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19 books, and room for more.
0001 Thinking in Bets Annie Duke

Good decisions and good outcomes are not the same thing.

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0002 The Science of Hitting Ted Williams with John Underwood

Patience is not passivity. Know your zone. Wait for your pitch. Then commit.

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0003 The Old Money Book Byron Tully

Quiet habits compound long before wealth becomes visible.

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0004 The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason

Keep part of what you earn. Put it to work. Protect what you build.

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0005 Hayy ibn Yaqdhan Ibn Tufail

What can a person discover when observation, solitude, and reason are given time?

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0006 The Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham

The market offers prices. It does not supply temperament.

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0007 The Warren Buffett Portfolio Robert G. Hagstrom

Concentration only makes sense when conviction has survived careful work.

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0008 Damn Right! Janet Lowe

Rationality often looks like patience, independence, and the willingness to do nothing.

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0009 Titan Ron Chernow

Scale magnifies character as surely as it magnifies capital.

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0010 Influence Robert B. Cialdini

The forces that move a decision are often quiet, familiar, and already in the room.

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0011 Yes! Noah J. Goldstein, Steve J. Martin, and Robert B. Cialdini

Small changes in context can change whether a reasonable request becomes a yes.

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0012 Judgment in Managerial Decision Making Max H. Bazerman and Don A. Moore

Judgment improves when we learn where judgment predictably bends.

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0013 Against the Gods Peter L. Bernstein

Risk became a subject of calculation only after people stopped treating uncertainty as fate.

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0014 The Book on Games of Chance Girolamo Cardano

Before probability had a formal language, dice were already teaching its grammar.

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0015 Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun? Reginald F. Lewis with Blair S. Walker

Ambition becomes more durable when preparation meets leverage and opportunity.

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0016 The 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene

Power is easiest to study when you can see both the move and the motive.

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0017 The Prince Niccolò Machiavelli

Power is often understood most clearly by studying what people do, not what they say they ought to do.

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0018 As a Man Thinketh James Allen

Circumstances are not everything; the habits of thought we carry into them matter too.

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0019 Mastermind Maria Konnikova

Attention is a discipline: observation improves when the mind learns what to notice.

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