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Baruch: My Own Story
Bernard M. Baruch

Few people have managed to be hugely successful in the fields of business and politics like Bernard Mannes Baruch. By the age of 30, as a broker and partner at Arthur Housman & Co., he built up a fortune speculating in commodities. He later advised American Presidents such as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

In his fascinating autobiography, Baruch shares his investment philosophies and also tells the famous story of how he used the term "gamble" in describing a mining deal he was pitching to J.P. Morgan. Morgan ended the meeting instantly and never ever did business with him. Baruch did go on to do the deal with other partners and made a staggering fortune but always regretted his choice of words...

Beating the Street
Peter Lynch with John Rothchild

"By sticking with stocks all the time, the odds are six to one in our favor that we'll do better than the people who stick with bonds."

In this book, Peter Lynch, the Wall Street legend, shows us how to come up with a stock picking strategy, and tells how the individual investor can improve his or her investment performance to rival that of the experts of the so-called old boy's finance elite.

Break Up!: When Large Companies are Worth More Dead Than Alive!
Andrew Campbell, Richard Koch and David Sadtler

"Investors discount conglomerates 30 percent because they believe there is some kind of poison in the system.  And the medicine to cure it is to break the things up."

This book offers a spirited approach to the business phenomenon of the break-up of conglomerates.  It successfully argues that the need for large entities is not fiscally prudent, and that the break-up is the most valuable business tool to make them profitable again.

Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
Roger Lowenstein

The best book ever written on the investing legend!

Tons of books have been written about Warren Buffett. Some educational institutions have even created courses based on his business philosophies. But this book, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein, is widely agreed to be the best one ever written.

When you finish reading it, you will agree too.

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
Philip Fisher

"I am an eager reader of whatever Phil [Fisher] has to say, and I recommend him to you." - Warren Buffett

One of the greatest and most respected minds in investment, Philip Fisher, shared the secrets of his investment success in this updated classic book on investing in stocks, Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits. He introduced the now-famous concept of the ‘scuttlebutt' approach... 

He was an investing legend and left behind this classic book for the rest of us to learn from and enjoy.

Confessions of a Street Addict
Jim Cramer

Everyone on Wall Street knows Jim Cramer. Everyone knows the colorful and hyperactive host of CNBC's Mad Money. But do you know he was homeless? Do you know where it all began for him?

In Confessions of a Street Addict, Cramer takes us back to where his fascination, and present-day addiction, to the stock market started and how it grew over the years. The middle-class kid from the Philadelphia suburbs went to Harvard, where he began managing money...  

Forbes Greatest Investing Stories
Richard Phalon

Many a renowned investment advisory service such as Motley Fool always recommend this bestselling book to its clients.

Forbes Greatest Investing Stories is a collection of some of the most successful investment stories that have ever taken place on Wall Street. It consists of 10 essays profiling some of Wall Street's most successful investors of all time and the philosophies that brought them huge success. This bestseller chronicles the work of famed investors such as Benjamin Graham, Hetty Green, T. Rowe Price, Georges F. Doriot, Tom Bailey, Marty Whitman and Muriel F. Siebert. 

Grow Rich! With Peace of Mind
Napoleon Hill

The title is interesting-nothing like doing something different to get people's attention in a crowded genre. Often we hear of those striving for riches who lose their sanity and families in the process. This book promises to show you how to grow rich with peace of mind.



 

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