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The Harder You Work, the Luckier You Get
- An Entrepreneur's Memoir
- By: Joe Ricketts
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell, Joe Ricketts - epilogue
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 162
The Harder You Work, The Luckier You Get offers a view inside Joe Ricketts’s mind, giving listeners a visceral understanding of how entrepreneurs think and act differently from the rest of us - how they see the horizon where we just see a spreadsheet. Ricketts also talks honestly about his shortcomings as a manager, the career sacrifices his wife made for his business, the complexity of being a father, and the pain of his mentor’s betrayal and of his brother’s death from of AIDS. Overcoming these and other challenges, he built a company now worth $30 billion.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good title....
- By John Mallory on 06-15-20
- The Harder You Work, the Luckier You Get
- An Entrepreneur's Memoir
- By: Joe Ricketts
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell, Joe Ricketts - epilogue
Just great!
Reviewed: 12-05-19
First of all, as a person of entrepreneurial inclination, I found the story of Joe Ricketts and Ameritrade to be hugely inspiring. Not only was it inspiring, but an adventure as well! Listening to the audiobook links your mind to Ricketts' and opens you up to seeing the world through his eyes. You root for him as he takes you through the ups and downs of his couple of decades long mission to build his company. You think he's a badass and you want to become like him. In a literary sense, I found the book well structured, paced and sized, and I became quite fond of the narrator Dan Campbell's voice as well. All in all 10/10!
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