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The 8 Best Personal Finance Books of All Time

R.J. Weiss — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 19:20:31 +0000

There are a lot of personal finance books. And truth be told, there are many good ones. But there are very few great ones. The eight personal finance books listed below were all profoundly impactful on my own life. I’ve read well over 100 books on topics ranging from budgeting to investing and everything in between, but these are the ones I return to for guidance, advice and inspiration. #1. The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko Best for: Developing a sound money mindset. First published in 1996, The Millionaire Next Door has sold over […]

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The 10 Best Books on Making Money

R.J. Weiss — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 18:01:33 +0000

The 10 books listed below are my all-time favorites on the subject of making money. Over the past 20 years, they’ve been the most important reference points on my journey from financial services professional to entrepreneur, challenging and shaping the way I think about topics like scaling up income, starting a business and creating a satisfying work-life balance. #1. So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport Best for: Maximizing your career earnings. A must-read for anyone looking to increase their earning potential, especially if you’re working in a traditional, salary-based career. The book breaks down the common advice […]

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7 Best Behavioral Finance and Investment Psychology Books

R.J. Weiss — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 02:53:00 +0000

Famed investor Charlie Munger has said, “You can learn to make fewer mistakes than other people — and how to fix your mistakes faster when you do make them.” That quote summarizes why it’s important for anyone who invests to study behavioral finance and investment psychology: learning how people act in financial markets, including yourself, gives you valuable insights that can help you make better decisions. That’s why this post will focus exclusively on books about behavioral finance to help us make fewer mistakes when it comes to investing, managing and spending our hard-earned money. The Best Behavioral Finance Books […]

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The Charlie Munger Reading List (50 Book Recommendations)

R.J. Weiss — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 19:54:16 +0000

Charlie Munger is an American investor, a philanthropist, and a former real estate attorney. But he’s most well-known as the billionaire Vice Chairman of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, with the famed value investor describing Munger as his partner. Like Buffett, Munger is a reading enthusiast, once saying, “In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time – none, zero.” Munger isn’t a fan of random facts, though. He emphasizes the importance of constructing what he calls “a latticework of interdisciplinary mental models.” This “latticework” provides the foundation […]

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The Best Investing Books of All Time (As Voted by 20 Top Investors)

R.J. Weiss — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:33:00 +0000

What are the best investing books according to the world’s best investors? To find out, I sought out the recommended books of 20 of the most successful investors and hedge fund managers of all time. I curated a total of 246 book recommendations, combined them into a spreadsheet and sorted them by count. The result is a list of the best investing books ranked by the number of recommendations each one received. You can view the data in its raw form here. Note that in cases where two books were tied, I ranked them based on my own preferences. Here’s a list […]

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Nassim Taleb Reading List

R.J. Weiss — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 00:18:20 +0000

Nassim Taleb is a Lebanese-American author, essayist, philosopher and statistician. He’s been a hedge fund manager, a derivatives trader, a professor at multiple prestigious universities, and a risk analyst. As an author, Taleb is renowned for his books Antifragile, Fooled By Randomness, Skin in the Game and The Black Swan. Each of these dives deep into probability, randomness and risk. He’s also an avid reader, reviewing nearly every book he reads under his personal Amazon account. Naturally, several of these are finance and investing books that he’s read to stay on top of his field. Below, we’ve briefly summarized his […]

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The Best Investing Books for Young Adults

R.J. Weiss — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 07:00:13 +0000

You can build tremendous wealth by investing as early as possible. But most new investors have questions about exactly how to get started. After all, we barely learn basic financial literacy in high school and college, let alone the essential financial planning and money management skills that lead to a stable and prosperous financial future. The good news is this: research shows the key to building wealth isn’t so much about picking the right stocks as it is simply saving and investing more money over time. Beating the market is hard, and you’re better off not even trying. In general, […]

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The Best Business Books of all Time – As Voted By 100 Famous CEOs and Entrepreneurs

R.J. Weiss — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 09:00:51 +0000

What are the best business books of all time? To find out, we scoured the web and found 742 book recommendations from 100 of the world’s top CEOs, founders and entrepreneurs. Then we inserted each individual recommendation into a spreadsheet and sorted them by the number of times they appeared on the list. Here are the top 10, plus a few lower-ranking classics that shouldn’t be overlooked. You can see a list of the 100 people (as well as their individual recommendations) in this Google sheet. #1. Influence: Science and Practice Author: Robert CialdiniFirst published: 1984Recommended by: Charlie Munger, David […]

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Elon Musk Book Recommendations: 33 Titles From Musk’s Reading List

R.J. Weiss — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 05:00:04 +0000

A common attribute among exceptionally successful people is a voracious appetite for books. Leaders from Bill Gates to Oprah to Dave Ramsey attribute much of their success to their reading habits. Elon Musk is no different. In a 2009 New Yorker profile, he explained that he started reading in his youth to assuage his loneliness. As a boy in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk was a classic small, wise-cracking nerd. And in classic form, he sought refuge from his peers’ constant bullying by reading science fiction and fantasy novels. Scanning the list below will leave you with no doubt that Musk’s […]

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Howard Marks Reading List: Book Recommendations From the Co-Founder of Oaktree Capital

R.J. Weiss — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:27:48 +0000

Howard Marks is one of America’s most successful investors, with a net worth of more than $2 billion according to Forbes. As founder of Oaktree Capital Management, Marks specializes in high-yield and distressed debt, and his fund raised nearly $11 billion to buy troubled assets in the aftermath of the financial crisis in 2008. Born in New York, Marks graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1967. After graduating from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, he began his career as an equity analyst at Citibank, but later transitioned to debt markets as high […]

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