9 Secrets of Women Who Get Everything They Want [Paperback]

Kate White (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 27, 1999

What do you want more than anything else in the world? What is it that will fulfill your dreams? And, once you know what you want, how do you go about getting it? In 9 Secrets of Women Who Get Everything They Want, Kate White, the editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, combines common sense and insiders' savvy to provide women with a practical guide for realizing what they truly desire from life, setting their goals, and fulfilling their dreams. Some of her 9 Steps include: "Covet Thy Neighbor's Things," "Bite Off More Than You Can Chew," "Don't Wait for the Right Moment," and "Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve."

This is smart, how-to advice for women looking for inspiration, information, and motivation in their personal and professional lives. Kate White shows that all accomplished women use a certain set of strategies to achieve success in their lives. 9 Secrets of Women Who Get Everything They Want reveals what they are, while providing the instructive, entertaining anecdotes of women who have learned to get what they really want.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

9 Secrets of Women Who Get Everything They Want is like a double shot of espresso with three lumps of sugar. It's more than just inspirational. It's a 194-page, super-charged cattle prod of a self-help book filled with the kind of advice and insight that all busy women could use.

White begins the book with "Covet Thy Neighbor's Things," where she suggests that being envious of someone else is a healthy way of determining your own secret desires. What follows is a series of motivational anecdotes combined with practical tips such as, "sweet-talk everyone" and "find TPB (their personal bonus)." She ends with "Rest on Your Laurels," an invitation to enjoy success.

White's 9 secrets are neither mysterious, nor are they eccentric. But they are unconventional. She suggests that the key to getting what you want is thinking "out of the box," and the best thing about the book is that she offers real success stories from women who've done it. --Mara Friedman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

Redbook's editor-in-chief on having it all.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (April 27, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609804340
• ISBN-13: 978-0609804346
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,277,010 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kate White is recognized internationally as not only the veteran editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, the best-selling women's magazine in the world, but also as the critically acclaimed author of both fiction and nonfiction books. Few high-profile editors have successfully balanced the rigors of overseeing a major magazine title with a thriving and independent writing career.

It all began when Kate won Glamour magazine's Top Ten College Women contest and appeared on the cover. Kate earned a position at the magazine and quickly rose from editorial assistant to feature writer and columnist. After holding key jobs at several national magazines, she became an editor-in-chief, running four magazines (including Redbook) before taking the helm at Cosmopolitan in 1998.

Drawing on experiences from her successful career, Kate published the bestselling career bibles Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead...but Gutsy Girls Do in 1995 and 9 Secrets of Women who Get Everything They Want in 1998. Her most recent nonfiction book, You on Top: Smart Sexy Skills Every Woman Needs to Set the World on Fire published in 2006.

But Kate also has a passion for writing fiction. In penning her first novel, If Looks Could Kill, in 2002--which was selected as Live With Regis and Kelly's first Reading With Ripa Book Club pick--Kate introduced her gutsy and irreverent sleuth, Bailey Weggins. Ms. Weggins went on to solve more grisly murders and entertain readers in A Body to Die For (2003), 'Til Death Do Us Part (2004), Over Her Dead Body (2005), and then again in Lethally Blond (2007), all New York Times bestsellers. The books were recently optioned by Lions Gate Pictures.

Kate's highly anticipated first thriller, HUSH, with her new publisher HarperCollins, will be available in bookstores March 2010. HUSH marks Kate's entry into a whole new genre. Set in the world of fertility clinics and hailed as a "pulse-pounding, chilling, and provocative" read, it's the story of an ordinary woman who flees the scene of a murder and realizes it's not just the law that is hunting her.

Kate's writer's eye has been described by the New York Times as "scathingly observant," capturing "the mood...with a verisimilitude some of her peers might recognize." The Los Angeles Times says of Kate's work: "It's like devouring a box of chocolates!"

Through her magazine work and books, Kate White has influenced at least two generations of women with her unique honesty, passion, and imagination. She is the winner of the Matrix Award for Outstanding Achievement in Communication, as well as the Woodhall Institute Award for Ethical Leadership.

Kate currently resides in Manhattan with her husband and two children.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you, Kate!, April 20, 1999

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[e-mail] (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 9 Secrets of Women Who Get Everything They Want (Hardcover)

I loved this book! As a divorced mom, I have very little time to read, and I sometimes feel powerless and frustrated in so many areas of my career and my personal life. Kate's book is the first one that has inspired me to take time to read. And I've done so -- carefully, cover to cover, and over and over. Her insight has helped me focus, evaluate and understand, and now I have hope -- no, I have a genuine *expectation* that I will have greater control and satisfaction in my life. And such a fun read, too! I need to return my treasured, dog-eared volume to the library, but I'm going to keep it and pay the overdue fines until the copy I'm buying from Amazon arrives, because this simple, well-written and thoroughly entertaining book has been my inspiration. I recommend it with all my heart.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just as Great!, April 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: 9 Secrets of Women Who Get Everything They Want (Hardcover)

This is not a case of 'well, it worked the first time, let's try it again and see if it sells'! I love her appealing, chatty style of writing and eye-catching titles (it must come from her years of working at magazines), and all those inspiring quotes and tips from successful gutsy women. This book is filled with more ways to get what you want -in fact, I think you can use a little imagination and try to use her suggestions to make anything more creative. The main point of this book is similar to her first one, "Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead and Gutsy Girls Do!", which is why one might think that they are the same but I assure you, it's worth it! Three cheers for Kate White!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Get a pen & paper because the ideas are going to race out!, October 19, 1998

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J. Loewen ([e-mail]) (South Africa - I'm a Canadian and work as a corporate strategist) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 9 Secrets of Women Who Get Everything They Want (Hardcover)

Kate White's latest book is a fast, enthusiastic and very motivating read. She challenges many of the female 'roles' we are socially engineered to play out so as to gain approval. She gives permission to do and be those things you may have thought were not quite right to do. Half way through the book I got out of my chair to make a phone call that may impact enormously my life. That's the power of Ms White's words! After reading her first book though, I wanted more. I wanted a far greater number of examples of other top women's secrets and I wanted more concepts. There were a few lovely comments on being a mum and dealing with othelr women's comments (zap them!). I would like to have read more on that. In fact, a chapter on how these women deal with kids would be enormously helpful as I believe balancing the family and work is very difficult to achieve. I run my own consulting practice, focusing on strategy, for a variety of blue chip clients and spend most of my time with men. I need to share other ground breaking, non traditional women's experiences which is why I bought the book. It did remind me that being a woman does not come with a set of standard instructions. It did make me realise that - hey - I can be who I am and not what I think everyone else wants. As a strategist, I do not need help in planning what I want in life. However, Ms. White did remind me to reassess my APPROACH to getting what I want. That in itself was worth the cost of the book. I do highly recommend this book, even if you have read the first book. It's wonderfully enthusiastic and frank ideas will definitely add success to your life and maybe you too will also be inspired to do something to set yourself on an entirely new course.