Inside Ryan Holiday’s $250K Reading List
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An MBA can cost as much as$250,000. Meanwhile, Warren Buffett's business empire, one of the most successful companies and investment runs in human history, was Built on the knowledge he got from a book that he paid less than two dollars for. In the nineteen sixties, my whole life was changed by A copy of Mark Spulis' Meditations that I bought for nine dollars. On Amazon. It changed me personally and also professionally. This bookstore, my books, which have sold millions of copies, none of that would be possible.
I not learned what was in between those two covers. I wanted to give you some book recommendations. That even if you buy all of them, even if you bought signed first editions of all of them would be cheaper. And better than an MBA. start with some of my favorite business books. Not that business books are the end all be all. In fact I think
philosophy and psychology and books about history and human nature are more important, but we'll start with some business ones. Here is Trillion dollar coach. This is written by Eric Schmidt, one of the most successful business CEOs of all time. But this is about one of the greatest leadership coaches of all time who mentor and coached Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and some of the biggest CEOs in the history. of Silicon Valley. This one is great. Everyone should read what I learned. Losing a million dollars is about a trader on the Chicago stock exchange who blows it in the eighties and loses over a million dollars. Obviously, today they're playing with slightly larger amounts of money. But this one is really good. I would also pair it with another book about failure.
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