June 2015
Beginner
192 pages
3h 33m
English
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INDEX
Accounting, 66
Animal House (Orwell), 159
Arm & Hammer, 81
Asian culture, 49
Attorneys
Audits, 129
Banking careers, 32
Barrett, David, 105
Barrett, Judith, 105
Blackstone, 86
Boys and Girls Clubs, 131, 132
Brooks, Mel, 28
Buffett, Warren, 87
Bureaucracies, dealing with, 129, 130
Business plans
and entrepreneurship, 65
and financial projections, 29–31
Chief executive officers (CEOs)
attention of, gaining, 14
fears and self-doubts of, 21
stock purchases by, 76
Children, raising, 136, 137. See also Family members
Clark, Peter, 11
Clichés, avoiding use of, 30
Clients, communication with, 62. See also Telephone calls
College, liberal arts majors, 65, 66
Communication with clients, 62. See also Telephone calls
Confessions of a Stockbroker (Lanyi), 34
Consistency in treatment of children, 136, 137
Conventional wisdom, 48
Corbett, Jim (“Gentleman Jim”), 108
Corporate politics, 55
Country club memberships, 118, 119
Creativity in e-mail subject lines, 52, 53
Debt
company debt and stock research, 80, 81
Differentiating one's self, 14, 24, 51, 57–59
Divorce
and childhood, ...
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