Celebrate 100: Centenarian Secrets to Success in Business and Life [Hardcover]

A thoroughly enthralling book that proves the truth of the adage, with age comes wisdom

Based on video recorded interviews and extensive surveys of more than 500 Centenarians, this unforgettable book brings you into a world few human beings have ever known. What must it be like to have lived an entire century—and not just any century, but one of the most fertile, productive, cataclysmic, revolutionary hundred-year periods in the history of the human race?

Imagine having navigated all of life's personal milestones against the backdrop of the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, two World Wars, the Space Age, the Digital Age, and 9/11; what stories you would have to tell! In their own words, and with no small measure of good humor, these remarkable men and women tell their stories and share their insights on life, business, making it and losing it, great sorrow and joy—and having lived to tell the tale.

• Distills the wisdom and wit of 500 centenarians into six sections covering the passage of time, career, money, time management, secrets of longevity, and capturing and sharing wisdom
• Full of timeless advice, like Money cannot make you, but it can break you, with anecdotes about savings, debt, and investing for the long-run—the really, really long run
• Based on over 500 taped interviews and extensive questionnaire surveys developed and conducted by noted experts Steve Franklin and Lynn Peters Adler

Foreword xi

Introduction: Century-Old Questions . . . Century-Old Answers xiii

Acknowledgments xvii

CHAPTER 1 1

TODAY’S CENTENARIANS—CELEBRITIES AND NATIONAL TREASURES: A CENTURY OF WISDOM

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