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Rate what billionaire's read.
What books have you read of these?

>https://www.mostrecommendedbooks.com/books-billionaires-read

>> No.21300967

most of these are shit but Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman is seriously good.

>> No.21300972

>>21300939
Not really surprising that it's pure shit

>> No.21301220

>>21300939
It’s a good list.

>> No.21301302

>>21300939
How's the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin?

>> No.21301327

I don’t understand how reading a book will make me rich if I have $0 and nobody will hire me, not even min wage jobs. How am I supposed to make money work for me if I can’t even get $5 to take a shower at the public restroom

>> No.21301346

>billionaires
>meaning anything in this pseudo soviet system we live in
none of these faggots are self made, they all had a rich daddy and government connections
just like how soviet rich fags all had family members in the politburo, modern billionaires couldnt tie their shoe laces or figure out how to wipe their own ass without million dollar government contracts they just inherited

zero skill or merit, its just rigged/corrupt government contracts and inheritance, average niggercattle on the street would do better if they had daddy in the pentagon

>> No.21301501

It's all PR. I highly doubt the elite is busy reading Malcolm Gladwell

>>21301346
>worthless fucking neet has an opinion on parasitic wealth

>> No.21301558

>>21300939
the fiction entries seem really bad
Thinking Fast and Slow is legitimately good
Piketty is basically just tons of charts supporting 1 main thesis, but has really entertaining sections on the representation of money in 19th century literature and on how hard work is a meme and you should just marry into money
Feynman's book is entertaining but fairly superficial

>> No.21301588

>>21301302
Read it and find out

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>>21301588
No and suck my dick

>> No.21301759

money can't buy taste

>> No.21301777

>>21300939
>What books have you read of these?
Catcher in the Rye
Snow Crash
Fountain Head
Atlas Shrugged

guess I'll just keep being poor

>> No.21301822

>>21300939
He rapes his sister, Phoebe.

>> No.21301950

>>21300939
wow no wonder so many western companies are crashing in china, they all fell for dalio's meme of 'china numbah one in a few years'

>> No.21302720

>>21301822
rape is not a big deal in america
they almost protect their rapists there
look how trump got his two main jews closure after that sloppy job in palm beach in 2008
of all the things the government will leak, they will never leak that client list
protected class

>> No.21302740

This is what the self improvement slave class reads. Who would want to be a billionaire? Never understood why people worship them like gods, while in reality they are mocking you.

>> No.21302758

>>21301346
>pseudo soviet system
You mean capitalist.

>> No.21304019

>>21302740
Gods mock too

>> No.21304020

>>21300939

Seems like billionaires really love to read books about other billionaires.

>> No.21304028

>>21301346

Plenty of billionaires are self-made. Offhand, I know Dalio and Jobs came from working class backgrounds.

>> No.21304044

>>21300939
Mostly airport-core

>> No.21304059

>>21300939
They read these books after they've become billionaires. Sine billionaires have spent their whole time chasing money and not cultivating their empty souls, the books they read and recommend are shallow and soulless and there is hardly any merit in most of them.

>> No.21304164

>>21301327
Just get a small loan for 10-20 million dollars from your parents and start a business with the help of their friends.
You're just lazy.

>> No.21304401

>>21301302
It’s really interesting, but not in the way you would expect.

It’s an autobiography from a guy who absolutely did not give a fuck what you thought of him. He made no attempt to shape his legacy or write his own history.

And as a result, he holds nothing back and writes very frankly about how much of an asshole genius womanizer he was

>> No.21304433

>>21301346
This, no gymnast is actually good, they were just born flexible and determined

>> No.21304594

>>21300939
complete and utter goyslop

>> No.21304647

Reddit Player One Core

>> No.21304725

>>21304594
They don't actuallly read this. Its just promotion and propaganda.

>> No.21304858

>>21300939
>sam walton

what´s the deal with boomers and their americana culture? utterly and unfiltered CRINGE

>> No.21304930

>>21300939
I've read a few of these, so...

1. Principles - I read this early in my "I need to be financially literate" phase and it focused more on management than finance. Didn't get much out of it.
3. High Output Management - One guy's take on management. Kind of anachronistic these days (especially if you're in a business that doesn't sell a physical product) but a great conversation starter in our management book club.
4. Atlas Shrugged - Great sci fi page turner with cringe political speeches. Still would recommend.
14. The Art of War - Personally I got a lot more out of Tao Te Ching.
15. Zero to One - Let's rehash Lean Startup for a new generation.
16. Lean Startup - How to measure success and run your business on experiments. 100% would recommend.
18. Thinking Fast and Slow - Kind of repetitive but yeah our brain operates in two ways and different people are better at each. Educational but overrated / overwrought, imo.
24. Getting to YES - As a manager, I find Crucial Conversations more useful than this book which is more focused on sales.
41. Mythical Man Month - Overrated. It's a collection of blog posts you've probably already read.
46. 4 Hour Workweek - Explains the monetization and outsourcing of the internet of the last 20+ years. More depressing than useful, for me.
47. Cryptonomicon - Didn't finish this but it was fun. I took notes because I knew, with its length, I'd have to take a break,
50. How to Win Friends - How to be a manipulative autist.
53. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - You wanna know how America is so fucked? It always was. Business interests ran everything from day one. 100% recommend.
64. Catcher in the Rye - One of the funniest books ever written but why is it on this list?

>> No.21304965

so what books do you think billionaires who already have their money actually read?

>> No.21304971

Do they read math books?

>> No.21304977

>>21300939
No wonder they're such uncultivated narcissists who fall for the simplest Epstein island blackmail tactics. It's astonishing. No wonder our architecture is so fucking terrible, our fashion is atrocious, our manners are completely non existent, our morals are the worst they've been in all of human history. Our upper classes are uncultivated manchildren who fall for the SIMPLEST test of their unregulated passions and then have to answer to their handlers for the rest of their lives. Good fucking lord. YEAH SURE BRO READ ANOTHER FUCKING FINANCIAL SELF HELP BOOK, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED.

>> No.21304981

>>21304971
they pay other people to do the technical work for them. Definitely not

>> No.21305088

>>21301327
If you really can start a business and do something that people will need and use, competition doesn't matter if you innovate or do it better than them, then you can make a lot of money.

Sometimes, you don't even have to start big, just see what your local town is missing and what you can create to fill a gap.

>> No.21305229

>>21301327
What’s the reason you aren't being hired? Are you a felon, or massively overweight? To get into a better situation you need to improve yourself and learn from others. You're right a book isn't going to help, but your goal isn't to become rich either. Your goal is to improve from your current situation. Nothing will ever change your situation except for immediate action taken by yourself. Identify why you aren't being hired. Are you putting out enough applications (try at least 3 per day)? Does your appearance need work? If you are a felon research how you can be hired with a felony. Also don't always take listed job requirements at face value, they tend to be more of a wish list than a requirement.

>> No.21305345

>>21304977
>the one billionaire who doesn't read self help books
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRGEMeDFfl8

>> No.21305356

what do homeless people read? i'm much more interested in that.

>> No.21305454

>>21300939
>Stephenson
>Masters of Doom
>Feynman
>Zero To One
>Lean Startup
>Taleb
>Harari
>Gladwell
They only asked tech billionaires, didn't they?

>> No.21305872

>self improvement books
The only person I know who reads self improvement tripe is obsessed with money and licking his bosses boots. It's fiction for mine.