Book Review -The Intelligent Entrepreneur

In 1998, three Harvard Business School graduates—two men and one woman—turned down six-figure salaries at big corporations, bet on themselves, and launched their own new companies. By their ten-year reunion, their audacity had paid huge dividends. They'd made many millions of dollars, created hundreds of jobs—and left their mark on the world.

Based on dozens of interviews with highly successful entrepreneurs, Harvard Business School professors, and HBS alumni, The Intelligent Entrepreneur tells the compelling and instructive story of how these three young founders developed ideas, assembled teams, built ventures, and achieved their dreams. Along the way, they learned that starting great companies requires much more than a ferocious work ethic or good timing. Their hard-won insights—distilled into ten key rules—will help anyone become a successful entrepreneur.
What they teach you at Harvard Business School is that intelligent entrepreneurship can be learned. In that spirit, Bill Murphy Jr. uses a unique combination of vivid storytelling and lucid instruction to show would-be entrepreneurs how to improve their odds of creating dynamic, lasting businesses.

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The Intelligent Investor

Book Review

When it comes to the topic of investing, consider ‘The Intelligent Investor’ as the textbook of all the textbooks. This book is perhaps considered as the most important and influential book ever written about value investing.

Famous investor Warren Buffett describes it as "by far the best book on investing ever written". It is believed that the Author Benjamin Graham has put down really good ideas in the book.

Benjamin Grahams ‘The Intelligent Investor’ is a classic bestseller of the 20th century. It is a widely acclaimed book on Value Investing. A book that helps protect an investor against the areas of possible substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies with which they will be comfortable down the road.

Author Benjamin Graham was an American Economist and professional investor himself. He is considered one of the first proponents of Value Investing. He began teaching Value Investing as a new investment approach at Columbia Business School in 1928. Many consider it as a Bible for Investment.

Whatever it may be, this book surely provides a great deal of information about investing.

The Millionaire Next Door

Book Review :

The general theme of The Millionaire Next Door is based on the pop culture of millionaires. According to the authors millionaires are always over hyped, while most of the actual millionaires live a very simple life.

Authors Stanley and Danko, with the years of extensive research in the US have laid down the profiles of people whose net worth defined them as millionaires along with those whose salaries and age defined them as likely millionaires. This book essentially helps you to identify who actually a real Millionaire is, from the authors point of view.

The facts and stories in the book are interconnected and they present a logical and straightforward worldview, in simple words you won’t find contradictory statements throughout. The writing is very readable; you would even want to call it a quick read although the book doesn’t look very small.

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