Sentences with phrase «good books this year»

In fact, in an effort to make sure he feeds his mind a steady diet of good books this year, he has vowed to read something new every two weeks, starting an online book club to keep himself on track and inspire others.

I read SO many good books this year (I also read a few not so good ones).

SCHWAB: I've honestly read so many good books this year, but at the top of the stack?

I always like to read a few good books a year.

For instance, there have been about four or five very good books this year and a growing number of conferences.

Not exact matches

To be sure, * The Magic of Thinking Big * was not written strictly for entrepreneurs — I'm not sure the word was well - known in the 50s... but applying the principals from this book has contributed to the enormous growth my public relations agency has enjoyed each year of our existence.

And yesterday he was at it again, offering up his own version of that seasonal stand - by, the end - of - year best books list.

I read this book well after I started my business, but I think the hardest lesson for entrepreneurs to grasp is that in order to give your business the best chance for success, you need to reinvest the profits for at least the first year.

«For years, I've been saying Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature was the best book I'd read in a decade,» writes Gates, who is clearly a long - time Pinker fan, but he continues, «his new book, Enlightenment Now, is even better.&Better Angels of Our Nature was the best book I'd read in a decade,» writes Gates, who is clearly a long - time Pinker fan, but he continues, «his new book, Enlightenment Now, is even better.&better.»

But for bookworms, the true highlight of the season might just be the avalanche of «best books of the year» lists.

Dubbed the best business book of the year last year by The Financial Times and McKinsey, this one by a Pulitzer - Prize winning journalist looks at what happened to Janesville, Wisconsin when a General Motors factory that had been operating in the town for 85 years closed.

My book Persuadable took three years to write, but I convinced myself it wasn't good.

By 8:30 a.m. (the time I usually ended up rolling out of bed), I had read several chapters of a good business book, listened to part of a podcast, spent time in prayer, done some P90X Yoga, and worked on a side - project that I'd been «too busy» to work on for years.

If you want to be the best, and there's no reason you shouldn't, you need to be striving for that 50 - books - per - year goal.

In his best - selling book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller is consumed with the idea of story.

Robbins is donating all of the profits from the book, in advance, as well as providing an additional financial gift to Feeding America in order to personally provide 50 million meals this year.

In his book, Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next 50 Years, he calculated the activities any of us might undertake that have the best chances of killing us per hour of exposure to that activity.

Trump SoHo's corporate bookings were down to 11 events this year, with fewer well - known names, WNYC reports.

And what we realized was that we had 20 years of data — about why customers buy, how they buy, what they read, how they read and why they're reading it — that could make a physical bookstore just a different and better place to discover books.

The Harry Potter book series and film franchise, worth well over $ 21 billion, continues to attract avid fans — even as many as nineteen years after author J.K. Rowling penned the first novel.

This year the list includes a science fiction novel in which the moon blows up as well as books by a mathematician and a biochemist.

Presented by the Great Game of Business, the Gathering of Games is the largest open - book management conference of the year, in which hundreds attend to learn innovative best practices, introduce OBM to newcomers, invigorate current employees with new ideas, and network with fellow OBM practitioners.

Hit by Amazon's explosive growth a decade ago, as well as the rise of e-books (which now seem to have peaked at around 20 % of total book sales), Barnes & Noble closed stores year - in, year - out, benefiting from a savvy move in the 1990s that saw it opt for short leases.

He had his best financial year ever and books speaking gigs a year.

I've frequently shared how keeping a journal for over 16 years has not only helped me write a book but also how it has helped me become a better business leader.

Josh Weltman, an advertising creative director for 25 + years, and the co-producer of Mad Men, put it well in his book Seducing Strangers:

«Goals are about growing,» he explains in his book «Your Best Year Ever: A 5 - Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals.»

If Canadian best - selling author Malcolm Gladwell were to write a book about this year's presidential election, he said his title would be «I'm heading home.»

And it would be hard to compile any list of the best business books of the year without mentioning Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty - First Century — which «sparked a fantastic global discussion this year about inequality,» Gates writes.

At Insider Picks, we thought one of the best ways we could help would be to construct a list of our favorite books we read this year.

Better World Books started 10 years ago with a campus book drive and since then has grown to be a $ 63 million company that sells books online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partBooks started 10 years ago with a campus book drive and since then has grown to be a $ 63 million company that sells books online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partbooks online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partners.

His book On Writing Well is a classic among writers and has sold nearly 1.5 million copies in the 40 years since it was published.

Last weekend, the Globe and Mail put out its list of the best books of the year.

The Unwinding, which also made multiple lists, was definitely one of the best books of any kind I read this year.

His first book, Give and Take, was released last year and soon became a New York Times best - seller.

Thanks to these selling points, FreshDirect is doing well — booking about $ 240 million a year — but I sometimes wonder why it isn't doing even better.

This time of year, entrepreneurs looking to feed their brains with a good book won't be short of ideas.

When the 54 - year - old world leader manages to steal a few fleeting moments to unwind past dark, he reportedly reads good, old paper books, and not always about politics and domestic and foreign affairs.

As famous for his death - defying stunts as for successfully running hundreds of companies over the past 50 years, Richard Branson has one of the best stories in business — which he tells in his new book, Finding My Virginity.

I have been following most of these contributing authors for years, and can definitely recommend the expertise in this book (disclaimer — somehow I was invited to contribute a chapter as well!)

The NY Times somehow narrowed down the entire year's output to The 10 Best Books of 2016.

Although written when Tony Robbins was only 25 years old, Unlimited Power remains as one of the most popular and overall best self - help books available.

«An exceptional and well - researched book that is totally in line with the way I have done business in the last 35 years.

«The Great Reflation is by far the best economic and investment book that I have read in the last ten years.

And you can provide it to them — reliably, effectively, and affordably — with help from Shel Horowitz, multiple - award - winning and best - selling author of Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green ** Painless Green, and seven other books, who's been combining the green world and the marketing world for years.

Nearly 20 years ago, I first published my best - seller, The Passport Book.

Readers of her latest commodity trading book, Higher Probability Commodity Trading, are sure to walk away with a better understanding of the futures and options market, but more importantly with the benefit of years of market lessons learned without the expensive lessons.

«I'm happy if I find one good book to recommend to friends, family and employees each year.

If you do, however, find yourself flying or booking hotel stays at least once per year, the Chase Sapphire Preferred ® Card is one of the best cards you can have at your disposal.

For years I've come to trust Carmine Gallo's sage wisdom on learning to be a better communicator and I've made his book, Talk Like TED, required reading for my staff.