Beyond Wealth The Road Map to a Rich Life

by Green, Alexander

• ISBN13: 9781118027615
• ISBN10: 1118027612
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-03
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

True Wealth by New York Times bestselling author Alexander Green is a blueprint for personal prosperity. But the rewards are more than just financial. The book reveals fail-proof, time-tested strategies to help you achieve maximum success in both your business and personal life. One of the nation's highest-rated and most-admired investment analysts, Mr. Green offers ageless wisdom and a priceless perspective that draws on today's best business minds as well as many of the world's great philosophers from Ancient times right through to the Modern Era. True Wealth is both a deeply inspiring read and a concrete plan that shows you the shortest and most direct route to what the author calls "True Wealth."

Author Biography

ALEXANDER GREEN is the Investment Director of The Oxford Club and the author of two national bestsellers: The Gone Fishin' Portfolio and The Secret of Shelter Island: Money and What Matters. He has been featured on Oprah & Friends, Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, CNBC, MSNBC, and C-SPAN and has been profiled by the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Forbes, and many other publications. He currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Winter Springs, Florida, with his wife Karen and their children Hannah and David.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. xiii
Dollars and Sense	p. 1
Are the Rich Smarter than You?	p. 5
Are You Losing Your Soul?	p. 10
Impatient Optimism … and Radical Generosity	p. 14
You Can't Google This	p. 18
The Only Thing that Really Matters	p. 22
The Principle Thing	p. 25
The One Thing that Changes Everything	p. 28
The Trouble with Happiness	p. 31
The Key to Personal Freedom	p. 35
Change Your Perspective, Change Your Life	p. 38
How Your World Will At Last Be Built	p. 42
The Most Important Job on Earth	p. 46
One of Life's Great Miracles	p. 51
The Power of Negative Visualization	p. 55
How to Reclaim Your Life	p. 58
Why It's One of the Seven Deadly Sins	p. 62
The Ruling Passion of the Noblest Minds	p. 65
Wealth Beyond Measure	p. 69
Are You Uncurious?	p. 71
The Road Not Taken	p. 74
They Make Us All Richer	p. 77
Are You Ready for the Grand Tour?	p. 81
The Quintessence of Life	p. 85
What Women Really Want	p. 89
An Incandescent Drop of American Fire	p. 92
The Most Civilized Thing in the World	p. 95
How to Eat Like a Zen Master	p. 99
The Sublimest Activity of the Human Mind	p. 103
Drunken Monkey Ice Cream … and the Wisdom of Thornton Wilder	p. 107
The Lost Art of Conversation	p. 110
What Success Really Means	p. 113
What Are Your Sins of Omission?	p. 116
The Beauty of Slowing Down	p. 120
When Entertainment Becomes Art	p. 123
Do You Have a Secret?	p. 128
Are You Amusing Yourself to Death?	p. 133
In Praise of Idleness	p. 137
The Tyranny of the New	p. 140
Why You Should Know ôThe Indispensable Manö	p. 143
A Revelation at 4,500 Feet	p. 146
Knowing and Believing	p. 149
Tolstoy's Forbidden Book	p. 151
A Shameless Veneration of Heroes	p. 154
A Path to Personal Freedom	p. 158
Your Greatest Risk	p. 162
Are You Part of ôThe Great Conversationö?	p. 166
A 2,600-Year-Old Manual for Living	p. 170
If You Knew What Jim Brown Knows	p. 176
The Noblest Expression of the Human Spirit	p. 179
The Art of Living Consciously	p. 183
How to Let Your Life Speak	p. 188
A Legacy of Inspiration	p. 192
The Only Thing New in the World	p. 195
The University on Your Shelf	p. 198
We Are All Greeks Now	p. 202
The Wisdom of Hillel	p. 205
Meditations of the Philosopher-King	p. 208
Matters of Life and Death	p. 211
Discovering a New Sense of the Sacred	p. 214
The Highest of Arts	p. 218
Emerson: The Quintessential American	p. 221
The Life You Can Save	p. 224
Coming of Age in the Milky Way	p. 229
The Literature of Truth	p. 234
Your Connection to Everything	p. 238
The Difference between Knowing and Believing	p. 241
The Lessons of Haiti	p. 244
Your Trip to ôThe Undiscovered Countryö	p. 247
The Beginning of Wisdom	p. 252
Of Lost Souls and Lucky Stiffs	p. 255
How to Pull the Universe Out of a Hat	p. 258
It Makes Everything Meaningful	p. 262
The Truth about Myths	p. 265
Your Place In ôThe Great Storyö	p. 269
Seven Principles of Spirituality	p. 277
Afterword	p. 285
Appendix	p. 287
Further Reading	p. 289
Acknowledgments	p. 295
About the Author	p. 297
Index	p. 299
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