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Book :: Zero to One.

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German-American Entrepreneur Peter Andreas Thiel is the CEO of Paypal (which he co-founded with Max Levchin and Elon Musk), and the Chairman of Palantir. He is also a Venture Capitalist and a Hedge Fund Manager.

Stanford graduate Blake Masters, is an Entrepreneur and the co author of Zero to One. In addition to being a lawyer and a Cross Fitter, Masters is also a co-founder at Judicata and a former employee of Box and Founders Fund.

, Zero to One, is basically a compilation of lectures delivered by Thiel during his teaching years at Stanford. Together, Thiel and Masters assemble a convincing set of norms for businesspersons, fresh companies, and aspiring leaders to consider as an outline guide when building the “next big thing” .

While certain segments of the book are incredibly organized, some may be found rather dry and dull, – depending on the previous experiences of the experience. However, in each chapter Thiel includes striking examples illustrating critical elements to bear in. For example, “Most fights inside a company happen when colleagues compete for the same responsibilities.” is one telling scenario.
Thiel spends a lot of the introduction and first section highlighting the contrast between going from “1 to n” (accomplishing a greater amount of what’s been carried out today) versus going from “0 to 1” (doing something that has never been carried out previously). The first step to figure it out correctly is to ask what we know from the past.

Often we make compromising decisions about taking up a new business and mistakenly accredit it to past mistakes. For instance: considering the fact that entrepreneurs over-invested in “innovation” way back in the late ’90s doesn’t mean that business enthusiasts of today ought to strictly implement being as “lean” as possible in their business approach.

Here is some other stuff

The past does not equal the future

Avoid Competition

Build a monopoly

  • Niche first, expand later.
  • Do not disrupt. Avoid competing. Create something that contributes to the overall growth of the industry/market you’re serving instead.

  •  Make everyone do/focus on one big thing. Nothing more.
  • Hire people that want to work for you because they believe in what you and the organization believe.
  • Make sure everyone gets along.
  • Don’t be afraid to hire people who are a little obsessive about their work. It’s not always a bad thing

SELL SELL SELL

“If you’ve invented something new but you haven’t invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business — no matter how good the product.”

 

Lets stop here !! I suggest you buy this nice book today and enjoy a nice future 

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Books for Investors: A Short Shelf

Every book below has stood the test of time and, I’m confident, will remain useful for generations to come. You will quickly note that some aren’t even about investing. But they all will help teach you how to think more clearly, which is the only way to become a wiser and better investor. I’ve listed them alphabetically by author.

Gary Belsky and Thomas Gilovich, Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes and How to Correct Them

In clear, simple prose, Belsky and Gilovich explain some of the most common quirks that cause people to make foolish financial decisions. If you read this book, you should be able to recognize most of them in yourself and have a fighting chance of counteracting some of them. Otherwise, you will end up learning about your cognitive shortcomings the hard way: at the Wall Street campus of the School of Hard Knocks.

Peter L. Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

The late polymath Peter Bernstein poured a long lifetime of erudition and insight into this intellectual history of risk, luck, probability and the problems of trying to forecast what the future holds. Combining a stupendous depth of research with some of the most elegant prose ever written about finance, Bernstein chronicles the halting human march toward a better understanding of risk—and reminds us that, after centuries of progress, we still have a long way to go.

John C. Bogle, Common Sense on Mutual Funds

The founder of the Vanguard Group and father of the index-fund industry methodically sorts fact from fiction. Following his logical arguments can benefit you even if you never invest in a mutual fund, since Bogle touches on just about every crucial aspect of investing, including taxes, trading costs, diversification, performance measurement and the power of patience.

Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton, Triumph of the Optimists

Neither light reading nor cheap (it’s hard to find online for less than about $75), this book is the most thoughtful and objective analysis of the long-term returns on stocks, bonds, cash and inflation available anywhere, purged of the pom-pom waving and statistical biases that contaminate other books on the subject. The sober conclusion here: Stocks are likely, although not certain, to be the highest-performing asset over the long run. But if you overpay at the top of a bull market, your future returns on stocks will probably be poor.

Richard Feynman, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! or What Do You Care What Other People Think?

These captivating oral histories of the great Nobel Prize-winning physicist ostensibly have nothing to do with investing. In my view, however, the three qualities an investor needs above all others are independence, skepticism and emotional self-control. Reading Feynman’s recollections of his career of intellectual discovery, you’ll see how hard he worked at honing his skepticism and learning to think for himself. You’ll also be inspired to try emulating him in your own way.

Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor

Originally published in 1949, called by Warren Buffett “by far the best book on investing ever written,” this handbook covers far more than just how to determine how much a company’s stock is worth. Graham discusses how to allocate your capital across stocks and bonds, how to analyze mutual funds, how to take inflation into account, how to think wisely about risk and, especially, how to understand yourself as an investor. After all, as Graham wrote, “the investor’s chief problem—and even his worst enemy—is likely to be himself.” (Disclosure: I edited the 2003 revised edition and receive a royalty on its sales.) Advanced readers can move on to Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, Security Analysis, the much longer masterpiece upon which The Intelligent Investor is based.

Darrell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics

This puckish riff on how math can be manipulated is only 142 pages; most people could read it on a train ride or two, or in an afternoon at the beach. As light as the book is, however, it is nevertheless profound. In one short take after another, Huff picks apart the ways in which marketers use statistics, charts, graphics and other ways of presenting numbers to baffle and trick the public. The chapter “How to Talk Back to a Statistic” is a brilliant step-by-step guide to figuring out how someone is trying to deceive you with data.

Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

Successful investing isn’t about outsmarting the next guy, but rather about minimizing your own stupidity. Psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who shared the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2oo2, probably understands how the human mind works better than anyone else alive. This book can make you think more deeply about how you think than you ever thought possible. As Kahneman would be the first to say, that can’t inoculate you completely against your own flaws. But it can’t hurt, and it might well help. (Disclosure: I helped Kahneman research, write and edit the book, although I don’t earn any royalties from it.)

Charles P. Kindleberger, Manias, Panics, and Crashes

In this classic, first published in 1978, the late financial economist Charles Kindleberger looks back at the South Sea Bubble, Ponzi schemes, banking crises and other mass disturbances of purportedly efficient markets. He explores the common features of market disruptions as they build and burst. If you remember nothing from the book other than Kindleberger’s quip, “There is nothing so disturbing to one’s well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich,” you are ahead of the game.

Roger Lowenstein, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

This book remains the most comprehensive and illuminating study of Warren Buffett’s investing and analytical methods, covering his career in remarkable detail up until the mid-1990s. If you read it in conjunction with Alice Schroeder’s The Snowball, you will have a fuller grasp on what makes the world’s greatest investor tick.

Burton G. Malkiel, A Random Walk Down Wall Street

In this encyclopedic and lively book, Malkiel, a finance professor at Princeton University, bases his judgments on rigorous and objective analysis of long-term data. The first edition, published in 1973, is widely credited with helping foster the adoption of index funds. The latest edition casts a skeptical eye on technical analysis, “smart beta” and other market fashions.

Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays or The Scientific Outlook

Russell is Buffett’s favorite philosopher, and these short essay collections show why. Russell wrote beautifully and thought with crystalline clarity. Immersing yourself in his ideas will sharpen your own skepticism. My favorite passage: “When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man…. It is an odd fact that subjective certainty is inversely proportional to objective certainty. The less reason a man has to suppose himself in the right, the more vehemently he asserts that there is no doubt whatever that he is exactly right.” Think about that the next time a financial adviser begins a sentence with the words “Studies have proven that….”

Alice Schroeder, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

With unprecedented access to Buffett, Schroeder crafted a sensitive, personal and insightful profile, focusing even more on him as a person than as an investor—and detailing the remarkable sacrifices he made along the way. If you read it alongside Lowenstein’s Buffett, you will have an even deeper understanding of the master.

Fred Schwed, Where Are the Customers’ Yachts? 

First published in 1940, this is the funniest book ever written about investing—and one of the wisest. Schwed, a veteran of Wall Street who survived the Crash of 1929, knew exactly how the markets worked back then. Nothing has changed. Turning to any page at random, you will find gleefully sarcastic observations that ring at least as true today as they did three-quarters of a century ago. My favorite: “At the end of the day [fund managers] take all the money and throw it up in the air. Everything that sticks to the ceiling belongs to the clients.”

“Adam Smith,” The Money Game

In the late 1960s, the stock market was dominated by fast-talking, fast-trading young whizzes. The former money manager George J.W. Goodman, who wrote under the pen name “Adam Smith,” christened them “gunslingers.” In this marvelously entertaining book, Goodman skewers the pretensions, guesswork and sheer hogwash of professional money management. Reading his mockery can help sharpen your own skepticism toward the next great new investing idea—which almost certainly will turn out to be neither great nor new.

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28 Important Philosophers List the Books That Influenced Them Most During Their College Days

The web site Demasiado Aire recently asked “some of the world’s most important philosophers which three books influenced them the most while undergraduate students.” And, from what we can tell, they got a good response. 28 influential philosophers dutifully jotted their lists, and, for at least the past day, Demasiado Aire has been offline, seemingly overwhelmed by traffic. Thanks to Google’s web caching technology, we can recover these lists and provide you with a few highlights. (Note: The original post is here.) We have added links to the texts cited by the philosophers. The free texts have an asterisk (*) next to them.

Charles Taylor (McGill University):

Phénoménologie de la Perception, Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The Brothers Karamazov*, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Jalons pour une théologie du Laïcat, Yves Congar

Daniel Dennett (Tufts University):

“That’s easy:

Word and Object, Quine.

The concept of mind*, Gilbert Ryle

Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I got to study with Quine and Ryle, but Wittgenstein had died before I encountered his work”.

Alexander Nehamas (Princeton University):

Apology of Socrates*, Plato

Nicomachean Ethics*, Aristotle

Ethics*, Spinoza

“Also, I should point out that Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality* had a huge effect on me when I was a graduate student and had a formative influence on my philosophical development”.

David Chalmers (Australian National University):

“I was an undergraduate student in mathematics rather than philosophy, but the answer is”:

Gödel, Escher Bach, Douglas Hofstadter

The Mind’s I, Douglas Hofstadter & Daniel Dennett

Reasons and Persons, Derek Parfit

You can view lists by other philosophers, including Alain de Botton, Wendy Brown, Peter Millican, and more here: live pagecached page.

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The 14 Best Business Books To Read This Fall

As we shake off the summer malaise and head into fall, it’s the perfect time to read some motivational and insightful business books.

And there’s no shortage of good material. Coming out in the next two months are memoirs packed with advice, like Virgin Group founder Richard Branson’s “The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership;” post-recession financial analysis, like Martin Wolf’s “The Shifts and the Shocks: What We’ve Learned — and Have Still to Learn — from the Financial Crisis;” and useful professional guides, like Steven Pinker’s “The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century.”

We’ve gathered some of the fall’s most interesting and valuable books to add to your reading list. Some are available now and others are available for pre-order.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/best-business-books-to-read-fall-2014-2014-8?op=1#ixzz3CWANVe6r

 

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21 of Bill Clinton’s Favorite Books

I’m always curious to see what other people are reading. It’s one of the ways I figure out what to read next. This list, from 1993, of Bill Clinton’s 21 favorite books is worth a look. Certainly not what I expected.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Of this book, James Baldwin said: “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”

Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
A book from the Stoic reading list. Aurelius has been relevant for over 1800 years, and I bet he’ll still be relevant in another 1800.

The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker
Examining the meaning of human existence, this book won the Pulitzer prize in 1974. “In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie — man’s refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than twenty years after its writing.”

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963, Taylor Branch
The story of the American civil rights movement.

Living History, Hillary Rodham Clinton
He’s not biased at all, nope.

Lincoln, David Herbert Donald
What’s a President without a favorite Lincoln book. You could do a lot worse than this portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald.

The Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot
The “culminating achievement” by a man considered to be one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.

Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
A book about race in America, to be sure, but more than that it’s a book about the “human race stumbling down the path to identity, challenged and successful to varying degrees.” The world, in all of its complexities is a tricky place, and few realize this more than the invisible man, who leaves us with these words: “And it is this which frightens me: Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?”

The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century, David Fromkin
Gregory McNamee summed it up best: “Historians and philosophers of history have long debated whether the human story is one of constant improvement and progress, or whether history is instead a wheel that leads us again and again to the same place–the same choices, the same errors. … David Fromkin is an unabashed partisan of the first school. In his view, the logic of history leads to “the only civilization still surviving, the scientific one of the modern world,” the civilization of capitalism and technology.”

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
With One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez unleashed Latin American literature to a world-wide audience.

The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, Seamus Heaney
“Seamus Heaney’s version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero, Philoctetes, whom the Greeks marooned on the island of Lemnos and forgot about until the closing stages of the Siege of Troy. Abandoned because of a wounded foot, Philoctetes nevertheless possesses an invincible bow without which the Greeks cannot win the Trojan War. They are forced to return to Lemnos and seek out Philoctetes’ support in a drama that explores the conflict between personal integrity and political expediency.”

King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Adam Hochschild
“Hochschild’s superb, engrossing chronicle focuses on one of the great, horrifying and nearly forgotten crimes of the century: greedy Belgian King Leopold II’s rape of the Congo, the vast colony he seized as his private fiefdom in 1885,” wrote Publisher’s Weekly.

The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis
“This classic has drawn thousands of readers down the ages, including Henry VIII’s chancellor Thomas More, John Wesley, Irish patriot Daniel O’Connell and St Ignatius of Loyola, who reputedly would offer the book as a gift to acquaintances.” — Kirkus

Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell
Orwell went to Spain in 1936 to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fascists. This book describes the war as witnessed by Orwell.

The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis, Carroll Quigley
“A comprehensive and perceptive look at the factors behind the rise and fall of civilizations.”

Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics, Reinhold Niebuhr
A continually relevant study in ethics and politics, the book was Niebuhr’s break from “progressive religion and politics toward a more deeply tragic view of human nature and history.”

The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron
“Magnificent…It is one of those rare books that show us our American past, our present – ourselves – is a dazzling shaft of light…A triumph” — New York Times

Politics as a Vocation, Max Weber
A book that clearly resonated with Clinton and one he could likely add more than a few chapters to.

You Can’t Go Home Again, Thomas Wolfe
A portrait of America and Europe from the Great Depression to the years leading up to WWII through the story of a young writer trying to make his mark on the world.

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Robert Wright
This is the second time this book comes recommended. In my interview with Samuel Arbesman, he called this book “a wonderful exploration of how the world has become more complicated and better over time, improving each of our lives.”

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, William Butler Yeats
All of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in his standard canon.

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Stop Reading and Start Learning: How to Absorb Information Better

Business is full of dry, boring material that needs your attention. Here, Inc. columnists share ways to get through the drudgery.

There is no shortage of material that needs to be read in business, including marketing copy, business plans, contracts, legal documents, and, of course, business books. I love to read, but not all business reading is particularly entertaining or well written. And some of the most important stuff is dense, dry, and dreadful, no matter how much achieving success requires you read it.

So when my inbox is full of necessary reading that I know will put me to sleep, I have to make a special effort to power through it. First, I set aside time with no distractions. No phone, email, or TV to draw my focus. Then, I find a place with lots of natural light. Lastly, I turn on mellow music that I know well so I can get into its rhythmic groove. Before you know it, the stack is gone, and I feel better for having been productive.

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Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

In 1969, John Brooks published “Business Adventures,” his collection of New Yorkerbusiness stories—“Twelve classic tales from the worlds of Wall Street and the modern American corporation.” Now, forty-five years later, Bill Gates, in the Wall Street Journal, is calling it his “favorite business book.” (He says it’s Warren Buffett’s favorite business book, too.) It’s easy to see why. Brooks, who wrote for the magazine for more than thirty years, approached business in an unusual way. He had an eye for the technical details that mattered to insiders, but the sensibility of a broad-minded cultural critic.

 

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Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

This is the book that all of us that us who love the wit and wisdom of Mr. Munger have been waiting for.

It’s an absolutely first class production that contains biographical information on Mr. Munger and, most importantly, finally allows all of us to read and study Mr. Munger’s works in one volume.

As an added bonus Chapter 10 includes new material written by Mr. Munger especially for this book.

I strongly recommend that you read and study this book!

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The 5 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Toss in Their Beach Bag

Entrepreneurs work hard all year long to ensure their businesses become successful and stay successful, but everyone needs a break to relax and reflect. If you start feeling guilty about heading to the beach this summer don’t.

Here is a list of summer reads that will keep you thinking and inspired — even from your Adirondack.

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    Do you keep 50% of your time unscheduled? This sounds like a strange question—in fact, for those of us with back-to-back meetings and to-do lists a mile long, it might sound downright silly. But if you’re a manager, leader, or entrepreneur, it’s one worth pondering. As Dov Frohman explains in…
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    http://julliengordon.com/the-10-best-business-books-for-side-hustlers http://petracoach.com/book/
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    Author Steven Johnson talks to the engineer turned philanthropist about the future, technology, ice, capitalism, and optimism. When interesting people hang out, interesting things tend to happen. So when we found out that Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From andThe Ghost Map was going to sit down…
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