Author:Felix Dennis,Roy McMillan
Brought to you by Penguin.
'Making money is a knack, a knack that can be acquired. And if someone like me can become rich, then so can you - no matter what your present circumstances. Here is how I did it and what I learned along the way.' So writes Felix Dennis, who believes that almost anyone of reasonable intelligence can become rich, given sufficient motivation and application.
How To Get Rich is a distillation of his business wisdom. Primarily concerned with the step-by-step creation of wealth, it ruthlessly dissects the business failures and financial triumphs of 'a South London lad who became rich virtually by accident'. Part manual, part memoir, part primer, this book is a template for those who are willing to stare down failure and transform their lives.
Canny, infuriating, cynical and generous by turns, How To Get Rich is an invaluable guide to 'the surprisingly simple art of collecting money which already has your name on it'.
© Felix Dennis 2006 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Compulsive and highly entertaining
—— ObserverWise, fearlessly frank and truly inspirational ... If this book doesn't get you rich, nothing ever will
—— Mail on SundayLively, authoritative ... full of honest insights. As good a guide to making it in the business as I have ever read
—— Sunday TelegraphAbsorbing, provocative and huge fun
—— The TimesWell-founded advice based on hard-won experience
—— Financial TimesStartlingly frank and very funny
—— Independent on SundayCain provides essential reading for the 21st century ... Samsung Rising is a masterclass in business bio-writing – one that reads like a cyberpunk thriller crackling with circuitry, lit by neon and fueled by soju.
—— Asia Times[Cain] pulls no punches, touching raw nerves of rivalries and repression and clashing egos in an account that’s unavoidably murky at times, but riveting current history.
—— ForbesHow Instagram defied the odds to become one of the most culturally defining apps of the decade . . . Unprecedented exclusive access.
—— SILICON VALLEY’S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2020 , FORBESA deep-dive into the social media platform we all love.
—— BOOKS YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED TO ADD TO YOUR READING LIST IN 2020 , COSMOPOLITANA vibrant play-by-play [account] . . . Irresistible drama . . . Frier is willing to find the cracks in Instagram's glossy appearance.
—— NPROne of my favorite books of recent months . . . A meticulously reported, beautifully told story.
—— Casey Newton , THE VERGEA comprehensive new history . . . Intriguing
—— DAILY TELEGRAPHInside the darker side of Instagram
—— EVENING STANDARDInstagram has reshaped how we eat, shop, talk and present ourselves. In No Filter . . . Sarah Frier offers a rare glimpse into how the company came to be a formidable force in the tech industry.
—— BEST TECH BOOKS OF 2020 , MASHABLEA lively and revealing account of how the world came to see itself through [Instagram founder] Mr Systrom's lens . . . The tale of nerds who struck gold offers glimpses of Silicon Valley's weirdness.
—— THE ECONOMISTNo Filter offers an engaging account of how tech founders' ideals inevitably have to be squared with making profits.
—— WALL STREET JOURNALA fascinating business story - but also much more than that . . . Frier is a skilled reporter and an astute and sensitive cultural observer. No Filter is a vital read for anyone seeking to understand the incredible power Silicon Valley executives exercise over us, and the opaque, unpredictable and undemocratic mechanisms by which they do so.
—— New StatesmanA vivid portrait of clashing Silicon Valley egos
—— Best Books of the Year: Business , Financial TimesOfficially, this is the tale of the photo-sharing app Instagram, but it's also a wider story of Silicon Valley - the fragile egos, the feuds, the deals done around fire pits . . . Mark Zuckerberg is the book's sometimes cartoonish villain, ending staff meeting with the cry: "Domination!"
—— Business Books of the Year , SUNDAY TIMESNo Filter is a topical and well-reported account of the rise of Instagram and its takeover by Facebook. But it also tackles two vital issues of our age: how Big Tech treats smaller rivals and how social media companies are shaping the lives of a new generation.
—— Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FINANCIAL TIMESBloomberg reporter Sarah Frier chronicles the rise of photo-sharing social network Instagram, from when it was still a location-based app named "Burbn" to the ad-driven juggernaut it is today . . . Frier deftly streamlines from multiple interviews with some of the most high-profile executives, venture capitalists, and most-followed celebrities on Instagram
—— The 10 Best Business Books of 2020 , FortuneCongressional documents may have told us why Mark Zuckerberg thought he needed to buy Instagram, but No Filter is the inside story of the company that Facebook actually bought. Sarah Frier's book is the definitive account that bridges the gaps between the company Instagram was born as, the company that eventually sold to Facebook for $1 billion, and the company we know today. The intrigue of this origin story will only grow as the status of Instagram - as a brand within Facebook and a player in our daily lives - is sure to change in the decade ahead.
—— Favourite Business Books of 2020 , YAHOO FINANCEUtterly brilliant . . . It is so fascinating because it works at two levels: there's the personal story of these two founders making it up as they go along . . . and then there's the bigger story of Silicon Valley itself, and the unstoppable pressure to grow and go viral . . . [Frier] explores how Instagram changed society in terms of influencers, and also in terms of what it does to us, when we see these heavily filtered images of perfection in other people's lives - and this is really worth thinking about.
—— Extraordinary Business Book ClubExamines the all-pervasive impact of Instagram and what it says about today's society.
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