Pages that shaped Me📖

1. Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki

   • Foundation for my Financial education as this was the first book I read about Finance
   • Basic things in personal finance like assets and liabilities, income statement and balance sheet
   • Downfalls like criticizes his own father very often, over-capitalistic mindset
   • Also read many series of his books like :-
     • Why we want you to be rich with Donald Trump
     • Cashflow Quadrant
     • Conspiracy about the rich
     • Before you quit you job
     • Retire young retire rich
     • Guide to investing
     • Increase your financial IQ
     • Rich Kid Smart Kid
     • Why A students work for C students and B students work for Government

2. The Warren Buffet Way - Robert Hagstrom

   • Movement of his stocks from his initial days of investing to the present were captured
   • Explained in detail the principles he uses to invest in stocks
   • Started to read some of his Annual General Meeting transcripts which has tons of information

3. Security Analysis - Benjamin Graham and David Dodd

   • Explains about bonds and stocks from his experience of the Great Depression of 1930
   • Tells what to look for in a company for fundamental investing
   • If we follow his teachings at present time, the number of companies that get selected are very rare as it was written almost a decade ago

4. The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham

   • Explaining stock market through Mr.Market as a person is amazing
   • Thinking about buying stocks as buying part of business changes the perspective
   • Explains how to find charecteristics in a company that makes it worth for holding

5. Common Stocks Uncommon profits - Philip Fisher

   • Famous Scuttlebutt method where you enquire about the company through people who have interaction with the company
   • Simple yet powerful checklists have been mentioned for investing

6. Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson

   • Childhood Trauma can have a great effect in your life
   • His Hardcore method of working is insanely inspirational
   • First principles thinking, idiot index, unconventional thinking should be followed by everyone in business
   • Crazy to see that how he is working for the survival of humanity

7. Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson

   • Never heard about a person who is as obsessive as Jobs in designing
   • Steve Jobs and Elon Musk had type of similar personality while building business
   • Both Steve and Elon had no desire for money. Both wanted to make an impact to the world

8. The Monk who sold his ferrari - Robin S Sharma

   • A lawyer moves to Himalayas from his stressful career in search of peace
   • Helps to improve your life, finding your passion and happiness
   • "The purpose of life is a life of purpose", quote from the book

9. The Richest Man in the Babylon - George Clason

   • Basic understanding of finance through stories written in old english
   • "Pay yourself first" and "Make thy gold multiply" is what is explained in the book

10. The Power of your Subconcious Mind - Joseph Murphy

    • If you want something, imagine what will happen if you get the thing and feel like you have received it. Your subconcious mind works for you to get the thing
    • Everything is created twice. First in your mind then in your reality. So before going to bed visualise the thing you want

11. Zero To One - Peter theil

    • Book explains how to build businesses that innovate things completely different, that is go from 0 to 1
    • Build monopoly in a niche future market, with heavy progress. Monopoly must be maintained

12. Shoe Dog - Phil Knight

    • Phil Knight was a person not suitable for business head, I thought at beginning, but finally he succeeded
    • Explains the story of Nike from his basement to launching an IPO

13. Hacking Health - Mukesh Bansal

    • In order to have long healthy life, do what our ancestors were doing.
    • Doing basic things like moving body, fasting, having purpose in life increases lifespan

14. Get Epic Shit Done - Ankur Warikoo

    • Simple yet powerful tricks to have a better life in work or in family

15. Ikigai - Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles

    • Intersection of what you love to do, what you are good at, what the world wants, and what gets you paid is the sweet spot
    • Explains the traits of people who lived more than 100 years

16. The Art of Laziness

    • How to avoid procrastination and do things what you wanted to do