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What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer: “I race motorcycles in Europe.” “I ski in the Andes.” “I scuba dive in Panama.” “I dance tango in Buenos Aires.” He has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing subculture who has abandoned the “deferred-life... (more)

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

by Michael E. Gerber

In this first new and totally revised edition of the over two million copy bestseller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. Next, he walks you through the steps in the life of a business -- from entrepreneurial infancy through adolescent growing pains to the mature entrepreneurial... (more)

The White Tiger

by Aravind Adiga

Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen. Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier,... (more)

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston

For would-be entrepreneurs, innovation managers or just anyone fascinated by the special chemistry and drive that created some of the best technology companies in the world, this book offers both wisdom and engaging insights—straight from the source. — Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, and author of The Long Tail "All the best things that I did at Apple came from (a) not having money and (b)... (more)

Reality Check

The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition

by Guy Kawasaki

More uncommon common sense from the bestselling author of The Art of the Start . In Silicon Valley slang, a “bozo explosion” is what causes a lean, mean, fighting machine of a company to slide into mediocrity. As Guy Kawasaki puts it, “If the two most popular words in your company are partner and strategic , and partner has become a verb, and strategic is used to describe decisions and activities that... (more)

by Richard Branson

Sir Richard Branson is one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs and his Virgin Group is one of the most recognised lifestyle brands, trusted and enjoyed by many millions of people. Now, in his trademark charismatic and honest style, Richard shares the inside track on some of his greatest achievements over forty years in business as well as the lessons he has learned from his setbacks. In Business... (more)

The Magic of Thinking Big

by David J. Schwartz

SET YOUR GOALS HIGH...THEN EXCEED THEM: Millions of people throughout the world have improved their lives using The Magic of Thinking Big. Dr. David J. Schwartz, long regarded as one of the foremost experts on motivation, will help you sell better, manage better, earn more money, and -- most important of all -- find greater happiness and peace of mind. The Magic of Thinking Big gives you useful methods,... (more)

The Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness

The Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness

by Jeffrey H. Gitomer

Sales master Jeffrey Gitomer has created a real-world, practical, and fun book that salespeople will love and profit from -- and sales managers will buy by the case. Salespeople want answers. That's why the Little Red Book of Selling is short, sweet, and to the point. It's packed with answers that people are searching for in order to help them make sales for the moment - and for the rest of their lives. ... (more)

Good to Great

Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

by Jim Collins

The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years,... (more)

Think and Grow Rich

by Napoleon Hill

Here are money-making secets that can change your life. Inspired by Andrew Carnegie's magic formula for success, this book will teach you the secrets that will bring you a fortune. It will show you not only what to do but how to do it. Once you learn and apply the simple, basic techniques revealed here, you will have mastered the secret of true and lasting success. And you may have whatever you want in life.

The Art of the Start

The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

by Guy Kawasaki

What does it take to turn ideas into action? What are the elements of a perfect pitch? How do you win the war for talent? How do you establish a brand without bucks? These are some of the issues everyone faces when starting or revitalizing any undertaking, and Guy Kawasaki, former marketing maven of Apple Computer, provides the answers. The Art of the Start will give you the essential steps to launch... (more)

From Entrepreneur to Infopreneur: Make Money with Books, E-books, and Information Products

From Entrepreneur to Infopreneur: Make Money with Books, E-books, and Information Products

by Stephanie Chandler

Infopreneurs sell valuable information online in the form of books, e-books, special reports, audio and video products, seminars, and other media. This definitive guide will show how to master the tools and tactics of the most successful infopreneurs, so you can succeed at producing, marketing, selling, and automating delivery of information products online. This guide comes complete with interviews of successful... (more)

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

by J. Kevin Sheehan

A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1845. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a... (more)

How to Make Millions with Your Ideas: An Entrepreneur's Guide

How to Make Millions with Your Ideas: An Entrepreneur's Guide

by Dan S. Kennedy

What Doesn't Kill You: A Novel

by Virginia Deberry, Donna Grant

"I really thought I had a handle on life -- then it broke off." Opinionated, straight-talking, and witty, Tee is a fly forty-something. Divorced since her daughter, Amber, was young, Tee has been "handling her business," supporting herself after her would-be songwriter husband took off for L.A., and she's done all right. Organized, responsible, hardworking, and loyal, Tee went from being the first employee of a... (more)

Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur

Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur

by Pamela Slim

Despite grim headlines about the economy, you DON’T have to stay in a job you intensely hate. There’s a better opportunity waiting out there, and escaping from cubicle nation is easier than you think. Pamela Slim spent a decade traveling all over the country as a self-employed trainer for large corporations. She was surprised to find that many of the most successful employees at these companies harbored secret... (more)

My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley

My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley

by Ben Casnocha

Ben Casnocha discovered he was entrepreneur at age 12 and hasn't slowed down since. In this remarkably instructive book, Ben dissects the entrepreneurship "gene," explaining that everyone has inherited it if they have an idea to make the world a better place. In Casnocha's case, he found a better way for city governments to communicate with constituents on the Web. Six years later, Comcate has dozens of municipal... (more)

Rules for Renegades: 10 Secrets to Getting What You Want From a Buddhist Monk-Geisha Trainee Entrepreneur-Self-Made Millionaire

Rules for Renegades: 10 Secrets to Getting What You Want From a Buddhist Monk-Geisha Trainee Entrepreneur-Self-Made Millionaire

by Christine Comaford-Lynch

WANT A RICHER LIFE? BREAK ALL THE RULES Renegade entrepreneur-and runaway success story-Christine Comaford-Lynch has lived the kind of life most of us can only dream about. From model to monk to multimillionaire, she does what she wants-and gets things done. Now, in ten outrageous life lessons, she'll show you how to make your dreams come true. Your way. Your rules. Rules for Renegades ... (more)

The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life

The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life

by Ivanka Trump

INSPIRATION. SUCCESS. CONFIDENCE. PASSION. No one is born with these qualities, but they are the key ingredients for reaching goals, building careers, or taking a blueprint and turning it into a breathtaking skyscraper. In The Trump Card, Ivanka Trump recounts the compelling story of her upbringing as the ultimate Apprentice, the daughter of Donald and Ivana Trump, and shares the life lessons and hardwon... (more)

Career Renegade: How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love

Career Renegade: How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love

by Jonathan Fields

There’s a revolution brewing across the nation--a movement that’s changing lives and revealing little known paths to passion and prosperity. It’s about building a great living around what you love to do most. Once you’ve been touched by it, you’ll never be the same. This book is your way in, your admission ticket to the world of the career renegade. Jonathan Fields, mega-firm lawyer turned successful... (more)

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Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

by Timothy Ferriss

by Michael E. Gerber

by Aravind Adiga

by Jessica Livingston

The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition

by Guy Kawasaki

by Richard Branson

by David J. Schwartz

by Jeffrey H. Gitomer

Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

by Jim Collins

by Napoleon Hill

The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

by Guy Kawasaki

by Stephanie Chandler

by J. Kevin Sheehan

by Dan S. Kennedy

by Virginia Deberry, Donna Grant

by Pamela Slim

by Ben Casnocha

by Christine Comaford-Lynch

by Ivanka Trump

by Jonathan Fields