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The Go-Getter
- A Story That Tells You How to Be One
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
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This classic motivational parable (over 500,000 copies sold worldwide) shows you how to make your own opportunities in life. Ever since its first printing, in 1921, The Go-Getter has inspired employees and entrepreneurs to take initiative, increase their productivity, and excel against the odds. In this audiobook, Bill Peck, a war veteran and double amputee, not only fights to find employment, but continually proves himself more than competent at the many difficult tests that are thrown his way. Peck persuades Cappy Ricks, the crusty founder of the Ricks Logging & Lumbering Company, to let him prove himself with a sales assignment that everyone knows can only lead to failure. When Peck, to everyone's surprise, beats his quota, Ricks hands him the ultimate opportunity and the ultimate test: the quest for an elusive blue vase. Drawing on such classic values as honesty, determination, passion, and responsibility, Peck overcomes nearly insurmountable obstacles to find the vase and launch his career as a successful manager. In a time when jobs are tight and managers lack the time for mentoring, how can you maintain positive energy, take control of your career, and prepare yourself to ace the tests that come your way? By applying the timeless lessons in this wonderfully read parable, employees at all levels will learn to rekindle the go-getter in themselves.
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In this sardonic portrait of the up-and-coming middle class during the prosperous 1920s, Sinclair Lewis perfectly captures the sound, the feel, and the attitudes of the generation that created the cult of consumerism. With a sharp eye for detail and keen powers of observation, Lewis tracks successful realtor George Babbitt's daily struggles to rise to the top of his profession while maintaining his reputation as an upstanding family man.
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Makes You Think
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By: Sinclair Lewis
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Babbitt
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- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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On the surface, everything is all right with Babbitt’s world of the solid, successful businessman. But in reality, George F. Babbitt is a lonely, middle-aged man. He doesn’t understand his family, has an unsuccessful attempt at an affair, and is almost financially ruined when he dares to voice sympathy for some striking workers. Babbitt finds that his only safety lies deep in the fold of those who play it safe. He is a man who has added a new word to our language: a “Babbitt,” meaning someone who conforms unthinkingly, a sheep.
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Jonathan Franzen, circa 1922
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Scoop
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- Narrated by: Simon Cadell
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In Scoop, surreptitiously dubbed "a newspaper adventure", Waugh flays Fleet Street and the social pastimes of its war correspondants as he tells how William Boot became the star of British super-journalism and how, leaving part of his shirt in the claws of the lovely Katchen, he returned from Ishmaelia to London as the "Daily's Beast's" more accoladed overseas reporter.
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First published in 1873, The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America - an age of corruption when crooked land speculators, ruthless bankers, and dishonest politicians voraciously took advantage of the nation's peacetime optimism. With his characteristic wit and perception, Mark Twain and his collaborator, Charles Dudley Warner, attack the greed, lust, and naiveté of their own time in a work that endures as a valuable social document and one of America's most important satirical novels.
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By: Mark Twain
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Love Among the Chickens
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Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge has hit upon a foolproof plan to get rich quick: he's starting a chicken farm. Dragging his adoring wife Millie and his long-suffering friend and novelist Jeremy Garnet with him to Dorset, he begins his enterprise. Complications ensue, involving the taciturn Hired Man and his bumptious dog, supercilious chickens, irascible professors, angry creditors, and divided lovers.
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Do Not Drive or Operate Heavy Machinery!
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By: P. G. Wodehouse
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Single & Single
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A lawyer from the London finance house of Single & Single is shot dead on a Turkish hillside by people with whom he thought he was in business. A children's magician is asked by his bank to explain the unsolicited arrival of more than five million pounds sterling in his young daughter's modest trust. A freighter bound for Liverpool is boarded by Russian coast guards in the Black Sea. The celebrated London merchant venturer "Tiger" Single disappears into thin air.
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The spy who came back to the bank
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You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger
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With a sharp eye and wry wit, Roger Hall recounts his experiences as an American Army officer assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. In his droll storytelling style, Hall describes his first parachute jump in support of the French resistance as a comedy of errors that terminated prematurely. Called one of the funniest and most perceptive works ever written about life in the OSS, the book includes a wealth of unforgettable personalities that Hall encountered over the years.
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the story was awesome loved the speaker made it perfect
- By kelsey on 07-29-24
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Welcome to the Monkey House
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Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
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Classic Vonnegut
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Sister Carrie
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Sister Carrie is an epic of urban life, the story of an innocent heroine adrift in an indifferent city. When small-town girl Carrie Meeber sets out for Chicago, she is equipped with nothing but a few dollars, a certain unspoiled beauty and charm, and a pitiful lack of preparation for the complex moral choices she will face. Her story is one of struggle, from sweatshop to stage success, and of the love she inspires in a married man twice her age, whose obsession with her threatens to destroy him.
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Why audiobooks matter
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- New user
- 09-21-19
the best guidance for life
Kids follow Santa Claus. Adults must follow the go-getter
winners will become champions champions will become gods
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-05-22
Short but deep
The best shortest book for keeping and setting your attitude in-line with what it takes to become & remain successful. Love it!
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- Elizabeth
- 03-23-17
Inspiring tale to help grow and stretch your mind
Very easy read and a meaningful, valuable concise story. Good for anyone who wants to take a step towards living a better, more successful life.
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- Adam
- 04-14-19
inspirational story this one
started and finished in a big way all the elements of a great classic short story .
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- J. Gillespie
- 03-14-17
Motivational
I read this book because it is part of the required reading requirements for Dave Ramsey's employees. I am not an employee but saw the the list his team published on Facebook and admire their work. I see why Dave suggests this book. It is motivational, especially if you are just starting a new job. It illustrates the attitude any manager should expect out of their employees. It also is short enough to re-read and get continual encouragement out of the book. Would recommend to anyone looking for a little pick-me-up in the workplace.
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- Mountain Man
- 06-16-21
Simple; Insightful; Inspiring
Narrator did a wonderful job. Pleasure to listen to. The takeaways are as meaningful now as they were then. This go-getter pursuit and attitude has built many a sales team, company, family/team and country/community.
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- Steven Miller
- 11-20-23
Narration was great!
Cute short story but the narration is what really stands out. I found it to be an enjoyable listen.
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- Bryant H. Altizer
- 03-14-20
A Must Read
I read this many years ago. It was great then. It was great again at a different age. I highly recommend this to you, young and old.
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- Henry
- 02-04-19
Old story, principle is timeless!
this is a very old story but an amazing stories about somebody who is it go get her and will stop at nothing to get that because it shall be done
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- Yan
- 05-03-20
best short inspirational book I have ever listened
I have read this book countless times and to now listen to it brings it to life. I recommend this book to anyone that is or wants to become a great leader.
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