An Embarrassment of Riches Tapping Into the World's Greatest Legacy of Wealth

by Green, Alexander

• ISBN13: 9781118608821
• ISBN10: 1118608828
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-11-25
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

A bestselling financial expert outlines a new, holistic approach to wealth "Are you living a rich life? Are you enjoying your work, or are you simply selling yourself to the highest bidder?" asks Alexander Green, author of such bestsellers as The Gone Fishin' Portfolio and Beyond Wealth. In An Embarrassment of Riches: Tapping Into the World's Greatest Legacy of Wealth, Green outlines a new, holistic approach to wealth that helps readers build a life as rich in purpose and meaning as in money. Alexander Green has enjoyed a successful career as both a professional money manager and a financial writer with a unique, spiritual approach to wealthy living that is expressed in his newest book, An Embarrassment of Riches. Emphasizing understanding, wisdom, and purpose as much as income and assets, Green walks readers on a path to accumulating wealth in the broadest sense of the term. Offers financial perspectives from a bestselling investment expert with a spiritual approach Emphasizes understanding, wisdom, and purpose as much as income and assets Helps readers make decisions based on personal as well as financial aspirations "You can't put a price on freedom, especially personal freedom," says Alexander Green. An Embarrassment of Riches: Tapping Into the World's Greatest Legacy of Wealth shows readers how to lead a life that is both materially and spiritually rich.

Author Biography

ALEXANDER GREEN is the Chief Investment Strategist of The Oxford Club and the author of three national bestsellers: The Gone Fishin' Portfolio, The Secret of Shelter Island and Beyond Wealth. He has been featured on Oprah & Friends, Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, CNBC, MSNBC, and C-SPAN and has been profiled in 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

Preface

Introduction

Part One: A Wealth of Gratitude

A Message from the Land of the Unwell

The Reason You Should Be Biased

What We Live to Discover

Like No Other Nation In the World

How to Put a Touch of Glory In Your Life

The Greatest Star of Them All

The Man Who Invented Christmas

Do You Know Where You Are?

The Mind-Boggling Universe, Part II

The Best That Has Been Thought and Said

A Titan For Freedom and Prosperity

The Great Key to Successful Living

What You Can Learn From “The Gadfly of Athens”

The True Rulers of the Planet

Confessions of An Analog Man

How to Be Miserable In One Easy Lesson

For Music Lovers Only

Part Two: A Wealth of Wisdom

Where Can Wisdom Be Found?

Discovering a New Sense of the Sacred

The Cash Value of the American Mind

The Key to Civility … and Greatness

How to Defeat Death

The Sage Who Spoke to Everyman

The Greatest Bestseller of All Time

The Pursuit of Moral Perfection

How Apple Got Its Zen

The Secret of “Big-Ass Salads”

Take a Vacation Inside Your Head

What We Can Learn From “The Gadfly of Athens”

The Biggest Question of Them All

A Requiem For an Atheist

The Nation’s Most Misunderstood Man

Why Grant’s Final Victory Was His Greatest

The Other Freedom Document of 1776

The Right Man at the Right Time

The Most Powerful Thing You Can Do For Your Body

The “Howling Atheist” Who Governed the Country

Part Three: A Wealth of Understanding

Why You Love and Need the Rat Race

How to Live “the Good Life”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb … and the Pursuit of Phronesis

The Gift a Man Gives Himself

A Billionaire’s Best Advice

The Lost Art of Conversation

A Visit Everyone Should Make

The Man Who Made Dreams Come True

How to Talk Politics Without Committing Murder

The True Secret of Success

How to Be a Big Loser

Three Words That Will Save Your Life

Are You Awake?

The One Factor That Changes Everything

The Lies We Tell Ourselves

How the First Americans Became Last

The Top Five Regrets of the Dying

A Short Lesson In Humility

Afterword

Further Reading

About the Author

Index