Knowledge is power. Check your local library for some of these books. Books are in rough order
Money
Books:
- The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition)
by Benjamin Graham- Classic book on investing. Not much else needs to be said
- Security Analysis: Sixth Edition, Foreword by Warren Buffett (Security Analysis Prior Editions) by Benjamin Graham
- This is a boring read but important if you want to dive deeper
- This is a boring read but important if you want to dive deep
- One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch
- How an individual investor has advantages over institutional money managers
- Beating the Street by Peter Lynch
- He goes more into his actual process
- Option Volatility and Pricing by Sheldon Natenberg
- Textbook-like book about options. Even if you don’t do options, it’s still important
- Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
- Good history lesson and how it may apply to modern landscape
- Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
- You will never use stuff like Robinhood ever again
- The Little Book That Still Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt
- Great investor and a systematic formula
- Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story, Updated with New Epilogue: A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story by David Einhorn
- Great piece by one of the more successful portfolio managers of our time. It shows that knowing the rules and fighting for them can eventually expose fraudulent practices.
- Hedge Funds: An Analytic Perspective – Updated Edition (Advances in Financial Engineering, 3) by Andrew Lo
- If you want to learn more about hedge funds, their strategies, and more
- The Allocator’s Edge by Phil Huber
- Good for learning about different assets
- 100 Baggers by Chris Mayer
- If you like to buy and hold
by Benjamin Graham
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Definitely missing some, but this should get you started
Blogs/Articles:
- Robert Shiller
- Cliff Asness
Videos:
- William Ackman: Everything You Need to Know About Finance and Investing in Under an Hour | Big Think
- Great video by hedge fund manager Bill Ackman on the basics of finance.
Life
Books:
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (30th Anniversary Edition) by Stephen Covey
- Great ways to look at life.
- How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- The book everyone should read to learn about human behavior. May need to adjust the principles to fit within the modern world.
- Influence by Robert Cialdini
- Similar to Dale Carnegie, but more modern and more salesy.
- Principles by Ray Dalio
- Great overview of how to approach certain things from someone who has accomplished a lot. If you are in the business world and haven’t read this book, what are you doing?
- Outlive by Peter Attia
- Read this if you want to spend 20 hours to learn that you need to diet, exercise, and do healthy things
- Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Learn about how the brain works to your advantage
