J.P. Morgan acted as the Fed before the Fed existed. He held Wall Street in the palm of his hand. His financial acumen is legendary. His power was scary. The US Government turned to him for help during a financial crisis and he bailed them out.

This is the story of the world Morgan lived in and the businesses and industries he helped build... 

In 1908 Napoleon Hill accepted a challenge from Andrew Carnegie to write down success principles and make them available to everyone. He spent the next 20 years studying and interviewing successful people while testing the principles to make himself a success.

In 1927, he published Law of Success. His classic book Think and Grow Rich is based on this more elaborate Law of Success. Note that the title is not Laws of Success, instead it's Law of Success. Hill discovered, and Carnegie reiterated, that although there were 17 principles, there was one secret, one law, to success that formed the foundation of every one of these principles. You'll find it hidden in plain view in every chapter.

Alan Greenspan was Chairman of the Federal Reserve board during perhaps the most turbulent economic times ever faced by the United States. At 61, he is widely regarded as master of the financial universe, and shares the story of his life and career in this book.

This book is really two books in one. The first half of this work is an autobiographical chronology of the author's life... The second half of the book gives Greenspan's perspectives on major economic events that have occurred over the past half century, such as Black Monday, the Asian financial crisis, and September 11.

The autobiography of Sam Walton, the man who was able to expand a nickel and dime store into the mega-store Wal-Mart, the largest retail store in the world. 

Not only a story of the man behind the famed store, Sam Walton: Made in America also looks at the business that was created by Sam Walton and how it has grown and changed over the years. Sam Walton concisely chronicles the journey he took through inspiration and optimism which would help him to succeed in business and live the American Dream. 

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.

In the early nineties, two twenty-something year-old boys set up a hotel reservations company LVRS to fill hotel rooms in Las Vegas. In the late nineties, they discover the Internet that seems to have been invented specifically for their business. They rename their new online business Travelscape.com to fill hotel rooms worldwide and their already profitable business takes off. Then Microsoft's Expedia.com comes along with an offer they can't refuse, and two thirty-something year-olds become $105 million richer. 

It doesn't stop there. They take their newfound wealth and buy the Golden Nugget casino and even star in their own reality TV show (The Casino) produced by Mark Burnett (of The Apprentice). They later sell the casino for another $100+ million profit. Sound too good to be true? Well, it is true. An incredible story...

The fact that the former President and CEO of Intel wrote a book titled, Only the Paranoid Survive may explain a lot when it comes to the work culture at Intel. Andrew himself doesn't remember when he first said that but it certainly is his motto when it comes to business. He says he's paranoid about a lot of things, such as product, people, and competitors,...

The message of this book is his concern for "strategic inflection points." Briefly, a strategic inflection point is "a time in the life of a business when its fundamentals are about to change. That change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights. But it may just as likely signal the beginning of the end."

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.