/biz/ - Business & Finance

Courtesy bump because I want info on good investing books. I've been looking at older stock market textbooks, although anything will do. Any recommendations?

bump for bookz

I can't read ;_;

Interesting, you have my bump.

I'll bump, there's way too many financial books out there that it's hard to tell which ones are full of shit

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dxjrh23fzyunhn7/biz.torrent

>>435326
This is good, I'd only add The Richest Man in Babylon and the Basic/Advanced Economics books by Sowell.

don't read "how to get rich with stocks" or any books with similar themes
don't read overly ideological books

read liar's poker

Does anyone have that "Essential /biz/ Reading" pic?

http://youtu.be/HmlX3fLQrEc

There are three good documentaries about the different economic ideologies. Done by the BBC.

Masters of Money -- John Maynard Keynes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niNYQtU8GkY

Masters Of Money -- Friedrich Hayek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEiCN57XhiI

Masters Of Money -- Karl Marx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3B_bgLd__8

>>435326
Why there are a lot of books without the pdf symbol?

>>436392
Is worth to watch this documentary, or is it just waaa waaa the 1% are bad people waaa waaa I'm so poor waaa

>>434321
Reading classics definitely helps, maybe not directly, but indirectly for sure.

The Big Short

just for inspiration and an awesome financial story

You'll learn a good deal about bond markets and their role in finance too

I love all of you, /biz/rael. Thank you.

>>436952
Can you stop being so fucking retarded weaboo animu retarded in this board please?

>>436817
That book is useless, it contains no actual information on killing those annoying birds.

I don't think books will help you become motivated OP. Sure, you can read them and learn valuable shit and tips etc but you need self motivation and the will to succeed more than anything. (Unless you're reading about how to understand markets or shit you can't learn unless you study etc) but I mean from a purely hands on approach, books won't help.
The bottom line is:
The people you see who are extremely motivated are either naturally self motivated or have endured a terrible fucking life, so bad, that they see any obstacle in front of them as nothing more than a challenge or speed bump. I think there is a danger in being middle class because you are comfortable. Similar to how most people who go to the gym get slightly above average and then don't take it any further even though they want to be bigger. Their motivation dries up, they cant tap into the same motivation anymore. Yet people like arnie who had nothing to fall back on out performed on a mass scale. (No pun intended)

Look at businessmen who grew up in sheer poverty, they are like machines. If you're middle class or perhaps even poor but still relatively comfortable, you can't compete with these people in terms of drive and motivation.

Reading other peoples rags to riches stories doesn't motivate me. I've heard too many of them. Seeing other peoples success doesn't motivate me, It doesnt hit home hard enough because wealth is everywhere you look.
The only thing that gets me motivated, and I mean to the point where I don't want to sleep for weeks on end is when I try something. I ingest as much info as possible, learn all I can... And sometimes fail at what I set out to do. Nothing motivates me more than past failure. Nothing.

My advice:
Try having a more hands on approach. You should still read because everyone should read and there is no excuse for not reading in this day and age but I think past failures and overcoming them are the key to being a self motivated fucking machine.

>>437003
...
But thats just my opinion, man

>>436964
What's your deal?

>>436966

>>437003
>I don't think books will help you
kek

>>434321

bumping baby, because now a friend made 3000k meanwhile i am here, trying to get more, anyone feel like this?

>>436796
its epub and mobi, which im sure are ebook formats.

>>437180
So I have to download one program to read the mobi and other program to read the epub?

>>437198
Use Calibre, anon. http://calibre-ebook.com/

http://os24.org/files/a-z/speculation/Jesse_Livermore-How_To_Trade_In_Stocks_(1940_original)-EN.pdf

more on jesse livermore

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Lauriston_Livermore

also this which is difficult to find, paul tudor jones keeps trying to shut it down so it must be good, already downloaded it from somewhere but the link no longer works

https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=trader+the+documentary

>>437127

> 3000k
> 3 thousand thousand

3m idiot!!!

>>437003
Thanks

By motivation I mean self-help and just general life improvement material. I am trying to get rid of TV from my life and I need some good books to keep my busy while I have down time.

I am learning the family business right now and am struggling with everything I need to learn and do. So I need to cut TV and all distractions while I focus on learning.

>>435097
Then how did you read the original post.

Also, I can't read either, so I have no idea what you said. And I don't know what my picture is saying.

>>436392

>>436392
I didn't knew that Warren Buffett disinherit his granddaughter after appearing in this documentary, he say that she is not part of his family anymore..

>>438357

>>436964
>bitching about anime on 4chan

>>438572
>posting animu in a business related board
manchild please

>>435329
>Richest Man
I vouch for this book. I have like 7 copies for idiots that ask for advice on savings, I give them the book then they're all over my ... well you know :3

>>438631
author name please

>>434321
why is everyone on this board obsessed with books? you think some book is gonna make you rich? don't be so naive

learn the basics on the internet and then APPLY it. experience is the most important thing

>>438654
>reading is for faggots.jpg

books are just as bad as shitty blogs only just bigger waste of time

>>438678
this

>>438678
pretty much

read business news, text books, SEC filings and finance/trading tutorials

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/yelp/sec-filings
http://www.babypips.com

then look up terms you don't understand on wikipedia and investopedia, read everything, even the disclaimers and shit, from one end of a quarterly (10-Q) to the other, find out what the other forms mean, try to think and use your critical thinking skills and fit them into your world, how events affect the business, how significant they are and so forth

you could start with this

https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance

>>438680
>>438678
>>438683
>>438665

>>438688
Why babypips anon?
Learning forex is useful to finance or is just like a plus?

>>438715
It is strongly related with other types of trading and covers quite a lot besides forex, I found it useful.

>>438733
Cool! is good to know

>>436952
>Anime
Please get out.

interesting thread

>>438629
>not getting rich off weebs

>>438629
deal with it sperglord

Why we have animetards here?
They don't provide nothing to this board

>>438357
Why nobody respond this?

>>434321
Anyone post "early retirement extreme" yet?

>>440594
tl,dr of early retirement extreme?

>>436966
this
I hated reading this in high school, I was expecting full blown bird on bird gore, what did I get? a retarded nigger and a whore... fuck this shit

>>436389
why are micro/marcoeconomics books there.. most people here wont understand it

>>440678
Because wathever retarded add books to that pic
But, aren't you suposed to understand AT LEAST basic economics?

>>440783
this

>>434321

>>441959
Then when you're rich enough to get into the Illuminati you need to read these.

>>441959

>>441962
What exactly is this for?

>>437180

epub and mobi are such shitty formats, I don't know why anyone publishes in anything but .pdf. I would rather read in .txt than epub.

>>441995
I have a Kindle (the cheapest one, paid $49 on sale) and reading pdf's on it is a fucking nightmare. epub is pretty good, and I dont have no experience with mobi.

>>441995
>i'm too poor to afford a kindle

>>442007
>muh mommy has money and she bought me a kindle

>>442691
This

>>441962
wrong board

>>442691
>muh mommy doesn't like me enough to spend $50 on me

>>444370
Nop, muh mommy teach me to earn my own money and not be a retarded manchild who like to showing off the toys that mommy buy to him

>>444380
Well you're on 4chan so she obviously failed

>>444381
>if I'm in 4chan and I'm a loser, everybody is a loser too

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of The World by Niall Ferguson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xx_5PuLIzc

>>440633
I guess you didn't have Thyme for it.

>>444454
I have been looking for something exactly like that. Thank you!

>>444618
Watch it, is very informative and interesting

After reading "The Millionaire Next Door", which book should I read next?

Write a book on making money and sell it

Bit dot Ly slash passinc123

>>437127
Yeah. A friend just bought his second brand new car, while im wage slavin'

>>446870
But does it work?

bump

>>444454

Haven't seen the documentary but the book is very good

Pic related by Raghuram Rajan is the best book on finance/economics I've read so far

bump

>>436389

Why the hell is The Idiot on there? That's literature, and it's set in 1840s Russia.

>>437198

Calibre will read them both.

Epub and mobi are pretty much the standard ebook formats, for stuff like kindles and tablets. Epub is more widespread.

>>438357

Not his real grandaughter. She's some sort of adopted daughter of one of his sons, or maybe a stepdaughter. At any rate, he's never acknowledged her as his granddaughter, he's never liked her for some reason. But there she was in the movie acting like she and him were thick as thieves. He got pretty annoyed at that and wrote her a public letter to that effect.

Unplug from:

1. daily shit tier news (local news)
2. hollywood movies
3. idle gossip
4. tv shows of any kind

If you partake in these activities daily, you're not going to make it.

*haven't watch TV in 7 years

>>450292
This is retarded. All of these are opportunities to connect your business with your customer base. You can even find some great ideas this way (local advertising, people gossiping about their problems) Just don't get sucked up into any of this shit (i.e. Doctor Who Fandom) and think critically about what you're watching and participating in. Learn to effectively allocate time.