Personal Finance
The Total Money Makeover: this is a revolutionary book that has helped tens of thousands of people to get out of debt and restore financial sanity to their lives. If you struggle with debt, this should be your first read.
Financial Peace: Dave Ramsey's original hit when it came out over 15 years ago. These are financial principles and they do not go out of style or relevance.
Rich Dad Poor Dad: some of Robert Kiyosaki's principles would fly in the face of Dame Ramsey, but if you're the kind of person who can control their debt and would only use it for investment purposes, then I would recommend this book. I can sum up his philosophy in one sentence: The poor work for money, the rick make their money work for them. Accumulate assets that generate strong free cash flow and then take that money to buy more assets like that. Anything (even your home) that doesn't generate cash is not considered an asset.
The Millionaire Next Door: incredible book if you want to see who the rich in this country really are. Stanley delves deep into their lifestyle and mindset to break apart society's preconceived notions of who the rich are and what you need to do in order to be more like them.
The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous, and Broke: great book by Suze Orman that encompasses your entire financial life. She gives great common sense advice on everything from your credit score to planning your retirement.
Financial Peace: Dave Ramsey's original hit when it came out over 15 years ago. These are financial principles and they do not go out of style or relevance.
Rich Dad Poor Dad: some of Robert Kiyosaki's principles would fly in the face of Dame Ramsey, but if you're the kind of person who can control their debt and would only use it for investment purposes, then I would recommend this book. I can sum up his philosophy in one sentence: The poor work for money, the rick make their money work for them. Accumulate assets that generate strong free cash flow and then take that money to buy more assets like that. Anything (even your home) that doesn't generate cash is not considered an asset.
The Millionaire Next Door: incredible book if you want to see who the rich in this country really are. Stanley delves deep into their lifestyle and mindset to break apart society's preconceived notions of who the rich are and what you need to do in order to be more like them.
The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous, and Broke: great book by Suze Orman that encompasses your entire financial life. She gives great common sense advice on everything from your credit score to planning your retirement.
Real Estate
The Unoffficial Guide to Real Estate Investing: a great read that I go back in college, but might be a bit dated when referencing to websites and such. Regardless, I would highly recommend it. It walks you through step by step how to pursue real estate investments.
How I Turned $1,000 into $5,000,000 Investing in Real Estate: this book is even more dated, but the principles in it are timeless. Marketing has changed dramatically, but the same process and what you look for in an investment home remains the same. He gives you very very detailed steps on how to go about investing in real estate. This is good common sense advice. No get rich quick schemes.
The Art of the Deal: this is Donald Trump's only book that I would recommend. It does an excellent job to get into a developer's mind to see how it thinks. Like him or not, this is a good book with a lot for people to learn. Avoid the rest of his books!
Investing in Duplexes, Triplexes and Quads: Once you're ready to move onto bigger real estate deals you'll want to move up to this type of investment. This author is actually a lawyer in Orlando and has written a number of other books on tax liens and such.
Investing in Real Estate: A wonderful book that I read in college, but that keeps getting updated over the years. Be sure to get the latest used edition.
How I Turned $1,000 into $5,000,000 Investing in Real Estate: this book is even more dated, but the principles in it are timeless. Marketing has changed dramatically, but the same process and what you look for in an investment home remains the same. He gives you very very detailed steps on how to go about investing in real estate. This is good common sense advice. No get rich quick schemes.
The Art of the Deal: this is Donald Trump's only book that I would recommend. It does an excellent job to get into a developer's mind to see how it thinks. Like him or not, this is a good book with a lot for people to learn. Avoid the rest of his books!
Investing in Duplexes, Triplexes and Quads: Once you're ready to move onto bigger real estate deals you'll want to move up to this type of investment. This author is actually a lawyer in Orlando and has written a number of other books on tax liens and such.
Investing in Real Estate: A wonderful book that I read in college, but that keeps getting updated over the years. Be sure to get the latest used edition.
Stock Picking
How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett: this is an incredibly unimaginative title, but I've read every book that has to do with his stock picking techniques and this is hands down the best one.
The Warren Buffett Way: another great book about Buffett that he has personally mentioned people should read.
The Intelligent Investor: Benjamin Graham wrote this book over half a century ago and Buffett still considers it the greatest book on investing every written. He says that it's the reason that he doesn't need to write a book on it and that chapters 8 and 19 are incredibly important.
One Up on Wall Street
Beating the Street
Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Animal Spirits
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
Quality of Earnings
Investment Biker
The Warren Buffett Way: another great book about Buffett that he has personally mentioned people should read.
The Intelligent Investor: Benjamin Graham wrote this book over half a century ago and Buffett still considers it the greatest book on investing every written. He says that it's the reason that he doesn't need to write a book on it and that chapters 8 and 19 are incredibly important.
One Up on Wall Street
Beating the Street
Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Animal Spirits
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
Quality of Earnings
Investment Biker
Insurance/Probability
Against the Gods: Incredible book on the history of insurance. Hands down the best way to learn how insurance has become such a dominant industry over the past 3 centuries.
Struck by Lightning: Great for looking at the irrational decisions that we make every day and how to correct them.
The Signal and the Noise: Somewhat of an alternative to Taleb's philosophy. They agree in areas, but also disagree. You should definitely read prodigiously from both authors as to give you a good well rounded analysis of everyday statistics.
Here are three books all by the author Nassim Taleb. They are the excellent books for evaluating risk in your daily lives.
Fooled by Randomness
The Black Swan
Antifragile
Struck by Lightning: Great for looking at the irrational decisions that we make every day and how to correct them.
The Signal and the Noise: Somewhat of an alternative to Taleb's philosophy. They agree in areas, but also disagree. You should definitely read prodigiously from both authors as to give you a good well rounded analysis of everyday statistics.
Here are three books all by the author Nassim Taleb. They are the excellent books for evaluating risk in your daily lives.
Fooled by Randomness
The Black Swan
Antifragile
Economics
The Worldly Philosophers: I read this book twice in college. Once on my own and then once for a class. It's that good! It gives a brief biography of the greatest economic thinkers over the past 3 centuries.
The Ascent of Money: This author is a Harvard professor and if you want to learn about how our modern financial system came into being, then this is a must read. The Jewish money changers in Italy, stock exchanges in Amsterdam, or the Lloyd's coffee house where insurance was born, it's all here!
The Ascent of Money: This author is a Harvard professor and if you want to learn about how our modern financial system came into being, then this is a must read. The Jewish money changers in Italy, stock exchanges in Amsterdam, or the Lloyd's coffee house where insurance was born, it's all here!
