Good Advice from Bad People: Selected Wisdom from Murderers, Stock Swindlers, and Lance Armstrong |
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| Authors: | Bissonnette, Zac |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | HUM010000, HUM006000, HUM012000 |
| ISBN: | 9780698141797, Related ISBNs: 0698141792, 1591846897, 9780698141797, 9781591846895 |
| Classification: | Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 208, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Bestselling author Zac Bissonnette has gathered more than seventy-five jaw-dropping gems, including risk-management advice from the man who triggered the world’s largest hedge fund collapse and tips from gay-prostitute-patronizing pastor Ted Haggard on how to build a marriage that lasts a lifetime. The result will keep you smiling while you glean all the wisdom you need to build the life you want . . . if only you can follow it better than the people who gave it.
• “When you know what you are talking about, others will follow you, because it’s safe to follow you.” —Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld, 2006
• “I think the most important thing is restore a sense of idealism and end the cynicism.” —future Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, 2002
• “The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuse, that’s the day you start to the top.” —O.J. Simpson, 1975
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