How much of that translates into traditional
book reading these days is up for debate.
Even now that the girls are long past their picture
book reading days, these books still cover the flat surfaces of our house.
Just take the 1.2 million pages of
books read every day on Mofibo, throw in the 600,000 minutes of audiobooks listened to daily and imagine the possibilities of that combined scale.
And most of
the books I read these days I read with my ears in my car when I'm on the road and about 15 to 30 minutes a day with a book I hold in my hands right before sleep.
The only indie
books I read these days are yours just because you threaten me with clowns and brain ebola.
Not exact matches
Soon you find your shelves (or e-reader) overflowing with titles you intend to
read one
day, or
books you flipped through once but then abandoned.
- take time away from the
day - to -
day running of the business to
read books or attend seminars as a way to uncover new ideas and approaches to running the business with the goal of uncovering the kink that's holding up its progress.
Facebook's CEO highlighted 23
books in his recent «A Year of Books» reading list, which featured «Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $ 2 a Day» by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Rut
books in his recent «A Year of
Books» reading list, which featured «Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $ 2 a Day» by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Rut
Books»
reading list, which featured «Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $ 2 a
Day» by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven.
«Every
day I spend an hour at the gym, on a walk, listening to music or
reading a
book.
Buffett estimates that he spends 80 percent of his waking
day reading at work (financial statements, journals, reports) and at home (newspapers and
books).
Customers buy three to four times as many
books after they buy the Kindle device... That's such a remarkable increase in the amount of
book purchasing, it seems pretty likely to be an increase in the rate of which people buy
books [over all]... I hear this from people every
day, that they're actually recapturing minutes of the
day for
reading.
Looking back to the early
days of my first startup attempt, I think something that kept me going was that I continually
read books about startups and entrepreneurs and watched as many interviews of founders as I could find.
Over the course of two years I
read 197
books on different topics ranging from business to physics, from nonfiction to fiction and made every second of my
days productive.
Know this: it's not just the
books you
read; the mere habit of making yourself
read each
day, and keeping to a plan, is a major ingredient in success.
If you add up all the time you spend
reading books, blogs, and articles; watching videos, podcasts, webinars, and seminars, and posting, tweeting, messaging, and connecting, how many hours a
day on average do you think it comes to?
When asked the key to his success, Buffett pointed to a stack of
books and said, «
Read 500 pages like this every
day.
But, she goes on to explain, the way many of us
read these
days is impairing our ability to reap the amazing benefits of a good
book.
She plans to run her business from home and personally market her
books in hospitals,
day - care centers, schools, libraries and bookstores, where she will
read her stories to children and sell the
books to parents.
In honor of World
Book Day, and in response to a challenge from an admirer, Branson took to his blog to list 65 titles he thinks everyone could benefit from
reading during their lifetime.
Winkler polices his empire tirelessly — he rises at 4 a.m. and
reads 150 articles a
day — wielding the Bloomberg Way like a hellfire - and - brimstone preacher clutching the Good
Book.
I also love to
read, I find that the end of the
day, it is a good cool down exercise is to
read a
book.
Bennett says he
reads even more children's
books («at least two a
day») with his daughter, who serves as the basis for his own
books» main character.
One night when he was
reading Being and Nothingness by Jean - Paul Sartre, Mackey threw the
book on the ground, dropped the course the next
day, and decided he'd never
read another
book he didn't want to
read.
When McManus sat down to
read it one
day, he was shocked to find that the
book described his life.
Instead, reserve some time and energy to do something that simply makes you feel good in the moment, whether it's
reading a
book, watching a movie, going for a walk or taking an entire
day off from work.
Also, 10 years ago I
read a
book called Another
Day In Paradise.
Days after
reading sections of the
book, results showed heightened connectivity in the areas of the brain involved in receptivity for language as well as physical sensation and movement.
Throughout his teenage years, he
read two
books per
day, according to his brother, Kimbal Musk.
That's an hour of
reading each
day at the normal speed but accelerated, it's three hours — or a
book every one - two
days — all during a time when a person couldn't typically
read.
I'm in the process of
reading a couple different
books right now, so I just pick up the one that speaks to me the most that
day and I sit and
read a chapter of it.
During the
day,
read a how - to
book or content related to your industry, so you're always sharpening your marketable skills.
«If you
read The Remains of the
Day, which is my favorite
book of all time, you can't help but come away and think, I just spent 10 hours living an alternate life and I learned something about life and about regret.»
He's totally self - taught,
reading a
book a
day and recommending the best ones in his popular online
book club.
These
days, however, you can
read startup
books and find any number of tutorials online.
The other
day I
read an interesting
book called Entrepreneurial DNA, by Joe Abraham, the founder of BOSI Global, an operating partner to venture - backed and owner - operated companies.
If you're old enough to remember a time before mobile devices existed, you may wistfully yearn for the
days when people were head - up, paid better attention to conversations and
read books or the newspaper instead of scrolling through a Facebook feed on their phones.
I promise you if you spend a couple hours one
day reading posts on this site, or if you want to support financial education and
read my Best of Financial Samurai
book, you will get super motivated to build your wealth and actually gain more wealth over time.
In fact, when Warren Buffett was once asked about the key to success, he pointed to a stack of nearby
books and said, «
Read 500 pages like this every
day.
I personally benefit from
reading his
book Security Analysis every
day.
«In this hyper networked world remade fresh every
day, with new perils and new opportunities, there is one
book to be sure to
read: Joshua Ramo's new
book, a masterpiece, The Seventh Sense.
I started
reading the
book the same
day, and I finished it in two
days.
After learning how to speed -
read, he finished one
book per
day — learning about famous leaders and self - improvement principles.
One last example, I promise: Last year I realized just how frazzled it made me to fit focused work in between meetings and phone calls every
day of the week while still leaving enough space to be with my family, serve my community, visit friends, and
read a
book or two.
One of the traditions during the Christmas holidays is to
read Charles Dickens» famous
book «A Christmas Carol,» or to watch one of the many film productions about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge who turned his life around and became a generous soul on Christmas
Day.
Are you looking forward to quiet
days spent with your grandchildren,
reading books, and pursuing a hobby?
Just two
days ago, I was
reading a
book to our one - year - old about the Disney princesses.
These were not people who took some course or who
read a couple of
books and then started trading one
day.
Anyone who is trying to market anything these
days, must
read this
book.
i
read something interesting the other
day in Harvey Cox's new
book The Future of Faith.
When
books were
read religion sedated the masses now instead being sedate is the religion of the masses and all together they no longer need dream and question and doubt and fear as they march through the regulated routines of their untroubled
days.