Goodbye Gordon Gekko : How to Find Your Fortune Without Losing Your Soul

by Anthony Scaramucci

• ISBN13: 9780470767092
• ISBN10: 047076709X
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

How to live a more productive life by putting a profitable lifestyle ahead of profitsWith his standout Wall Street line "Greed is good," Gordon Gekko became pop culture icon for unrestrained greed. But, while greed might be great for one personespecially when that person is fictionalitrs"s not so great for good people living in the real world. In Goodbye Gordon Gekko: How to Find Your Fortune and Not Lose Your Soul, Anthony Scaramucci describes how a better understanding of people, capital, and culture can be used to enrich oners"s life, financially as well as spiritually. With smart and engaging prose, the book: bull; Discusses how the best manifestations of ambition, entrepreneurship and mentoring can lead to a life that not only fulfills financial obligations, but also leaves a lasting legacy bull; Describes ways in which Americans and American companies can act to avoid the kind of crisis that crippled the countryrs"s economy bull; Details how to build a core set of values to discover wealth on oners"s own terms Given the turmoil in financial markets over the past few years, many people are reevaluating what it means to be "rich." Goodbye Gordon Gekko shows how itrs"s possible to be well-off without all the trappings of wealth.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Ambition

Ego vs. The Egomaniac

Success & Failure

Reaching for Excellence

Vocation & Meaning

Let it All Hang Out

Capital

Real Wealth

Knowledge

Lessons from Unlikely Places

The Way of the Mentor

Looking for a Hero

Teamwork

There's No "I" in Team

The People That You Meet on the Street

You Take the Good, You Take the Bad

How to Find Your Fortune Without Losing Your Soul

Further reading

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Index

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