When Patrick Bet-David wrote Your Next Five Moves, he wasn’t only thinking about business strategy, he was thinking about survival. As a kid who fled war-torn Iran, grew up in a rough L.A. neighborhood, and later joined the U.S. military, he learned that thinking ahead could…
You don’t need a $200,000 degree to understand business. That’s the message Josh Kaufman drives home in The Personal MBA, a bestselling business book for self-starters who want real-world results. This book came from Josh’s frustration. He was working at Procter & Gamble, questioning why people…
Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow is a psychology and behavioral economics book that explains why we often make decisions that don’t make sense even when we think we’re being smart. After losing close friends in wars and watching governments make poor economic decisions, Kahneman got…
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz is a business and communication book rooted in real-world, high-stakes negotiation. Chris Voss wasn’t trained in lecture halls. He was trained in war zones, hostage standoffs, and terrorist negotiations. One time, during a simulated negotiation at…
Ben Horowitz kicks off "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" on what it really takes to run a business. He’s not theorizing. He lived it. Back in 1999, Ben co-founded LoudCloud, grew fast, then watched the tech crash almost destroy it. He didn’t give up. He…
“You don’t learn by thinking about doing. You learn by doing.” That’s the hard-earned truth Eric Ries realized after watching his own startup burn thousands of hours building a product nobody wanted. The Lean Startup is a practical playbook for anyone trying to build a product…
Peter Thiel once said, “Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.” That one quote captures the soul of Zero to One—a book born from a Stanford course Thiel taught and later co-authored with Blake Masters. They didn’t write a feel-good…
In The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, Eric distilled years of insights from Naval who is an angel investor turned philosopher entrepreneur, into practical, thought-shifting truths that you can actually use. He didn’t just write a book, he created a toolkit for business owners and anyone seeking…
The major point of The Compound Effect is around this quote from the book “If you don’t change what you’re doing, you’re going to get the same results you’ve always gotten.” Darren did not promise fast results. However, he shows you what happens when you take…
Ever wondered why some people make it big while others get stuck making excuses? That’s the main question David J. Schwartz tackles in his powerful self-help book, The Magic of Thinking Big. He wrote it after years of observing something strange. People with average intelligence often…