Biography & Autobiography : Business

Flying High traces the incredible career of the founder and chairman of JetBlue, David Neeleman, from his teenage ventures and beginnings in the travel industry., to his short stint at Southwest Airlines and the ultimate launch of JetBlue. In a series of interviews with Neeleman's friends, associates, and high-ranking officials in both business and aviation, this books tells the store of Neeleman and explores the rules of success he both lives and builds his companies by. more...

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The name Blackwater, the world's largest private military contractor, became infamous early in the Iraq War, when four of its men were seized by a mob in Fallujah, murdered, and hung from a bridge for the world to see. Since then, Blackwater has expanded dramatically; its men have been involved in major scandals, including a shooting spree in Iraq that has now caused the Iraqi government to blacklist the company. As Suzanne Simons reveals in this first-ever inside look, based on extraordinary access to Blackwater founder Erik Prince, and dozens of his key employees, Blackwater is just the tip of Erik Prince's empire. He publicly reassures everyone that Blackwater only works for the U.S., and would never become a mercenary organization for other governments, yet he has another entire company dedicated to doing just that, hiring foreign nationals, working for well over a dozen different governments, and overlapping in crucial ways with Blackwater. In addition, he has a private spying company, run by former top CIA men, employing extraordinarily sensitive methods and technical sophistication, for rent by any interested party, from companies to governments. Finally, he is amassing an air fleet that is large enough to serve as a miniature air force, not just by purchasing planes and helicopters, but also by building his own unmanned drones. In short, the full story of Erik Prince and his now-crumbling empire is a story of one of the modern world's most influential military figures, and it has never been told. Prince is a man who shuns publicity except when absolutely necessary, to tamp down a scandal; even when he has wanted to tell his story, he has been shut down by his clients in Washington who won't stand for it. Instead, he has given Suzanne Simons hours of interviews; access to his staff; invitations to join him on trips to Afghanistan; and more. He is a fascinating figure, part deeply conservative, evangelical patriot; part rebellious, go-it-alone more...

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Here is history that reads like fiction: the riveting story of two founding fathers of American industry—Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick—and the bloody steelworkers’ strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. more...

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There are ‘rich lists’ on both sides of the Atlantic, but they tell us very little about the lives of people with vast fortunes. What makes them different – are they really a breed apart? What does it take to amass great wealth, where does it come from, and what does it mean to those who have it? How do they use their money? And how do they feel about the rest of us? William Davis draws on half a century’s experience in financial journalism to present a detailed portrait of the super-rich. Divided into chapters on different areas of life – the media, sport, technology, finance and so on – the book takes a penetrating look at the ambitions, methods, pleasures and ego trips of the richest people in the world. What is their power – and what are their fears? Many have inherited their wealth. Others have made billions through their own efforts – entrepreneurs like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Richard Branson and Roman Abramovitch. Showbiz has also made some people very rich, such as Elton John, Paul McCartney or Andrew Lloyd Webber, as has the media and sport with people like Rupert Murdoch or Tiger Woods. The Rich is strongly international, lively and iconoclastic, and laced with quotes and anecdotes. Superbly well-informed, it provides thought-provoking insight into a world that few people do not find fascinating. more...

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With the distillation of a life's worth of wisdom and insight into an elegant expression of a coherent worldview, this book will stand as Greenspan's personal and intellectual legacy. more...

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