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Karaminder Ghuman
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Gould did not take a title, but had a seat on the executive committee and had four additional board seats, which he filled with his brokers.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
Ivar’s performance during these talks was enormously impressive, and he held forth on a tapestry of topics. According to one source, every night Ivar would stuff his memory with details about some obscure matter, such as Hungarian financial statistics, and the next day he would ensure that the topic came up and then would recite every memorized det
... See moreFrank Partnoy • The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
years old, but he looks pretty young to me. He’s so cute. He’s like a little Elmer Fudd.” I stared at him in disbelief. He was AMOGing his fellow PUAs. It was diabolical. “You can get me,” Tyler said. “You can say I look like the Pillsbury Doughboy.” I choked back my disgust and thought, “What would Tom Cruise do?” “But I don’t want to get you, man
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Marc Rabinowitz
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Gurney Halleck, the troubadour-warrior.
Frank Herbert • Dune: The inspiration for the blockbuster film (The Dune Sequence Book 1)
Specifically, you should always be on the lookout for people you admire for their sincere, no-bullshit demeanor.
Jason Harris • The Soulful Art of Persuasion: The 11 Habits That Will Make Anyone a Master Influencer
“To go straight for the jugular: it all comes down to confidence, self-esteem, identity, what some people call ego,” he tells me. This is at the heart of what he needs to identify. Who are you? What’s important to you? “When you sit down to play, you put yourself on the line. What you have to understand is you’re always a person first and a poker p
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