📚 Business Books

Original chapter-by-chapter summaries. Each book ends with the big ideas, the criticisms, and a final takeaway.

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Money Mindset
Rich Dad Poor Dad
by Robert T. Kiyosaki

Two dads, two opposite philosophies about money — and the lessons that shape financial freedom.

9 chapter summaries →
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Mindset
Think and Grow Rich
by Napoleon Hill

After interviewing 500+ self-made millionaires (Carnegie, Edison, Ford), Hill distills the 13 mental habits they shared.

13 chapter summaries →
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Investing
The Intelligent Investor
by Benjamin Graham

The bible of value investing. Mr. Market, margin of safety, defensive vs enterprising investing.

20 chapter summaries →
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Real Estate
The Millionaire Real Estate Investor
by Gary Keller

Interviews with 100+ real-life real estate millionaires distilled into a four-stage roadmap.

7 chapter summaries →
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Entrepreneurship
The Lean Startup
by Eric Ries

How modern startups (and any business) test ideas with the least time and money.

13 chapter summaries →
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Mindset & Discipline
Atomic Habits
by James Clear

Small habits compound into remarkable results. The 4-law framework for building good habits and breaking bad ones.

20 chapter summaries →
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Risk
The Black Swan
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Why rare, high-impact events drive history and how to build robustness against what you can't predict.

19 chapter summaries →
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Mindset & Discipline
Can't Hurt Me
by David Goggins

Goggins' brutal journey from broken childhood to Navy SEAL. The 10 challenges to weaponize the mind.

10 chapter summaries →
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Productivity
Deep Work
by Cal Newport

Focused, distraction-free work is the rare superpower of the modern economy. Four rules to build it.

8 chapter summaries →
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Trading Psychology
The Disciplined Trader
by Mark Douglas

Douglas' first book. The mental framework to take losses, follow rules, and trade without fear.

12 chapter summaries →
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Mindset & Discipline
Ego Is the Enemy
by Ryan Holiday

Three sections — Aspire, Success, Failure — on how ego sabotages each stage and how humility wins.

3 chapter summaries →
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Entrepreneurship
The Everything Store
by Brad Stone

How Jeff Bezos built Amazon — the obsessions, decisions and culture behind the everything store.

12 chapter summaries →
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Entrepreneurship
The $100 Startup
by Chris Guillebeau

Cases of lifestyle businesses launched on tiny budgets. The blueprint for converting passion into income.

14 chapter summaries →
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Entrepreneurship
The Lean Startup
by Eric Ries

Build-measure-learn, MVPs, validated learning. The methodology that reshaped how startups operate.

13 chapter summaries →
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Investing
The Man Who Solved the Market
by Gregory Zuckerman

Jim Simons and Renaissance Technologies — how a math professor built the most successful fund in history.

16 chapter summaries →
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Trading
Market Wizards
by Jack D. Schwager

Interviews with the world's top traders — their methods, risk rules, and psychological edges.

17 chapter summaries →
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Mindset & Discipline
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck

Fixed vs growth mindset and how belief about ability shapes achievement in school, work, sports, and relationships.

8 chapter summaries →
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Trading
Price Action Trading Secrets
by Rayner Teo

Trading purely from price — structure, areas of value, entries, stops and trade management without indicators.

10 chapter summaries →
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Money Mindset
The Psychology of Money
by Morgan Housel

Behavior beats intelligence in finance. 20 short essays on luck, risk, greed, and getting wealthy without going broke.

20 chapter summaries →
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Trading
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
by Edwin Lefèvre

The fictionalized life of Jesse Livermore. Timeless lessons on speculation, tape reading, and ruin.

24 chapter summaries →
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Money Mindset
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
by T. Harv Eker

Your financial blueprint controls your wealth. 17 'Wealth Files' that separate the rich from the rest.

17 chapter summaries →
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Mindset & Discipline
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
by Mark Manson

Choose what to care about. Embrace pain. Accept responsibility. The counterintuitive playbook for a good life.

9 chapter summaries →
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Trading
Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets
by John J. Murphy

The definitive textbook on chart patterns, indicators, intermarket analysis and Dow Theory.

17 chapter summaries →
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Trading Psychology
Trading in the Zone
by Mark Douglas

The 5 fundamental truths and the trader's mindset. Why technical skill isn't what makes you profitable.

11 chapter summaries →