The Real Deal

Author : Lauren Blakely
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250165946
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Deal written by Lauren Blakely and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready for your next favorite romantic comedy, THE REAL DEAL, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely! April Hamilton wants you to know she hasn’t been on GigsForHire since that time she sold her futon after college. She doesn’t even spend that much time online. And even if she did, she would not be looking up personal ads. But going home alone for her family's summer reunion is an invitation for every single relative to butt into her personal life. She simply can’t handle another blind date with the butcher, the baker or the candlestick maker from her hometown. So when she finds the GigsforHire ad for a boyfriend-for-hire, she’s ready to pay to play. Heading Home and Need a Buffer? I’m the REAL DEAL. Theo Banks has been running from the past for years. He’s this close to finally settling all his debts, and one more job as a boyfriend-for-hire will do the trick. He’s no gigolo. Please. He’s something of an actor, and he knows how to slip into any role, including pretending to be April’s new beau -- the bad boy with the heart of gold. Even if it means sleeping in close quarters in that tiny little bed in her parents’ inn. Even if it means spinning tales of a romance that starts to feel all too true. What neither one of them counts on is that amid the egg toss, the arm wrestling, and a fierce game of Lawn Twister that has them tangled up together, they might be feeling the real deal. She only wanted to show her family once and for all that she had no need to settle down. He didn’t expect to have the time of his life at her parent’s home. They didn’t plan on loving every single second of the game. But can a masterful game of pretend result in true love?

Author : Adam Piore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737943402
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Kings of New York written by Adam Piore and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a story behind every apartment sale, every building development, and each real estatetransaction in New York City. And many of those stories involve the uber-wealthy behaving badly-the blood sport that is New York real estate is defined by billion-dollar feuds. THE NEW KINGSOF NEW YORK: Renegades, Moguls, Gamblers and the Remaking of the World's MostFamous Skyline, by journalist Adam Piore (The Real Deal; April 12, 2022; hardcover $29.95),charts the extraordinary transformation of America's greatest city from a near-bankrupt urbancombat zone into the land of Billionaires' Row and Hudson Yards-a luxury playground for theglobal 1 percent-and provides an inside look at the bombastic developers behind the biggest realestate deals of this century.The first two decades of the twenty-first century were a giddy, hyperbolic era of dizzying highs anddeep, dark lows. The headlines told the story: the largest residential and commercial development inNorth America, the largest condo conversion in the history of the world, the most expensivepenthouse sale in the city, the most lucrative office skyscraper sale in history, the tallest condo everbuilt. Yet 2020 brought in a new era: 95 percent of Manhattan's office space sat empty amid apandemic, retail stores were boarded up, and restaurants went belly-up.THE NEW KINGS OF NEW YORK offers a behind-the-scenes picture of what it's like tooperate at the highest levels of the industry, and how some of the skyline-transforming deals wereaccomplished. And it features the larger-than-life characters behind the deals.Written and published by the team behind The Real Deal, New York's preeminent real estate-focusedpublication, THE NEW KINGS OF NEW YORK is a book about the history of the city, thedawn of New York real estate's second gilded age, the opportunists who sought to exploit it, and theadventures they had along the way. It is a look at where we have come from as we consider where togo next.

Author : Sandy Weill
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0759569142
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Deal written by Sandy Weill and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2006-10-09 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shortly after we set up shop, the four of us and our wives convened at Arthur's home on Long Island to celebrate. It was a festive occasion, and we all openly shared our aspirations. To this day, I remember the others stressing over and over their desire to become wealthy. Given that Joanie and I were raising two toddlers and lived nearly hand-to-mouth, the talk was certainly seductive. Still, what I remember most from that dinner was my declaration that the money should be secondary-what mattered more to me was to build a great firm: one that would lead the industry, employ lots of people, endure over many years, and, importantly, command respect. Over the next forty-three years, I never altered my priorities."-- The Real Deal The Sandy Weill story is truly one for the ages. Starting with $30,000 in borrowed cash in 1960, and relying on uncanny entrepreneurial instincts, Sandy created one of the leading securities firms in the U.S. and became one of the best known businessmen in the world. After selling his company to American Express and becoming its president, he experienced a professional setback. Undaunted, he cannily parlayed it into a second career, starting over with a sleepy consumer loan company called Commercial Credit, which over the next seventeen years he transformed into the leading global bank, Citigroup. During this span, Weill as chairman and CEO delivered an astounding 2,600 percent return to investors-better than legendary CEO Jack Welch or investor Warren Buffett during that same period.Yet success is never an easy path, and Weill divulges the highs and lows. His ascent to power has been documented by the media over the years, but never before has Weill revealed the brutally honest and unvarnished side of an astonishing life and career.And Weill goes further, sharing his love of philanthropy, a journey that took him "from a mediocre bass drummer in my high-school marching band to the chairmanship of Carnegie Hall." He brings readers into his personal life, introducing them to his wife, Joan, his daily inspiration, and discussing his relationships with competitors and colleagues alike, including proteges like Peter Cohen and Jamie Dimon. Along the way, he shares the most important lessons he learned in business and in life. From a middle-class Brooklyn childhood to corporate legend, philanthropist, financier, and chairman emeritus of Citigroup Inc., The Real Deal tells a remarkable story-that of a financial superstar who always loved the game more than the gold.

Author : George A. Sorial
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062887696
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Deal written by George A. Sorial and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember when Trump was a great boss, a great father, and a great businessman, before the liberal media rewrote that narrative? That’s still the real Trump. Longtime Trump Organization executive and attorney George A. Sorial saw the real Trump firsthand, from the early days of The Apprentice to the passing of power to the younger generation before the inauguration. He learned from his boss how to use chaos, the media, and a single-minded focus to achieve things everyone else said were impossible. He learned how to predict what the world’s least predictable leader would do next. In The Real Deal, George A. Sorial and Damian Bates, a former newspaper editor who has covered Trump for years, explain the forty-fifth president’s business and political strategies in detail. Often what looks complicated is just a man giving the people what he wants. For instance, why would Trump run for president, when winning would be a financial disaster for him? He was forced to set aside his TV contracts and international expansion, costing him hundreds of millions of dollars. The answer is: because everyone he talked to wanted him to run to make America great again. In this book we see a man barely recognizable from the media’s depiction. We see the deliberate and cunning reasons he scolds people, gets impatient with complicated briefings, hires neophytes, and starts fights in the media. We also see a boss who was hard-working, fun, well read, generous with opportunities, and endlessly interested in outside opinions. The mainstream media has tried to undermine the president at every turn by spreading lies about his management abilities, his negotiation style, and his business success. Now, in The Real Deal, George A. Sorial and Damian Bates explain how Trump’s unusual style worked so well for decades—and how it’s working better in the White House than anyone realizes.

Author : Erez Cohen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119550041
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real Estate Titans written by Erez Cohen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Real Estate Titans, Erez Cohen shares the advice and learnings of the world's leading real estate experts to create a guide for becoming a savvier real estate player. Cohen draws on his experience as a research and teacher’s assistant at Wharton Business School with an investment expert—and his mentor—Dr. Peter Linneman. Throughout his career, Cohen has collected first-hand knowledge from meetings with such real estate titans as Ronald Terwilliger, Sam Zell, Joseph Sitt, and numerous others. Cohen wanted to understand how these real estate giants became so successful, so he refined his quest into three critical questions: What inspires these titans to work so hard and reach such extraordinary levels of success? What are the main elements and traits inside of them that propel them to be so grandiose? How have these individuals, who had less resources, succeeded on a much bigger scale than so many of their competitors? Real Estate Titans contains the 7 key lessons distilled from interviews with several of the world’s greatest real estate investors. These critical lessons offer insight into the mindset, tactics, and habits that each of the interviewed titans possess. Once you implement these key ideas—which you won’t find anywhere else—into your business, it will grow exponentially within a matter of months. Real Estate Titans offers an insider’s view into several of the most successful investors on the planet. The book’s compelling stories and lessons show why real estate is such a wonderful and important business, and it also offers a roadmap for becoming a world class real estate player.

Author : Joe McNally
Publisher : Rocky Nook, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 168198802X
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Deal written by Joe McNally and published by Rocky Nook, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Photographer and best-selling author Joe McNally shares stories and lessons from a life in photography.

When Joe McNally moved to New York City in 1976, his first job was at the Daily News as a copyboy, “the wretched dog of the newsroom.” He was earning the lowest pay grade possible and living in a cheap hotel in Manhattan. Life was not glamorous. But with a fierce drive, an eye for a picture, and a willingness to take (almost) any assignment that came his way, Joe stepped out onto the always precarious tightrope of the freelance photographer—and never looked back. Fast forward 40 years, and his work has included assignments and stories for National Geographic, Time, LIFE, Sports Illustrated, and more. He has traveled for assignments to nearly 70 countries and received dozens of awards for his photography.

In The Real Deal, Joe tells us how it all started, and candidly shares stories, lessons, and insights he has collected along the way. This is not a dedicated how-to book about “where to put the light,” though there is certainly instructional information to be gleaned here. This is also not a navel-gazing look back at “the good old days,” because those never really existed anyway. Instead, The Real Deal is simply a collection of candid “field notes”—some short, some quite long—gathered over time that, together, become an intimate look behind the scenes at a photographer who has pretty much seen and done it all.

Though the photography industry bears little resemblance to the industry just 10 years ago (much less 40 years ago), what it really takes to become a successful photographer—the character traits, the fundamental lessons, the ability to adapt, and then adapt again—remains the same. Joe writes about everything from the crucial ability to know how to use (and make!) window light to the importance of creating long-term relationships built on trust; from lessons learned after a day in the field to the need to follow your imagination wherever it takes you; from the “random” and “lucky” moments that propel one’s career to the wonders and pitfalls of today’s camera technology. For every mention of f-stops and shutter speeds, there is equal discussion about the importance of access, the occasional moment of hubris, and the idea of becoming iconic.

Before Joe was a celebrated and award-winning photographer, before he was a well-respected educator and author of multiple bestselling books, he was just…Joe, hustling every day, from one assignment to the next, piecing together a portfolio, a skill set, a reputation, a career. He imagined a life—and then took pictures of it. Here are a few frames.

Author : Lawrence Hubbard
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1606999265
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real Deal Comix written by Lawrence Hubbard and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by magazines like Mad and traditional superhero comics, Real Deal magazine was a self-published,independent comic book created in the 1990s by Lawrence Hubbard (a.k.a “RawDog”) and H.P. McElwee (a.k.a. “R.D. Bone”). Peopled with a cast out of a blaxploitation movie ― convicts, hustlers, drug addicts, crack whores, car thieves, and murderers ― these cult-classic comics straddle the line between satirizing and showing the harsh realities of urban life.

Author : Faisal Susiwala
Publisher : Pascal Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780989085557
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Deal written by Faisal Susiwala and published by Pascal Editions. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Real Deal tells the story of how a young man, Faisal Susiwala, against all odds, rose from childhood tragedy to the highest peak of professional real estate success and a life of wealth beyond his dreams--and for the first time reveals to readers the Susiwala System: a step-by-step way to generate maximum real estate wealth for professional real estate agents, brokers, and everyday investors both young and old.Follow Faisal's inspiring story, from losing his family home in childhood to foreclosure, through selling chocolate bars door-to-door, to starting out without so much as a car as possibly the youngest real estate salesperson in Canada, to traveling the world, owning a fleet of elegant luxury sports cars, and having a real estate portfolio that includes multimillion-dollar homes across the world. You'll learn how he battled back from bankruptcy as a young man, and narrowly escaped death at the World Trade Center on 9/11.But in addition to the fast-moving story of one of the world's most successful real estate agents, brokers and investors, The Real Deal also shows how each step helped Susiwala develop the crucial insights and powerful principles behind what works now in real estate and what doesn't, and shares with you his clear easy-to-follow blueprint for professional and personal real estate success.Today, after more than 30 years in the business, Faisal has been honored as the Number One RE/MAX agent in Canada and been credited for ranking fifth in the world for selling properties, after having sold well over a billion dollars worth. In The Real Deal he shares his secrets with his fellow colleagues, with those just starting out in real estate, and with everyone who would like a rich and secure financial future. The Real Deal isn't a "get-rich-quick" book filled with fluff, but a clear statement of the tried and true lessons that made the author wealthy, and that, followed properly, can give you the reader a solid financial footing, and carry any real estate professional or investor young and old comfortably into retirement, and ensure their children's security as well.

Author : James Caan
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0753544911
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Deal written by James Caan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After dropping out of school at just sixteen, James Caan started his business life in a broom cupboard with no qualifications and two pieces of fatherly wisdom: 'observe the masses and do the opposite' and 'always look for opportunities where both parties benefit'. Armed with this advice, natural charm and the Yellow Pages, he built a market-leading business with a turnover of £130 million and swiftly became one of Britain's most successful entrepreneurs. From Caan's childhood as a Pakistani immigrant to the phenomenal success of his first company and beyond, The Real Deal traces both his financial and personal achievements. It offers a frank account of what success at thirty really signifies and brings us right up to the present, including his impact on Dragons' Den and what his charity work, from saving a hospital in London to building a school in Lahore, means to him. Ultimately, it is a story of learning what money is really worth, told by one the country's most insightful businessmen.

Author : K M Neuhold
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Deal written by K M Neuhold and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the places in the world I expected to see Real Wilson again after fifteen years, the ferry to a gay vacation island was not one of them. I thought I had one chance to kiss him, and I blew it. We were sixteen, and I was an idiot. But now, here he is, standing right in front of me, looking at me with that same expression of awe and adoration that I never lost my addiction to. We have a week together on Palm Island, but there's no way that's going to be enough. The locals are quirky, the dress code is more than a little lax, and I'm determined to prove to him that this is more than just a vacation fling...it's The Real Deal. Don't miss this sweet, steamy, quirky prequel to The Off-Season Series, where the only thing wackier than the island legends are the locals themselves. ***This short story was previously published as part of the Your Book Boyfriend's Boyfriend Giveaway. BUT it now also includes two additional Palm Island Prequel bonus scenes that you won't want to miss!