Marcus Aurelius
Meditations: Summary & Stoic Ideas
Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations is not a conventional philosophy textbook. It is a collection of private reflections in which a Roman emperor repeatedly reminds himself…
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John C. Bogle
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: Summary & Key Ideas
What if the most useful investment strategy is not finding the next great stock, but accepting how difficult it is to identify one consistently?…
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Robert T. Kiyosaki
Rich Dad Poor Dad: Summary & Key Money Ideas
Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad uses two contrasting models of financial thinking to challenge conventional assumptions about employment, saving, spending and wealth. The…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Black Swan: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan examines the limits of prediction in a world where rare events can have enormous consequences. The book challenges…
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Burton G. Malkiel
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: Summary & Key Ideas
Can ordinary investors beat the market consistently, or is the attempt to do so itself one of the biggest mistakes investors make? Burton G.…
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Benjamin Graham
The Intelligent Investor: Summary & Key Investing Ideas
Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor is fundamentally a book about decision-making under uncertainty. Rather than promising a method for predicting the next market move,…
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Simon Sinek
Start With Why: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Simon Sinek’s Start With Why asks why some organizations inspire unusually strong loyalty while others struggle to move beyond transactions. Its central framework—the Golden…
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Clayton M. Christensen
The Innovator’s Dilemma: Summary & Key Ideas
Clayton M. Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma examines why successful companies can struggle when new technologies and business models emerge. The paradox is that the…
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Peter Thiel
Zero to One: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
What would it mean to build something genuinely new rather than simply make an existing idea bigger? Peter Thiel’s Zero to One is a…
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Eric Ries
The Lean Startup: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Eric Ries’s The Lean Startup asks a practical question: how should people build a new product when they do not yet know exactly what…
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Jim Collins
Good to Great: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Why do some companies make a difficult transition from solid performance to sustained excellence while apparently comparable companies do not? Jim Collins’s Good to…
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Jonathan Haidt
The Righteous Mind: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind explores why people often reach moral conclusions quickly and then construct explanations for those conclusions afterward. Drawing on moral…
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