{"product_id":"9781438940083","title":"The Fourteen Lives Of Matt Perry","description":"Who can say how words in this book will be received ? Will readers respond to a message about immigration and resilience ? \u003cp\u003e I know my own reaction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I came to the conclusion that nobody would buy in. That was a switch because I had believed people would eat up my every word. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As I wrote, a change came over me. I began to believe that my words would also change others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Even Warren Buffett, the modern King Midas. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I began to see that my book was not just about emigration and resilience but also about repentance and redemption. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I accepted the notion that this was my Pactolus, the river which had lifted the burden of greed and threat from Midas, whose food and drink---and daughter---turned into gold at his touch. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Suddenly, Midas was free to live like a person who could touch his food, drink and family members without bad results. He was freed from his addiction to wealth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e---------------------------- \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e My 77-year-span unfolded before my eyes. I recorded all traumas in detail---a million words, hundreds of pages. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Slowly, I began to understand that I was having a conversion experience. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-------------------------- \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I went from admiration and love of pennies, nickels, dimes, riches, wealth---an addicted state of mind---to the realization that I had a condition which I call Buffett mania. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As Buffett's biographer Schroeder wrote this year, Buffett did not control money. Rather, money controlled Warren Buffett. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In Omaha , Buffett stole his sister's bicycle--because he wanted a trade-in as he bought a bicycle for himself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e He shop-lifted golf balls at Sears in Washington so he could sell balls himself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e During my careers as chemical engineer and stock-market analyst, I observed Buffett mania in my engineering and business associates but overlooked my addiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I still have traces of this mental illness. Now I have decided to be a man---to confront Warren Buffett with my book. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Buffett's biographer describes his mania in a new biography, The Snowball. American preoccupation with economics played a part in Warren Buffett's so-called success and so-called wealth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e----------------------------- \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e There is an antidote to the poison of addiction to greed---and that is this book, My Fourteen Lives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e My resilience, which saved my life 13 times, is nothing less than a gift from God, who will also save Warren Buffett from his greed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It's not just about my life and that of Warren Buffett because 500,000 other lives hang in the balance. Addiction to greed has targeted many victims for a hellish life and death. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Time for repentance and redemption ! \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Time to give away your money, Mr. Buffett. In your own lifetime. Do it yourself. As Carnegie did. As Rockefeller did. As Morgan did. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Time for everybody on \"Wall Street\" to refuse the end-of-year bonus. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Buy books instead. Buy The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the business of life. $35 for 960 pages ! \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Buy My Fourteen Lives: the many lives of Matthew Valentin Perry \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Give them as presents. Read them yourself. ( You never know...)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036949102832,"sku":"9781438940083","price":28.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781438940083_p0.jpg?v=1763754718","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781438940083","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}