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This book contains timeless principles about business, making money and how to preserve money. They seem trivial but the U.S. economy early 2008 would be in a much better shape if all participants followed them...We just forget these words of wisdom and we should revert to the work of P.T. Barnum more frequently to avoid the foolish business mistake we all make.

Solid, timeless advice for anyone seeking wealth... and how to keep it once you get it.

This is a book that every young man and young lady should read - so that they ensure their safe passage along the road to success as opposed to the road to destruction.

Barnum gives 20 "rules" that a person must abide by in order to be successful. Given that Barnum was one of the wealthiest men in America during his day, given that Barnum was received by Kings and Queens the world over, his "rules" are worthy of attention.

If you are already striving along the path to success, you will likely find the "rule" that you have been breaking to this point, that has been holding you back. When you read this book, you'll see it, and your success will be accelerated greatly.

By the way, all 20 of these "rules" are fully applicable to today's world and environment. There is absolutely nothing that is "dated" about this book.

As an aside, this book was actually a speech that Barnum gave on the "speakers circuit" of his day. As such, it provides a great model from which a person can construct a speech of their own. You'll see how Barnum gets "personal", uses jokes, quotes, and stories to bring his speech to life and make it interesting.

Lastly, in the realm of success books, there isn't an easier book to read anywhere since this book is a mere 32 pages long.

Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 - April 7, 1891), American showman who is best remembered for his entertaining hoaxes and for founding the circus that eventually became Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.

In Brooklyn, New York in 1871, he established "P.T. Barnum's Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan, and Circus", a traveling amalgamation of circus, menagerie and museum of "freaks", which by 1872 was billing itself as "The Greatest Show on Earth".

There's a sucker born every minute" is a phrase often credited to P.T. Barnum. However, when Barnum's biographer tried to track down when Barnum had uttered this phrase, all of Barnum's friends and acquaintances told him it was out of character. Barnum's credo was more along the lines of "there's a customer born every minute" -- he wanted to find ways to draw new customers in all the time because competition was fierce and people bored easily

Barnum wrote several books, including The Humbugs of the World (1865), Struggles and Triumphs (1869), and his Autobiography (first in 1854, and later editions including 1869).

The Art of Money Getting is really the story of how to run a sales organization by understanding the mind and tastes of your primary customer base.

Barnum is a treat to read and is never boring! I highly recommend his books.

This was an excellent collection of similar material. It helps to have them in one volume to cross reference
or to quote a particular author. The size of the book ( slightly larger than the typical paperback ) was
also a plus !!
I would highly recommend this collection.

read this one very fully with an open mind. getting rich is easy and needed by all. this is a must have!!!

Where do I start with these books? Classic! Timeless! Must read! I sound like I'm writing copy for a blockbuster best seller. These books are the basis for many of the wealth and abundance work that we see today. Look at all the new material and then compare with these and you will see that the new ones have been updated in language and example, but the truths remain the same.
I believe in going to the source of popular material and especially The Science of Getting Rich and Think and Grow Rich are the wonderful. Both are short reads, but the concepts may have you going back over and over to clarify what seems to be amazing assertions. Take the messages seriously and you may seriously change your life and financial situation!

This audio CD is great for people looking to understand how to increase their value as a money maker in today's society. The principles are great I've already started to develop a new way of thinking, it's really teaching you how to be aware of how easy it is to get ahead in life. Plus it's convenient, I just pop it in the CD player an listen, but the trick is to listen to it consistently if you want change to come your way.

this book has given me clarity in my purpose in building a business. Not only does this book give me biblical principles, but it does so in a way that is simple to follow. If you follow what this book says, good things will happen

it takes you an a journey to finding your business identity. I appreciate this book for that. It gives it to you straight up. The author has done a fabulous job at keeping close to the title of this book. I felt the book was a bit long for my taste, but it still is a phenomenal book that will provide Christians with a biblical base to their business ventures. I was blessed by this book.

I have to say that this book did a lot for me. It helped me really see how having a business is not as scary as I thought. If you have a plan and follow the principles in this book, it'll help you.

This book has taught me valuable business principles. As I look at this book I am amazed that the principles presented can be used for every aspect of life. This book is a great read and a hands on resource that has helped me tremendously

what a great tool to get finances back in order!! this book made life a lot easier for me. It has helped me become more finance-conscious and has put me on the fast-track to saving money and living within my means.

I thought this book was a homerun. First it lets the reader know that success in personal finance is possible. Second it makes it easy for the reader to begin the process. Finally, it gives the reader ownership because the book is so hands-on and reader-driven. This was a great book!

this helped me organize my finances. in many ways, I think the author has done a great job making 'managing finances' something that is possible.

This book has been amazing resource for me. I think it's something that I'll use in my personal life with regards to finance. This book has biblical truths that are expounded upon with clarity and wisdom. I love what the author had to say.

Breaking the Wealth Code by John Hrimnak is a fascinating read. The nutshell is made very clear. If you want to be wealthy you must think like wealthy people, pay yourself and look continually for ways to let money work for you. I believe it is a book that could help both churched and unchurched people of all ages. Why not make it a text or reference book for church study groups?

I want to thank John for taking the time to help others change their thinking around the area of of wealth creation. Reading his inspiring journey from struggling to make ends meet to overflowing with true wealth really hit home with me. I highly recommend this book for everyone. It doesn't matter if your broke currently or if your financially independent this book has solutions to help you increase in your wealth creation.

Wow! 5 stars all the way, this book is easy to follow and is extremely practical. It's loaded with great content and hands on tools that I already started to apply. The information I learned about building wealth has left a deep and lasting impact on my life. I especially enjoyed and learned from the stategies on tax savings, getting out of debt, staying out of debt, and quickly starting to creating extra cash flow every month. It was also entertaining with the authors personal stories which really hit home. Some of my other favorite parts where the ones that challenged my current belief systems. I was a bit skeptical when he introduced the idea that anyone could get started within 45 days but it's true! I've already started and while I won't be a millionaire next week-I'm certainly making real progress by adding over $2500 a month in monthly income. In short it lives up to it's subtitle "How to earn your first million and creat a life time of wealth". And on a closing note, I was taken back by the author's 30 day money back gaurantee. I wish some of the other wealth books I've purchased had the same guarantee. It's tough to find a really good one, ENJOY!

I attended a wealth building seminar (Rich Now, Rich for Life) and the author of this book was one of the founders and speakers. The seminar was (the best) seminar I have ever attended and purchasing this book has allowed me to continue the seminar at home. This book is awesome...It is written in such a way that it totally keeps your focus (with a smile) and allows you to interact with the words on the page. I have learned so much and am excited to be changing my financial future at this very moment...This is not a book that you will read and lay down and think I need to do that but it is a book that won't allow you to lay it down without doing what it says....It is a very powerful book with real stratigies and how to's that anybody can do and become a somebody right now.....

I really enjoyed this video. Having viewed the VHS performance "Rich At The Top", I eagerly awaited to view this version of West Side Story & Time Check. I wasn't disappointed.

What really got me was the solos by alto saxophonist, Andy Fusco. I had seen him with Buddy in the early eighties, "Live" in San Francisco and never really paid much attention to his blowing talents. Very impressive & imaginative on "Hookin' It" & Bob Mintzer's "Good News".

Steve Marcus gives his usual fluid sax solos. Check out his "note-slashing" solo on "Time Check" (although I've always considered Pat Labarbera's solos more fiery on this chart). The sax section really cooks on the soli!

Buddy is amazing on all charts (whether with brushes or sticks). Just effortlessly tearing those skins on all numbers. Great live performance with the usual strong brass section and admirable support from the bass and piano. I Highly Recommend this taped concert to any Buddy Rich Big Band fan.

If you like Buddy (who wouldn't) you have to see him in this video. He is at the prime of his career and he burns. My favorite part is the blinding fast single stroke roll that starts soft and low, and then builds to a feverish pace that only Buddy could acheive. Ive watched it 3 times since Christmas and I am in amazment every time. No wonder the audience gives him a standing "O" after every piece. They were witnessing a drum god at work!

The box say's "Buddy and his Band at the height of their popularity" This is a MUST see video for fans of Buddy and jazz. The sound on this is top notch and of course Buddy is at his best, he wouldn't allow any less. The highlight {if you can get any better than the best} has to be the extended solo in Buddy's signature piece "West Side Story " medly. Again the sound is right on, you can almost feel his intensity, and at the same time his grace.
This tape is flawless, almost 60 minutes of perfection
There is and was only one Buddy.

If you're a Buddy Rich fan, this video is a must-have. Not only do you get to witness his unbelieveable drumming, but there's a short episode of his temper as well. At the end of Bob Mintzer's "Good News", there is one short instant where the brass didn't quite play a note exactly together. Buddy smirks for a second, pauses before the last chord, and clearly says "what happened? ". He then cues the last chord, after which he continues to humiliate the trumpet section with more words and gestures. Aside from that distraction, the band is smokin' and the soloists (including saxists Andy Fusco, Walt Weiskopf, Steve Marcus) are especially strong.

The front cover sleeve used in Thomas J. Riccio's book, "Busted," makes the reader think the contents of the book is cheap and sleazy. Not only that, but it also makes the reader think the contents of the book is all about O.J. Simpson. The front cover sleeve is a misnomer to what the book is all about.

If a rating was allowed for the cover, I would give it a "0" rating. I personally did not like the cover and got rid of it. I appreciated the book much better after that.

The story Thomas Riccio writes is not only amusing, but interesting as well. "Busted" tells about the author's upbringing, his family, brothers and twin sister, and how he got involved with petty unlawful incidents while he was growing up.

As the author describes the various deviated incidents in his life, the readers cannot help forgive him for the petty unlawful behavior he had as a kid. All kids, no doubt, have stories to tell similar to Riccio's. However, he does not outgrow the petty wrongs, but in fact takes them to the next level. It is at this point that forgiveness is blind.

This is not to say everything Tom Riccio did was unlawful. Nonetheless, his love for buying and selling memorabilia together with high stakes gambling, more often than not, got him into trouble. The love of buying and selling memorabilia and gambling also sent him several times into a whirl of large amounts of money. He could have been a millionaire. However, the virus inherent in his being of wanting more money; of enough not being enough, caused him not only to lose his wife, home, and friends but to find himself behind bars in prison several times.

The last chapter in his book is devoted to the problem of O.J. Simpson in Las Vegas, Nevada. The reader will believe he did not set up O.J. His intent was to help O.J. recover some stolen memorabilia in return for O.J. Simpson's signature on 200 copies of the book, "If I Did It."

Tom Riccio's story is interesting, rousing, but mostly sad. At the end of his story he admits he must get rid of the virus of wanting more; never having enough. Only he knows what is next for Thomas Riccio.

I recommend this amusing, interesting, and exciting book to readers who like to know and learn how "enough" can become a virus of "not enough."

Yes OJ's an interesting character, and you learn plenty about the Las Vegas robbery here. But the back story is just as interesting, especially for card collectors or memorabilia people. The busting out of jail parts are crazy (you gotta read it to believe it) and so is Tom's lotto/gambling tales. Luck is a funny thing and Tom Ricico has had plenty of it on his side. A controversial guy who's lived a wild life--it's all in the book.

Thats how I would sum up this book. The OJ robbery is really inconsequential to the true story of this book. It's only a backdrop to a life that was lived to the fullest (sometimes foolishly) straight from the man who lived it. Truly an amazing tale of love, luck, money, and greed. Its a terrific book from someone that lived a life that Hollywood probably wouldn't be able to create in any movie. Good Luck with the rest of it Tom!

If a bland life story "Catch Me If You Can" can be made into a movie, this book should be too. Riccio's life story would be unbelieveable if it wasn't true: escaping from jail, winning the lottery, beating Vegas, successful entrepenuer and a life filled with being in the middle of breaking news events from OJ Simpson to Anna Nicole Smith. Truly a one-of-a-kind story. This book is a page turner and an easy read and better entertainment then the 10 bucks you would pay to see any of the lousy movies that are out now.

"Cash Rich Retirement" provides a clear roadmap to investing for a successful retirement. The book is easy to read and makes the case that we need to save more and invest wisely and diffently to assure our retirement. The author provides specific guidelines and recommendations for a wide range of investment options. He also covers a host of complex areas like annuities, long term care insurance, and reverse mortgages in a clear and concise way. It is truly a reference work that you can turn to again and again. Finally, the book takes a hard headed and conservative approach to the future and to investment myths like stocks always go up that will lead readers to wiser more clear headed decisions and better results.

Finally a book on retirement that stands out based both on content and on style. It is a little like Dad is taking you out to the woodshed to teach you a lesson about retirement planning. He is spot on in putting responsibility back squarely in the lap of each of us for our retirement health. His investment strategies make sense and are obviously founded on a great deal of experience and research.
This is a book that compasionate companies everywhere should buy for their employees offering at least some atonement for the pensions that they have shrunk or eliminated.

No matter what age you are, preparing for retirement or being retired (i.e. living off of your resources) we all wonder if we are making the right decisions. Jim has done extensive research on the subject and reports his results in a very easy to understand book. It will serve as a great resource to help you achieve your objectives.

I recently took early retirement and have checked out several books looking for help to make my income last. This is the best of the lot. It helped me understand ways of shielding my investments from "performance whiplash". It also gives straightforward advice about new funds, indexes, health insurance, annuities and even reverse mortgages. Whether you are already retired, thinking of retirement, decades away from retirement or somewhere in between, this book will help you. I give it high marks for good advice, good tools, and a clear action plan for stronger finances. Best of all, it is easy to read and understand.

I'm not sure what I expected, but I assume that, when a book has a narrow focus, such as this one, there should be a very in depth discussion and understanding of the material covered. That, unfortunately, is not the case here. Some of these reviews are just as cursory as the ones in the 40 year old "Films of Charlie Chaplin" book. It's a shame, really, as all of these films are now available in some form (the Keystones on a multitude of cheap crummy ripoff dvds, and the Essanays on the superb series produced by David Shepard.).

Part of the problem with this book is that the audience is undefined. Is this book written for the rapidly diminishing group of fans who are still collecting 8mm films of Chaplin? Then a large portion of the book serves some purpose, as it is a listing of all the known films and their alternate titles. Most people, however, are content to watch this on dvds, so this section of the book is almost useless.

Also, I purchased this book expecting a new insight into the films as I watch them. Instead, many of films are quickly dismissed. I can dismiss a film quite easily by myself, thank you, I need help appreciating them!

It's a good read, but not really what I expected.

Perhaps the wierdest moment of all was realizing that several of my old Amazon reviews had been quoted (and fully acknowledged) in this book! It's a shame, really - they aren't even very good reviews!

Excellent book with great number of photographies and explained of very detailed form. I recommend them for buying futures.

Many books on Charlie Chaplin deal only summarily with his earliest (and often crudest) films, and authors almost apologize for having to mention them at all. This book reminds us that these Keystone and Essanay productions of 1913-16 represent more than half of Chaplin's output, and film buffs will enjoy reading so much new material.

When Ted Okuda and David Maska told this writer about the publication of this book, I was intrigued by their novel approach to the subject: concentrating entirely upon these often neglected comedies, Okuda and Maska viewed the films in chronological order. This is the first time, to my knowledge, that this simple and very effective approach has been applied to Chaplin. The results are praiseworthy.

We can follow Chaplin's screen character (and his own blossoming talents as a filmmaker) during its formative stages, in the proper sequence. The authors even offer some new evidence that certain films were produced or released in a different order than most Chaplin filmographies indicate.

Okuda and Maska examine the "body of evidence" with objective eyes. This isn't the usual pedantic Chaplin discourse; the tone is disarmingly casual, and meets the reader on common ground as a fellow viewer or a video enthusiast. There are so many alternate versions of the early Chaplin films, and so many bad bootleg prints and videos, that the authors take pains to steer readers toward the optimal viewing experience, and warn them about films that are incomplete or not well preserved.

Not everything Chaplin did was golden: Okuda and Maska are sometimes candid about those improvisational films that were simply haphazard fights or pants-kicking festivals. But the authors do show respect for other tastes, by following their own assessments with a variety of critical viewpoints.

Longtime collectors and home-movie enthusiasts will especially enjoy reading about the dozens and dozens of alternate versions of the Keystones and Essanays. There are also some excellent vintage illustrations, including a beauty of a one-sheet poster from the 1914 comedy "The Knockout" -- this 1920 reissue boldly promotes Chaplin over the actual star, Roscoe Arbuckle.

If you like Charlie Chaplin, you'll like this book. If you love Charlie Chaplin, it's essential reading.

The primitive Keystones and transitional Essanays have been terribly overlooked in studies of Chaplin when compared to coverage from the Mutual period and after. Ted Okuda and Dave Maska have done a nice job of examining this early period of Chaplin's career, when crude slapstick evolved into physical comedy with finesse, and primitive acting techniques evolved into a timeless character with substance. Their assessments and accompanying reviews from a variety of disparate sources for each film makes for a fascinating study about some very significant early movies. The only period of Chaplin's career that has gotten little analysis, the Keystone and Essanay films are essential early efforts from perhaps the single most important figure in the history of motion pictures.

Chocolate: Riches from the Rainforest is one of the most attractive books I've come across in some while. This is far more than a picture book though. Chock full of chocolate history, kids of nearly any age will find this book enticing.

I'd like to first point out that I gave this book 5 stars. Second...Amazon is selling this book at only $3.39 at this writing. This is a REALLY good deal and I'm going to buy the book. Now for my review:

I saw this book on display in the children's section of my local library. It has a very appealing cover to it and the word "Chocolate" written in it's title so...I HAD to check it out.

When I brought it home I thought it would be way to advanced for my 5 year old to be interested in but I wanted to read it myself. It is written for children maybe twice her age but she was VERY interested in the history of her favorite food and remained attentive to the whole book.

There were words and situations I had to give her a background on--such as what an African slave was/is. Unfortuneatly, slaves are still sometimes used in the production of chocolate to this day according to the author Robert Burleigh.

We loved the looks of this book...the lay-out, the yummy chocolate colors, photos, and illustrations are very eye appealing.

We now know a lot about the rainforest cacao (ca-COW) trees, the pods, the seeds and the complicated process that it goes through to become the chocolate we so love. Good thing we live in today's world. We also learned of chocolate's ancient infancy which at times was violent. Cacao was once only for royality and the very rich--not for 5 year old chocolate freaks like the one that lives in my home. We learned a lot and we loved this book!

Most of us carry out an intense love affair with chocolate. To some, it is a fundamental part of our love affair with another human and to a few, it ignites the passion in their life. This book describes the history of chocolate, and like some foods, one wonders how it was first discovered. Until I read this book, I did not realize how chocolate is made. It is derived from the seeds inside the fruit of the tree and requires a great deal of processing before it reaches the form that we love. This was an interesting book to read, well illustrate it is a concise, yet thorough introduction to the history of one of my favorite foods.

Chocolate: Riches from the Rainforest tells the story of chocolate. The book begins by discussing where chocolate comes from and who discovered it. It goes on to describe how the ancient Maya and Aztecs drank chocolate regularly and offered it to their gods, and how the Spanish added sugar to chocolate to give it the sweet taste. The book also describes how chocolate making has changed over time and how it is made today. In addition, the book includes a glossary of terms used in the book and an author's note about some of the things he learned while writing the book.

I would recommend this book for ages 10 and 11. Children these ages will enjoy learning about the history of chocolate. I do not feel that this book would be appropriate for younger children due to the discussions of human sacrifices and slavery. I would recommend using this book during the summer as part of a fun segment on chocolate. Having chocolate available for the kids to eat would be ideal because it is difficult to get through this book without craving it. The book is filled with wonderful photographs and illustrations. These pictures add to the story by showing children the plant that chocolate comes from and some of the items that the Maya and Aztecs used to make and consume chocolate. There are also step-by-step photographs detailing how chocolate is made today.