Max Gunther's lost classic, now in a new Classics edition. Some people think you're either born lucky or not. But what if you could actively get lucky? As Max Gunther shows in this page-turning classic, some people really are luckier than others - and not by accident. Lucky people arrange their lives in characteristic patterns. They tend to position themselves in the path of onrushing luck; they tend to go where events are moving fastest and where they can find their lucky break Lucky people take risks but not silly ones. They stick with a cause, a job, or a partner, but not when all hope is lost. In short, they move with life, not against it. This book gives you 13 different techniques by which you can discover and take advantage of life's good breaks, while minimising the effects of its bad ones.
This other life was lived by a high-school friend, Evelyn Taylor. Evelyn's life was not lucky. It was an obscure life. The recruiters learned about it only because Catherine Andrews happened to mention it one day at lunch.
Every rule except the one that says you should make money.” He has often seemed like an extremely disordered man, even a scatterbrained one. The impression is wrong. Howard Hughes may be a genius. He has a mind that feeds on problems as ...
Stephen Mayer, president of MEM (maker of English Leather brand toiletries), isn't sure a really good bladeless shave will ever be developed. But he does think it might be possible to develop a hair-growth retarder.
Offers advice on investment strategy and risk management, clears up common misconceptions about the stock market, and discusses economic forecasts and long-range planning.
He then shows you how you can use this approach to improve your luck and turn your fortune around. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to change their luck -- for the better!
Each method is carefully explained by the author, a veteran writer of unimpeachable reputation who researched this book with the objectivity of a scientist and who vouches for the accuracy of the results described in it.
Harriman Classics with a new foreword by James P. O'Shaughnessy If you want to get rich, no matter how inexperienced you are in investment, this book can help you.
This brief, useful book illuminates an obscure chapter in the history of Los Angeles and America’s socialist movement.
How to turn misfortune into good fortune. And how to practise being lucky, every day. Written in a very accessible and entertaining style, this is the book you need to improve your brand’s fortunes, in these turbulent times.
Whether you were part of the scene or are just fascinated by different modes of expression, this book will transport you to another time and place.