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1,000 Dollars and an Idea: Entrepreneur to Billionaire: Expanded Edition
by Wyly, Sam
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1557048649
- ISBN 13
- 9781557048646
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Newmarket Press, 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 3rd Printing First Edition, Third Printing. Hard cover in fine condition with pale green boards, darker green spine cloth, and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean and tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition; not price clipped. * From the jacket, ""Self-made billionaire Sam Wyly is a natural storyteller. In this candid, engrossing memoir he recounts his experiences establishing and expanding companies on the leading edge of advancements in technology, energy, retail, and investments over the last five decades. From the hardships his family faced trying to hold on to their cotton farm during the Depression to the coaching he received on the high school football field, Wyly describes how his early years in Louisiana prepared him for what lay ahead. . . . part autobiography and part inspirational business guide . . . full of refreshing insights and homespun life lessons about what it takes to create, grow, and build successful companies.""
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Includes index.
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- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000473
- Title
- 1,000 Dollars and an Idea: Entrepreneur to Billionaire: Expanded Edition
- Author
- Wyly, Sam
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1557048649
- ISBN 13
- 9781557048646
- Publisher
- Newmarket Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- Business, Sam Wyly, Businessmen - United States - Biography, Entrepreneurship - United States - Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Business;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
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Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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