(Part 3) Best business professional biographies according to redditors
We found 1,302 Reddit comments discussing the best business professional biographies. We ranked the 285 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
42. Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
4 mentions
Great product!
We have a user here, u/grandissimo, who is an author of several Las Vegas books, a writer for Forbes, and is currently the Director of the Center for Gaming Research at UNLV. He has a few books that you may be interested in. My personal favorite is Grandissimo; a book about Jay Sarno, who built Caesars Palace and Circus Circus, but was a complete degenerate yet shaped how the city's casino industry is fundamentally positioned today.
You can also check out a fantastic response he did in r/AskHistorians to the question "How much truth is there that the Mob built Las Vegas?". Super interesting thread to read through that gives great background to the history of our lil town.
If you're looking for a more modern day history, Winner Takes All is a book on the dynamic of the top CEOs of the city and how they all have different visions for the city and their companies.
One I have not yet read but intend to is Blood Aces. It's about Benny Binion - mob boss, casino owner, and creator of the World Series of Poker. He's another huge influence on how casinos operate today. If I remember correctly, he was the first one to put chairs in front of slot machines, offer complimentary rooms and drinks to players, and much more.
Glad she's ok. They didn't find this guy for 5 years, and he was literally a park ranger. BTW, really good book
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/reviews/0983634610/ref=cm_cr_dp_mb_see_rcnt?ie=UTF8&s=sd
Her book has a good review though, funnily enough from someone named June White. Wait a minute...
> This article is adapted from the forthcoming book "The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeffrey P. Bezos and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos."
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> Christian Davenport covers the defense and space industries for The Washington Post's Financial desk.
Hello! I am a social investment supporter. My journey started last year when I read Hans Rosling's book: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World -- and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. According to Hans, the best investment opportunities are in the emerging markets of Asia and Africa. He described how we should look at statistics to make smart business decisions. I especially liked how he was optimistic about the future of the world and how countries are working hard to get out of poverty. It's not an investing book per se but it gives a good insight on where you might want to focus your attention if you want to make a difference in this world. It also solidified my rule to invest in the Philippines only and not be distracted by any foreign investment product (as I am currently based abroad).
Here's a TEDtalk as an intro to Hans Rosling: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty/
I further asked myself how could his ideas be particularly applicable in the Philippines, where a lot of my countrymen are still living in poverty? Fortunately, I found Vince Rapisura on Facebook and he constantly discusses being a "Social Investor." Before meeting him, I have never heard anything about Social or Impact investing. I thought investing was just to make my money work for me. But through him, I learned that investing can create more value than just mere profit. We can select investments that have a conscious goal of making a positive impact on society. Vince's company, SEDPI, is focused on such ventures and his presentations are on his website: https://vincerapisura.com/impact-investing-handouts/
I am still reading more books about the topic and my search got me to Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty. It was written by Muhammad Yunus and he earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in Bangladesh. I think his concepts are pretty similar to what Vince is doing with his company.
Let me also share this episode about Tagum Cooperative (which Vince has been raving about recently) and I must say their work and mission are inspiring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQbtbORwUfE
Sorry, I am just blabbing about my recent reading/watching list but to answer your question, yes, socially responsible investments have been on my mind lately and I got excited when I saw your question. I admit that I still have an index fund and I know that some companies there don't have the best reputations, so I am slowly transitioning and studying more materials in order to invest in enterprises that I can understand and have the same principles as I do. It is a hard task but hopefully, I would get there. If you ever have a chance to attend a seminar by Vince, I'd say go for it.
A lot of people would kill to be in the position you are in. You have an opportunity to model a business by simply copying one of the most successful businesses in history. Starbucks. Which was started basically by one guy and now is worth more than most small countries. If you can replicate even 80% of what they do you have a very high chance of success.
> step back, bring on a co-founder who is willing to be the operating owner who can run the day-to-day
pipe dream
Instead, implement systems and hire managers.
recommended resources
https://www.restaurantowner.com/
http://www.audible.com/pd/Business/The-E-Myth-Revisited-Audiobook/B002V1LGZE
https://www.amazon.com/Personal-MBA-Master-Art-Business/dp/1591845572
http://www.audible.com/pd/Business/Critical-Business-Skills-for-Success-Audiobook/B00UY842O8
https://www.amazon.com/Pour-Your-Heart-Into-Starbucks/dp/0786883561/
So stop being a pussy and get back to work.
Give the book "Young Money" by Kevin Roose a read. It's a quick read, incredibly entertaining, but also pretty enlightening as to the culture of IB. As with anything, take it with a grain of salt, but it can give you an idea of what life may be like if you end up going IB. Personally, I left the book feeling incredibly relieved I took a Corporate Finance track. Consulting is the goal, though.
You may find Banker to the Poor enlightening. Muhammand Yunus received the noble prize for his work on micro-lending.
Also, along the same lines of issues with capital in the developing world, The Mystery of Capitalism make the cse that the lack of rule of law in South America destroys peoples ability to leverage themselves.
Money doesn't solve problems by itself, it takes intelligent application of the money to solve the real problems. There are several examples of successful investment that have made life better. Take a look at Progresa in Mexico which was very successful.
But really, I think 'just relax' is best here, so:
etc etc etc
Consumer Companies
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Google
On Amazon
RJR Nabisco
On Amazon
Anheuser-Busch
On Amazon
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Investment companies
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Blackstone Group
On Amazon
Goldman Sachs
On Amazon
Morgan Stanley
On Amazon
All of these are 4+ stars and absolutely excellent reads. I recommend any of them depending on what you want to read about. Let me know if you want some more.
Young Money - Kevin Roose
and maybe The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess - Turney Duff
El mundo luego del petróleo quedó algo así como una mezcla de Steam punk con rastros de hiper tecnología, todo basado en las calorías, la nueva fuente de energía.
Muy buena novela.
No tiene nada que ver con la (BOSTA de) película, olvídense de la peli, lean el libro, buenísimo, incluso conceptualmente, cómo está escrito.
La historia de cómo y porqué Intel es lo que es. Muy, muy interesante.
La historia del diseño, la creación y de las misiones Voyager, idealmente, se podría leer antes o después de ver The Farthest.
Una ucronia o historia alternativa.
Europa no sobrevive a La Peste Negra, y Oriente termina "invadiendo las ruinas". Muere el cristianismo, y el mundo avanza basándose en las religiones orientales, fundamentalmente el islamismo y el budismo.
Lenta, pero muy interesante.
It's not as simple as you may think. Read this book about a 30 year veteran of the park who disappeared and was later found dead. He knew his way around the park better than anyone else. The book brings up the questions people rose about him not wanting to be found, or him committing suicide.
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Season-P-S-Eric-Blehm/dp/0060583010
In 1996, after nearly 30 seasons as a park ranger in the Sierra Nevadas, Randy Morgenson set off on a routine patrol and never came back. His body was found in July 2001, almost exactly five years after he disappeared. To this day, the circumstances of his death remain unclear. In this fascinating account, the product of several years' investigation, Blehm explores the many mysteries surrounding Morgenson. Why did the veteran ranger, a man whose knowledge of his territory was virtually encyclopedic, seem suddenly to be disillusioned with his life's work? Was his death an accident, foul play, or suicide? Did his single-minded quest to preserve the wilderness finally seem futile?
I would check out Chuck Feeney, he's a guy who has given away about $8 billion in his lifetime and lives a pretty modest life himself. From what I read somewhere, he only has about $2 million for himself.
There's a good book about him, if you wanna pick it up from Amazon:
The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune https://www.amazon.com/dp/1610393341/
Good luck on your noble endeavor!
The best book written about them is Dream Big. It is not very detailed, but it gives you a good general picture of them and their managerial style.
Further reading/research: (Not all of which I've gotten to read yet. Some of which may be quite tangentially relevant to the discussion at hand along with the books and sites I mentioned above. Consider this more a list of books pertaining to the history of technology, machining, metrology, some general science and good engineering texts.)
Dan Gelbart's Youtube Channel
Engineerguy's Youtube Channel
Nick Mueller's Youtube Channel
mrpete222/tubalcain's youtube channel
Tom Lipton (oxtools) Youtube Channel
Suburban Tool's Youtube Channel
NYCNC's Youtube Channel
Computer History Museum's Youtube Channel
History of Machine Tools, 1700-1910 by Steeds
Studies in the History of Machine Tools by Woodbury
A History of Machine Tools by Bradley
Tools for the Job: A History of Machine Tools to 1950 by The Science Museum
A History of Engineering Metrology by Hume
Tools and Machines by Barnard
The Testing of Machine Tools by Burley
Modern machine shop tools, their construction, operation and manipulation, including both hand and machine tools: a book of practical instruction by Humphrey & Dervoort
Machine-Shop Tools and Methods by Leonard
A Measure of All Things: The Story of Man and Measurement by Whitelaw
Handbook of Optical Metrology: Principles and Applications by Yoshizawa
Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon by Gray
Machine Shop Training Course Vol 1 & 2 by Jones
A Century of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, 1882-1982
Numerical Control: Making a New Technology by Reintjes
History of Strength of Materials by Timoshenko
Rust: The Longest War by Waldman
The Companion Reference Book on Dial and Test Indicators: Based on our popular website www.longislandindicator.com by Meyer
Optical Shop Testing by Malacara
Lost Moon: The Preilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Lovell and Kruger
Kelly: More Than My Share of It All by Johnson & Smith
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Rich & Janos
Unwritten Laws of Engineering by King
Advanced Machine Work by Smith
Accurate Tool Work by Goodrich
Optical Tooling, for Precise Manufacture and Alignment by Kissam
The Martian: A Novel by Weir
Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain by Young Budynas & Sadegh
Materials Selection in Mechanical Design by Ashby
Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer by Shute
Cosmos by Sagan
Nuts, Bolts, Fasteners and Plumbing Handbook by Smith Carol Smith wrote a number of other great books such as Engineer to Win.
Tool & Cutter Sharpening by Hall
Handbook of Machine Tool Analysis by Marinescu, Ispas & Boboc
The Intel Trinity by Malone
Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals by Thompson
A Handbook on Tool Room Grinding
Tolerance Design: A Handbook for Developing Optimal Specifications by Creveling
Inspection and Gaging by Kennedy
Precision Engineering by Evans
Procedures in Experimental Physics by Strong
Dick's Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes or How They Did it in the 1870's by Dick
Flextures: Elements of Elastic Mechanisms by Smith
Precision Engineering by Venkatesh & Izman
Metal Cutting Theory and Practice by Stephenson & Agapiou
American Lathe Builders, 1810-1910 by Cope As mentioned in the above post, Kennth Cope did a series of books on early machine tool builders. This is one of them.
Shop Theory by Henry Ford Trade Shop
Learning the lost Art of Hand Scraping: From Eight Classic Machine Shop Textbooks A small collection of articles combined in one small book. Lindsay Publications was a smallish company that would collect, reprint or combine public domain source material related to machining and sell them at reasonable prices. They retired a few years ago and sold what rights and materials they had to another company.
How Round Is Your Circle?: Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet by Bryant & Sangwin
Machining & CNC Technology by Fitzpatrick
CNC Programming Handbook by Smid
Machine Shop Practice Vol 1 & 2 by Moltrecht
The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles A fantastic book with tons of free online material, labs, and courses built around it. This book could take a 6th grader interested in learning, and teach them the fundamentals from scratch to design a basic computer processor and programming a simple OS etc.
Bosch Automotive Handbook by Bosch
Trajectory Planning for Automatic Machines and Robots by Biagiotti & Melchiorri
The Finite Element Method: Its Basis and Fundamentals by Zhu, Zienkiewicz and Taylor
Practical Treatise on Milling and Milling Machines by Brown & Sharpe
Grinding Technology by Krar & Oswold
Principles of Precision Engineering by Nakazawa & Takeguchi
Foundations of Ultra-Precision Mechanism Design by Smith
I.C.S. Reference Library, Volume 50: Working Chilled Iron, Planer Work, Shaper and Slotter Work, Drilling and Boring, Milling-Machine Work, Gear Calculations, Gear Cutting
I. C. S. Reference Library, Volume 51: Grinding, Bench, Vise, and Floor Work, Erecting, Shop Hints, Toolmaking, Gauges and Gauge Making, Dies and Die Making, Jigs and Jig Making
and many more ICS books on various engineering, technical and non-technical topics.
American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book of Machine-Shop and Drawing-Room Data, Methods and Definitions, Seventh Edition by Colvin & Stanley
Modern Metal Cutting: A Practical Handbook by Sandvik
Mechanical Behavior of Materials by Dowling
Engineering Design by Dieter and Schmidt
[Creative Design of Products and Systems by Saeed]()
English and American Tool Builders by Roe
Machine Design by Norton
Control Systems by Nise
That doesn't include some random books I've found when traveling and visiting used book stores. :)
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre
I would challenge you to read the book one of the founders of starbucks wrote a couple of years back. It really is a fantastic read, and was pretty eye opening. They really believe starbucks is some of the finest coffee, and while I might not agree with that... they are responsible for gourmet coffee's growth in the US.
Found it, it is called pour your heart into it. http://www.amazon.com/Pour-Your-Heart-Into-Starbucks/dp/0786883561/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254694597&sr=8-1
I've read Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal.
https://www.amazon.com/Hatching-Twitter-Story-Friendship-Betrayal/dp/1591847087
That gave a really interesting insight into how Twitter got founded. You might also like Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.
https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1501127624/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465954395&sr=1-1&keywords=steve+jobs+walter+isaacson
I know it's not a book specifically about a company, but it goes into the founding of Apple, the hiring of some key and not so key employees and into him operating his other computer company NeXT and Pixar at the same time.
Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson is pretty good. He did a great job of explaining what Jobs did, why he did it, his past life and what inspired him to do what he did. I also think the book helps you think more about why he Steve Jobs acted the way he did. He pushed people to their limits and to the best products with the best design and taught people to never settle. His vision of what computers and future tech should look like and his tough attitude are the qualities people praise when calling him innovative and a world-changer.
Also, you kind of get a peak at how he always had an independent spirit. Someone early on inspired him to cherish great design.
Here's a link to the book, it has great design too! https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501127624/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_qtcGxbSTMBJ81
Gretzky wasn't traded to make the team better, he was sold because the owner needed money. He even wrote a book on it. I'd Trade Him Again: On Gretzky, Politics And The Pursuit Of The Perfect Deal
Winner Takes All is good if you want to learn about the corporations took over.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Fail-Almost-Everything-Still/dp/1591846919/ref=la_B000AP9MO0_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381512893&sr=1-2
Read this book. It'll give you actual insight into why Jeff is moving slow and Elon is the opposite.
https://smile.amazon.com/Space-Barons-Bezos-Colonize-Cosmos/dp/1610398297/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549912214&sr=8-1&keywords=SPACE+BARRONS
Maybe this one?
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I have not, but I would recommend the Mark Messier biography, and the Peter Pocklington biography
Both were very good reads.
There is a book. It's brilliant and well worth the read!
If you're interested in the history of this, great book about the early history of Intel I read recently:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Intel-Trinity-Important-Company/dp/0062226762
They discuss AMD's relationship with Intel as well, they were the only company that had a license to make clones. This was because IBM and most other big customers would not buy chips from Intel unless they had a second source.
Is this what you mean?
FWIW, I think regulation has changed so dramatically since Morgan's time that very few of his tactics would be applicable to today's world.
Great book called "The Space Barons" about Bezos, Musk, etc. pursuing privatized space travel and potential colonization of Mars.
>The Kochs' place in funding climate denial is covered well in the recent book Kochland by Christopher Leonard. They were big funders of a key 1991 Cato Institute conference, which mobilized furiously after President George H.W. Bush announced he would support a climate change treaty. They went on to spend gargantuan sums boosting upthe handful of credentialed scientists who deny climate change, funding climate-denying "think tanks" and publications, donating to climate-denying politicians (and refusing money to those who don't), and so on. Greenpeace estimates that between 1997 and 2017 the Koch family spent more than ExxonMobil funding climate denial, and thus established climate-change denial as conservative dogma. While conservative parties in almost every other country have endorsed at least some kind of climate policy; the reason Republicans still do not is to a great degree the responsibility of just two men.
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>One underrated part of extreme inequality is how it warps the public discourse. In this case, two ultra-rich men with a bottom line to protect were able to spend so much on propaganda, campaign donations, university donations, and so on that they turned the brains in one of two American political parties to rancid tapioca. A nation with an egalitarian income distribution is one in which regular people have a much greater freedom to think.
The Koch family fortune has ties all the way back to the Nazis and their greedy conservative influence has done immeasurable damage to the world.
I'm not sure whether this is what you are meaning but this book still gets me excited and wanting to do something batshit mental.
This book is one of my biggest inspirations too!
I think this is a good place to recommend The Intel Trinity. Great book detailing how Intel started up, and all the details about how the company got to where it is now.
Maybe this?
From: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/kochland-examines-how-the-koch-brothers-made-their-fortune-and-the-influence-it-bought
>If there is any lingering uncertainty that the Koch brothers are the primary sponsors of climate-change doubt in the United States, it ought to be put to rest by the publication of “Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America,” by the business reporter Christopher Leonard. This seven-hundred-and-four-page tome doesn’t break much new political ground, but it shows the extraordinary behind-the-scenes influence that Charles and David Koch have exerted to cripple government action on climate change.
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>Leonard, who has written for Bloomberg Businessweek and the Wall Street Journal, devotes most of the book to an even-handed telling of how the two brothers from Wichita, Kansas, built up Koch Industries, a privately owned business so profitable that together they have amassed some hundred and twenty billion dollars, a fortune larger than that of Amazon’s C.E.O., Jeff Bezos, or the Microsoft founder Bill Gates. The project took Leonard more than six years to finish and it draws on hundreds of hours of interviews, including with Charles Koch, the C.E.O. and force without equal atop the sprawling corporate enterprise. (David Koch retired from the firm last year.)
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>While “Kochland” is more focused on business than on politics, in line with Leonard’s “The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business,” from 2014, it nonetheless adds new details about the ways in which the brothers have leveraged their fortune to capture American politics. Leonard shows that the Kochs’ political motives are both ideological, as hardcore free-market libertarians, and self-interested, serving their fossil-fuel-enriched bottom line. The Kochs’ secret sauce, as Leonard describes it, has been a penchant for long-term planning, patience, and flexibility; a relentless pursuit of profit; and the control that comes from owning some eighty per cent of their business empire themselves, without interference from stockholders or virtually anyone else.
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>Saying anything new about the Kochs isn’t easy. The two brothers have been extensively covered: they are the subject of Daniel Schulman’s excellent biography “Sons of Wichita,” from 2014, and the focus of much in-depth investigative reporting, including a piece I wrote for The New Yorker, from 2010, and my book “Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right,” from 2016.
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>Leonard, nonetheless, manages to dig up valuable new material, including evidence of the Kochs’ role in perhaps the earliest known organized conference of climate-change deniers, which gathered just as the scientific consensus on the issue was beginning to gel. The meeting, in 1991, was sponsored by the Cato Institute, a Washington-based libertarian think tank, which the Kochs founded and heavily funded for years. As Leonard describes it, Charles Koch and other fossil-fuel magnates sprang into action that year, after President George H. W. Bush announced that he would support a treaty limiting carbon emissions, a move that posed a potentially devastating threat to the profits of Koch Industries. At the time, Bush was not an outlier in the Republican Party. Like the Democrats, the Republicans largely accepted the scientific consensus on climate change, reflected in the findings of expert groups such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which had formed in 1988, under the auspices of the United Nations.
Depends how little of an aviation guy you are. Here's the Amazon UK link for it if you want reviews.
Here's the wikipedia link to learn some of the basics about the Skunk Works.
In short though, think of all the cool, black aircraft made for the US Air Force. Most of it was made by the Skunk Works who were a part of Lockheed Martin. Very impressive technology designed for a very demanding and dangerous job.
TIL a redditor was too lazy to read the biography which contained everything in the Wikipedia article and more!
http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Exclusive-Biography-ebook/dp/B004W2UBYW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1380842523&sr=8-1&keywords=steve+jobs
I like biographies of famous people a lot.
Augustus, by Anthony Everitt: I find Augustus fascinating because his rise to power was one of the very very few examples in history where a Trio of teenagers defeated their enemies against overwhelming odds and succeeded creating an order lasting for more than two centuries. (The Principate stopped working after Septimius Severus took power in 193AD)
FDR, by Jean Edward Smith: FDR is simply my favorite US president.
Titan, The Life of John D. Rockefeller, by Ron Chernow: Rockefeller was born in a very poor family, never had an university education, and became a billionaire by the end of 19th century. Regardless how you view him today, his rise made an excellent story.
Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson: He was a jerk, but also a genius. His love/hate relationship with Bill Gates is story for the ages. This book also shines some good insight into the tech industry. I have to say this book helped me making lots of money in stocks.
Here are some I've enjoyed:
Reddit has a lot of grammanazi douche bags, I'm sure you know. Do you think their love of Dilbert has kept them from pointing out the typo error for "win" in HOW TO FAIL AT ALMOST EVERYTHING AND STILL WILL BIG: Kind of the Story of My Life
Check out, The Last Season, by Eric Blehm, as well as, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, by Aron Ralston. The latter is what the movie, "127 Hours", was based on.
start here
http://www.amazon.com/Reminiscences-Stock-Operator-Edwin-Lefevre/dp/0471059706
then, google "margin of safety" by seth klarman. I'm not encouraging anything underhanded........but, if you want to read it, you'll have to find a PDF.
FINVIZ.com is an excellent free site for U.S. capital markets. I highly recommend their stock screener and heat maps.
wikinvest.com might also be helpful
Don't be discouraged about where you start. Just keep moving forward.
i like Ron Chernow's historical biographies.
I've read his books on John D. Rockefeller, JP Morgan, and am currently reading Hamilton.
They are well researched, and he tells a good story.
In fact, iirc, you are local-ish to me so you can borrow one of them from me if you'd like. If I can find them (having moved recently).
The Last Season
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Season-P-S-Eric-Blehm/dp/0060583010
Pour your Heart Into It.
http://www.amazon.com/Pour-Your-Heart-Into-Starbucks/dp/0786883561
Forget about the coffee because this is an inspiring story for all entrepreneurs.
> Koch Industries secretly funded a report by Third Way, a centrist Democratic think tank, to sell liberals on their trade agenda, according to the new book “Kochland” by investigative reporter Christopher Leonard.
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>The Kochs enlisted the help of Third Way, a corporate-funded centrist group that has long opposed progressive populists like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, after the Democrats won control of Congress in 2006, according to excerpts from Leonard’s book published by The Intercept. Concerned that Democrats were souring on free trade, which threatened their oil importation business, the Kochs sought to use the group to promote free trade to Democrats.
Time to reject centrist Democrats.
You should give this a read! Such a fascinating book.
I'm in Europe and I see $17.88 hardcover, $19.88 Kindle.
EDIT: Non-americans can see the american price by appending .nyud.net to the domain: http://www.amazon.com.nyud.net/Steve-Jobs-ebook/dp/B004W2UBYW
Steve Wynn changed the game, and those old casinos can't compete:
http://www.amazon.com/Winner-Takes-All-Kerkorian-Loveman/dp/1401309763
I'd Trade Him Again: On Gretzky, Politics and the Pursuit of the Perfect Deal - Peter Pocklington (and others)
Banker to the poor - by Muhammad Yunus
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004W2UBYW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1#nav-subnav
Steve Jobs - one crazy motherfucker
There is a great biography about him as well if anyone is interested in learning more: http://www.amazon.com/The-Billionaire-Who-Wasnt-Secretly/dp/1610393341/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405815952&sr=8-1&keywords=chuck+feeney
It's a fascinating read about how he started up the Duty Free empire and beyond.
Once you have a handle on some of the basic terms Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is a good one for learning psychological lessons to utilize while trading.
Although it is understandable why (and specially after looking at some interesting graphs (and again, and yet again, and yet once more), it is sad to see that so many fellow INTPs are not goal-focused given our potential.
We’re capable of so many big achievements for the world, people! If we use our potential in science, medicine, even in social studies (specially great for Psychology for the ones of us who get to like learning about it), we can do tremendous things for the world.
Learn about your habits (and ultimately, how to change them). Dream big.
Takeinvest in self-improvement courses (specially those specific for us). There's no such thing as "too late to start". Regret only makes matters worse. Read a lot about achievement and motivation. Learn from other personality types who naturally strive for success. Learn about your finances. Make a 10-year plan. But if many of us decide to 'maintain the tradition' of underachieving (and not becoming the best version of ourselves), the world will have a little less chances of becoming a better place, because when we do decide to help it, we rock.I assume that /u/r5c1 means "Dream Big": https://www.amazon.com/DREAM-BIG-Brazilian-Sicupira-Anheuser-Busch-ebook/dp/B00JUWYGDQ/
Wow - you can't imagine the blow that you just did with your statement to Jeff Bezos' entire vision for Amazon -- he even had empty chairs representing a Customer on his meetings to avoid exactly that! (source).
I found this extremely useful for getting an insight into Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Store-Jeff-Bezos-Amazon-ebook/dp/B00BWQW73E/
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
One of the few books that will always have a place on my bookshelf. Touches on a wide range of topics. Introductory primer toward persuasion, productivity, and developing systems for success.
I'd encourage the audiobook as a quick read, can get through it while multi-tasking in a workout or two.
I might read this book about Reddit.
His mom is probably a bigger scumbag. She released a book in 2011 about how Dana is a piece of shit and was born with "soulless demon eyes".
https://www.amazon.com/Dana-White-King-MMA-unauthorized/dp/0983634610
Here yo go:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spycraft-Wallace-Robert-ebook/dp/B005R20UVK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0751515035
Enjoy ;)
I respect Hitler but I don't idolize him. He is partly to blame for the loss of the Reich and the destruction of Fascism's public image. He done fucked up, but he is still one of the greats.
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We all hear stock tips and it is hard to know if your investment ideas are fresh or stale. I am not a high net worth individual so I don't have access to analyst reports or big shot investment advisers. My decision support path is checking my investment idea by http://www.socialpicks.com , http://caps.fool.com communities to see what people think and by http://www.gstock.com to see what a technical analysis system has to say about the stock. 300 pounds is a low sum to start investing. If you want to diversify your portfolio (which is the smart thing to do) the trading fees would kill any chance of profit. IMHO wait till you have a larger sum to invest and in the meanwhile read http://www.amazon.com/Reminiscences-Stock-Operator-Marketplace-Books/dp/0471059706
This reminds me of Young Money.
http://www.amazon.com/Young-Money-Streets-Post-Crash-Recruits/dp/0446583251