Good Advice from Bad People
Good Advice from Bad People

Author: Zac Bissonnette

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-04-29

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0698141792

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The world is full of people telling you how to live your life. Sometimes the advice-givers fall ever-so-slightly short themselves. Bestselling author Zac Bissonnette has gathered more than seventy-five jaw-dropping gems, including risk-management advice from the man who triggered the world’s largest hedge fund collapse and tips from gay-prostitute-patronizing pastor Ted Haggard on how to build a marriage that lasts a lifetime. The result will keep you smiling while you glean all the wisdom you need to build the life you want . . . if only you can follow it better than the people who gave it. • “When you know what you are talking about, others will follow you, because it’s safe to follow you.” —Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld, 2006 • “I think the most important thing is restore a sense of idealism and end the cynicism.” —future Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, 2002 • “The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuse, that’s the day you start to the top.” —O.J. Simpson, 1975

The Beardstown Ladies' Common-Sense Investment Guide
The Beardstown Ladies' Common-Sense Investment Guide

Author: The Beardstown Ladies' Investment Club

Publisher: Hyperion

Published: 1996-01-25

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780786881208

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Already role models for thousands of investors, the Beardstown Ladies--16 savvy women from rural Beardstown, Illinois--have beaten the stock market for more than a decade. This guide includes step-by-step instructions for their investment strategies, plus illustrative anecdotes that will show even the most inexperienced investor how to devise a personal financial plan. Photos.

The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs
The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs

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Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2012-05-22

Total Pages: 729

ISBN-13: 0300183356

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"You can't unring a bell." "It takes a village to raise a child." "Life is just a bowl of cherries." We sometimes think of proverbs as expressions of ancient wisdom, but in fact new proverbs are constantly arising. This unique volume is devoted exclusively to English language proverbs that originated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The most complete and accurate such collection ever compiled, The Yale Book of Modern Proverbs presents more than 1,400 individual proverbs gathered and researched with the help of electronic full-text databases not previously used for such a project. Entries are organized alphabetically by key words, with information about the earliest datable appearance, origin, history, and meaning of each proverb. Mundane or sublime, serious or jocular, these memorable sayings represent virtually every aspect of the modern experience. Readers will find the book almost impossible to put down once opened; every page offers further proof of the immense vitality of proverbs and their colorful contributions to the oral traditions of today.

The Beardstown Ladies' Little Book of Investment Wisdom
The Beardstown Ladies' Little Book of Investment Wisdom

Author: The Beardstown Ladies' Investment Club

Publisher: Hyperion

Published: 1997-11-01

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9780786863730

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In their latest book, the famous Beardstown group has gathered together the very best tips of their essential investment advice and pared it down to the most indispensable tips, techniques, and proverbs, for a collection of easy-to-follow, delightful-to-read maxims. Each attractive spread has a line illustration on one side and a "tip" with a brief explanation or description on the other.

Cases and Materials on Advanced Torts
Cases and Materials on Advanced Torts

Author: Dan B. Dobbs

Publisher: West Academic Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 808

ISBN-13:

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This advanced torts casebook covers all the major business and dignitary torts, including defamation, privacy invasions, disparagement, bad faith breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, conversion of economic values, interference with contract and economic opportunity, unfair competition, and others. It examines essential policy issues involving free speech, free competition, and the question whether contract trumps tort in commercial transactions. It also includes material on developing law, such as internet issues, SLAPP statutes and analogous free speech issues, and the Economic Loss Rule (or Rules).