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Category: Books

Kerry Stokes : The Boy from Nowhere

Link: https://www.bookdepository.com/Kerry-Stokes-Andrew-Rule/9780732295981 (source: https://thenewdaily.com.au/entertainment/books/2015/02/13/25-things-didnt-know-kerry-stokes/) Kerry Stokes…. He is one of the Australia’s hidden wealth and owner of Seven Media Group. His story inspires me immediately and I’ve learnt a great deal about working hard. Simply a legend. <<Out of Problems, Comes Opportunities>> While some may see an impoverished background as a huge disadvantage, this is precisely…
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Richard Pratt: One Out of the Box : The Secrets of an Australian Billionaire

Book link: https://www.bookdepository.com/Richard-Pratt-One-Out-Box-James-Kirby/9781742169606 Similar to Kerry Stokes, Richard had the ability to attract and inspire good people but also had greater flexibility, an unusual measure of determination and the ability to take calculated risks that grew the business dramatically. As an entrepreneur and business owner, his constant belief is to invest in technology to have the…
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[Book Review] Hit Refresh by Microsoft’s Satya Nadella

UPDATES: Why Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Is Tearing Up the Windows Business Microsoft has now rebuilt the company around the cloud instead of Windows, and employees approve Ensure technology empowers people: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (photo source: https://www.newasianpost.com/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-expounds-empathy-new-book/) I picked up this book as I keen to learn how businesses transform itself… especially mammoth sized business such…
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Sam Walton – Made in America

I had a very rare opportunity to spend 4 – 5 hours on the road, uninterrupted. I took this chance to start reading on Sam Walton’s Made in America. I enjoyed the book thoroughly because it was written with such flow. The words used were very descriptive and it painted the entire scenes straight out…
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“100 Baggers by Chris Mayer” Reading Journey

“This book is about 100-baggers. These are stocks that return $100 for every $1 invested. That means a $10,000 investment turns into $1 million. Chris Mayer can help you find them. It sounds like an outrageous quest with a wildly improbable chance of success. But when Mayer studied 100-baggers of the past, definite patterns emerged.…
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Invest in the Best by Keith Ashworth-Lord

As I was searching to understand how value investing could bring success to different people, I chanced upon this book. I thought it would be a good way to understand more about how value investor invest in UK. Is it any different from USA or Asian investors? You can check out the book over at…
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