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The Fast Track: The Insider's Guide to Winning Jobs in Management Consulting, Investment Banking, & ... 43 reviews
Mariam Naficy
Broadway, 1997
Great Primer for Management Consulting & I Banking
This book gives a good overview of the different facets of management consulting and investment banking. For those considering a MBA as a transition to these two career paths, this is a good place to start your research. As my personal interest is Management Consulting . . . 1) The culture requires teamwork, high quality and constant change. "You are only as good as your last project." (pg 44) ...
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Retire Rich With Your Self-Directed IRA: What Your Broker & Banker Don't Want You to Know About Managing Your ... 11 reviews
Nora Peterson
Atlantic Publishing Company (FL), 2006
If You Didn't Know Before, Now You Do!
From the moment you start reading Nora Peterson's book, Retire Rich With Your Self-Directed IRA: What Your Broker & Banker Don't Want You to Know About Managing Your Own Retirement Investments, you cannot help but feel at ease. It is clearly arranged in a very orderly fashion and very easy to follow. The use of her fictional character Jo, made it easy for you to follow along as if you too were ...
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Damn, it Feels Good to Be a Banker: And Other Baller Things You Only Get to Say If You Work On Wall Street7 reviews
Leveraged Sellout
Hyperion, 2008
A working definition of Schadenfreude...
I pity poor old "Leveraged Sellout", which would be the most wounding thing one could do to him ("one" being a person not blessed enough to work in front office advisory M&A at a bulge bracket investment bank), but only for his timing. After the events of September 2008 it's going to be a while before anyone preens about working in a Bulge Bracket investment bank on Wall Street. At this point ...
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Real Estate Riches: How to Become Rich Using Your Banker's Money 126 reviews
Dolf de Roos
Warner Business Books, 2001
Real Estate
This book is definitely a must have for those who want to learn the world of real estate investing. I found it extremely helpful and very easy reading. I found it very inspiring and will definitely go back to it again and again for advice.
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A Life In Leadership: From D-Day to Ground Zero: An Autobiography6 reviews
John C. Whitehead
Basic Books, 2005
One of the Best Business Books Ever Written
I would highly recommend this book to anybody interested in leadership, but especially young business people at the beginning of their careers. This memoir gives an incredible inside and frank perspective on leadership of an individual who has had a more ecclectic and successful career than most people could ever hope for. Furthermore, this book is also fascinating because it provides a ...
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The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance7 reviews
Dan Rottenberg
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006
The Man Who Made Wall Street
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Dan Rottenberg's informative book The Man Who Made Wall Street. The book contains all there is to know about the wise and amazingly successful nineteenth century financier Anthony Drexel and the profound role he played as a mentor to the young J. Pierpont Morgan. I especially enjoyed reading about financial systems and processes in nineteenth century America that ...
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Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty 77 reviews
Muhammad Yunus
PublicAffairs, 2008
A book about poverty and Triumph
This books shows us that the lack of access to credit for the poorest of the poor is possibly as bad as lack of food. Without some access to credit they have absolutely no chance to ever get out of the revolving situation that will absorb then and their children. It's a vicious cycle of poverty that will be perpetuated unless they are given a chance to break it. And they all want to break it. ...
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The House of Rothschild: Volume 2: The World's Banker: 1849-1999 13 reviews
Niall Ferguson
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2000
The House of Rothschild
Ferguson insults the purchaser of the Penguin Paperback by omitting the bibliography and only providing sketchy footnotes. "Serious scholars" who desire these items are advised to buy the Harcover edition. Other than that, it is a good read
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Real Estate Riches: How to Become Rich Using Your Banker's Money14 reviews
Dolf de Roos
Wiley, 2004
Real Estate Riches
This Audio program goes over all the different benefits or real estate investing versus investing in stocks or mutual funds. You will learn many valuable lessons from this program including how to find good investments, how to put deals together, how to manage properties once you acquire them. It will expand your mind as to what is possible for you to achieve. It changed my thinking!! Also, ...
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The House of Rothschild: Volume 1: Money's Prophets: 1798-184817 reviews
Niall Ferguson
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999
Much more than a family saga
Those who already know Niall Ferguson do not need any praise for the books he writes: a few years ago I chanced to read his excellent "The Cash Nexus" and this led me to "The Pity of War" and finally to "The House of Rothschild".
Ferguson is a scholar who loves challenges: not just challenging arguments, but also challenges in the sheer volume of sources and research, and finally challenges ...
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So You Want to Be a Mortgage Broker43 reviews
Ameen Kamadia
Kamrock Publishing, 2004
Going to enter the mortgage business
I loved this book.
For someone who knows very little about the industry and wants to get into it, this book is a great place to start.
The last review said that this information can be found on the internet. Maybe it is, BUT I doubt it. Anyway, I am not willing to waste countless hours and search through hundreds of websites to try to find it. Especially when the book is so cheap.
I really ...
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Prince of Ayodhya (Ramayana series)48 reviews
Ashok K. Banker
Little, Brown Book Group, 2005
PLEASE READ THE INDIAN EDITIONS INSTEAD
If you are reading my Ramayana series, then I gently urge and request you to please not buy the UK or US editions, even if they're available at bargain prices. Which they probably are, since the publishers there have more or less put the books out of print, due to a lack of interest by non-Indian readers.
The Indian editions are the definitive editions of my work, containing a lengthy ...
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To Kingdom Come: A Novel14 reviews
Will Thomas
Touchstone, 2005
Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful!
I've had more fun reading Will Thomas books in the last couple weeks than I have the whole rest of the year. Absolutely terrific. Wonderful writing, intriguing plots, and characters that are so real you'd think they actually existed somewhere, or wish they did. The only problem I have with Will Thomas is his books come out but once a year. Drat!
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The Right Way to Hire Financial Help - 2nd Ed.: A Complete Guide to Choosing and Managing Brokers, Financial ...6 reviews
Charles A. Jaffe
The MIT Press, 2001
From a Jaffe fan: This book is what we have come to expect
I read Mr. Jaffe's column every week in the Boston Globe and bought this book after hearing him talk on this subject atthe Globe's personal finance conference (he autographed the book for me). This book gave me exactly what I have come to expect from Mr. Jaffe: Clear, insightful, unafraid commentary that helped give me the courage to go through with choosing a financial planner. I learned ...
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Ode to a Banker1 review
Lindsey Davis
Arrow Books Ltd, 2000
Falco 12: of poetry, bankers, builders, and murder
This is the twelfth in a series of excellent detective stories set in Vespasian's Roman Empire and featuring the informer Marcus Didius Falco. Informers in ancient Rome were something between a private detective and a government spy.
The full Falco series, in chronological order, consists at the moment of:
1) The Silver Pigs
2) Shadows in Bronze
3) Venus in Copper
4) The Iron Hand ...
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Pocket Decorator: An Illustrated A to Z Handbook to the Essential Language of Interior Design31 reviews
Pamela Banker, Leslie Banker
Universe Publishing, 2004
Sharpened my decorating skills....
This little book has been a really great asset. The Pocket Decorator is a clear reference book of interior design terms, especially helpful for a decorating hack like myself. It shows things like the difference between styles of windows, which if you're renovating or building OR want to impress your home depot guy, is very useful information to have! There are smart design tips here too. For ...
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Appeasing Bankers: Financial Caution on the Road to War (Princeton Studies in International History and ...
Jonathan Kirshner
Princeton University Press, 2007
In Appeasing Bankers , Jonathan Kirshner shows that bankers dread war--an aversion rooted in pragmatism, not idealism. "Sound money, not war" is hardly a pacifist rallying cry. The financial world values economic stability above all else, and crises and war threaten that stability. States that pursue appeasement when assertiveness--or even conflict--is warranted, Kirshner demonstrates, are often appeasing their own bankers. And these realities ...
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Good Guys Finish First: Reflections Of A CEO And How To Start A De Novo Community Bank
C. Paul Johnson, Jim Bowman
Xlibris Corporation, 2004
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Ode to a Banker14 reviews
Lindsey Davis
Mysterious Press, 2001
Falco The Poet
This is the twelfth novel in the mystery series featuring Marcus Didius Falco, an informer and sleuth in Rome at the time of Vespasian. A series of books that have become hugely popular, so much so that the author is now at the forefront of historical mystery writers. It was probably a stroke of genius on her part to have novels that are extremely well researched and contain all the elements ...
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