than buying country property, which is lessened by this informative, practical, ecology-friendly, non-preachy, how-to book about the process of moving to the country. I imagine there are places in Hopland, CA that try to sell you this information for quite a bit more. Skillman is straight forward as he describes everything about the process from what to expect from country economies, societies, real estate brokers, financing, etc. He provides extremely helpful advice on how and if to build septic tanks, angle of sun and slope, how to build overhangs and face your home to maximize sun in winter and minimize in summer, getting electricy and water, etc. He gives well-founded cautions on pitfalls of moving to the country. I felt like I was in dialogue with a caring uncle who was expert via experience on the subject. I could almost see Skillman measuring the water pressure or driving up gravelled roads to see where easements lay. One small satisfying book, Skillman covers everything I had to read several books to find out.

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On Borrowed Words, February 20, 2006

At home abroad..

¡Gracias Ilán! A groisen Donk! Thanks Ilan!

A prototype intellectual memior

a memoir - language and marginality

On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language
Ilan Stavans
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English is Ilan Stavans's fourth language, but you'd never know it from the elegance of his prose. Indeed, he claims in this fascinating intellectual memoir, he now thinks of himself "as having been born into Yiddish and Spanish and then having been lured away by English... [I] found my true self the moment I spoke Shakespeare's tongue." The grandson of Jewish immigrants, he never felt truly at home in Mexico, though he adored Spanish: "It is far easier for me to think of my birth as having occurred in the tongue of Quevedo, Cervantes, Borges, and Octavio Paz than to perceive myself as un mexicano hecho y derecho." He was thrilled to experience Hebrew (his third tongue) as a living language, but Israel proved only a way station for the writer, who eventually discovered that "the only place I feel I truly belong is New York." Certainly the inhabitants of America's polyglot, multicultural cities will feel the strongest affinity for Stavans's memories of his grandmother, who never again spoke a word of Russian or Polish after she emigrated to Mexico, and of a sense of self that shifted depending on the language he spoke. More personal in tone, though still firmly linked to his themes, are portraits of his father, an actor whose fluency with words of emotion and affection slightly overwhelmed Ilan, and of brother Darian, who compensated for a severe stutter by communicating through music but never quite outran his personal demons. The luminous closing section, "The Lettered Man," sums up the book's primary preoccupation: identity formation through language and literature. "Sometimes I have the feeling I'm not one but two, three, four people. Is there an original person? An essence? I'm not altogether sure, for without language I am nobody." --Wendy Smith

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Yiddish, Spanish, Hebrew, and English-at various points in Ilan Stavans's life, each of these has been the prominent and controversial scholar's primary language. His family's immigrant experience took them from Eastern Europe to the Jewish ghetto of Mexico City, which Stavans abandoned for Israel and subsequently the United States. In this rich memoir, the linguistic chameleon outlines his remarkable cultural heritage from his birth in politically fragile Mexico through his years as a student activist, a young Zionist in Israel, and a student of theology in New York to his career now as a noted academic and writer.

Since survival has meant borrowing other people's languages and pretending they were his own, Stavans offers a view of his journey from the perspective of words. Along the way, he introduces his remarkable family: his brother, a musical wunderkind; his father, a Mexican soap opera star; his grandmother who emigrated from Eastern Europe to Mexico in 1929. Masterfully weaving personal reminiscences with a provocative investigation into language acquisition and cultural code switching, On Borrowed Words is a memorable exploration of Stavans's search for his place in the world.

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On Borrowed Words, February 20, 2006.......2006-02-21

I read this book and I found that the author had been extremely careless in its writing. Even though it is an autobiography, the author makes reference to "historic facts" which are false. If this book reflects the author's cavalier attitude towards accuracy (in historic facts as well as in language accuracy) then this book casts a shadow on the author's intellectual integrity. Otherwise the book is an "easy read" and it is entertaining.

At home abroad.........2005-04-14

Ilan Stavans, Mexican/American Jewish writer, wrote a book about his experience as an insider/outsider. This is a condition shared by many in our times of high geographical mobility. It is a condition his/my people have known for at least two thousand years. The difference is that he, as many in the present, is not running away from persecution -- much as he might find himself in a somewhat more tolerant environment on an American campus than he did in his native Mexico City -- but one that moved from one culture to another by choice. The thing to note is that in both, the cultural context of his birth as well as his present cultural environment, he is still not quite mainstream. When it comes to language, this becomes a much more complex matter. It runs into the impossibility to render thoughts with mathematical precision in translation but it means more than that: translation has power over that which is translated, in a very active way.

This multi layered predicament is liberating and a bonus for those who know how to take advantage of it.

Ilan Stavans writes in a very readable and crisp and clear way. If you are a person with stakes in many cultures and languages, if you are a Jew at that, you will feel over and over again that you should have written this book. If you are not, you will come very close to understanding this predicament which will make so many things clear to you. In either case, read this book. It is so well written that you will be enriched by it and will enjoy the experience.

¡Gracias Ilán! A groisen Donk! Thanks Ilan!.......2003-10-01

As an American Jew with insider knowledge of the Mexico City Jewish community, I was startled and later heartwarmed by this book, and in the end proud of Stavans' courageous autobiographical outpouring. He has expressed facts about the Mexico City Jewish community and its effect on how one grows up there and how one views the world from this shtetl within one of the largest cities in the world.

I am enormously proud of how he has expressed himself in a language still somewhat foreign to him. He has given the reader some food for thought on how we all sometimes live on immigrant islands trying so ferociously to protect our languages and cultures while our offspring yearn to find a meaning in the country of their birth.

I suppose I'm a bit prejudiced since there are family ties here, but this book is outstanding and worth your reading. It definitely deals with the great questions of the humanities. His "let it all hang out" style must have cost him dearly amongst the family and the community, but as a writer he is definitely true to himself. I admire him greatly. This is a must read.

A prototype intellectual memior.......2003-01-16

Ilan Stavans' On Borrowed Words flows nicely. It is at once an autobiograpical account of Stavans' intellectual journey, a rich detail on the literary works that have shaped his worldview, and a commentary on the influence, power, and limitations of language. The reader will develop a greater awareness of the books and influences that form one's belief system after reading Stavans' memior.
Credit Stavans for not unnecessarily dwelling on his past as a minority, but for developing (though his detail of language in his life) his own persona.

a memoir - language and marginality.......2002-09-23

This book is a well-written, fascinating memoir of a childhood and young adulthood of a Jewish childhood in Mexico city. The characters are memorable - Bobbe Bela from Russia, the actor father, the talented and unstable brother, and the author himself seeking home and identity. A significant component of his seeking identity is found in language - Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, English. He compares multiple languages with masks of an actor, one of many elements in his tale that cause the reader to reflect. Another component is the author's finding his calling as an author - the influences (and absence of encouragement) that shape his writing, the language and the content. Another component is his searching for his Jewishness - in Israel, in Spain, in theology books (and classes), in Yiddish literature.

This memoir is excellent reading on being human - the reader gains insight into human experience as a whole through the detailed exposition of what it means to be a specific human, Ilan Stavans.

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On Borrowed Words -A Memoir of Language
Illan Stavans
Manufacturer: Viking
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IO0ISW

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On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language
Ilan Stavans
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Binding: Paperback
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