Audiobooks by Gary Goodman

How to Get Paid Far More Than You Are Worth: Catch up and to live better, now!

Businesses are holding on to money in record numbers. Here's how to get employers and business owners to share some of it with you. While in the process of clamping down on expenses and raises, many companies are stockpiling cash, just waiting for the best place to invest their surplus cash to show up. That's where you step in. Dr. Gary Goodman was mentored by one of the greatest business minds in half a century: Peter Drucker. Mr. Drucker was one of the best-known and most widely influential thinkers and teachers on the subject of business theory and practice. What Dr. Goodman has learned, applied, and taught others since then is nothing short of a shortcut to high income for anyone willing to learn and apply a few simple techniques. How to Get Paid Far More Than You Are Worth is filled with shortcuts you can take and smart moves you can make that can earn you multiples of your current income. Dr. Goodman doesn't apologize for these simple yet highly effective ideas. After all, why make earning a high income hard if it can be easy? Here are just a few things you'll learn: How to never get down on yourself and to keep an upbeat perspective about your abilities and opportunities How to start a job as an underpaid employee and get the promotions that will pay you far more than you're worth Why an expensive luxury car can cost less than a cheap one How the '5% Solution' is the lazy person's solution to earning an extra million dollars Learn to live the good life by following Dr. Gary Goodman's proven effective advice!

Gary Goodman (Author), Gary Goodman (Narrator)

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The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade

When Gary Goodman wandered into a run-down, used-book shop that was going out of business in East St. Paul in 1982, he had no idea the visit would change his life. He walked in as a psychiatric counselor and walked out as the store's new owner. In The Last Bookseller Goodman describes his sometimes desperate, sometimes hilarious career as a used and rare book dealer in Minnesota. Here we meet the infamous St. Paul Book Bandit, Stephen Blumberg, who stole 24,000 rare books worth more than fifty million dollars; John Jenkins, the Texas rare book dealer who (probably) was murdered while standing in the middle of the Colorado River; and the eccentric Melvin McCosh, who filled his dilapidated mansion with half a million books. In 1990, with a couple of partners, Goodman opened St. Croix Antiquarian Books in Stillwater, one of the Twin Cities region's most venerable bookshops until it closed in 2017. The internet changed the book business forever, and Goodman details how, after 2000, the internet made stores like his obsolete. In the 1990s, the Twin Cities had nearly fifty secondhand bookshops; today, there are fewer than ten. As both a memoir and a history of booksellers and book scouts, criminals and collectors, The Last Bookseller offers an ultimately poignant account of the used and rare book business during its final Golden Age.

Gary Goodman (Author), Tristan Morris (Narrator)

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Stinkin' Thinkin': 37 Mental Mistakes, False Beliefs & Superstitions That Can Ruin Your Career & You

The U.S. space program faced a problem. Astronauts didn't have a pen that could write inside a zero gravity capsule. NASA invested upwards of $1 million to devise a pen that could.":" Their rivals faced the same problem, but they solved it for less than a dollar. They decided to use a pencil. This story is emblematic of two styles of critical thinking and problem solving America defined its quandary as a "pen problem." "Fix the pen" became the marching order. Others defined the issue as a writing challenge, so alternatives were more likely to be considered and adopted. Most people lose friends, happiness, and career opportunities because they employ inadequate thinking skills and allow biases, false beliefs, and superstitions to govern their behavior. Even highly skilled professionals, such as physicians and attorneys are not immune from bad thinking and runaway emotions. They can cost their clients fortunes and even their lives through poor advice and misdiagnoses. This Unique Program Will Help You To: -Identify the strengths and limitations of your dominant thinking styles-Consider various models for tackling common and unusual challenges-Apply case studies and hands-on opportunities to use different methods to analyze problems and generate multiple effective responses-Adopt easy methods for creating clarity in thought and written and verbal communications-Take practical pathways to success

Dr. Gary S. Goodman, Gary Goodman (Author), Gary Goodman (Narrator)

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The Forty-Plus Entrepreneur: How to start a successful business in your 40s, 50s and Beyond

At age 90, Jack Smiley wasn't thrilled with the community in which he retired so he built his own. Today, it provides him with a net income of $40,000 each month. Famously, KFC's 65 year-old Kentucky Colonel Harlan Sanders supplemented a paltry social security check by franchising his unique recipe for fried poultry. Past 50, McDonald's Ray Kroc made a similar trek in multiplying by many thousands a few popular, golden-arched hamburger stands from San Bernardino, California. Contrary to popular mythology, entrepreneurship is NOT spearheaded mostly by baby-faced, technology-savvy, post-adolescents whose brands include Facebook and Apple. According to a recent study fully 80% of ALL businesses are started-up by people over 35. Amy Groth of the Business Insider cites these reasons that fortune favors the old: First, older entrepreneurs have more life and work experience. In some cases, they have decades of industry expertise -- and a better understanding of what it truly takes to compete, and succeed, in the business world. Second, they also have much broader and vaster networks. Even if an older entrepreneur is seeking to start a business in an entirely different industry, they have deep connections from all walks of life -- for example, a brother-in-law could be the perfect COO. Third, those over 50 have acquired more wealth, a better credit history (which helps with securing loans), and are smarter with their finances. In this special program from best-selling author, Gary Goodman, you'll discover: -Supporters are everywhere: Your age cohort Is the wealthiest! -Now is the time to cash-in your wisdom. -Overcoming false beliefs and self-sabotage: Why the only person holding you back is you. -The Giraffe Syndrome: Why the first step is the scariest. -Busting age myths: "Nobody will work with me at my age!", "My best years are behind me","It takes money to make money", "I don't have the energy I used to have", and more. -Profiles in Prosperity: Meet mature moneymakers Colonel Sanders, Ray Kroc & more. -Best businesses to start after 40: How originals & copycats prosper. -How to summon boundless energy: Martial arts secrets of maturing warriors. -Where to find help: Courting those that have gone there & conquered. -Action planning: How to transition into your own successful business.

Dr. Gary S. Goodman, Gary Goodman (Author), Dr. Gary S. Goodman, Gary Goodman, Gary S. Goodman (Narrator)

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