Thread: What do you read every day?

The value of reading an hour a day has long been recognized as a way to quickly move ahead in any endeavor or field.

I read the WSJ and Financial Times everyday and then spend 30 minutes on a real estate related book or trade publication.

What do you guys read each day or week and why?

I spend about 1 hour here everyday. This has been the most beneficial financial/real estate education I've ever come across! ... I also read for about 20 minutes before bed...and I research properties during the day.

I read three forums. I am usualy reading at least one business book and I like sci-fi for my fiction reading. I just finished The 4 Hour Work Week & The Dip and Number 1 Husband(fiction), I am currently reading: Getting things done & Deals on Wheels.
Janet

I use a service called iGoogle - http://www.google.com/ig

It provides tabs so you can layer up pages of info.
For me one is a page of blog/RSS feeds from such people as Friedman, Yahoo Finance (RK), Freakonomics, SEO/Internet and Trader Blogs (smart trader, investmentU, Chris Perruna).

Another tab is for newspapers, such as the International Herald Tribune, NYTimes, Bloomberg, etc.

And another tab is for my Real Estate news (such as 'The Australian' 'Property Section').
(I also have commodities tab / Politics tab / Tools tab (Mgt Clac, Forex & International time) and a 'Home' tab (which includes a variety of biz and normal news)).

Rgds.
ProInvestor

Originally Posted by kimberland

I read about a book a day (I speed read).
Why is reading important?
Because the build up of knowledge gained over years of reading
often offsets the negative business aspects of getting older
(one negative - not being able to work 24-7).

I read two types of books, business and romance.
The last business book I read (Friday) was Seymour Schulich's Get Smarter
(Seymour Schulich is a self made billionaire).
Very, very good book (and a fast read - 1.5 hours).

I read lots of informative internet forums, like the fast lane to millions . I subscribe to the economist, read the times on-line, and follow bloomberg.com. Why? To gather different perspectives from different people, and come to my own conclusion based up the information I have gathered. Of course, I am still in college, so I find myself lacking as of late (leisure reading wise.) I can never find the time to read what I would like to read!

Knowledge is the most powerful commodity. Information is a powerful tool. I actually wish that I could do nothing at all, except read (next to the essentials .)

Read anything! If you think reading about business is "dry," pick up a novel that will make business seem interesting. I am deep in "The Great Crash of 1929" right now . "Liar's Poker" is an excellent page turner, while also teaching you valuable business lessons!

I can't stop reading forums -- I have to force myself to limit it to an hour or two a day. However, I can and do make sure that the forums I read are helping me to learn. I just found this one and will start reading it regularly. I also frequent the richdad.com forums and earnersforum.com forums on a regular basis.

Over the course of the day I try and go through 2 newspapers, a few forum visits, and at least 1 hour of book reading.

This forum and other ones that are real estate related;
www.creonline.com
www.flippinghomes.com
www.myrealtydata.com
www.realtytimes.com for market information
Business
www.cnnmoney.com

I am also reading the 4 Hour Workweek right now.

For me as of now, I beem reading RD's Retire Young Retire Rich, this forum, I tried to go to Barnes & Nobles at least once a week and sit in there and read a couple books on business, economics, or real estate. And i no its not a book, but i have the CASHFLOW 101 E-game at home, I at least try to one a game in once a day if I can.

I squeeze in about a book every week or two unless there's something
I'm working on studying. Then it's pretty much whatever I have to do
to learn the skill. Lately I've been reading financial books in addition to
my normal personal development books.

I especially like The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey.


John

I frequent this forum a lot. I'm more of a reader rather than a poster.

Other stuff that I read are CNN Money, Forbes, WSJ, and a little bit of local news to see what's going on in my area. After that, I read more stuff about cars!

This has been my daily routine for a while now. I try to read as much as I can. I figured that I'm not gonna be able to achieve my goals if all I do is hang out with the wrong people especially most of my friends who knows nothing but work.

A very successful real estate developer recommended the book "The E-Myth Revisited" to me. E-Myth stands for Entrepreneurial-Myth, not Internet-Myth.

I read the bible at least once a day, followed by a good book for men called Every Man, God's Man by Stephen Arterburn. Then through out the day I'm cracking open the E-myth or something related to a area of my business that I'm working on.

I start out by checking marketwatch in the morning before I head off to class. After I take care of my history reading requirements in the library, I head home to do the fun stuff. Browsing this forum is the first thing I do when I get home. Currently, I am reading two books: "The Millionaire Real Estate Investor" by Gary Keller and Ron LeGrand's "Quick Cash with Quick-Turn Real Estate." I must say, I am about 35% through with LeGrand's book and it is the best RE book I have read yet. I highly recommend it (it is the original one, found for $5 at half.com).

I have been reading a lot of public company financial statements and industry trade magazines.