Business audiobooks

Perfect Confidence - Abridged

By: Jan Ferguson

Narrated by: Jane Wittenshaw

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.


Perfect Confidence is the ideal companion for anyone who wants to boost their self-esteem. Covering everything from communicating clearly to handling conflict, it explains exactly why confidence matters and equips you with the skills you need to become more assertive. Whether you need to get ahead in the workplace or... Read more

Keynes vs. Hayek

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

As part of his continuing series Making Sen$e of financial news, Paul Solman at PBS has a unique look at the legacy of economist John Maynard Keynes, who first introduced the concept of government intervention in the economy, and his countertenor Friedrich Hayek. Read more

The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated

By: Timothy Ferriss

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Forget the old deferred life plan that has you working hard through the best of years of your life only to retire at the end. There is no need to wait, and every reason not to.Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working... Read more

El poder de la mercadotecnia audaz - Abridged

By: Joe Vitale

Narrated by: Joe Vitale

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: Yes

FonoLibro se complace en presentar el audiolibro en español “El poder de la mercadotecnia audaz” de uno de los maestros de El Secreto y experto del comportamiento humano y la mercadotecnia, Joe Vitale.

En este increíble programa, Joe Vitale revela los métodos extraordinarios e inusuales de personas que atrajeron mucho dinero y atención a ellos y... Read more

Good Times Go on Holiday in Oregon Tourist Town

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

As part of the Patchwork Nation series examining communities across the U.S., Ray Suarez travels to picturesque Lincoln City, Oregon, where the recession has sapped the local tourism industry. Read more

Ann Arbor, Michigan Finds Its "Life Preserver"

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Michigan is home to few bright economic spots these days -- with the exception of the college town of Ann Arbor. Ray Suarez reports. Read more

Warren Buffett's Management Secrets

By: Mary Buffett & David Clark

Narrated by: Mary Buffett

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Buffett insiders and bestselling authors Mary Buffett and David Clark provide a new angle to help readers understand and emulate Warren Buffett’s success—his philosophy for managing career, money, business, and life.

Even in today's economic climate, when so many investors and major companies are failing, Warren Buffett continues to succeed in... Read more

Philadelphia Adjusts

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In part one of the Patchwork Nation series examining communities across the U.S., Ray Suarez looks at Philadelphia's shift from a city of skilled blue-collar workers to one where just 1 in 20 workers makes things for a living. Read more

Investing in Spiritual Abundance

By: Ernest D. Chu

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernest Chu reminds us that money is just a symbol of the way energy flows into and out of our lives. Even in the worst of economic times, it can be the catalyst that brings us back to our core values and reminds us who we really are. Read more

TurboStrategy

By: Brian Tracy

Narrated by: Brian Tracy

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Your business might be humming along fine, or it might be struggling to stay afloat. Either way, you know that your company has a lot more potential than the results show. What if you had a quick, effective way to ramp up productivity, morale, and your bottom line—a process you could begin right now, a strategy that would immediately start to... Read more

Obamanomics

By: Timothy P. Carney

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Sweetheart deals for Wall Street, the nationalization of the automakers, global-warming regulations, and President Obama’s unprecedented spending spree are an all-out assault on regular Americans’ pocketbooks.In Obamanomics, Timothy P. Carney shows how the economic corruption of President Obama’s Washington is far beyond political business as... Read more

Qualities of Success

By: Zig Ziglar

Narrated by: Zig Ziglar

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Ziglar's Qualities of Success was created with a focus on helping your people succeed. This program is designed to help you grow personally and professionally in four critical areas: qualities, abilities, skills, and attitudes. By focusing on these core areas, you gain characteristics of success, professionalism, excellence, and perhaps the very... Read more

The Investor's Manifesto

By: William Bernstein

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

As recently as a generation or two ago, the lack of financial ability wasn't a handicap for the average person. But in today's world—where most of us have been forced to manage our own investment and retirement portfolios—it has become essential to understand the finer points of our financial life.
While the meltdown of 2008–2009 has compounded... Read more

When China Rules the World

By: Martin Jacques

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

HOW CHINA'S ASCENDANCE AS AN ECONOMIC SUPERPOWER WILL ALTER THE CULTURAL, POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND ETHNIC BALANCE OF GLOBAL POWER IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, UNSEATING THE WEST AND IN THE PROCESS CREATING A WHOLE NEW WORLD

According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by... Read more

The Selling the American Economy

By: Micheline Maynard

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, many Americans regard globalization as a significant threat to our work force, and to our very way of life. As unemployment soars, the automotive and manufacturing industries crumble, countless jobs continue to ship overseas, and the retail sector faces the worst slump in decades, cries of “Buy American” have grown louder and louder. But... Read more

Biscuits, Fleas and Pump Handles

By: Zig Ziglar

Narrated by: Zig Ziglar

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A legacy that has touched audiences all over the world began in Dallas, Texas, in 1972 when Zig Ziglar recorded perhaps the definitive work of his career. Biscuits Fleas and Pump Handles is the compilation of observations, thoughts and research Zig had spent years preparing to present as the foundation of a philosophy born of hope and nurtured... Read more

Inbound Marketing

By: Brian Halligan & Dharmesh Shah

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

To connect with today's buyer, you need to stop pushing your message out and start pulling your customers in. The rules of marketing have changed and the key to winning is to use this change to your advantage.
If you've wondered how to get found in Google or why blogs and social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are important, Inbound... Read more

The Worst-Case Scenario Business Survival Guide

By: David Borgenicht & Mark Joyner

Narrated by: Harry Nelson

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

How to Survive the Recession, Handle Layoffs, Raise Emergency Cash, Thwart an Employee Coup, and Avoid Other Potential Disasters!
Don't Panic.
Be Prepared.
Have a Plan.
Layoffs. Sales slumps. Dangerously low morale. Extreme cash tightness. Reorganizations.
It's a scary world out there. Times are as tough as they've been in decades. More than... Read more

How Markets Fail

By: John Cassidy

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Behind the alarming financial headlines is a little-known story of bad ideas. For over fifty years, economists have been developing elegant theories of how markets work. What about when markets don’t work? What about when they lead to stock-market bubbles, glaring inequality, polluted rivers, real-estate crashes, and credit crunches?In How... Read more

Financial Reckoning Day Fallout

By: William Bonner & Addison Wiggin

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 17 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

When the first edition of Financial Reckoning Day was published more than six years ago, many critics felt that maverick financial writers Addison Wiggin and William Bonner were overly critical of the United States' increasing debt and the start of what seemed to be the foreshadowing of economic concerns. Fast-forward to 2009, and much of what... Read more

FDIC's Sheila Bair: Bank Bailouts

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In an interview with Paul Solman, FDIC chairwoman Sheila Bair discusses lessons learned from the financial crisis, and looks back on the federal bailout of institutions deemed "too-big-to-fail," saying, "In retrospect, I think it was not a good idea." Read more

Hoodwinked

By: John Perkins

Narrated by: David Ackroyd

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

John Perkins has seen the signs of today's economic meltdown before. The subprime mortgage fiascos, the banking industry collapse, the rising tide of unemployment, the shuttering of small businesses across the landscape are all too familiar symptoms of a far greater disease. In his former life as an economic hit man, he was on the front lines... Read more

The New Empire of Debt

By: Addison Wiggin & William Bonner

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 15 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Golden Age of American capitalism is over. …In the space of half a century it passed from gold, to silver, to paper, and is now somewhere between plastic and navel lint.”- From The New Empire of Debt
In the last half of 2008, the Empire of Debt received the margin call from Hell. Now, all of its citizens are asked to pay up as the U.S.... Read more

It's Not as Bad as You Think

By: Brian S. Wesbury

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Even with the economy feeling a little bit better, there is a real fear that markets will stay down and things won't ever get back to normal. But a few brave voices say that this attitude is just too pessimistic.
Capitalism has not failed. And it's not time to just give up—on free markets or a better tomorrow. History shows that every time the... Read more