Author : Mark Tier
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,20 MB
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1250071569
"A low-risk investment you can pretty much "buy and forget" -- until you want to retire to florida or the south of France"
Author : Mark Tier
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2017-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789887802648
A low risk investment you can virtually buy and forget as with Starbucks when it listed: $1,000 invested then is now worth $201,901.18-a return of 202 times your money Yet. .. such profits are typical of hot growth companies. But how can you spot the next Starbucks, Whole Foods, Walmart, or McDonalds from the hundreds of turkeys that go public every year? And how can you avoid companies touted as the "Next Starbucks" or the "Next Google" which crash and burn soon after they hit one of the big stock exchanges? There's a science to the "Next Big Thing" strategy, and Mark Tier understands it. He shows you that explosive brands like Starbucks, Whole Foods, McDonald's, and Walmart didn't become successful by accident. Through in-depth and accessible case studies, Tier pulls back the curtain on the early Key Performance Indicators that each of these major companies showed even in their earliest stages. Grasp these foundations of success and you, too, will be able to spot the next Starbucks. Tier even shows how you, as an "average-investor-in-the-street," can find such a hot growth stock-without leaving the comfort of your own home. You'll also discover- },>- Two ways you could spot the next Starbucks by "just walking around" },>- Three simple indicators you can use to cross the "Next Turkey" off your list },>- Four completely different ways to profit from the next hot growth stock-or the last one },>- How to weed out the dross by "reading between the lines" of a company's annual report-even if the last thing you want to do is take Accounting 101 ! What's more, identifying the "ingredients" essential for a small business to become a big one becomes a "recipe" for starting a successful business of your own. So rather than investing in the next Starbucks, you could decide to create it yourself!
Author : Mark Tier
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1466852771
Warren Buffett, Carl Icahn, and George Soros all started with nothing---and made billion-dollar fortunes solely by investing. But their investment strategies are so widely divergent, what could they possibly have in common? As Mark Tier demonstrates in this insightful book, the secrets that made Buffet, Icahn, and Soros the world's three richest investors are the same mental habits and strategies they all practice religiously. However, these are mental habits and strategies that fly in the face of Wall Street's conventional mindset. For example: -Buffett, Icahn, and Soros do not diversify. When they buy, they buy as much as they can. -They're not focused on the profits they expect to make. Going in, they're not investing for the money at all. -They don't believe that big profits involve big risks. In fact, they're far more focused on not losing money than making it. -Wall Street research reports? They never read them. They're not interested in what other people think. Indeed, Buffett says he only reads analyst reports when he needs a laugh. In The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros you can discover how the mental habits that guided your last investment decision stack up against those of Buffett, Icahn, and Soros. Then learn exactly how you can apply the wealth-building secrets of the world's richest investors to transform your own investment results.
Author : Mark Tier
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,79 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Capitalists and financiers
ISBN : 9780749452254
Warren Buffet and George Soros both started with nothing and made billion-dollar fortunes solely by investing. At first glance they seem to have nothing in common: Buffett buys bargain-priced stocks and businesses for cash; and Soros is renowned for his highly-leveraged, quick-footed bets in the currency markets. So what do they have in common?As Mark Tier demonstrates in The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffet and George Soros, they practice exactly the same mental habits and strategies when investing, and these tactics have since been used successfully by all other traders and investors that Tier has worked with - without exception.By sharing 23 key investment habits in this ground-breaking book, the author provides you with the rare opportunity to understand the logic behind them and make them your own.
Author : David A. Aaker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0470613580
Branding guru Aaker shows how to eliminate the competition and become the lead brand in your market This ground-breaking book defines the concept of brand relevance using dozens of case studies-Prius, Whole Foods, Westin, iPad and more-and explains how brand relevance drives market dynamics, which generates opportunities for your brand and threats for the competition. Aaker reveals how these companies have made other brands in their categories irrelevant. Key points: When managing a new category of product, treat it as if it were a brand; By failing to produce what customers want or losing momentum and visibility, your brand becomes irrelevant; and create barriers to competitors by supporting innovation at every level of the organization. Using dozens of case studies, shows how to create or dominate new categories or subcategories, making competitors irrelevant Shows how to manage the new category or subcategory as if it were a brand and how to create barriers to competitors Describes the threat of becoming irrelevant by failing to make what customer are buying or losing energy David Aaker, the author of four brand books, has been called the father of branding This book offers insight for creating and/or owning a new business arena. Instead of being the best, the goal is to be the only brand around-making competitors irrelevant.
Author : Richard Rumelt
Publisher : Currency
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 23,25 MB
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0307886239
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.
Author : Simon Sinek
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 39,76 MB
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1591846447
The inspirational bestseller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our WHY Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time—with more than 56 million views and counting. Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand purpose at work, to ask what was the WHY of their organization. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, and these ideas remain as relevant and timely as ever. START WITH WHY asks (and answers) the questions: why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over? People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers had little in common, but they all started with WHY. They realized that people won't truly buy into a product, service, movement, or idea until they understand the WHY behind it. START WITH WHY shows that the leaders who have had the greatest influence in the world all think, act and communicate the same way—and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.
Author : Martin Harry Greenberg
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,1 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Liberty in literature
ISBN : 9780743435857
Liberty is a recurring theme in science fiction. Featuring such renowned science fiction luminaries as Frank Herbert, Murray Leinster, A.E. van Vogt, Christopher Anvil, and many others, this powerful anthology examines the concept of liberty as humanity's driving force, both on Earth and onward to the stars. Original.
Author : Michael Shearn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 46,32 MB
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1118149459
A practical guide to making more informed investment decisions Investors often buy or sell stocks too quickly. When you base your purchase decisions on isolated facts and don't take the time to thoroughly understand the businesses you are buying, stock-price swings and third-party opinion can lead to costly investment mistakes. Your decision making at this point becomes dangerous because it is dominated by emotions. The Investment Checklist has been designed to help you develop an in-depth research process, from generating and researching investment ideas to assessing the quality of a business and its management team. The purpose of The Investment Checklist is to help you implement a principled investing strategy through a series of checklists. In it, a thorough and comprehensive research process is made simpler through the use of straightforward checklists that will allow you to identify quality investment opportunities. Each chapter contains detailed demonstrations of how and where to find the information necessary to answer fundamental questions about investment opportunities. Real-world examples of how investment managers and CEOs apply these universal principles are also included and help bring the concepts to life. These checklists will help you consider a fuller range of possibilities in your investment strategy, enhance your ability to value your investments by giving you a holistic view of the business and each of its moving parts, identify the risks you are taking, and much more. Offers valuable insights into one of the most important aspects of successful investing, in-depth research Written in an accessible style that allows aspiring investors to easily understand and apply the concepts covered Discusses how to think through your investment decisions more carefully With The Investment Checklist, you'll quickly be able to ascertain how well you understand your investments by the questions you are able to answer, or not answer, without making the costly mistakes that usually hinder other investors.
Author : Paul Raines
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 1999-03-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0596555792
The Tcl language and Tk graphical toolkit are simple and powerful building blocks for custom applications. The Tcl/Tk combination is increasingly popular because it lets you produce sophisticated graphical interfaces with a few easy commands, develop and change scripts quickly, and conveniently tie together existing utilities or programming libraries.One of the attractive features of Tcl/Tk is the wide variety of commands, many offering a wealth of options. Most of the things you'd like to do have been anticipated by the language's creator, John Ousterhout, or one of the developers of Tcl/Tk's many powerful extensions. Thus, you'll find that a command or option probably exists to provide just what you need.And that's why it's valuable to have a quick reference that briefly describes every command and option in the core Tcl/Tk distribution as well as the most popular extensions. Keep this book on your desk as you write scripts, and you'll be able to find almost instantly the particular option you need.Most chapters consist of alphabetical listings. Since Tk and mega-widget packages break down commands by widget, the chapters on these topics are organized by widget along with a section of core commands where appropriate. Contents include: Core Tcl and Tk commands and Tk widgets C interface (prototypes) Expect [incr Tcl] and [incr Tk] Tix TclX BLT Oratcl, SybTcl, and Tclodbc
