Product Description

What do Bill Gates, Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, Mary Kay Ash, and Walt Disney all have in common? Uncompromising vision, a willingness to take risks, and exceptional business acumen. Not only did these individuals amass great fortunes, they revolutionized the business world and helped shape society as we know it. Theirs are just a few of the stories collected in this anthology of commercial ingenuity.

Drawing on a wealth of sources, this priceless collection brings to life extraordinary achievements, many of them forgotten or little known: how Robert Morris, the preeminent merchant of the eighteenth century, financed the American Revolution with his personal credit; how Ray Kroc used a shrewd real estate strategy to turn a faltering hamburger franchise operation into the McDonald's fast food empire; and how Mary Kay Ash built a billion-dollar direct sales cosmetics company by preaching a message of economic empowerment to women.

Enlightening and fascinating, Forbes(r) Greatest Business Stories of All Time celebrates larger-than-life ambition, inspired leadership, wheeling and dealing, and hard work.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #242213 in Books
• Published on: 1997-08-07
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .98" h x 6.10" w x 9.00" l, 1.10 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

From Amazon.com
Historian and journalist Daniel Gross has produced a collection of profiles of corporate high-achievers that is exceptionally informative, extremely entertaining, and endlessly inspiring. In Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time, Gross examines 20 pioneering risk-takers who refused to compromise and were ultimately rewarded for their efforts. From the richest man in America during Revolutionary times (Robert Morris) to its richest man today (Bill Gates), the book tracks industrialists, corporate kings, financiers, and visionaries, including J. P. Morgan, Walt Disney, Ray Kroc, and Mary Kay Ash in a manner that shows why all are worth studying.

Ingram
Recounts the stories of America's most successful entrepreneurs, investors, and inventors past and present, from Henry Ford to Mary Kay Ash, celebrating their ambition, willingness to take risks, and business acumen. Reprint. 40,000 first printing."

Book Info
Provides twenty inspiring tales of entrepreneurs who changed the way we live and do business. Covers industries ranging from oil to cosmetics, from the eighteenth century up to the present. DLC: Success in business - U.S. - Case studies.