T. Skinner
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Rage
- By: Bob Woodward
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
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Woodward, the number-one international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers into the Oval Office as Trump’s head pops up when he is told in January 2020 that the pandemic could reach the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed 675,000 Americans.
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Knock-down, drag-out
- By LEE on 09-15-20
- Rage
- By: Bob Woodward
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Explains a lot
Reviewed: 10-09-20
Seeing the crazy whiplash of Trump decision really aren’t surprising when you listen between the lines and really hear the common threads of books like this and Mary Trump’s book and the many others. I actually think Trump is more crazy than criminal, and he’s the equivalent of a mob boss. He turned the Presidency into a Ponzi scheme.
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Too Much and Never Enough
- How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
- By: Mary L. Trump PhD
- Narrated by: Mary L. Trump PhD
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.
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I almost feel sorry Donald Trump.
- By Deb on 07-15-20
- Too Much and Never Enough
- How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
- By: Mary L. Trump PhD
- Narrated by: Mary L. Trump PhD
Very insightful into the dysfunction
Reviewed: 08-03-20
If you try to peel away some of the perspective as to Mary's undoubted vision to paint Freddy (her father) in a more rose color. There is still a lot of information to be gleaned from the remainder of the family. I found the information into the Trump siblings family dynamics as adults a lot more interesting than the childhood upbringing. Thank you to Mary Trump and her brother's attorney for keeping their records from Fred Trump's probated estate. I can only imagine the criminal enterprise that is the TRUMP brand. History will probably shine on Donald Trump as the PT Barnum of politics.
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How to Make New Money When You Retire
- By: Terry VanderHeiden
- Narrated by: Terry VanderHeiden
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
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This book is unique in that it's about creating new money. It's not about how to save, invest, or hoard your money when you retire; it is about building a new income stream. It is not earning money off your investments, retirement funds, and Social Security but creating new money! Essentially, starting simple with small businesses, and in some cases using your existing hobbies to create money-making ventures. There are several business plans laid out in this book that are tailored to the retiree - someone who has some free time and a little ambition.
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It’s ok
- By T. Skinner on 03-02-20
- How to Make New Money When You Retire
- By: Terry VanderHeiden
- Narrated by: Terry VanderHeiden
It’s ok
Reviewed: 03-02-20
Could easily do a few web search and come up with the details. Not as much impressed with the concepts supplied but while listening it sparked my own ideas. For that reason, there is value to be had. In my opinion,as time goes on, some of the content will become more and more dated.
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The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
- The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns, 10th Anniversary Edition
- By: John C. Bogle
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
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The Little Book of Common Sense Investing is the classic guide to getting smart about the market. Legendary mutual fund pioneer John C. Bogle reveals his key to getting more out of investing: low-cost index funds. Bogle describes the simplest and most effective investment strategy for building wealth over the long term: buy and hold, at very low cost, a mutual fund that tracks a broad stock market Index such as the S&P 500.
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One star for every point this 5 hour book makes.
- By Matt on 01-31-19
- The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
- The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns, 10th Anniversary Edition
- By: John C. Bogle
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Changing my Ways + you can access the pdf
Reviewed: 02-04-18
Where does The Little Book of Common Sense Investing rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Dec 2017 I had meeting with my investment advisor, my wife and I left the meeting and we both conferred (on the car ride home) that he seemed not his usual confident self. In the meeting he was presenting new fund family and investment company. There was some talk of DOL changes to advice regulations. All these factors immediate caused warning alarms in our common sense. Not that we thought he was bad, but made us put the brakes on moving ahead with any of his suggestions immediately. That's when I started asking others and reading and linking to books and authors. John C Bogle investment philosophy rings truest to my gut feeling. I selected this book because it is the Anniversary edition and figured it had the most info as it pertains to updated examples-2017economics-recent political climate. I am glad I have have found this book.Keep a notebook handy. There are a lot of references to other authors that you may want to read. I am going to pour through several other books but I suspect that there's going to be changes made in my investment philosophy. I appreciate John Bogle's life work that it has "waken" this blue collar worker to the reality that.... Arithmetic is the first of the sciences and the mother of safety and that costs makes the difference between investment success and failure.
Any additional comments?
From inside your Audible's Library page (I am on pc-not a mobile app) look in the Title column - You will see a hyper-link with the title of the book, look just below the title for "PDF", click on that link and it will open up the accompanying .pdf referred throughout the book.
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Fight Back Against Unfair Debt Collection Practices
- By: Fred Williams
- Narrated by: James Hewitt
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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This year, Americas enormous debt collection industry will make 1,000,000,000 collection calls. They will threaten. Lie. Mislead. Intimidate. Award-winning reporter Fred Williams went undercover inside one of its largest firms. Now, he reveals everything he learned and shows exactly how to fight back and protect your rights.
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Would have given it 2.5 star if it were an option.
- By T. Skinner on 01-21-11
- Fight Back Against Unfair Debt Collection Practices
- By: Fred Williams
- Narrated by: James Hewitt
Would have given it 2.5 star if it were an option.
Reviewed: 01-21-11
In my opinion, this book should have been WAY shorter and cost less. Fred spent only 12 weeks working undercover with all the trainee collectors and only made it out of the First phase of training on a gimme at week 10ish. He never spent time with the higher ranking collectors. The ones that generate HUGE fee for the company. Those are the ones that I wanted to learn about. Not the trainee collectors. The 12 weeks of collection office experience was turned it into the first 5:30 min of story about said experience and the characters that he worked with. Then in the last 32 minutes the real information is revealed. Which was (at best) ok and saved the book from a 1 star.
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The Simple Dollar
- How One Man Wiped Out His Debts and Achieved the Life of His Dreams
- By: Trent Hamm
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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The Simple Dollar can change your life. Trent Hamm found himself drowning in consumer debt, working in a job he couldn't stand and figured out how to escape that debt and build the fulfilling career he'd always dreamt about, all at the same time. Hamm shared his experiences at TheSimpleDollar.com and built it into one of America's top personal finance websites. Now, The Simple Dollar is a book: packed with practical tips, tools, and lessons you can use to transform your life, too.
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A little different than I expected
- By T. Skinner on 01-06-11
- The Simple Dollar
- How One Man Wiped Out His Debts and Achieved the Life of His Dreams
- By: Trent Hamm
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
A little different than I expected
Reviewed: 01-06-11
I am going to give this book 5 stars because it was better (in a good way!)than I expected. I thought that the book was going to be entirely about how the author ate "rice and beans" and got out of debt. There is some of that in the book but it also has a lot of information that prevokes thoughts like... What is it that I want out of life? or How doe being normal keep me from the living the life that I want? You will get out of the book as much as you are willing to be open minded at looking toward the possiblility that you may need to make changes in your life.
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Selling You!
- A Practical Guide to Achieving the Most By Becoming Your Best
- By: Napoleon Hill
- Narrated by: Michael McConnohie
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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This newly edited edition of Selling You! is based on Hill's classic manual for master salesmanship. Drawing upon the original, it features an explanation of Hill's fundamental principles of sales and it details methods for selling your personal services to best advantage. It also contains an extensive section on ethics, initiative, mental attitude, and preparation.
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Worth it!!!!!
- By Anonymous User on 05-04-09
- Selling You!
- A Practical Guide to Achieving the Most By Becoming Your Best
- By: Napoleon Hill
- Narrated by: Michael McConnohie
It may or may not be worth your time and money.
Reviewed: 01-03-11
If you already own Hill's other works, you may feel that you have just paid for what you already own. I had spent the time and money on Law of Success vol 1-4 and I felt that this book was a good overview of that material. But don't get me wrong, if you are NEW to Hill's books... by all means it is worth the investment of time and money.
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Wisdom of Our Fathers
- Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons
- By: Tim Russert, Joseph Buttler
- Narrated by: Tim Russert, Marc Cashman, Susan Denaker, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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What does it really mean to be a good father? What did your father tell you that has stayed with you throughout your life? Was there a lesson from him, a story, or a moment that helped to make you who you are? Is there a special memory that makes you smile when you least expect it?
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Memories I wish I had.
- By Rick on 03-15-07
- Wisdom of Our Fathers
- Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons
- By: Tim Russert, Joseph Buttler
- Narrated by: Tim Russert, Marc Cashman, Susan Denaker, Kathe Mazur, Arthur Morey, Staci Snell
Time Well Spent
Reviewed: 02-04-10
Listening to this book helped me to understand that although my dad wasn't perfect, he taught me many important lessons. The best part of this book was that this book helps me be Mindfull of my roll of Father to my two daughters.
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Start Where You Are
- By: Chris Gardner
- Narrated by: Andre Blake
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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If you've been dealing with the loss of a job or home, or have had a health or financial crisis, Start Where You Are abounds with lessons that offer hope and provide a road map for starting anew. This is also the ideal book for anyone ready to launch a personal or professional undertaking, or someone who simply wants to break through the cycles and thinking that have limited his or her potential in the past.
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Baby Steps Count!
- By T. Skinner on 05-16-09
- Start Where You Are
- By: Chris Gardner
- Narrated by: Andre Blake
Baby Steps Count!
Reviewed: 05-16-09
This book is inspiring and motivating. My wife purchased that book for me. You see, I have been kind of sitting on the sidelines waiting for a push to start a business of my own. I have thought that I was going to be laid off and was just waiting for that to happen so that I would go do my own thing. I will have to say that learning ALL the adversities that Chris had to overcome and learning the different Life Lesson illustrated in the book and how to apply them to your own life is what make this audio book "credit worthy" to me.
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