Billy Durant
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Download Billy Durant PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Billy Durant book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Billy Durant
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Lawrence R. Gustin
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2008-04-15
Billy Durant written by Lawrence R. Gustin and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A new edition of the classic book on the flamboyant genius who helped lead America into the automobile age
Billy Alfred And General Motors
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : William Pelfrey
language : en
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Release Date : 2006-03-27
Billy Alfred And General Motors written by William Pelfrey and has been published by HarperChristian + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-27 with Business & Economics categories.
This book is the tale not just of the two extraordinary men of its title but also of the formative decades of twentieth-century America, through two world wars and changes in business, industry, politics, and culture. You couldn’t find two more different men. Billy Durant was the consummate salesman, a brilliant wheeler-dealer with grand plans, unflappable energy, and a fondness for the high life. Alfred Sloan was the intellectual, an expert in business strategy and management, master of all things organizational. Together, this odd couple built perhaps the most successful enterprise in U.S. history, General Motors, and with it an industry that has come to define modern life throughout the world. In Billy, Alfred, and General Motors, business leaders and history buffs alike will discover: timeless lessons, cautionary tales, and motivational inspiration. The book includes vivid, warts-and-all portraits of the legends of the golden age of the automobile, from Henry Ford, Ransom Olds, and Charles Nash to the brilliant but uncredited David Dunbar Buick and Cadillac founder Henry Leland. The impact of Durant and Sloan on their contemporaries and their industry is matched only by the powerful legacy of their improbable and incredible partnership. Characters, events, and context -- all are brought skillfully and passionately to life in this meticulously researched and supremely readable book.
The Fabulous Billy Durant
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : John Bell Rae
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
The Fabulous Billy Durant written by John Bell Rae and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with categories.
Durant S Right Hand Man
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Paul Arculus
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2011-09
Durant S Right Hand Man written by Paul Arculus and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09 with Business & Economics categories.
Edwin Campbell was born in rural Ontario, graduated from medical school and settled in Flint where he met Billy Durant and married Durant's daughter Margery. Campbell gave up his medical practice in order to work with Durant in the creation of General Motors. When Durant and Campbell lost control of GM in 1910, Campbell became a founder of the Chevrolet Motor Company which he and Durant built up so that they could use Chevrolet shares to regain control of GM. Campbell's early friendship with Sam McLaughlin as a contributing factor to the creation of General Motors of Canada. Durant became a Wall Street guru and helped Campbell to become immensely wealthy. The Campbells moved to New York and became immersed in the social life of the city. After their divorce in 1919 Margery wound her way through a number of well publicized affairs and marriages. Following Campbell's death in 1929, Durant's life began slow spiral into ill health and eventual poverty. Margery was introduced to her fourth husband by her friend Amelia Earhart. This biography takes the reader through the intrigue of the automotive history of the early twentieth century, as well as the social history of the period.
The Deal Maker
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Axel Madsen
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 1999-09-06
The Deal Maker written by Axel Madsen and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The roller-coaster life of the flamboyant creator of General Motors William C. Durant did big things the big way: he overreached, but, until his final failure, he picked up the pieces time after time to confound his competitors. From a turbulent childhood in the small town of Flint, Michigan, to his phenomenal success in creating General Motors, Durant's meteoric career easily rivals the success stories of modern legends like Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch, and Bill Gates. With his trademark smile and personal charisma, Durant assembled General Motors in a few short years, buying companies at the rate of one every thirty days. Durant's deal-making artistry even tempted Henry Ford, and had Durant upped his acquisition price Ford would be a division of GM today. Durant's story illuminates the conflict between innovation and control of innovation -of the uneasy alliances struck again and again between inventors and their sources of capital. His years of heady success building General Motors were marked by epic struggles with bankers. But he depended on only a few sources of big money to finance his exploding business, and pitted himself against forces he underestimated or refused to consider. Gambling on a run on GM stock, he was finally forced into a buyout that ousted him from his role in the GM empire. Into the dramatic tale of this early twentieth-century mogul come the fascinating automotive pioneers -Henry Ford, David Buick, Charles Nash, Albert Champion, Louis Chevrolet, and Alfred P. Sloan. On Wall Street, J. P. Morgan turned down Durant's request for a loan while Pierre du Pont invested in Durant's expansion. Tracing the fortunes of a man and his era, The Deal Maker is a fast-paced, rousing tale of Durant's dizzying success and ultimate failure.
Alfred P Sloan
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : John Cunningham Wood
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2003
Alfred P Sloan written by John Cunningham Wood and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Business & Economics categories.
This two-volume collection looks at the life and work of Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. (1875-1966), chief executive of General Motors from 1923 to 1946, whose unique and ahead-of-its-time management style left an indelible mark on business and management studies.Also featuring an extensive bibliography, this set will prove valuable to business students and researchers alike.
The Dream Maker
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Bernard A. Weisberger
language : en
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
Release Date : 1979
The Dream Maker written by Bernard A. Weisberger and has been published by Boston : Little, Brown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Automobile industry and trade categories.
A biography of William Durant, the daring entrepreneur who bought the faltering Buick Motor Company and co-founded General Motors Company before his financial gambles lost him the presidency of GM and led to bankruptcy. -- Dust jacket.
Billy Durant Creator Of General Motors
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Lawrence R. Gustin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Billy Durant Creator Of General Motors written by Lawrence R. Gustin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with categories.
Durant S Right Hand Man
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Paul Arculus
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2011-09
Durant S Right Hand Man written by Paul Arculus and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09 with Business & Economics categories.
Edwin Campbell was born in rural Ontario, graduated from medical school and settled in Flint where he met Billy Durant and married Durant's daughter Margery. Campbell gave up his medical practice in order to work with Durant in the creation of General Motors. When Durant and Campbell lost control of GM in 1910, Campbell became a founder of the Chevrolet Motor Company which he and Durant built up so that they could use Chevrolet shares to regain control of GM. Campbell's early friendship with Sam McLaughlin as a contributing factor to the creation of General Motors of Canada. Durant became a Wall Street guru and helped Campbell to become immensely wealthy. The Campbells moved to New York and became immersed in the social life of the city. After their divorce in 1919 Margery wound her way through a number of well publicized affairs and marriages. Following Campbell's death in 1929, Durant's life began slow spiral into ill health and eventual poverty. Margery was introduced to her fourth husband by her friend Amelia Earhart. This biography takes the reader through the intrigue of the automotive history of the early twentieth century, as well as the social history of the period.
Rainbow S End
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Maury Klein
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2003-05-01
Rainbow S End written by Maury Klein and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-01 with History categories.
Rainbow's End tells the story of the stock market collapse in a colorful, swift-moving narrative that blends a vivid portrait of the 1920s with an intensely gripping account of Wall Street's greatest catastrophe. The book offers a vibrant picture of a world full of plungers, powerful bankers, corporate titans, millionaire brokers, and buoyantly optimistic stock market bulls. We meet Sunshine Charley Mitchell, head of the National City Bank, powerful financiers Jack Morgan and Jacob Schiff, Wall Street manipulators such as the legendary Jesse Livermore, and the lavish-living Billy Durant, founder of General Motors. As Klein follows the careers of these men, he shows us how the financial house of cards gradually grew taller, as the irrational exuberance of an earlier age gripped America and convinced us that the market would continue to rise forever. Then, in October 1929, came a "perfect storm"-like convergence of factors that shook Wall Street to its foundations. We relive Black Thursday, when police lined Wall Street, brokers grew hysterical, customers "bellowed like lunatics," and the ticker tape fell hours behind. This compelling history of the Crash--the first to follow the market closely for the two years leading up to the disaster--illuminates a major turning point in our history.