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All the Money in the World: How the Forbes 400 Make--and Spend--Their Fortunes
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Additional All the Money in the World: How the Forbes 400 Make--and Spend--Their Fortunes Information
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Published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Forbes 400, All the Money in the World, the work of a team of prominent editors and business writers, goes behind the celebrated list to paint a vivid and revealing portrait of the wealthiest Americans of the past quarter century. Abundantly anecdotal, with insights gleaned from original research, interviews with Forbes 400 members, and never-before-compiled data, it is filled with illuminating “infographics”—tables, sidebars, factoids. The book shows how the superrich succeed, how fortunes are made in various industries, and how, once made, they are saved, enhanced, and sometimes squandered.
From Wall Street to the West Coast, from blue-collar billionaires to blue-blood fortunes, from the Google guys to hedge fund honchos, All the Money in the World gives us the lowdown on, among other things: the all-time richest Americans, who made and lost the most money in the past twenty-five years, the fields and industries that have produced the greatest wealth, the biggest risk takers, the most competitive players, the most wasteful family feuds, the trophy wives, the most conspicuous consumers, the biggest art collectors, the most and least generous philanthropists.
Produced in collaboration with Forbes magazine, All the Money in the World is a vastly entertaining, behind-the-scenes look at today’s Big Rich, a subject of enduring fascination to all Americans.
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What Customers Say About All the Money in the World: How the Forbes 400 Make--and Spend--Their Fortunes:
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Much of the information included in the book was pretty dated, even for when it was first published. That book seemed to have a lot of original research put into it and was simply more lively and up to date. I'm about a quarter of the way through with this book and find it pretty boring. There were just too many unrelated millionaire anecdotes strung together without any overriding theme to the book.I bought this book because I read the book Richistan and found that well written and very interesting. If you thinking about getting this book I would recommend reading Richistan instead. I think I'll be packing this one off to the local library's used book sale mainly unread. A lot of the background information just seemed to come from past articles in Forbes that were strung together to make a book.
- Mariusz Skonieczny, author of Why Are We So Clueless about the Stock Market. Some readers might be surprised that the majority of these individuals are self-made billionaires. Since they did not inherit the money, the author says that they had to take large risks. If you are fascinated with the rich, then this book will not disappoint you. Learn how to invest your money, how to pick stocks, and how to make money in the stock market In this book, the authors take readers behind the scenes of the 400 wealthiest Americans over the last 25 years. I thought that I knew a lot about these people from my previous readings, but I still learned more. Readers learn how these billionaires earned their money, maintained it, spent it, gave it away, and in some cases squandered it.
The text is fixed at a moment in time of 2006 - 2007. The book notes of big shake-ups in the list after the 2000-2001 dot com meltdown. Many of the list's occupants who've made their bones through financial engineering will find themselves toppling to #401 or beyond. "All the Money in the World" is a nice little compendium that serves as good back-story to how the regular denizens of the Forbes 400 made, maintain, spend, gift and - in some cases - waste their vast wealth. If you're a regular reader of BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fortune and The Wall Street Journal, you'll find that not much new ground is covered here - Larry Ellison is a hyper-aggressive competitor and serial womanizer; the 3rd- and 4th-generation Pritzers went through a highly-public family fracturing; Sam Walton was a regular guy who drove the same old pickup.that type of thing.What is notable is how much of what the book says now has to be looked at in a new light given the tumult of the past year in financial markets.
Great research about the fortunate 400.interesting reading you will enjoy how the others live.those with lots of wealth.
Though it does mention the few whose generosity is as large as their bank accounts (mostly New Money) and show you the lighter side of being so wealthy as well. Spelling out everything (and that means everything) that you never-wanted-to-know (but secretly did and do want to know) about the earning, spending, and living habits of the Mega-Rich members of the elite Forbes 400, All the Money in the World takes you on a yacht tour through the private lake that is their lives. Essentially an encyclopedia of rich drama, it will make you think about the impact of making that much money, and what you would do in their positions.Bernstein and Swan will take you through a variety of feelings, ranging from jealousy to disgust as you read about the lavishly wasteful lifestyles that members of the Forbes 400 participate in.
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