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""A fascinating glimpse at tactics used by those who've played the game and won."" -- ""Amazon.com, editorial review"" ""A truly enlightening work filled with fundamental strategies that have worked for others. Martin Fridson documents the essential principles inherent in every billionaire's success."" -- ""Gordon Bethune, chairman of the board and CEO, Continental Airlines"" ""Fridson has created the ultimate road map to the American Dream. He comes as close to extracting a formula for the acquisition of wealth as any book I have ever read."" -- ""Jeff Sagansky, CEO, Paxson Communications"" ""Read by the smooth and intelligent Johanna Ward, this is a fascinating narrative about the lives of business titans...The strength of this audiobook is the balance of well-researched individual stories and the author's nuanced abstractions about what made these people successful. A marvelous lesson and an important chapter in the history of why this country is the wealth incubator that it is."" -- ""AudioFile"" ""This substantial addition to financial literature...stands apart in a crowded genre. Highly recommended."" -- ""Library Journal""

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Martin S. Fridson received his BA cum laude in history from Harvard College and his MBA from Harvard Business School. He has been a guest lecturer at the graduate business schools of Babson, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, and many more. He is the author of Investment Illusions, It Was a Very Good Year, and Financial Statement Analysis. Johanna Ward (a.k.a. Kate Reading) is an Audie Award-winning narrator and has received numerous Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine. She is also a theater actor in the Washington, DC, area and has been a member of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company since 1987. Her work onstage has been recognized by the Helen Hayes Awards Society, among others. She and her husband live in Hyattsville, Maryland, with their two children.

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