Jesús por Mariñas

¿Cuál es el origen de los emprendedores? ¿Proceden de familias adineradas? ¿Son superdotados? Algunos de ellos son personas que, emulando a Scarlett O’Hara, juran que nunca volverán a trabajar para terceros. En otros casos, se trata de locos iluminados que ven oportunidades antes que nadie. Y también hay quien se encuentra con la oportunidad por una necesidad, por hobby o, incluso, por casualidad. Los orígenes de los emprendedores son diversos y cada uno tiene el suyo en particular. La periodista Mar Galtés entrevista a más de medio centenar de emprendedores y tiene la destreza de...

¿Cómo se ha forjado este carácter tan sencillo, amable y, al mismo tiempo, tan fuerte y decidido, que le capacitó para cumplir la difícil misión que le tocó desarrollar? En estas páginas, llenas de vida y amenidad, el lector encontrará la explicación.

As an actress, Diana Quick was forever trying on the mask of other people's lives - raiding her own memory to service the character she was playing. Coming from a large, noisy family in Kent that seemed to be plain-speaking and straightforward, she was astonished to find on her beloved father's death that his childhood in India was far from idyllic. She was then thunderstruck to hear that he was to have a requiem mass. She had no idea he was Catholic. She discovered that his stepmother had got rid of him and his sister upon marrying his father and that he had grown up in almost total...

Traces the author's upbringing in a dangerous urban neighborhood where he joined a gang in order to survive until his mother married a successful entrepreneur who taught him key life and business principles, in an inspirational account that describes his subsequent rise to wealth. Reprint. (business & economics)