Quote from: Oshosondy on July 24, 2025, 03:06:02 PM

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There is one that people often talked about on this forum before which is rich dad poor dad.

this is a good one, I read it many years ago
but imo it is really basic
main thing on it is cashflows and assets/liabilities

but worth to read it anyways because it is really short and fast

Think and grow rich is a great one, I really like it
the secrets of the millionaire mind by T Harv Eker is good too

Quote from: cabron on July 24, 2025, 03:35:24 PM

Whatever book you may want to read this time, this book might just have an audio version on youtube. There was once a time when I wanted to read a book a woman was reading on the coffee shop. I tried searching about it online and found an audio book uploaded on youtube. Seem a better way than reading it myself as I can just use my headphone.

And just like this "The richest man in babylon" I saw its audio book on youtube as well. May try to listen to it.

go for it!

Never split the difference is on my list too but I haven't read it
Negotiate as your life depends on it looks like a good one too

Not directly related to investing but thinking in bets by A. Duke is another great one.

Quote from: loveurself420 on July 24, 2025, 06:45:23 PM

Personally, I’ve never been a big fan of that kind of book i always feel like I’m getting scammed when I buy those.

You could say it’s the same principle as going to the gym everything is available online you don’t need to keep inventing new workout variations to make progress even with just basic stuff, you can build a good body.

It’s kind of the same with money. The only real obstacles are where you live and how much you earn.

Living in a poor third world country? Yeah, it’s always hard to get your ass moving forward in that kind of environment

you don't need to buy the books if you don't want it
most of them are available on libgen or zlbry

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Quote from: l3pox on July 24, 2025, 02:52:50 PM

What are some of the best books you read on the subject of money, investing and economics?

for me the first two that I'd recommend at an entry level are

"The psychology of money" by Morgan Housel
and "the richest man in babylon" by George s. Clason

both are really good to get the concepts and principles on investing and how to deal better with money

but there are many other good ones
what are some you'd recommend?

A book by Benjamin Gram called "The Intelligent Investor" literally blew my mind when I was still a student, and after that I recommended it to all my friends and did not hesitate to call it the bible of investing.
However, I have not read the book called "The Richest Man in Babylon" Although many of my friends recommended it to me and in general I have heard about this book from many sources and rave reviews about it.
Of course, I won’t write about Robert Kiyosaki’s books because everyone already knows them.

interesting, I had the totally opposite experience reading the intelligent investor
really techinical and long and I feel like even if you can learn things about value investing with it we live in a new time of memecoin exuberance where speculation drives value more than principles,
I'd skip it nowadays Grin

for those interested in trading the best ones I read were

trading in the zone and the disciplined trader by Mark douglas, these are great
and "reminiscences of a stock operator"

Devil takes the hindmost about the history of financial speculation and "Debt" by Graeber about a different history of money questioning the paradigm of barter are also mildly entertaining

Quote from: bangjoe on Today at 04:24:31 PM

Quote from: l3pox on July 24, 2025, 02:52:50 PM

What are some of the best books you read on the subject of money, investing and economics?

for me the first two that I'd recommend at an entry level are

"The psychology of money" by Morgan Housel
and "the richest man in babylon" by George s. Clason

both are really good to get the concepts and principles on investing and how to deal better with money

but there are many other good ones
what are some you'd recommend?

I have read The Psychology of Money is enough to help me in talking a lot of things about finance, luck, opportunities, many stories that become lessons in it and it is very confident, I always read it repeatedly, once reading it I think it is less than optimal.

The book that I recommend is the Wealth of Nations this might be very broad in scope but you can understand how a system is made to enrich a country and if you have earlier information in a development then you will see a glimmer of hope to become rich and understand the cause and effect, this work belongs to Adam Smith.

Morgan housel will launch a new one soon that I really want to read
the art of spending money about where it's worth to spend.

wealth of nations is one tha I should probably get at some point, must be hard and dense but probably worth it

anyone read "my life as a quant" and "the man who solved the market"