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Get Smarter: Life and Business Lessons Seymour Schulich with Derek DeCloet, Key Porter Books Limited, 2007
Canada boasts less than 30 billionaires, so when one of them has something to say, no matter how seemingly trite, obvious or pedestrian, you'd best listen up. And so it goes with Seymour Schulich, a 68-year-old self-made billionaire who offers up his plain-talkin' lessons on life and business in this humorous, straightfrom-the-hip book aimed at 20- to 40-yearolds. If you want to acquire wealth and live a happy, fulfilling life, put down your "cell phones, BlackBerries, emails, and computers long enough to acquire some knowledge the old-fashioned way," advises Schulich, in a grandfather tone, "and read a book."
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