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The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor by Howard Marks
BATB score: 8.5/10 🤑🥇💚 Get-Rich-Quick manual on investing in Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P 500 stocks. Striking before the mass #InsiderTrading and fleeing before the crash #STOPLOSS. This book is definitely smarter than me. Best for: amateur investors looking to make Warren Buffett proud (scoring >7% market growth - Berkshire Hathaway A-Class investment consultants) Best to: know that in this book on the Most Important Thing (expecting singular 1), there were 21 Most Important Thi


Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
BATB score: 10/10 💚🤑💚 Legendary old school classics on how to escape the middle class paycheck-pay-bills Rat Race 🐭 via making money work for you. Never gets old. Best for: anyone who has been caught saying “I am waiting for my next promotion or year-end bonus” or anyone living on paychecks, you are working hard yes? but are you working smart? Best as: here’s the plan. paycheck to savings to assets (stocks, bonds, real estate) to passive income (interests, dividends, rent


Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter by Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler
BATB score: 7.7/10 Why humans understand the importance of saving, of having emergency money, and of planning for retirement, but yet, humans fail to just that. Best for: anyone who has money-saving issues making irrational money decisions with sunk cost fallacy, annual bonus shopping spree, and/or me-first presence day gratification Best to: if you never ever read any other Dan Ariely book, consider to start Dan Ariely's wonderful series with this relatable book about money


Second Chance by Robert T. Kiyosaki
BATB score: 6.6/10 🤑 Best to: admit it, financial literary is critical 🔥 Best as: unfortunately our educational institutes are still in denial and societal discussions have a taboo against money talk #bragging #notbragging Best for: reader who has completed Rich Dad Poor Dad first and foremost Book key takeaway: get into good debt as business owners and investors (rather than employees and self-employment) -> engage in primary savings (commodities: oil, gold, and silver), s


The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing by Pat Dorsey
BATB score: 10/10 👏 Investment book for dummies 💯 legit! Best to: know there are just 5 basic principles that differentiates the real investors from the novice speculators 1. Do your homework. Bookmark this website www. sec.gov and check out the public 'DEF 14A' to analyse management competencies and compensation schemes and '10-K' annual reports for ROA(sset), ROE(quity), cash flow, and debt. 2. Find economic moats Basically, competitive advantages that is lucrative and ul


100 Things Millionaires Do: Little Lessons in Creating Wealth by Nigel Cumberland
BATB score: 4/10 ☘️ Best to: the book delivers what it intends to do; 100 quick little tips/techniques of what millionaires do (presented in no particular order of importance) Lessons 1-2 on 'why do you want to be wealthy' and 'what does wealth mean to you' was quite deep soul-searching and critical. Then Lesson 100 talks about how at the end being happy and grateful suffices any monetary gains. #whatnow? Best for: you can read a lesson a day every time you visit the potty 💩


The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
BATB score: 7/10 💸 Reader discretion is advised: heavy. very heavy book dated back to the 1970s stock market. not for the light-hearted amateur readers. However, reader may survive this book by reading only the chapter commentary by Jason Zweig as he speaks human while Benjamin Graham speaks alien investor dashboard. Best as: a book that inspired Warren Buffett to build his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. empire and be the world's top 10 richest man #dayum having this book in my pos


The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel
BATB score: 10/10 🏆 the most important money book in mankind about having 'enough' and so anything more is mere incremental but I am already comfortable Best to: clarity in 'JOMO' joy of missing out when your friends post on social media about their high gains on crypto and/or stock investment as it's probably because of pure luck that can not be repeated Best for: all of us; questioner of 'meaning of life' and one's relationship with money Best as: the best investment strat


The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security by Scott Galloway
BATB score: 4/10 🙄 a complete waste of time after page 42 onwards Best to: needle in a haystack must search far and wide for the good bits in a bunch of wikipedia word vomit Best as: there’s only two good bits (1) Pick the right industry under the best macro trends for booster shine: “Look for the beach with the biggest waves. Market dynamics trump individual performance, so give yourself the best chance by going where the opportunities are the greatest.” (2) Dump your poor


The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life by Morgan Housel
BATB score: 6/10 😑 Best as: this book could have been an email - Morgan Housel were you in a rush to publish? Best to: wealth is “the family you’ve built, the friends you’ve found, the memories you have, and the wisdom you’ve accumulated” Best for: anyone who has yet figured out how much is enough Best quotes: “the goal was not to make a living; it was to make a life, and only a fool would sacrifice his actual life for the endless pursuit of an imaginarily better one.” “One
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