19 Books on Business and Personal Investing

19 Books on Business and Personal Investing

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Title: The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

This book is not just a bargain, it's a steal. It's filled with practical, workable advice for anyone wanting to build wealth. Mike Summey, co-author of the bestselling The Weekend Millionaire's Secrets to Investing in Real Estate

Anyone who seeks financial wealth must first learn the fundamental truths and models that drive it. The Millionaire Real Estate Investor represents the collected wisdom and experience of over 100 millionaire investors from all walks of life who pursued financial wealth and achieved the life-changing freedom it delivers. This book in straightforward, no nonsense, easy-to-read style reveals their proven strategies.

The Millionaire Real Estate Investor is your handbook to the tried and true financial wealth building vehicle that rewards patience and perseverance and is available to all real estate. You'll learn:

  • Myths about money and investing that hold people back and how to develop the mindset of a millionaire investor
  • How to develop sound criteria for identifying great real estate investment opportunities
  • How to zero in on the key terms of any transaction and achieve the best possible deals
  • How to develop the "dream team" that will help you build your millionaire investment business
  • Proven models and strategies millionaire investors use to track their net worth, understand their finances, build their network, lead generate for properties and acquire them

The Millionaire Real Estate Investor is about you and your money. It's about your financial potential. It's about discovering the millionaire investor in you.

Author(s): Gary Keller
ISBN 13: 9780071446372
Pages: 368
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Title: Security Analysis: The Classic 1951 Edition

With nearly a million copies sold, Security Analysis has been continuously in print for more than sixty years. No investment book in history had either the immediate impact, or the long-term relevance and value, of its first edition in 1934. By 1951, seventeen years past its original publication and more than a decade beyond its revised and acclaimed 1940 second edition, authors Benjamin Graham and David Dodd had seen business and investment markets travel from the depths of Depression to the heights of recovery, and had observed investor behavior during both the calm of peacetime and the chaos of World War II.

The prescient thinking and insight displayed by Graham and Dodd in the first two editions of Security Analysis reached new heights in the third edition. In words that could just as easily have been written today as fifty years ago, they detail techniques and strategies for attaining success as individual investors, as well as the responsibilities of corporate decision makers to build shareholder value and transparency for those investors.

The focus of the book, however, remains its timeless guidance and advice—that careful analysis of balance sheets is the primary road to investment success, with all other considerations little more than distractions. The authors had seen and survived the Great Depression as well as the political and financial instabilities of World War II and were now better able to outline a program for sensible and profitable investing in the latter half of the century.

Security Analysis: The Classic 1951 Edition marks the return of this long-out-of-print work to the investment canon. It will reacquaint you with the foundations of value investing—more relevant than ever in tumultuous twenty-first century markets—and allow you to own the third installment in what has come to be regarded as the most accessible and usable title in the history of investment publishing.

Author(s): Benjamin Graham
ISBN 13: 9780071448208
Pages: 770
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Title: Your First Home: The Proven Path to Home Ownership: A Keller Williams Realty Guide

An inspiring guide for aspiring home buyers

Finding your first home is like falling in love for the first time. It can bring some of the highest highs. It can also be a complicated, confusing journey, with risks for the ill informed or unguided.

Your First Home offers you a sure-footed, reassuring guide as a first-time buyer: deciding to buy; hiring an agent; analyzing needs versus wants; and financing and negotiating, up through and after closing. It also addresses bad credit repair, due diligence, and insurance; fixed-rate versus adjustable rate mortgages; and other potential stumbling blocks on the road to happy home ownership.

Author(s): Keller, Gary , Jenks, Dave , Papasan, Jay
ISBN 13: 9780071546218
Pages: 200
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Title: Security Analysis: Sixth Edition, Foreword by Warren Buffett

"A road map for investing that I have now been following for 57 years."
—From the Foreword by Warren E. Buffett

First published in 1934, Security Analysis is one of the most influential financial books ever written. Selling more than one million copies through five editions, it has provided generations of investors with the timeless value investing philosophy and techniques of Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd.

As relevant today as when they first appeared nearly 75 years ago, the teachings of Benjamin Graham, “the father of value investing,” have withstood the test of time across a wide diversity of market conditions, countries, and asset classes.

This new sixth edition, based on the classic 1940 version, is enhanced with 200 additional pages of commentary from some of today’s leading Wall Street money managers. These masters of value investing explain why the principles and techniques of Graham and Dodd are still highly relevant even in today’s vastly different markets. The contributor list includes:

  • Seth A. Klarman, president of The Baupost Group, L.L.C. and author of Margin of Safety
  • James Grant, founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, general partner of Nippon Partners
  • Jeffrey M. Laderman, twenty-five year veteran of BusinessWeek
  • Roger Lowenstein, author of Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist and When America Aged and Outside Director, Sequoia Fund
  • Howard S. Marks, CFA, Chairman and Co-Founder, Oaktree Capital Management L.P.
  • J. Ezra Merkin, Managing Partner, Gabriel Capital Group .
  • Bruce Berkowitz, Founder, Fairholme Capital Management.
  • Glenn H. Greenberg, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Chieftain Capital Management
  • Bruce Greenwald, Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia Business School
  • David Abrams, Managing Member, Abrams Capital

Featuring a foreword by Warren E. Buffett (in which he reveals that he has read the 1940 masterwork “at least four times”), this new edition of Security Analysis will reacquaint you with the foundations of value investing—more relevant than ever in the tumultuous 21st century markets.

Author(s): Benjamin Graham
ISBN 13: 9780071592536
Pages: 700
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Title: Shift: How Top Real Estate Agents Tackle Tough Times

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

WALL STREET JOURNAL BUSINESS BESTSELLER

USA TODAY MONEY BESTSELLER

"Tough times make or break people. My friend Gary teaches you how to make the tragic into magic. Read & reap from this great book."
—Mark Victor Hansen, Co-creator, #1 New York Times best selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul

Co-author, Cracking the Millionaire Code, The One Minute Millionaire, and Cash in a Flash.

Author, Richest Kids in America

"Real estate buyers and sellers have to SHIFT their mindset to new and more creative strategies in this challenging real estate market. This book shows them excellent ways to survive and thrive."
—Robert Allen, author of the New York Times bestsellers Nothing Down, Creating Wealth, Multiple Streams of Income and The One Minute Millionaire.

"Change happens. It's natural. It's ever present. It's reoccurring. So when markets shift you need to as well. No one explains this better in the real estate industry than my good friend Gary Keller and his team of talented co-authors. Their latest book, SHIFT, is perfect for all real estate professionals. It captures the very essence of a shifting housing market and what Realtors need to do to thrive therein. SHIFT will help you alter your focus and your actions to ensure that you get your head back in the game and increase your market share, irrespective of strong or weak market conditions. It's a great book – read it today."
—Stefan Swanepoel, author of Swanepoel TRENDS Report, 2006-2009

"Need help weathering the storm in today's real estate market? If so, reach for Gary Keller's new book, Shift— it's the lifesaver you need today to thrive tomorrow. Shift is rich in easy-to-understand strategies, charts, and illustrations that show you exactly what you need to do to thrive in today's very challenging and 'shifted' real estate market."

—Bernice Ross, Inman News

The Millionaire Real Estate Series

More than 1,000,000 copies sold!

SHIFTS happen…

Markets shift, and you can too. Sometimes you'll shift in response to a falling market, and other times you'll shift to take your business to the next level. Both can transform your business and your life. You can change your thinking, your focus, your actions, and, ultimately, your results to get back in the game and ahead of the competition. The tactics that jump-start your business in tough times will power it forward in good times. No matter the market-shift!

SHIFT explores twelve proven strategies for achieving success in any real estate market, including

  • Master the Market of the Moment: Short Sales, Foreclosures, and REOs
  • Create Urgency: Overcoming Buyer Reluctance
  • Re-Margin Your Business: Expense Management
  • Find the Motivated: Lead Generation
  • Expand the Options: Creative Financing
Author(s): Gary Keller
ISBN 13: 9780071605267
Pages: 304
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Title: Real Estate Loop-Holes Secrets of Successful Real Estate Investing

Finding wealth through investing in property depends on knowledge, a good plan - and building a team of advisors and mentors who can provide the expert guidance needed. By examining the three keys to successful real estate investing - selection, taxation and protection - REAL ESTATE LOOPHOLES shows what it takes to makes a real estate investment work.
Author(s): Garrett Sutton;Diane Kennedy
ISBN 13: 9780446691352
Pages: 240
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Title: HOLD: How to Find, Buy, and Rent Houses for Wealth

Learn how to obtain financial freedom through real estate. The final book in Gary Keller’s national best-selling Millionaire Real Estate Investor trilogy teaches the proven, reliable real estate investing process to achieve financial wealth: 1. Find – the right property for the right terms and at the right price. 2. Analyze – an offer to make sure the numbers and terms make sense. 3. Buy – an investment property where you make money going in. 4. Manage – a property until it’s paid for or you have a large amount of equity to leverage. 5. Grow – your way to wealth and financial freedom.
Author(s): Steve Chader;Jennice Doty;Jim McKissack;Linda McKissack;Jay Papasan;Gary Keller
ISBN 13: 9780071797047
Pages: 400
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Title: Financial Peace Planner: A Step-by-Step Guide to Restoring Your Family's Financial Health

Get out of debt and stay out with the help of Dave Ramsey, recently seen by millions of Today Show viewers. His practical regimen, first set forth by The Financial Peace Planner, which will be published by Penguin in January 1998. Loaded with inspirational insights that come from personal experience, this set of books is the most valuable purchase a debt-ridden reader can make.

Author(s): Dave Ramsey
ISBN 13: 9780140264685
Pages: 288
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Title: How to Have More Than Enough: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Abundance

In Financial Peace, Dave Ramsey showed readers how to get out of debt. Now he uses the same blend of down-home wisdom and straight talk to take readers to the next step: building wealth. But success means more than money—it means having a happy marriage and family. In How to Have More Than Enough, Dave Ramsey guides readers down the path to true success. Rather than gimmicks or quick fixes, Ramsey's method for achieving financial and familial stability focuses on ten traits essential to creating prosperity, teaching children about money, living debt-free, and achieving marital bliss when it comes to finances. His easy-to-follow workbook illustrates each of these traits and allows readers to frequently assess their progress and honestly evaluate their situation. How to Have More Than Enough offers readers and their spouses the chance to work toward building wealth and strengthening their families.

Author(s): Dave Ramsey
ISBN 13: 9780140281934
Pages: 336
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Title: More Than Enough : The Ten Keys to Changing Your Financial Destiny

In his first bestseller, Financial Peace, Dave Ramsey taught us how to eliminate debt from our lives. Now in More Than Enough, he gives us the keys to building wealth while also creating a successful, united family. Drawing from his years of work with thousands of families and corporate employees, Ramsey presents the ten keys that guarantee family and financial peace, including: values, goals, patience, discipline, and giving back to one's community. Using these essential steps anyone can create prosperity, live debt-free, and achieve marital bliss around the issue of finances. Filled with stories of couples, single men and women, children, and single parents, More Than Enough will show you:

How to create a budget that fits your income and creates wealth What finances and romance have to do with one another What role values play in your financial life How to retire wealthy in every way And much, much more

Resonating with Ramsey's down-home, folksy voice, heartwarming case histories, inspiring insights, quotations from the Bible, and exercises, quizzes, and worksheets, More Than Enough provides an inspiring wealth-building guide and a life-changing blueprint for a vital family dynamic.

Author(s): Dave Ramsey
ISBN 13: 9780142000472
Pages: 352
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Title: Creating a Learning Society

The volume concludes with brief commentaries from Philippe Aghion and Michael Woodford, as well as from Nobel Laureates Kenneth Arrow and Robert Solow.
Author(s): Joseph E. Stiglitz Bruce C. Greenwald
ISBN 13: 9780231152143
Pages: 560
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Title: Creating a Learning Society

As the book makes clear, creating a learning society requires good governmental policy in trade, industry, intellectual property, and other important areas.
Author(s): Joseph E. Stiglitz Bruce C. Greenwald
ISBN 13: 9780231175494
Pages: 400
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Title: Rich Dad's Conspiracy of The Rich: The 8 New Rules of Money

In late January, 2009, Robert Kiyosaki launched CONSPIRACY OF THE RICH - a free online book which was written in serial basis to help people understand how the current recession came about, and what they need to learn on how to survive through the coming rough years. <p>An unprecedented publishing event for Kiyosaki and The Rich Dad Company, <i>CONSPIRACY OF THE RICH</i> is an interactive, "Wiki-style" project in which Kiyosaki has invited feedback, commentary, and questions from readers across the globe.</p> <p>The response so far has been totally fantastic. Millions and millions of readers have flocked to the website (www.conspiracyoftherich.com) to read what Robert has to say about the recession, and the readers have posted thousands of comments. Some of those reader comments will even be included in the final tradepaper version.</p>
Author(s): Robert T. Kiyosaki
ISBN 13: 9780446559805
Pages: 272
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Title: Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom

This work will reveal why some people work less, earn more, pay less in taxes, and feel more financially secure than others.
Author(s): Robert T. Kiyosaki
ISBN 13: 9780446677479
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Title: Rich Dad's Rich Kid, Smart Kid: Giving Your Children a Financial Head Start

<p>This handbook for parents explains how to teach children the fundamental principles of finance, introducing problem-solving skills that help youngsters understand the importance of a good education and financial planning in their lives.</p>
Author(s): Robert T. Kiyosaki
ISBN 13: 9780446677486
Pages: 288
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