Discernment to Seize Opportunity and Recognize Risk

Recommended Readings

Introduction to Money and Investing Basics

  • "Guide to Understating Money and Investing" by Virginia B. Morris
  • "The Wall Street Journal’s Complete Money & Investing Guidebook" by Dave Kansas
  • "Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean" by Joe Knight, Karen Berman and John Case

Investing

  • "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham
  • "Extraordinary Populars Delusions and the Madness of Crowds"
    by Charles Mackay
  • "This Time is Different" by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
  • "The Black Swan" by Nassim Taled
  • "Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder" by Nassim Taled
  • "Fooled by Randomness" by Nassim Taled
  • "Too Big to Fail" by Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
  • "A Zebra in Lion Country" by Ralph Wanger
  • "When Genius Failed" by Roger Lowenstein
  • "The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor" by Howard Marks
  • "Stocks for the Long Run" by Jeremy Siegel
  • "The Intelligent Asset Allocation" by William Bernstein
  • "Against the Odds" by Peter Bernstein
  • "Perception, Opportunity and Profit" by Israel Kirzner
  • "The Warren Buffett Way" by Robert G. Hagstrom, Jr.
  • "Big Money Thinks Small” by Joel Tillinghast
  • “Charlie Munger, The Complete Investor” by Tren Griffen
  • “Poor Charlie’s Almanack” the Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (Edited by Peter D. Kaufman)
  • "Principles" by Ray Dalio
  • "Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side" by Howard Marks
  • "The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing: Do's and Don’ts to Protect Your Financial Life" by Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth
  • "Stock Trader’s Almanac" (current calendar year) by Jeffrey A. Hirsh and Christopher Mistal
  • "Meltdown: Why Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It" by Chris Clearfield and András Tilcisk
  • "Mastering the Market Cycle" by Howard Marks
  • “Motley Fool Million Dollar Portfolio” by David and Tom Gardner
  • “Radical Uncertainty” by John Kay & Mervyn King
  • “Risk, Uncertainly & Profit” by Frank H. Knight
  • “Chicken Little” Classic Phidal Publications Inc.
  • “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Rip Vsn Winkle” by Washington Irving
  • “Safe Haven: Investing for Financial Storms” by Mark Spitznagel
  • "How To Invest: Masters of the Craft" by David M. Rubenstein
  • "A Treasury of Wall Street Wisdom" by Harry D. Schultz & Samson Coslow
  • "Baruch: My Own Story" by Bernard Baruch
  • "Bernard Baruch, Park Bench Statesman" by Carter Field

Behavioral Finance

  • "Beyond Fear and Greed" by Hersh Shefrin
  • "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman
  • "The Paxodox of Choice" by Barry Schwartz

Real Estate

  • "Creating and Growing Real Estate Wealth" by William Poorvu
  • "The Real Estate Game" by William Poorvu
  • "The Wall Street Journal: Complete Real Estate Investing Handbook" by David Crook
  • “Am I Being Too Subtle” by Sam Zell

Entrepreneurial

  • "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson
  • “Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE" by Phil Knight
  • "Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul" by Howard Schultz with Joanne Gordon
  • “Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time” by Howard Schultz
  • "Empire State of Mind: How Jay Z Went from the Street Corner to the Corner Office" Revised Edition by Zach O’Malley Greenburg
  • "Insanely Simple" and "Think Simple" by Ken Sagal
  • "Iconic" by Scott McKain
  • “The E-Myth" and "The E-Myth Revisited” by Michael E. Gerber
  • “How Did You Do It, Truett?" by S. Truett Cathy
  • “Little Red Hen” Golden Press, Western Publishing Company

*Important note: Please look at the link above to the National Debt Clock as it will impact your short-, intermediate- and long-term financial planning.

Related Readings

  • "Holy Bible," King James version
  • "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life" by Alice Schroeder
  • "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
  • "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
  • "David and Goliath" by Malcolm Gladwell
  • "What the Dog Saw" by Malcolm Gladwell
  • "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
  • "The Accent of Money" by Nial Ferguson
  • "Inside Corporate America" by Allen Cox
  • "Competing Against Time" by George Stalk, Jr. and Thomas Hout
  • "The Richest Man Who Ever Lived" by Steven Scott
  • "Money and the Meaning of Life" by Jacob Needleman
  • “Scale” by Geoffrey West
  • “The Emperors of Chocolate” The Inside World of Hersheys and Mars by Joel Glen Brenner
  • “Dataclysm” by Christian Rudder
  • “Range” by David Epstein
  • “The Power of Bad” and “Willpower” by Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney
  • “Maybe (Maybe Not)" by Robert  Fulgrum
  • “The Virtue of Selfishness” by Any Rand
  • “The Pursuit of Wealth, The Moral Case for Finance” by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins
  • "Arguments for Liberty” edited by Aaron Ross Powell and Grant Babcock
  • "Uh-Oh" by Robert Fulghum
  • "Maybe (Maybe Not)" by Robert Fulghum
  • "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" by Robert Fulghum
  • "It Was on Fire When I Laid Down on It" by Robert Fulghum
  • "Grit: The Power and Passion of Perseverance" by Angela Duckworth
  • "Corporate Finance for Dummies” by Michael Taillard