Alex & Books 📚
Alex & Books 📚

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25 تغريدة 19 قراءة May 16, 2022
Charlie Munger is one of the smartest and most successful investors in the world.
He's helped grow Berkshire Hathaway by 2,000,000% and says every wise person he knows reads a ton.
Here are 20 books he recommends reading:
1/
"Influence" by @RobertCialdini
This is one of those special books Charlie Munger highly recommends in "Poor Charlie’s Almanack." He’s given away more copies of this book than any other.
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2/
"Titan" by Ron Chernow
"One of the best business biographies I have ever read."
–Charlie Munger
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3/
"Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond
“I have read this book twice, which I very seldom do and it’s a marvelous book.”
–Charlie Munger
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4/
"The Warren Buffett Portfolio" by @RobertGHagstrom
"I was flabbergasted to find it not only very well-written, but a considerable contribution to the synthesis of human thought on the investment process."
–Charlie Munger
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5/
"The Years of Lyndon Johnson" by Robert Caro
"I think reading [this series] is very important for anyone who wants a view into the human condition."
–Charlie Munger
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6/
"The Outsiders" by William N. Thorndike
"Details the extraordinary success of CEOs who took a radically different approach to corporate management."
–Charlie Munger
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7/
"Einstein" by @WalterIsaacson
"I’ve read all the Einstein biographies, and this is by far the best."
–Charlie Munger
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8/
"Outliers" by @Gladwell
"Perfectly marvelous book."
–Charlie Munger
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9/
"The Selfish Gene" by @RichardDawkins
"I had to read [this book] twice before I fully understood it."
–Charlie Munger
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10/
"The Little Book of Common Sense Investing" by John C. Bogle
“This book truly serves as a great guide on how to think of and what different kinds of benchmarks and stock market index to look for.”
–Charlie Munger
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11/
"Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field" by Nancy Forbes
"It’s just the best book of its kind I have ever read, and I just hugely enjoyed it. Couldn’t put it down. It was a fabulous human achievement."
–Charlie Munger
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12/
"Master of the Game" by Connie Bruck
"I very much enjoyed [this book]." - Charlie Munger
–Charlie Munger
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13/
"Pride in Performance" by Les Schwab
"Will demonstrate really shrewd compensation systems in a whole chain of small businesses."
–Charlie Munger
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14/
"Yes!" by @RobertCialdini
Charlie Munger recommended this book at the 2008 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.
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15/
"In the Plex" by @StevenLevy
"I hate to admit this because I've ignored high tech all my life, but I actually read [this book]. And I found it a very interesting book."
–Charlie Munger
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16/
"Getting It Done" by Roger Fisher
"This book is must reading for those seeking to maximize their contribution to the constructive work of the world."
–Charlie Munger
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17/
"The Blind Watchmaker" by @RichardDawkins
"A marvelous book."
–Charlie Munger
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18/
"A Piece of the Action" by @opinion_joe
"Most people here won't be able to put it down."
–Charlie Munger
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19/
"Benjamin Franklin" by Carl Van Doren
"I am re-reading a book I really like, which is Van Doren's biography of Benjamin Franklin... I'd almost forgotten how good of a book it was."
–Charlie Munger
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20/
"Hard Drive" by James Wallace
"You really get a feeling for what it took to write and sell software in the software revolution."
–Charlie Munger
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BONUS:
If you want to learn more about Munger and how he thinks, read the book "Poor Charlie's Almanack."
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