Category: Books

Having a home-based business is a wonderful adventure: you’re on your own, you answer only to yourself, you’re living the dream. To succeed means to work hard — as well as smart. To do that, you need the know-how and the inspiration.

Few sights can brighten a dirty New York City subway car, but a hot dude reading a book is definitely one of them.

To save you time and money, we've distilled 25 of the greatest business books down to their primary insights.

Perhaps more than any other work, Thomas Paine’s ‘Common Sense’ galvanized the case for American independence.

This guide provides readers with insights and exercises that will help develop a positive, success-driven, never quit attitude. Understanding the importance of maintaining a positive attitude in the face of adversity is not an easy task to accomplish...but your attitude is one of the few things in this life that you have complete control over.

Despite their successes, there are hundreds of famous authors and writers out there who loathe the process of putting down words. The solitude. The long stretches of time away from any sort of human contact. The inability to think or talk about anything other than the topic at hand. And don’t even get me started on self-doubt, inner criticism, and writer’s block.

The moral of this tale, of course, is simply this: any fool can read Ulysses, despite its rumored impenetrability, given the right amount of determination and the proper resources. So, with that as inspiration, here are a few tools to guide you on your way into the thick, allusion-rife text of ribaldry, cleverness, humanity, and pathos.

Once — before he'd hit the New York Times Best Sellers List, before he'd hosted a TV show, before he'd written a book whose film adaptation got an Oscar nomination for best picture — Ben Mezrich was just another struggling author.

Many of us who have been covering markets and investing for some time were weened on great books like Burton Malkiel’s A Random Walk Down Wall Street (1973),  Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor (1949) and Jesse Livermore’s Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923). The wisdom found in these books is timeless, but markets and financial products evolve. So the editors of Forbes recently came up with a new list of investing classics as a companion to the New Masters of Money feature we have running throughout our recently released Investment Guide.  Beach readers looking for a break from the 50 Shades of Grey Trilogy this summer will find the reading list below informative and entertaining in a different way, as well as a good source for future portfolio profits.

Summer is the season of interns and young financiers bustling through an industry several times their age. So Business Insider reached out to veterans and asked, what are you reading?

A riveting personal account and a thorough global history of methamphetamine abuse and addiction. An Independent Publisher Highlighted Title, Amazon best seller, and reader favorite. “This book will scare the hell out of you.”

From brilliant bookshelves built into stairs to floor-to-ceiling libraries, these bookshelf ideas for living rooms, the study and beyond are just as inspiring as the tomes that fill them. Fancy creating a clever book nook of your own? We have bookshelf ideas for every room of your home, from fitted and floating bookshelves to corner bookshelves (and even colour-coded bookshelves). How novel...

One of the recent questions was, “Name one book that has had the greatest impact on your life.” This list contains 50 different books from 50 different entrepreneurs in the group from around the world.

What do I like to read? Self-improvement books. The problem is that a lot of self-improvement books are a complete waste of time. I have to read 10 of them to find a good one and 100 to find a great one. So allow me to save you the work of reading 500 books and recommend five great ones you've most likely never even heard of...

John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost was first published in 1667. Originally written as 10 books, Milton reworked it as 12, following the model of Virgil’s Aeneid. In the work, Milton explores the creation of humankind by God, the temptation in Eden, Satan’s ambition and fall and the concept of sin. He faces two major difficulties in the story. Having created Satan as a dynamic and not unattractive villain, he has to find a way of debasing him. And he has to reconcile Adam’s free will with the idea of predestination, seen as God’s foreknowledge of future events. He does this by proposing that humankind has free will, but that God, having set the framework of creation in motion, does not control events, but is aware of the outcome in advance.

Get Your Money Where Your Mouth Is contains all of the information and know-how so that you can go from stage-wary beginner to awe-inspiring speaker in no time flat. This is a must-read book for network marketers and MLMers, people in the insurance industry, and for those looking to effect change everywhere.

These are some of the books I love and recommend for authors. I know there are gazillion more, but these have been the most useful to me on my own writing journey.

Research finds that 85% of rich people read two or more education, career-related, or self-improvement books per month. If it works for them, why couldn't it work for you?

These days, it seems like there’s a new spirituality book that comes out almost every other day. The problem with some of these so-called “spirituality” books, is that they only make sense to the author… because more often than not, these types of books are filled to the brim with enough pseudo-science and psycho-babble to shoot a sci-fi film.

Below, you'll find a list of 11 of the most intriguing books on Harvard Business School courses' required reading lists. If you're looking for a few great summer reads, then this is just the list for you.

We firmly believe that nothing beats the antiquarian romance of spending hours sifting through dusty archives and illuminated manuscripts, never knowing what secrets lie hidden in the next stack. Whether you’re looking for a forgotten document that holds the key to an unsolved mystery, or the latest bestseller, let’s take a moment to celebrate our favorite books about libraries and librarians.

According to Chris Sacca, the Lowercase Capital partner who made more than $1 billion through his investments in companies like Twitter and Uber, Silicon Valley doesn't need more business advice. It needs a lesson in empathy.

While you can definitely read all the books Hitchcock adapted to film, if you want to expand a little beyond that horizon and increase your understanding of Hitchcock the filmmaker at the same time, I recommend starting with the following.

Have you ever wondered why things happen in your life? Then this is the book for you … about you. In the tradition of The Master Key System, this book will become a reference for your many questions and inquiries about life … And yourself.

Ranging from books based on science and new breakthroughs in psychological research, these books serve to awaken and enlighten you. If you’re only going to read 10 non fiction books, these books are all you need.

The bestselling author of Bringing Down the House (sixty-three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and the basis for the hit movie 21) and The Accidental Billionaires (the basis for the Academy Award–winning film The Social Network) delivers an epic drama of wealth, rivalry, and betrayal among mega-wealthy Russian oligarchs—and its international repercussions.

These easy and clever bookshelves look so much cooler than anything you can buy from a store. Finding creative ways to display books can be just as alluring as any kind of art.

In today’s world, change happens quickly; learn how to be flexible and responsive to new opportunities.

Critics generally view positive thinking as namby-pamby nonsense. But the philosophy has produced ideas that are deeply useful, even profound. You probably believe some of them already. This list considers the most compelling and overlooked expressions of this practical philosophy. While many of these books proved too esoteric in tone to attain the mass appeal of Dale Carnegie and Joel Osteen, they are a treasure of serviceable ideas and are all still available today.

These books provide a roadmap and a compass that will forever change the way you look at entrepreneurism, innovation, marketing, and change.

Books have always been a great source material for Hollywood, with some of the most popular and beloved being adapted into feature-length films. Granted, not all of them are good, but they definitely affirm the strength of the written word. Plus, being able to say, “the book was better” seems to be a rite of passage nowadays (especially for the Game of Thrones folks). If you want to be ahead of the game you better get reading because each of the below 13 books have adaptations primed to hit theaters in 2015. Arranged in order of release date, this list has sweeping romance, murder mysteries, Irish Mob godfathers, mermaids, and an astronaut stranded on Mars.

He was a man of peace who became Afghanistan’s most brilliant military leader. He was America’s best Afghan ally who warned about the attacks of 9-11. He fought for democracy until he was assassinated by Osama bin Laden. He was…Ahmed Shah Massoud.

For those who love books, but don’t have enough time for reading. Here are the best books you can read in under an hour each.

Write the ideas down. If they are going to be stories, try and tell the stories you would like to read. Finish the things you start to write. Do it a lot and you will be a writer. The only way to do it is to do it.

Stoicism is perhaps the only “philosophy” where the original, primary texts are actually cleaner and easier to read than anything academics have written afterward. Which is awesome because it means you can dive into the subject and go straight to the source.

The process of translating our favorite books into film is an inherently tricky conversion. Between casting central characters and fitting in (or cutting out) major plot points, so much can go wrong — or at least stray from the author’s initial intentions. From critically acclaimed fan favorites to box office duds, here are 10 movies despised by their original literary creators.

J.K. Rowling may be a Muggle (as far as we know), but she creates magic with the written word. Instead of a wand, she wields a pen, and in place of a Hogwarts education, she has years of voracious reading under her belt. We've collected a list of books the beloved Harry Potter author has said inspired her as a child and as an adult. How many have you read?

You think it’s perfectly normal to read a book in one sitting.

Your Success asks the ultimate question: what is success and how can you achieve it? Written by inspirational thought-leaders from all over the world, Your Success offers practical, easy to follow advice on how to achieve greater levels of performance and achievement.

Firebrand conservative columnist, commentator, Internet entrepreneur, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Michelle Malkin tells the fascinating, little-known stories of the inventors who have contributed to American exceptionalism and technological progress.

Because of the ideas, methods, and skills you will learn in this book, you will become balanced in all areas of your thinking and action and you will begin to deliberately live the life of your own choosing — a life of success, happiness, love, and fulfillment.

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You might find this hard to believe, but Dead Poets Society turned 25 on June 9. I know. Nothing like making me feel super ancient, huh world?

Relatively few entrepreneurs have MBAs, but I'll bet that almost all of the successful ones have read and truly treasure these seven short, easy-to-read classics:

Everything a book lover needs to fill up their home (other than books, of course).

Filmmaker John Waters once said, "If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have any books, don’t f**k ’em."