Warren Buffett: Buffett has amassed an enormous fortune from astute investments, particularly through the company Berkshire Hathaway, of which he is the largest shareholder and CEO. With an estimated current net worth of around US$52 billion, he was ranked by Forbes as the third-richest person in the world as of April 2007, behind telecom businessman Carlos Slim Helú.Jack Welch: was Chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. Welch gained a solid reputation for uncanny business acumen and unique leadership strategies at GE. During his tenure, GE increased its market capitalization by over $400 billion. He remains a highly-regarded figure in business circles due to his innovative management strategies and leadership style.Sneakers: A sneakerhead by definition is a person who owns multiple pairs of gym sneakers/shoes as a form of collection and fashion. It is often manifest by the use of shoes primarily made for sports such as tennis or basketball as normal everyday clothing. The birth of sneakerhead culture came in the late 1980's and can be attributed to two major sources. These contributing factors were basketball and the Hip-Hop movement in music.University of Washington: founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Also known as Washington and locally as The U or UW (usually pronounced "U-Dub"), it is the largest university in the Northwestern United States and the oldest public university on the West Coast.
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Death Cab for Cutie: is an American band formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997. The band takes its name from a satirical song, of the same name, performed by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band on their 1967 album Gorilla and in the Beatles experimental movie, Magical Mystery Tour.Daft Punk: is the collective name of Paris house musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter. The duo is considered one of the most successful electronic music collaborations of all time, both in album sales and in critical acclaim.Michael Buble: is a critically acclaimed Grammy-nominated, multiple Juno Award-winning Canadian crooner, big band singer and actor. While achieving modest chart success in the United States, his 2003 self-titled album has reached the top ten in Canada, the UK and Australia.Queen: an English rock band, formed in 1970 in London by Brian May, Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor, with John Deacon joining the following year. The band are noted for their musical diversity, multi-layered arrangements, vocal harmonies and incorporation of audience participation into their live performances. They are regarded as one of the most accomplished rock acts on stage.
City of God: Celebrated with worldwide accliam, this powerful true story of crime and redemption has won numerous prestigious awards around the globe! The streets of the world's most notorious slum, Rio De Janeiro's "City of God," are a place where combat photographers fear to tread, police rarely go and residents are lucky if they live to the age of 20.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: is a 2004 Academy Award-winning romance film by Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry. The film uses a science fiction element to explore the nature of memory and love. It won an Academy Award, has won praise from critics; and developed a cult following.Garden State: The film centers on Andrew Largeman, a twenty-six year old actor who returns to his hometown in New Jersey for the first time in nine years, after receiving word from his father that his mother has died. He reconnects with his friend Mark, now a gravedigger, at his mother's funeral. Largeman gets reacquainted with other old friends, all the time avoiding his father. While in the waiting room of a doctor's office, Largeman meets a local girl, Sam, and the two cautiously initiate a relationship.Requiem for a Dream: Darren Aronofsky follows up his acclaimed debut Pi with this gritty emotionally charged film set amidst the abandoned beaches and faded glory of Coney Island, Brooklyn. Based upon the novel by celebrated author Hubert Selby Jr., the story intricately links the lives of a lonely widowed mother, her son harry, his beautiful girlfriend Marion, and his best friend Tyrone.
The Game: The book details Strauss's induction into the community and his rise from "average frustrated chump" to becoming a "master pick-up artist" under his pseudonym, Style. It documents Style's learning from other pickup artists including Mystery, Ross Jeffries, and David DeAngelo.The Tao of Warren Buffett: "This is destined to be the business world's Little Red Book that investors and managers will resort to over and over. David Clark and Mary Buffett have again captured the heart, soul, and ethos of Warren Buffett-giving us a practical, lasting strategies we can use to improve our financial performance."Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: A super salesman, a sportsman, a popular public speaker and motivator, Harvey Mackay has evolved some of the most dynamic techniques for soliciting and closing a sale ever devised. In his new book, he reviews the secrets of his success.Winning: "Jack Welch lays out a readable, detailed, step-by-step plan that anyone can use to become a true winner. Using real-life examples and the same tell-it-like-it-is style that helped reinvigorate General Electric, Welch describes how Americans can succeed in both their careers and in their personal life."
Jerry Seinfeld: is an American comedian, actor, and writer from Massapequa, New York. Seinfeld is often described as an observational comedian. He is best known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the long-running sitcom Seinfeld, which he co-created and executively produced.Michael Jordan: is a retired American professional basketball player. Widely considered one of the greatest basketball players of all time, he became one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.Phil Knight: is the co-founder and former CEO of Nike, Inc. and the owner of Laika Entertainment House. Knight is also known for his monetary support of the University of Oregon, where he received his bachelor's degree in accounting in 1959. Knight received his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1962. In 2006, Phil Knight donated $105 million to Stanford GSB - at the time by far the largest donation to a business school in history.Quentin Tarantino: is an American film director, actor, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an auteur indie filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines, edgy tough-guy dialogue, and stylized violence interwoven with often-obscure cinematic references. His films include Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill (Vol. 1, Vol. 2 and Death Proof featured in Grindhouse.