Résultats pour "The Dream" dans Commerce

In Winners Dream, Bill McDermott - the co-CEO of the world’s largest business software company, SAP - chronicles how relentless optimism, hard work, and disciplined execution embolden people and equip organizations to achieve audacious goals. Growing up in working-class Long Island, a sixteen-year-old Bill traded three hourly wage jobs to buy a small deli, which he ran by instinctively applying ideas that would be the seeds for his future success.

When Hugh Hefner quit his job at Esquire to start a magazine called Playboy, he didn't just want to make money, he wanted to make dreams come true. In this wise and penetrating biography, intellectual historian Steven Watts looks at what Hugh Hefner went on to become and how he took America with him. Hefner became one of the most hated and envied celebrities in America, standing just barely on the wrong side of decency - with as many as seven million subscribers to his magazine.

They promised freedom. They delivered a script. When James Johnson signed on to knock doors for Alta Pest Control, he thought he was chasing the American Dream. Sunny neighborhoods, fat commissions, and a taste of entrepreneurial glory. Instead, he found himself inside a high-control sales cult dressed up as a summer job.

When Bernie J. Mullin first arrived in the United States in the 1970s, he saw his new home as a land of unrivaled opportunity. In the fifty years since, he has embraced everything that America has to offer. Bernie’s American journey has seen him rise from college student to pioneer of a new academic discipline, and from small business owner to senior roles at some of America’s most beloved sports institutions. But as his own star rose, Bernie watched in alarm as the ties that bind America together began to come loose.

The inside story of the booming video game industry from the late 1990s to the present, as told by the Managing Director of Ubisoft's Massive Entertainment (The Division, Far Cry 3, Assassin's Creed: Revelations). At Massive Entertainment, a Ubisoft studio, a key division of one of the largest...

Building Dreams is the book that pulls back the curtain on why you haven't reached the levels of success you dream of. Written by your new bestie, Becky, this book is a guide through and beyond the obstacles that have kept you from building your most abundant life. This pause-resister will keep you interested in what happens to Becky and what will become possible for you.

"Ellen Bennett is the platonic form of a go-getter who inspires go-getter after go-getter to become a better go-getter."—Zooey Deschanel, actor and musician You’ll never know where to start…until you start. This gutsy guidebook will help anyone who's procrastinating on a goal, career...

Read by the author. Faith, family, hard work, and second chances are at the core of every great American story. Jenny Doan has one of those great American stories. Over the last decade, the Doan family business has grown from Jenny's corner shop to become the largest supplier of pre-cut quilting...

Sky's the Limit tells the inspirational tale of John P. Calamos, Sr., an American trailblazer, self-made success story, and living legend in the world of investing. Each chapter contains stories and business lessons he learned along the way. From a stock boy in his parents' grocery store in Chicago's west side, to 400+ combat missions in Vietnam, to launching his own firm which now has upwards of $35 billion in assets, John's career and the extreme success he's enjoyed through that career have been built on taking risks and being resilient.

Born in a small Punjab village at the turn of the century, Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi began his career in the industry on a fifty-rupee-a-month wage at Simla’s Cecil Hotel. But he was not destined to remain in his lowly position for long. With a combination of clear-sighted thinking...

Architect of "Operation Flood", the largest dairy development program in the world, Dr. Verghese Kurien has enabled India to become the largest milk producer in the world. A man with a rare vision, Dr. Kurien has devoted a lifetime to realizing his dream - empowering the farmers of India. He has engineered the milk cooperative movement in India. It was a sheer quirk of fate that landed him in Anand, where a small group of farmers were forming a cooperative, Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers' Union Limited (better known as Amul), to sell their milk.

Secrets & Dreams es la historia de Alejandro Zozaya, el mexicano que construyó un imperio hotelero y salvó el turismo nacional en más de una ocasión, escrita a partir de las entrevistas que tuvo con el reconocido periodista especializado en negocios y turismo, Carlos Velázquez Mayoral.

The triumphant story of Thomas W. Felder, who began his life as a poor kid in the South Bronx. During that time he lived in rat-infested, crime-ridden tenements and even experienced homelessness. Thomas went on to become a high-powered attorney and a key player in one of the largest television network mergers in US history.

Fulfilling the Dream: My Path to Leadership and Finding Purpose in Serving Others is an honest, eye-opening, and inspiring book about setting aside personal ego and ignoring racial and political bias to bless and benefit others. Wayman Britt's story is a tale of believing one's dreams, realizing them, and then dedicating his life to helping others imagine and achieve better lives.

In the 1990s, Steve Farrell cofounded and led two high-growth technology companies based in Silicon Valley that were featured in the INC500 and spanned the United States and Europe. A New Universal Dream is the inspiring story of Steve's journey from the pursuit of wealth and traditional ideas of success toward a more fulfilling life of caring and service to others and to humanity. It's also the story of the potential each of us has for profound change.

On a cold December night in 1991, a young boy with 17 cents in his pocket first set foot in the United States. Twenty years later that young man found himself the founder and CEO of a billion-dollar corporation. Daniel Milstein's harrowing story about how his mother, father and brother escaped the oppressive government of the USSR and immigrated to the United States and carved out a life for themselves has been described as the quintessential immigrant story of the era.

In Welcome to the Jungle, proven corporate leader, senior executive, author and entrepreneur, Teena Hostovich, shares her journey from reception desk to the C-Suite in this entertaining and thorough guide to navigating a thriving career in corporate America. This book is the perfect place to learn from someone who has seen it all and come out on top. You'll walk away from this book feeling empowered and ready to take on the jungle and the adventure of a corporate career!

Die amerikanischen Großindustriellen des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts: Waren sie Räuberbarone oder Philanthropen? Clevere Geschäftsmänner auf jeden Fall! In kurzen Biografien werden hier die Lebensgeschichten einiger der reichsten Amerikaner ihrer Zeit erzählt. Mit dabei: Ölbaron John D. Rockefeller, Stahlgigant Andrew Carnegie, Charles M. Schwab, ebenfalls Stahlbaron, William Andrews Clark (Kupfer), Henry Ford (Automobil), Gebrüder Dodge (Automobil), Harry F. Sinclair und Edward L. Doheny (Öl), John H. Patterson (NCR-Registrierkassen), Harvey S. Firestone (Gummi).

The Dreamer's Dream emphasizes the importance of hard work, determination, and persistence in achieving one's dreams while staying focused on the end result. This book offers more than just a memoir: it provides a wealth of knowledge on how to buy a small piece of America and profit from it. The author shares a step-by-step guide on how to create owner finance subdivisions, run a successful mailbox business, and help people with no credit and minimum funds to realize their dream of owning their own piece of land in America.

Empresaria social. Economista. Inversionista. Financiera. Mentora. Mujer. Estas son algunas de las palabras que caracterizan el perfil único de Patricia Armendáriz, fundadora y presidenta de Financiera Sustentable. Poderosa e inspiradora, la amazona de las finanzas y la economía comparte las claves para alcanzar el éxito en la vida, los negocios y en Shark Tank.