Books Worth Reading Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers (Wealth Creation Book Review) Derek Sivers founded CD Baby, an online seller of independent music, in 1998 to help fellow musicians sell their music. He sold the business for $22 million in 2008, then began traveling the world and blogging on creativity and entrepreneurship.
Books Worth Reading How to Make Money in Stocks by William J. O’Neil (Investing Book Review) The book is wordy and can sometimes read like a promotion of the various companion services, but CAN SLIM gives investors useful rules to identify winners and cut losses to limit the downside of losers.
Books Worth Reading Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success by G. Richard Shell (Success Book Review) G. Richard Shell is a Wharton professor and an expert on negotiation and personal development. Both the son of a celebrated Marine Corps general and a pacifist during the Vietnam War, he spent the early part of his life resolving that tension and searching for the security of a new anchor.
Books Worth Reading Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters (Wealth Creation Book Review) Peter Thiel, an American entrepreneur and investor who co-founded PayPal and Palantir, and who was the first outside investor in Facebook, taught a class on startups at Stanford University in the Spring of 2012.
Books Worth Reading Reminiscences of a Stock Operator: With New Commentary and Insights on the Life and Times of Jesse Livermore by Edwin Lefèvre (Investing Book Review) Reminiscences is chock full of timeless insights and wisdom into market behavior and trading psychology, and is essential reading for any trader or investor, regardless of style or philosophy.
Books Worth Reading How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen (Success Book Review) Expanded from a speech he delivered to Harvard Business School’s graduating class of 2010, the book offers a series of guidelines for finding meaning and happiness in life, drawing lessons from business strategy case studies.
Books Worth Reading How to Get Rich: One of the World’s Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets by Felix Dennis (Wealth Creation Book Review) You should only take advice on getting rich from rich people. Felix Dennis (1947-2014), the founder of men’s magazine Maxim and the publisher of over 50 magazines such as The Week and Auto Express, meets that standard.