Anyone have a good list of books?

[AndyG7]

Hey, I have read about 5 books so far and am looking for a good list of books/audio books to run through. I am also open to some motivational CD's. Anyone have any recommendations? Thanks in advance.

 

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[Lex DeVille]

Derek Sivers Book List

Some of My Favorites.
0. The Millionaire Fastlane
1. How to Win Friends & Influence People
2. The 48 Laws of Power
3. Thick Face Black Heart
4. The Psychology of Persuasion
5. Get Anyone to Do Anything
6. The 4 Hour Work Week
7. The Little Book that Beats the Market
8. Atlas Shrugged
9. Import Export for Dummies
10. How to Talk to Absolutely Anyone Confidently
11. Magical Words that Sell
12. All Marketers Are Liars
13. Tribes
14. The Wisdom of Crowds
15. Here Comes Everybody The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
16. Blink The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
17. Abundance - The Future is Better Than You Think
18. Bookkeeping for Dummies
19. I Will Teach You To Be Rich
20. Emergency
21. Leader Effectiveness Training
22. The Personal MBA
23. The Wisdom of the Enneagram
24. Personality Selling
25. The User's Manual For the Brain

TED.com for quick inspiration

Tony Robbins Audio CDs are all pretty good as well.

 

[supermannpc]

Anyone have any book recommendations on reducing short term capital gain tax.
Mainly for real estate investing

 

[Simon Ashari]

Derek Sivers Book List

Some of My Favorites.
0. The Millionaire Fastlane
1. How to Win Friends & Influence People
2. The 48 Laws of Power
3. Thick Face Black Heart
4. The Psychology of Persuasion
5. Get Anyone to Do Anything
6. The 4 Hour Work Week
7. The Little Book that Beats the Market
8. Atlas Shrugged
9. Import Export for Dummies
10. How to Talk to Absolutely Anyone Confidently
11. Magical Words that Sell
12. All Marketers Are Liars
13. Tribes
14. The Wisdom of Crowds
15. Here Comes Everybody The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
16. Blink The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
17. Abundance - The Future is Better Than You Think
18. Bookkeeping for Dummies
19. I Will Teach You To Be Rich
20. Emergency
21. Leader Effectiveness Training
22. The Personal MBA
23. The Wisdom of the Enneagram
24. Personality Selling
25. The User's Manual For the Brain

TED.com for quick inspiration

Tony Robbins Audio CDs are all pretty good as well.

This is a fantastic list. I would also add in there 'Ready, Fire, Aim' by Michael Masterson. It is definitely MFL compatible.

 

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[tye]

A couple of my favorites, just to name a few :

- Entrepreneurial DNA : The Breakthrough discovery that aligns you business to your unique strengths
- The Goal : A process of ongoing improvement
- Ignore Everybody : And 39 other keys to Creativity
- Art of War
- The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
- The Power of Habit : Why we do what we do in Life and Business

 

[AndyG7]

Awesome, thanks for the recommendations!

 

[AllenCrawley]

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[Franky Neizer]

* The Unemployed Millionare- Matt Morris
* Steve Jobs- Walter Isaacson
* The Snowball- Warren Buffett

I enjoy reading the experiences of the successful; their past failures and current successes gives me an assurance....

 

[pds]

I created this list today which you may find useful:

Books I’ve Read

The Millionaire Fastlane (MJ DeMarco)

How to Get Rich (Felix Dennis)

The Lazy Man’s Way to Riches (Joe Karbo)

Rework

Unlabel (Marc Ecko)

Delivering Happiness (Tony Hseih)

Awaken the Giant Within (Tony Robbins)

Blue Ocean Strategy

Lean Startup

The Dream – in progress (Gurbash Chahal)

Books I Need to Read

Mindset

Think and Grow Rich (Napolean Hill)

Acres of Diamonds

As a Man Thinketh

The Art of Money Getting

How to Win Friends & Influence People (Dale Carnegie)

The Magic of Thinking Big (David Schwartz)

Good to Great (Jim Collins)

The E-Myth Revisited (Michael Gerber)

What Rich People Know & Desperately Want to Keep Secret (Brian Sher)

Manifest Your Destiny (Wayne Dyer)

10 Secrets for Success & Inner Peace (Wayne Dyer)

Start Small, Finish Big – Story of Subway (Fred DeLuca)

Your First 100 Million (Dan Pena)


Copywriting / Marketing

Ca$hvertising

Kickass Copywriting Secrets (John Carlton)

No BS Sales Success (Dan Kennedy)

How to Write Great Copy for the Web

7 Steps to Freedom (Ben Suarez)

 

[wmvbob]

As for business biographies, I really enjoyed Anyone Can Do It: My Story by Duncan Bannatyne. His story is interesting, he didn't get off his a$$ and start doing something with this life until he was 30. He was living on the dole for chrissakes! He went from Sidewalk to fastlane. Starting off selling ice cream and ending up with his fitness clubs and being worth multi-millions, he is also on Dragons Den these days.

 

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[Mbiz79]

do you know any books on selling?
a book with a sales system, scripts or step by step... not with only generic theory or motivation...
thanks in advance

 

[Ajay2390]

Great thread! I also need some help. Does anybody know of any books on Supply and Demand. I'd appreciate your help..

 

[geekboy]

The two best I've read recently:

The Slight Edge - Jeff Olson
The One Thing - Gary Keller

For audio CD's: The New Psycho Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz & Dan Kennedy is pretty good.

 

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[Nadia]

do you know any books on selling?
a book with a sales system, scripts or step by step... not with only generic theory or motivation...
thanks in advance

GET CLIENTS NOW by CJ Hayden. AMAZING.

 

[Mbiz79]

GET CLIENTS NOW by CJ Hayden. AMAZING.

Thanks @Nadia !

 

[HappyFighter]

The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

 

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[Andy Black]

Recently:
80/20 Sales and Marketing (Perry Marshall)
The Entrepreneurs Guide to Getting Your Shit Together (John Carlton)

 

[Andy Black]

GET CLIENTS NOW by CJ Hayden. AMAZING.

Thanks Nadia. I haven't got anything like this in my library. I think it will be a big help.

 

[Deleted21961]

The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur by Mike Michalowicz
Well-written and humorous book by serial entrepreneur, who loves starting and growing business.
What you can learn: general attitude, mindset, importance of action, simple metrics.

Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Manual introducing whole business paradigm (as in title). One could say: business as science.
What you can learn: importance of efficient and test-driven modus operandi.

Micro-ISV by Bob Walsh
Old (a little, at least by the standards of internet era), but still partially relevant guide to entering a world of software business.
What you can learn: workflow.

Thinkertoys by Michael Michalko
Tools for creative thinking.
What you can learn: skill of "points of view juggling".

Official Get Rich Guide to Information Marketing by Dan Kennedy
Guide to entering information marketing industry. And like every Kennedy's book, also intense advertising tool for his own business, but hey - it works!
What you can learn: developing information products, structuring business model.

Do More Great Work by Michael Bungay Stanier
Tools for improving decision making process.
What you can learn: choosing better opportunities and projects that matter.

Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder
Must-read: visual tools for evaluating business models, known as Business Canvas. Simple and effective!
What you can learn: how to comprehend a big business picture and make money.

No B.S. Wealth Attraction in the New Economy by Dan Kennedy
Some principles of wealth accumulating.
What you can learn: laws of wealth massing.

Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky
System (known as Aion Method) of maintaining productivity for people which have trouble with execution (artists, for example).
What you can learn: there is a hope for you, even if you are procrastinating idea-man.

Rework by Jason Fried
Guide to current production strategies for (especially) web businesses.
What you can learn: old execution methods are gone, embrace today's workflow.

The Web Startup Success Guide by Bob Walsh
Updated and repositioned version of Micro-ISV.
What you can learn: workflow.

Everything by Seth Godin, Joel Spolsky, Napoleon Hill

Above titles are not mutually exclusive, of course, some stuff overlaps, sometimes there are contradictory ideas -- for you to choose.

 

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[SBS.95]

The Millionaire Fastlane
Choose Yourself
Third Circle Theory
The 10X Rule
Ca$hvertising
The Four Hour Work Week
How to Make Friends and Influence People

These are some I haven't read yet but want to this year:

Thick Face, Black Heart
Write it Down, Make it Happen
The War of Art
The ONE Thing
The Greatest Salesman in the World

 

[wmvbob]

Most of my recommendations have been listed already. Another one success mindset is 177 Metal Toughness Secrets of the World Class by Steve Siebold. Concise exploration of a ton of ideas/concepts you will find in other books, along with lots of recommendations for additional books on a subject, and the vast majority are not the authors other works. Good stuff

Also for a great and comprehensive, but not exhaustive overview of starting your business is Start Your Own Business by Entrepreneur Press. It is 720 pages and touches on every major topic with solid advice along with plenty of recommendations for additional books/resources. (Though it is in love with Apple stuff, and recommends GoDaddy, fail.)

Oh yeah, a couple of good overview books are the 50 x Classics books by Tom Butler Bowdown, 50 Success Classics, 50 Prosperity Classics, 50 Psychology Classics, 50 Spiritual Classics. A great overview of many many classics in the respective fields.

 

[Steve Daar]

do you know any books on selling?
a book with a sales system, scripts or step by step... not with only generic theory or motivation...
thanks in advance

SPIN Selling is really good. 'How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success In Selling' by Frank Bettger was also good.

A few really good books I've read recently include:

- The Obstacle Is The Way
- Grow Rich With Peace of Mind (Napoleon Hill book he wrote later in life than Think & Grow Rich. I believe this book is actually better than Think & Grow Rich)
- 80/20 Sales & Marketing

 

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[Mbiz79]

SPIN Selling is really good. 'How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success In Selling' by Frank Bettger was also good.

A few really good books I've read recently include:

- The Obstacle Is The Way
- Grow Rich With Peace of Mind (Napoleon Hill book he wrote later in life than Think & Grow Rich. I believe this book is actually better than Think & Grow Rich)
- 80/20 Sales & Marketing

thanks @Steve Daar !!!

 

[AndyG7]

Just finished Think and Grow Rich. Now I am onto The Art of War by Sun Tzu.

 

[MurseJason]

I will teach you to be rich

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[Veloce Grey]

Numerous books by Jay Abraham, if I had to pick one I'd suggest Stealth Marketing. Others include Geometric Growth, From Mediocrity To Millions (JVs), MrX. Of course there is plenty of crossover between the heap of material he has out there.

Just note the formatting varies so what I personally do is edit my own versions removing a bit of fluff and tidying a few things up for when I want to revise. Fluff is relative though, as my edited versions are still around 70-90 pages whereas most Kindle books I would prune down to 20-30 given the chance.

In terms of what is available cheaply on Amazon, most of the "No BS" series by Dan Kennedy are very useful if you ignore the upsells every few pages. Business Success, Wealth Attraction and Price Strategy would be my picks as the best of them.

The Six Month Fix by Gary Sutton is an interesting read on his company turnaround experiences.

 

[JAJT]

I will teach you to be rich

Great book for anyone just starting out with personal finance. Ramit Sethi is really good at "psychological finance" for lack of a better term.

 

[pickeringmt]

The Goal : A process of ongoing improvement

This is a great one, and you don't see it talked about often
Jim Rohn 7 strategies of wealth and happiness
Influence by Robert Cialdini
Getting Things Done by David Allen
7 Habits by Stephen Covey
Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson (health and fitness)
TMF is #1 - most valuable book I have ever read

The Outliers by Malcom Gladwell is really great as well - more motivational than instructional, but very cool.

Sorry if I spelled any names wrong!

 

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[B1ake]

I had time to read only 2 books this month:

The Education of Millionaires and Little Book About Big Money

I can recommend both. I very much enjoy reading books like these ...written by expert in his/her field ... like Millionaire Fastlane (of course) but also Think Grow Rich and Millionaire Next Door (when you think about vast research). But these are popular books.

 

[davedev]

Here's what I'm diggin' right now.

The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting
The Adweek Copywriting Handbook - Joe Sugarman
The Secret of Selling Anything - Harry Browne
Cold Hard Truth on Business Money & Life - Kevin O'Leary
Entrepreneur Revolution
The E-Myth Revisited
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Cialdini
Predictable Revenue
Psycho-Cybernetics - Maltz
The War of Art - Pressfield