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I’ve had a copy of The E-Myth Revisited floating around my house for years, picked up at Half Priced Books a while back and forgotten as I read through The 4-Hour Workweek, Crush It, The Dream and, most recently, Rework.  A friend reminded me of the book again last week so I sat down in [...]

Its not very often that I read a book and it inspires me to take action immediately.  For the last couple weeks, I’ve been working my way through The Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss.  I probably spent more time telling others about it than the time it actually took to read, it was that [...]

I recently watched Who Killed the Electric Car? and found it quite interesting from a business perspective. Narrated by Martin

GM’s main reasoning to kill the car was that there was insufficient demand for the automobile. Chelsea Sexton says this argument is unconvincing because she, as a lead marketing employee for GM during the time [...]

I just finished reading a copy of Jim Cramer’s new Mad Money book that I got for Christmas. I haven’t watched Jim Cramer’s show on CNBC in quite a while, but I know he is high energy, knowledgable, and eclectic. I had high hopes for the book, but I have to say I found it [...]

I recently watched “The Smartest Guys in the Room” on DVD. It documents the rise and fall of Enron. It is based on a book, and the authors of the book have a large part in commentary of the movie. It is shot in a PBS documentary sort of way, but is actually very entertaining.
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I recently finished reading Money Masters of Our Time by John Train. I read The New Money Masters a few years ago and loved it, so I decided to give this one a try as well. In Money Masters of Our Time, Train looks at the investment strategies of 17 of the world’s most successful [...]