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    King of Capital (Review and Analysis of Stone and Brewster's Book)
    King of Capital (Review and Analysis of Stone and Brewster's Book)
    King of Capital (Review and Analysis of Stone and Brewster's Book)
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    King of Capital (Review and Analysis of Stone and Brewster's Book)

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    The must-read summary of Amey Stone and Mike Brewster's book: "King of Capital: Sandy Weill and the Making of Citigroup".

    This complete summary of the ideas from Amey Stone and Mike Brewster's book "King of Capital" investigates the career of Sandy Weill, entrepreneur and CEO of Citigroup. In their book, the authors reveal the secrets behind his success: his interest in the business itself, and the business processes. This summary provides an insight into the professional accomplishments of this individual, business strategy and how to prioritise and achieve goals.

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    To learn more, read "King of Capital" and discover the story behind the CEO of Citigroup, Sandy Weill.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBusiness Book Summaries
    Release dateSep 29, 2014
    ISBN9782511015971
    King of Capital (Review and Analysis of Stone and Brewster's Book)

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      Book Presentation

      King Of Capital by Amey Stone and Mike Brewster1

      About the Author

      Important Note About This Ebook

      Summary of King Of Capital (Amey Stone and Mike Brewster)3

      Part 1

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      About the Author

      AMEY STONE is a financial writer with BusinessWeek, SmartMoney and Financial Planning Magazine. She currently works as an associate editor with BusinessWeek Online where she co-writes the StreetWise column published each day.

      MIKE BREWSTER is the former editor of LeadersOnline, a magazine focusing on executive leadership and career management. He has previously worked as a sportswriter and director of communications at KPMG Consulting.

      Important Note About This Ebook

      This is a summary and not a critique or a review of the book. It does not offer judgment or opinion on the content of the book. This summary may not be organized chapter-wise but is an overview of the main ideas, viewpoints and arguments from the book as a whole. This means that the organization of this summary is not a representation of the book.

      Part 1

      Sandy Weill (whose full name is Stanford I. Weill) was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 16, 1933 – just as prohibition was ending in the United States and the depression-era banks were reopening for business. His parents, Sandy and Mac Weill, were the children of Polish immigrants who had left rural Poland during the Russian revolution in 1907 and immigrated to the United States the following year.

      The Weill family were very close-knit, as were many immigrant Jewish families of that era. Sandy’s father and his father-in-law, Louis Kalika, started a dressmaking business which was successful for about 10-years. The business ultimately folded in 1944 when the company pled guilty to wartime price gouging under the rules administered by the federal Office of Price Administration. Sandy’s father would later go into the steel importing business, but with only mixed results.

      Sandy, meantime, decided to attend a military school, Peekskill Military Academy located about 30 miles north of New York City (not far from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point). This school closed in 1968, but when Weill was there, he excelled academically, on the tennis court – he was even invited to try out for the Eastern U.S. Junior Davis Cup team at one stage – and as drum

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