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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... |
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 | 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. |
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 | 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. |
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 | 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... |
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 | 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. |
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 | Grow Rich! With Peace of Mind
Napoleon Hill
In this exciting book, the renowned author of THINK AND GROW RICH, Napoleon Hill, reveals his latest discoveries about getting what you want - and making the most of it. The book title says it all... |
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 | Liar’s Poker
Michael Lewis
An insider account of life on Wall Street in the 1980s. Never before had 24-year-olds made so much money so fast. In this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton?) he rose in two short years from Salomon Brothers trainee to Geek (the lowest form of life on the trading floor) to Big Swinging Dick, the most dangerous beast in the jungle, a bond salesman who could turn over millions of dollars' worth of doubtful bonds with just one call. |
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 | Nathan Mayer Rothschild & The Creation of a Dynasty
Herbert Kaplan
The name Rothschild is synonymous with banking and wealth. From a humble situation grew one of the most shrewd and influential banking empires of the last few generations, which remained influential and important throughout the continent of Europe for more than one hundred years. The career of Nathan Mayer Rothschild really took off in the year 1809. And he created a fortune that was unheard of at the time because the immense success and total wealth that was accumulated had never before been harnessed by one man. He notoriously kept his wealth in the family and, in fact, many of his descendants are billionaires today. |
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