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7-Hour School Week: Required Reading for Business Success
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Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics)Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics) by Lao Tzu
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The Tao is the way, the truth, and the universe. Lao Tzu wrote 81 simple yet profound verses that transcended the fundamental reality of life. Life is about living in harmony with yin and yang. Without darkness, there can be no light. Too often, we struggle against the waves when we can just flow with them.
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New RichThe 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $5.90
Timothy Ferris shows people how to create their dream lives right now, rather than someday when they are “retired.” Tim uses outsourcing, geographic arbitrage, and performance/productivity principles to transform his life from 80 hour workweeks to 4 hour workweeks, while making as much per month as he used to make in one year.
Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the CompetitionGetting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition by Jay Abraham
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $7.98
Jay Abraham, America’s number one marketing wizard, has helped more than 400 companies, including IBM, Microsoft, Citibank, and Charles Schwab. This book contains 21 ways to “out-think, out-perform, and out-earn the competition.
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don'tGood to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
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Jim Collins’ classic book on creating a great company contains success principles that apply to big corporations, small clubs, and even families.
How to Make Millions with Your Ideas: An Entrepreneur's GuideHow to Make Millions with Your Ideas: An Entrepreneur's Guide by Dan S. Kennedy
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $6.98
This book is a Pandora Box that opens up an inspiring world of private labels, informational products, and license systems to transform your ideas into reality. Dan Kennedy is the marketing king who has helped thousands make 7-figure incomes on a part-time, residual model.
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting AnythingThe Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $7.57
A simple yet profound guide for how anyone can achieve anything. The more we grow, the more we can help people, do what is right, and pay back society. Everyone in the world should read Guy’s strategies and techniques on presentations, pitching, business plans, marketing, and communicating.
The Art of WarThe Art of War by Sun Tzu
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.12
The Art of War is the most prestigious and influential book on strategy that has ever been written. Sun Tzu showed how organizations can thrive in times of conflict and chaos by mastering five things: the way, the weather, the terrain, the leadership, and the discipline. Strategy is simply the art of making the right trade-offs. Everything we do in life has a cost-benefit.
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About ItThe E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber
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The problem with small businesses is that most people work in it, rather than on it. People turn what was once a labor of love into a love of labor. They focus so much on trying to capture the moment that they stop being in the moment.
The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal RenewalThe Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.89
Time is potential freedom. Energy gives you real liberty. The true currency of our life is not the hours, but what we put in those hours. We can systematically increase our capability and productivity by increasing our energy.
The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first CenturyThe World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.18
Thomas Friedman brilliantly shows how the forces of globalization have connected the world in ways never possible before. The walls, ceilings, and even floors that once separated people, societies, and countries have been flattened out. Now, a single individual has more power than any other time in history.