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Three Awesome Books I Read Recently
In: Books
1 Mar 2010I read a bunch of books over the last 3-4 months. Many of them were unremarkable, others were pretty good, and three were really outstanding.
Here is a quick write up on the three outstanding ones.
1. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) – by Richard Feynman
This is an auto-biography of Richard Feynman, [...]
The Best Books For Entrepreneurs
4 Oct 2009Sometimes I post up reviews of books I’ve enjoyed.
But I think it’d be interesting to get a collective approach from all the readers of this blog. What books on business have had the greatest impact on you? Which book do you find yourself recommending to other entrepreneurs the most?
A bunch of suggestions have already been [...]
How To Generate Word Of Mouth For Your Business
20 Sep 2009About a week ago I met up with another entrepreneur here in Buenos Aires named Eric Northam (he is running a cool software-as-a-service business down here called EasyBroker.com – check it out if you get a chance).
He loaned me a book to read while I was down here, Word Of Mouth Marketing, since I’m a [...]
Releasing Breaking Free, the eBook, For Free
11 Sep 2009Breaking Free, the book, came out a few years ago when this blog started. Since then it has done reasonably well (for a first time author) both in print and online. But something happened a while after it came out: I started to wish I’d given the electronic version away for free and only charged [...]
I recently stumbled on the writings of Paul Graham and I have to say I’ve been incredibly impressed. It’s not often that I find myself finding such insight and experience in what I read. Most people out there are hawking versions of the same story, but Paul Graham seems to have a unique perspective on [...]
How To Get Free Books To Give Away
20 Aug 2008Many of you have taken advantage of the 3 free books I give away on this website. Since I’ve started doing it the number of subscribers has gone up consistently.
Today I’m going to teach you how to get your own free books that you can give away. This is a great technique to [...]
Even Doctors and 15 Year Olds Want To Break Free
In: Books
17 Jun 2008I spent some time digging through my emails tonight and updated the book page with about a dozen emails from people who purchased Breaking Free the book.
Some of them are pretty inspiring…and it’s amazing to see the VARIETY of people who all share the same desire to be free from a job (from doctors to [...]
I’ve been listening lately to Robert Kiyosaki’s Choose To Be Rich, and I have to say that it is outstanding.
Probably one of the top three book on building wealth I’ve come across, and as you know I’ve read (or listened to) a lot.
He gets into all sorts of topics in the book, but here are [...]
Nobody Achieves Anything Without Failure (huh?)
20 Nov 2007Sometimes people ask me questions like:
Why take the risk of quitting your job?
I was just listening to Brian Tracy speak in The Psychology of Achievement, and he phrases it better than I could have:
Every single peak performing human being, every single high achieving man or woman, has been a person who has thrown off the [...]
The Richest Man In Babylon
11 Nov 2007I started re-reading one of my all time favorite books this week, The Richest Man In Babylon.
The principles to building wealth really haven’t changed much in several hundred years, and this book has been around forever. Building wealth isn’t that hard; just look at what successful people are doing and model it. Trying [...]
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