Finance Biography

This book is going to share some key reasons to Bill Gates' success. He is an unmistakable American entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist with a terrific success in the development of software for personal computers. The life story of Bill Gates explains why he is one of the richest individuals on Earth.

No time to read? Get the main key insights from this Summary of Brad Stone’s Amazon Unbound in 23 minutes or less. A few key insights from Chapter 1: Amazon's buildings in Seattle's developing South Lake Union neighborhood, which the company moved into in 2010, were unremarkable physically. There was no conspicuous signage revealing the existence of a renowned online firm with almost $35 billion in yearly sales, at the request of its CEO, Jeff Bezos. Bezos had advised colleagues that nothing beneficial could come from that type of apparent self-aggrandizement.

This digest captures Warren Buffet's way of life, his business sense and principles and the secrets to his success. The story begins when Buffett was six years old, intrigued by the ideas of risk and probability. At age 11, he was already dabbling in trading having bought three shares of Cities Services for himself and three for his sister. In 1964, he bought Berkshire Hathaway, a Massachusetts textile firm and he managed to grow it to the 12th largest company in the US.

A great American voice narrates a poignant tribute to our most outstanding monument. One of Charles Kuralt's last projects, Our Lady of the Freedoms is a full-scale production of writer-director Norman Corwin's account of how the Statue of Liberty came to New York harbor.