Books we recommend for building long-lasting wealth on and off Wall Street.

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The $100,000 Book Shelf

In this video, I go through all the books I read early in my wealth building career that I felt like made the biggest difference. These are the must-read financial books that truly helped me reach that first $100,000 milestone. Hopefully they help you too.

General Wealth Building

Automatic Wealth: The Six Steps to Financial Independence

By Masterson, Michael

Rich Dad's CASHFLOW Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom

By Kiyosaki, Robert T.

Automatic Wealth for Grads... and Anyone Else Just Starting Out

By Masterson, Michael, Skousen, Mark

Mindset & Productivity

The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

By Kishimi, Ichiro, Koga, Fumitake

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win (New Edition)

By Willink, Jocko, Babin, Leif

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

By Pink, Daniel H.

The Pledge: Your Master Plan for an Abundant Life

By Masterson

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 30th Anniversary Edition (The Covey Habits Series)

By Covey, Stephen R.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

By Kahneman, Daniel

Investing

You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits

By Greenblatt, Joel

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Harper Business Essentials)

By Collins, Jim, Porras, Jerry I.

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't

By Jim Collins

The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

By Altucher, James

Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements: The Search for the Company with a Durable Competitive Advantage

By Buffett, Mary

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

By Malkiel, Burton G.

The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.: The Definitive Book on Value Investing

By Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig

Invest Like a Dealmaker: Secrets from a Former Banking Insider

By Mayer, Christopher W.

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns (Little Books, Big Profits)

By Bogle, John C.

Security Analysis: Sixth Edition: Foreword by Warren Buffett

By Benjamin Graham, David Dodd

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Entrepreneurship

Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat (Agora Series)

By Masterson, Michael

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

By Gerber, Michael E.

Rework: Change The Way You Work Forever

By Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

Scale: Seven Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back

By Hoffman, Jeff, Finkel, David

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

By Ries, Eric

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

By Horowitz, Ben

Economics

Freakonomics Revised and Expanded Edition

By Levitt, Steven

Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country

By William Greider

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works--and How It Fails

By Varoufakis, Yanis

Blockchain Economics: Implications of Distributed Ledgers: Markets, Communications Networks, and Algorithmic Reality (Between Science and Economics)

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Just Books We Love that We Think You Should Read

Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

By Gilder, George

The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does

By Gilder, George