Impatient Optimist - Softcover

Lisa Rogak

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ISBN 10: 9350293846 ISBN 13: 9789350293843

Publisher: Collins Business, 2012

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About the Author:

Lisa Rogak is the New York Times best-selling author of more than 40 books and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles. Her books have been published in more than two dozen languages and are widely covered by book industry writers and in off-the-book-page media. She lives in Berkeley, CA.

Review:

Praise for IMPATIENT OPTIMIST: BILL GATES IN HIS OWN WORDS

"Editor Lisa Rogak...has compiled sound bites from Chairman Bill by topic, from A (acquiring other companies) to W (working with his wife). The result is like eating salted peanuts: Once you start reading, it's hard to stop." - Anne Fisher, CNN Money

"Strategy Driven contributors appreciated the layout of Impatient Optimist, the organization of quotes around meaningful topic areas, the dating of each quote, and Bill Gates' life story timeline provided at the end of the book." - Strategy Driven
Praise for Agate B2's New York Times Best-Selling Series, IN THEIR OWN WORDS:

"[I, Steve] is the same treatment given such luminaries as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and Christopher Hitchens and offers Jobs's views on life, death, technology and design, among other topics.” Timothy R. Smith, The Washington Post

"A new book revealing many of Steve Jobs' most illuminating quotes..." Lance Whitney, CNET

"A 160-page collection of quotes from the most iconic product pitchman since P.T. Barnum." Ben Popper, The New York Observer BetaBeat blog

"A much better Jobs product is coming soon. It’ll entertain you for hours, and no it is not a Jobs-branded iPad or anything similarly high-tech. It is, friends, an old-fashioned book!" Hillary Reinsberg, Mogulite

"Inspirational reading pleasure." Courtney Boyd Myers, The Next Web

"The kind of book that you read, think about, and then pass on to a friend or colleague...I learned a lot about Jobs’ thinking process." Allen Stern, CenterNetworks

"[Boy Billionaire] reveals the intimate thoughts and beliefs of the man who has arguably created one of the world's largest companies and who is also one of the world's greatest social connectors." - Strategy Driven

"A short work to be dipped into for nuggets of business (or law firm) wisdom..." Michael Roach, Law Technology News
Praise for Lisa Rogak's previous title AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTHINESS:

"A conversational, multiperspective account of his life....This is the first major biography of Colbert and one fans will appreciate." Library Journal

"Ms. Rogak’s method of introducing Colbert the Person and Colbert the Character is near faultless....This biography could have easily been titled The Tale of Two Colberts; however, Colbert’s signature 'truthiness' seems to befit the style and enjoyment Ms. Rogak obviously had writing And Nothing But the Truthiness." New York Journal of Books

"As close to a bio of the man rather than the persona who hosts 'The Colbert Report' that we'll see anytime soon." New York Daily News
Praise for Lisa Rogak's previous book HAUNTED HEART: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF STEPHEN KING:

Haunted Heart is a thoroughly respectful overview of King’s life, and a great starter biography for new fans.” The Boston Globe

Rogak...has pieced together King’s sometimes erratic life scrupulously into a clean, swift read.” The Times (UK)
Praise for Lisa Rogak's previous title A BOY NAMED SHEL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SHEL SILVERSTEIN:

An authoritative and accessible biography, absorbing from cover to cover.” Library Journal

A tribute to the unusual life of an extraordinary man.” The Daily Texan

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