—Steven D. Price
Advice From and For the Real, Former, Almost, and Wanna-Be Super-Rich
What the super-rich and others have to say about money in these pages is sometimes enlightening, sometimes profound, often entertaining, and always revealing. Topics include:
- Wealth ('If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.' - J. Paul Getty)
- Investing ('Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years.' - Warren Buffett)
- Success ('The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well." - John D. Rockefeller)
- Leadership ("The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks." - Rupert Murdoch).
In addition are proverbs, quips, and other commentary on all aspects of having a fortune.
Taking Charge at a Difficult time
At some point in everyone's life, everyone will be placed in the position of dealing with the death of a loved one. Arranging all the necessary details at such a difficult time can prove overwhelming. However, help is now at hand in this guide that covers all the essential aspects:
- Ways to avoid probate and other estate problems while you're still alive through gifts and trusts
- Pre-funeral formalities, such as when the loved one dies in another state or country
- Selecting a funeral parlor and working with its director and clergy with regard to the funeral service
- Disposition of the remains, whether burial or cremation
- Probating the will or marshalling the assets if the deceased died intestate
- Survivor benefits and other financial and tax matters
- Mourning and grief therapy
Drawing from the counsel of funeral directors, clergy, attorneys, estate planners, and psychologists and with references to Web sites and other sources of further information, this book provides straightforward and reassuring advice that is both practical and comforting at this difficult time.
In this witty collection you will find quotations grouped in categories that reflect the range of human existence, hopes, and achievement:
- "The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing." - Blaise Pascal
- "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Sir Winston Churchill
- "Don't talk unless you can improve the silence." - Jorge Luis Borges
- "Nothing in life is certain except death and taxes." - Benjamin Franklin
- "Joy shared is twice the joy. Sorrow shared is half the sorrow." - Swedish proverb
In celebration of mental lapses and pure idiocy, here is a collection of stupid utterances, unintentional and otherwise, from the worlds of politics, radio, television, newspapers, show business, sports, and literature - and everywhere else people can, and have, put their feet in their mouths.
- "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." - Brooke Shields, during an interview to become a spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign
- "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country." - Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, D.C.
- "Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here." - former Vice President Dan Quayle
- "Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." - Joe Theismann, former NFL football quarterback and sports analyst
Here are a thousand and one laugh-out-loud quotes, quips, and jokes, all in one packed-to-the-brim volume. Yes, folks, sit back and enjoy this collection of inadvertent gaffes, thigh-slappers, puns, and everything and anything else that'll tickle your funny bone. There’s something old, something new, something stolen, and something blue . . . from favorite comedians, sports and political figures, and literary wits. There are even giggles for the kids and groaners for the grown-ups, including:
- "I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry." - Rita Rudner
- "I don't know if it’s good for baseball, but it sure beats the hell out of rooming with Phil Rizzuto." - Yogi Berra on being told that Joe DiMaggio was to marry Marilyn Monroe
- "If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything! If you don't stand for something, you don't stand for anything." - President George W. Bush
- "I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died." - Malcolm Forbes
A collection of often impolite but always witty taunts from the world’s masters of the studied insult.
An insult can be bad-mannered, offensive, and infuriating, but everyone has surely had one of those moments when we just wish we had thought of a good one. Unlike most of us however, there are those who always seem to have the perfect comeback. 1001 Insults, Put-Downs, and Comebacks gathers together the very sharpest of these barbs from a wide variety of sources with some of the wickedest put-downs from the literary, political, and entertainment worlds, along with many others, including:
- "He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it." - T. S. Eliot on Henry James
- "I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it." - Groucho Marx
- "A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners." - Mignon McLaughlin
- "Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it’s open to anybody who owns hideous clothing." - Dave Barry
- "George Steinbrenner is the center of evil in the universe." - Ben Affleck on the New York Yankees owner
With so many decisions to make in the areas of love and relationships, education and professional endeavors, success and personal happiness, it’s no wonder that most of us seek good advice from the fount of collective human wisdom at one time or another. Here in one helpful compendium is the best advice ever recorded: a collection of personal tips, traditional proverbs, and clever observations—some gently inspiring and some profoundly life-changing—from the sages of the literary, political, spiritual, and psychological realms.