A straight-talking and constantly uplifting motivational manual.
A personal and professional guide to achieving financial success.
The goal of real estate investor Luxenberg’s (co-author: Unlocking the Secrets, 2011, etc.) book is to shift his reader’s relationship with money—specifically, from being resigned to low-income status to being ready to succeed: “The difference between making $50,000 a year and $1 million a year is awareness,” Luxenberg writes. “Your mindset is the key ingredient to becoming wealthy. It is also the only thing holding you back.” The author spent 47 years on “the corporate fast track” as a real estate agent, he says, before he turned to real estate investing, and he credits his subsequent success mostly to a change in attitude: “your thoughts should be supportive of the reality you’re trying to create.” A recurring piece of advice is to see potential obstacles as opportunities, and the author includes many anecdotes of friends and business partners who were limited only by excessive caution. Luxenberg also points out that “A lot of new millionaires aren’t any smarter than you, and many didn’t go to school.” Still, readers are warned to do their financial homework when entering the real estate investment world by, for instance, reading up on city and state tax regulations and how to structure contracts. Overall, the book is written with a clear and vigorous prose style that’s direct, unadorned, and consistently encouraging throughout. For the most part, the advice that Luxenberg imparts in this upbeat guide is straightforward and common-sensical: Set aside money for savings, surround yourself with positive people, network in person with like-minded people, be careful around greedy people, and so on. However, the author’s most basic insistence is one that he often repeats—that your mind is the most powerful tool you possess, and your attitude is the key to changing your financial future.
A straight-talking and constantly uplifting motivational manual.Pub Date: April 29, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5445-0164-2
Page Count: 292
Publisher: Lioncrest Publishing
Review Posted Online: June 6, 2019
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
© Copyright 2024 Kirkus Media LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Follow
Popular in this Genre
We can’t wait for you to join Kirkus!
It’s free and takes less than 10 seconds!
Already have an account? Log in.
OR
Sign in with GoogleTrouble signing in? Retrieve credentials.
Welcome Back!
OR
Sign in with GoogleTrouble signing in? Retrieve credentials.
bookshelf
