Bud Carter's fascination with quotes likely started when he was an award-winning radio news editor, then a TV anchorman, and ultimately the publisher/editor of an issues and business weekly newspaper. After he moved to Atlanta, he was recruited to become Vistage's first Chairman and began collecting the "salient snippets" shared by the speakers appearing before his groups. Since the 1987 start-up, Carter and his groups have heard more than 1,000 speaker presentations, and he has now published twelve editions of their pithy quotes.Carter and his wife reside in suburban Atlanta where he serves on a number of boards including (no surprise here) that of the Reporter Newspaper chain. Carter professes a passion for baseball and jazz, strives for mediocrity on the racquetball court, and says he has spent a lifetime in pursuit of the perfect barbecue. And more pithy quotes.

Take a new approach to success! Let words of wisdom from billionaires, entrepreneurs, and businesspeople motivate you and help you on your own path to success. In this witty collection of business know-how, you will find quotations that reflect the full scope of business success.

College football fans need no introduction to Bud Wilkinson, but few of them know the great University of Oklahoma football coach as a devoted father. In Dear Jay, Love Bud, Jay Wilkinson, Bud’s younger son, shares forty-seven letters his father wrote to him while he was in college and graduate school. Spanning the early to mid-1960s, these letters reveal Bud’s deep love for his son, as well as the philosophy and values that led to his remarkable success in sports and in life. Beginning with the first letter Bud wrote when Jay left home, this collection shows a father guiding his son toward his own path while stressing the importance of service to others. The embodiment of the scholar-athlete, Bud mixes encouragement with intellectual discussions. When Jay reads American philosopher William James for a class at Duke University, his father, a serious student of literature, reads the book, too, and uses its insights to help Jay deal with the challenges of his freshman year. Bud writes about his own challenges, as well, including his debate over whether to accept the Kennedy administration’s invitation to head the President’s Council on Physical Fitness. Jay’s comments about each of these letters provide context and further insight. By the time Jay becomes a graduate student at the Episcopal Theological School, the correspondence turns toward religion and politics, as Bud reflects on the philosophical issues of the day and on his unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate in 1964. His belief that the greatest leaders are not always the most popular made him an unlikely politician even then, but a wonderful role model and interlocutor for his son. Bud’s thoughts on ethics in business and politics are as inspiring today as when he wrote them a half-century ago.

A retired, small-time arsonist is haunted by the deadly consequences of his actions and tries to escape his former life, but the simple world he's found is disrupted by those who want to silence him, those who want to punish him, and others who want to hire him. Burnt is another thriller from the author of The Eno Club and the short-story collection Vanessa.

Some people’s lives become a beacon for the lives of others. This is the true and compelling story of Reverend Francis Joseph “Bud” Atlas Sr., a black farmer who raised twelve highly successful children and quietly took on the fight for voting rights and justice— and won. As the tenth child, author Annie Chatman paints a vivid picture of a happy childhood and the hard work and rewards of life on the farm with her siblings. The book follows the family from 1926 through 1963. Set in a small town in the deep South, it highlights the struggle of whites and blacks navigating the “separate but equal” doctrine of the times, with every aspect of their lives separated—schools, churches, public restrooms—and blacks facing inequality at every turn. But Bud is determined that each of his children will become all they are capable of becoming, and despite financial poverty, the family is rich in hopes, dreams, and ambition.