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Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by speechless00: 5:47pm On Aug 12, 2015
Francesca_rise@yahoo.com
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by ernie4life(m): 6:56pm On Aug 13, 2015
Still waiting for reviews of "the richest man in Babylon "

The earlier we review it the earlier we can move to another book.
smiley
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by taiwoliu(m): 7:14pm On Aug 13, 2015
ernie4life:
Still waiting for reviews of "the richest man in Babylon "

The earlier we review it the earlier we can move to another book.
smiley
I tot u'll do dt since u v read it. Me I neva read am finish ooo. But if any1 as done so, pls post ur review
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by ernie4life(m): 7:29pm On Aug 13, 2015
taiwoliu:
I tot u'll do dt since u v read it. Me I neva read am finish ooo. But if any1 as done so, pls post ur review

I want everybody to do there own review of what the learnt in their own words so that we all can learn, if I get 5 reviews then I will post another book
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by taiwoliu(m): 10:51pm On Aug 13, 2015
ernie4life:


I want everybody to do there own review of what the learnt in their own words so that we all can learn, if I get 5 reviews then I will post another book
k.... But u knw we v Different reading habit and culture.

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Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by Blackkie: 11:21pm On Aug 13, 2015
Think And Grow Rich
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by Blackkie: 11:29pm On Aug 13, 2015
Think And Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich, a book wrriten by Napoleon Hill is a summary of what it takes to build a business and set it on automatic gear. It is among the oldest business literature that is still relevant after about a century of its first publication.
The dictates of the book are the basics without dilution. It is based on positive philosophy and psychology - what you think is what you will be. The author made it clear that there is no magic, accident or miracle to wealth creation. If there is any, they are the ones an individual personally orchestrates knowingly and unknowingly. According to him, all one has accumulated in life is a sum total of what that individual knows.


Going through the book, all the names mentioned are pioneer captains in various fields in United States of America. These men are in politics, management, sales, marketing, arts, music, invention et cetera. One thing is peculiar about these people, these men who are the fulcrum of what we know today as America are men of no certificate education but men who are pure thinkers and acted accordingly positively. Thinking makes the difference. A popular maxim said ''Good thinking - Good product'' Unfortunately, thinking aright is the hardest thing to do. Good thoughts sets people in their desired calibration!


All through the book, history of great men were given prominence in its simplest and educative summary. You will come across Ford who a majority of the so called elites of his age dubbed an illiterate, yet he built Ford Motor Corporation from nothing but imagination and persistence, the Enchanted Kettle-talking about the origin of the bottle with the best contours Coca-Cola, the men who fought with their brains to midwife the nation called America by risking the gallows, Berns who taught his way to become a partner with the great inventor Thomas Edison, the savvy personality of Charles Schweb in building United State Steel Corporation, the speech that gave birth to Illinois Institute of Technology as delivered by a priest, the list was endless.

Napoleon Hill's focal point in the book is success in wealth creation, this could only be achieved by coordinating various attributes in the right dimensions.
These attributes includes-

Desire - The starting point of all achievement
Faith - The belief that whatever one is going after is obtainable
Persistence - The only shield against failure
Auto Suggestion - What you tell yourself, you will voluntarily do in real life
Organised Planning - How to go after what seems too far from you and pocket it via application of winning strategies.

On the other side, he outlined the elements that causes many to be perpetual losers in life. Chief among them is procrastination-shifting till tomorrow what you should have done days ago. Fear, being afraid of what has not yet happened. According to him, fear has different ways of presenting itself conspicuously without due invitation. When fear reigns, procrastination creeps in boldly and dictates the way things will go, however they will be wrapped in negativity.

The author directed the attention of all seeking wealth to the place of transformed partnership. Partnership was all he was describing when he mentioned the Mastermind Group. A Mastermind Group is a group of people who came together to carry out a specific assignment till absolute perfection. Thus, any successful person must practice the act of bringing people together and working harmoniously with them and achieve a set out goal. To support the work of Masterminds, he advocates tapping ideas from the ''invisible'' counselors and Seating for Ideas. The Invincible counselors are achievers and role models that may be living or dead, you focus on their work and ideas and draw inspirations from their wealth of success. Seating for Ideas is taking an extra time to disect a given challenge and factor in the most suitable and qualified answers to the given challenge. Once again, its all about thinking and thinking right.

Some personal analyses are added with questions to draw ones attention to personal effectiveness. These researched questions are offered by the author so that the reader of the book will understand that he or she is totally responsible for whatever happens around him in life.
Think And Grow Rich is the name of the book. Why did the author appendage this name to his work? Thinking and Doing it right is all that spells success in all realms of life. Riches and wealth is within your environment only your style of thinking makes teh difference.
In his closing remarks, Napoleon Hill quotes the words of Immortal Emerson, ''if we are related, we shall meet'' which he accents to thus, ''if we are related, we have through these pages meet''

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Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by ernie4life(m): 5:05am On Aug 14, 2015
Blackkie:
Think And Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich, a book wrriten by Napoleon Hill is a summary of what it takes to build a business and set it on automatic gear. It is among the oldest business literature that is still relevant after about a century of its first publication.
The dictates of the book are the basics without dilution. It is based on positive philosophy and psychology - what you think is what you will be. The author made it clear that there is no magic, accident or miracle to wealth creation. If there is any, they are the ones an individual personally orchestrates knowingly and unknowingly. According to him, all one has accumulated in life is a sum total of what that individual knows.


Going through the book, all the names mentioned are pioneer captains in various fields in United States of America. These men are in politics, management, sales, marketing, arts, music, invention et cetera. One thing is peculiar about these people, these men who are the fulcrum of what we know today as America are men of no certificate education but men who are pure thinkers and acted accordingly positively. Thinking makes the difference. A popular maxim said ''Good thinking - Good product'' Unfortunately, thinking aright is the hardest thing to do. Good thoughts sets people in their desired calibration!


All through the book, history of great men were given prominence in its simplest and educative summary. You will come across Ford who a majority of the so called elites of his age dubbed an illiterate, yet he built Ford Motor Corporation from nothing but imagination and persistence, the Enchanted Kettle-talking about the origin of the bottle with the best contours Coca-Cola, the men who fought with their brains to midwife the nation called America by risking the gallows, Berns who taught his way to become a partner with the great inventor Thomas Edison, the savvy personality of Charles Schweb in building United State Steel Corporation, the speech that gave birth to Illinois Institute of Technology as delivered by a priest, the list was endless.

Napoleon Hill's focal point in the book is success in wealth creation, this could only be achieved by coordinating various attributes in the right dimensions.
These attributes includes-

Desire - The starting point of all achievement
Faith - The belief that whatever one is going after is obtainable
Persistence - The only shield against failure
Auto Suggestion - What you tell yourself, you will voluntarily do in real life
Organised Planning - How to go after what seems too far from you and pocket it via application of winning strategies.

On the other side, he outlined the elements that causes many to be perpetual losers in life. Chief among them is procrastination-shifting till tomorrow what you should have done days ago. Fear, being afraid of what has not yet happened. According to him, fear has different ways of presenting itself conspicuously without due invitation. When fear reigns, procrastination creeps in boldly and dictates the way things will go, however they will be wrapped in negativity.

The author directed the attention of all seeking wealth to the place of transformed partnership. Partnership was all he was describing when he mentioned the Mastermind Group. A Mastermind Group is a group of people who came together to carry out a specific assignment till absolute perfection. Thus, any successful person must practice the act of bringing people together and working harmoniously with them and achieve a set out goal. To support the work of Masterminds, he advocates tapping ideas from the ''invisible'' counselors and Seating for Ideas. The Invincible counselors are achievers and role models that may be living or dead, you focus on their work and ideas and draw inspirations from their wealth of success. Seating for Ideas is taking an extra time to disect a given challenge and factor in the most suitable and qualified answers to the given challenge. Once again, its all about thinking and thinking right.

Some personal analyses are added with questions to draw ones attention to personal effectiveness. These researched questions are offered by the author so that the reader of the book will understand that he or she is totally responsible for whatever happens around him in life.
Think And Grow Rich is the name of the book. Why did the author appendage this name to his work? Thinking and Doing it right is all that spells success in all realms of life. Riches and wealth is within your environment only your style of thinking makes teh difference.
In his closing remarks, Napoleon Hill quotes the words of Immortal Emerson, ''if we are related, we shall meet'' which he accents to thus, ''if we are related, we have through these pages meet''

Nice one, I have read the book, your review looks like something copied from else where, if you wrote this your self than you must be a good writer.
Note: we have not finished the first
Book we started with, maybe when we are done we could switch over to TAGR.
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by balo2008(m): 8:57am On Aug 14, 2015
Pls Send all the soft copies of the books you have to omobalo2003@yahoo.co.uk. Thanks i will be expecting it soon
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by Blackkie: 11:51pm On Aug 15, 2015
I never copied it i wrote it few years back.
May be you saw it on my blog or where someone published it. It was first published in a magazine -Start Ups about 5years ago.

ernie4life:


Nice one, I have read the book, your review looks like something copied from else where, if you wrote this your self than you must be a good writer.
Note: we have not finished the first
Book we started with, maybe when we are done we could switch over to TAGR.
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by GentlyLoud: 11:10am On Aug 16, 2015
Hello guys
Try reading jimm rohns books
Success secrets by Brian Tracy
These are great books
I love reading great book. Please send me the audio
Ositasam@hotmail.com. thanks
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by khaynoni(m): 8:05pm On Aug 19, 2015
The richest man in Babylon is a very insightful book. It teaches the practical way of acquiring wealth and not just theories. It teaches one the effective way of saving and investing it wisely by not just acting on one's intelligence but seeking advice from expertise in the line of business one chooses to invest in. It also teaches one to love your neighbour as yourself and not more than yourself. There are so many lessons I learnt there, can't list all as I'm not much of a man for words. If you are the type that truly and legally want to amass wealth, I will advise you read this book.
Someone should please recommend another good book for me and direct me to a link where I can download the soft copy.
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by lumachris(m): 8:28pm On Aug 19, 2015
Plz send me the soft copy @ lumagoose.export@gmail.com.Thanks and God bless.
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by toxiflam: 9:49pm On Aug 19, 2015
ernie4life:
Still waiting for reviews of "the richest man in Babylon "

The earlier we review it the earlier we can move to another book.
smiley
pls send a copy to me
ezepiro@live.com
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by Blitz888(m): 10:30pm On Aug 19, 2015
osegbokingsley@gmail.com
Please kindly send me the soft copy of ' the richest man in Babylon'
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by addictiv(m): 10:33pm On Aug 19, 2015
ernie4life:


Nice one, I have read the book, your review looks like something copied from else where, if you wrote this your self than you must be a good writer.
Note: we have not finished the first
Book we started with, maybe when we are done we could switch over to TAGR.
Think and grow rich is a watered down version of the Law of Success series by napoleon hill...It is so powerful that they had to take it off the market. Try law of success in sixteen lessons and you ll never be the same. I got the audio version and I listen to it every single day. Napoleon Hill literally uncensored success principles. Unfortunately I was only able to download 11 lessons out of 16 before the links mysteriously disappeared from youtube.

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Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by Nobody: 10:42pm On Aug 19, 2015
addictiv:

Think and grow rich is a watered down version of the Law of Success series by napoleon hill...It is so powerful that they had to take it off the market. Try law of success in sixteen lessons and you ll never be the same. I got the audio version and I listen to it every single day. Napoleon Hill literally uncensored success principles. Unfortunately I was only able to download 11 lessons out of 16 before the links mysteriously disappeared from youtube.
Abeg bros, could you send the audio or soft copy to me@bennexstore@gmail.com
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by ernie4life(m): 12:11am On Aug 23, 2015
not even one review, too bad
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by IAMTHEHERO: 9:57am On Aug 23, 2015
ernie4life:
The Richest Man in Babylon 
Written by George Samuel Clason

It's a classic written in a story format that makes it more interesting to read, it teaches the basic principles in investment which am going to summarise in the 8 points below.

1. Pay Ourselves First( learn to save first before you start spending) 

2.   Live below our means. (“Control thy expenditures, curtail your expenditure to the minimum ”)

3. Make our money work for us( learn to invest your savings to yield more for you)

4. Insurance protects our wealth.  (“Guard they treasures from loss.”)

5. Our home is our biggest expense.  (make efforts to get your own personal house)

6. Have a retirement plan. (“plan for your retirement now your still working) 

7. Invest in ourselves. (“Increase your ability to earn by learning more and more through books etc)

8. Track Our Wealth. (Know where you are and where you are going.) 


This was the one of the first books I read and it has been more than helpful.

I have the soft copy(pdf), if you need it let me know.

Happy reading smiley
Pls l need the soft copy.My email is onyekachi.chimegeiro@yahoo.com
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by taiwoliu(m): 12:00pm On Aug 23, 2015
ernie4life:
not even one review, too bad
sorry to disappoint boss..... Almost thru, coming ryt up
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by jibskerries: 3:41pm On Aug 23, 2015
Thanks so very much for this eye opener. Please i would appreciate it if you can send the soft copies of all the four books to my e-mail box-lwfmajibade@gmail.com. Thanks
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by jibskerries: 3:47pm On Aug 23, 2015
Thanks for this eye opener. I found all the books very interesting and educating. I would appreciate it if you can send the soft copies of the four books to my e-mail box-lwfmajibade@gmail.com. Thank you
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by jaz(m): 8:02pm On Aug 23, 2015
thanks guys. the e-books of napoleon hill i downloaded from youtube is so informative.

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Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by khaynoni(m): 9:11pm On Aug 23, 2015
I did a brief one up there.
ernie4life:
not even one review, too bad
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by ernie4life(m): 9:24pm On Aug 23, 2015
khaynoni:
I did a brief one up there.
sorry for the ommission, nice review, the next book we will be reading will be out by next week, hopefully both the soft copy and audio will be available for all, stay tuned
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by taiwoliu(m): 10:24pm On Aug 23, 2015
In addition to what khaynoni wrote.... D language myt pose a lil challenge to comprehension, but once you replace d pronouns with common ones, it's all smooth sailing and a fun to read.

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Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by tobajetex: 12:19am On Aug 24, 2015
please i need the soft copy. my gmail:jetawotobajetex@gmail.com
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by ernie4life(m): 5:54pm On Aug 29, 2015
this book needs no review from me but I will leave a quote

"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.""Don't find fault, find a remedy."


I have both E-copy and audio copy but may not be able to share any due to insufficient data , the files are large, I will advice anybody who wants to read it to go and buy the book, after reading you could add it to your library

Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by Xxpress(m): 9:30am On Aug 30, 2015
Who have the. Soft copy of the greatest sales man by OG. MANDINO.
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by ernie4life(m): 11:22am On Aug 30, 2015
Xxpress:
Who have the. Soft copy of the greatest sales man by OG. MANDINO.

The Scroll Marked I
Today I begin a new life


Today I shed my old skin, which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all. Today I will pluck grapes of wisdom from the tallest and fullest vines in the vineyard, for these were planted by the wisest of my profession who have come before me, generation upon generation. Today I will savor the taste of grapes from these vines and verily I will swallow the seed of success buried in each and new life will sprout within me. The career I have chosen is laden with opportunity yet it is fraught with heartbreak and despair and the bodies of those who have failed, were they piled one atop another, would cast its shadow down upon all the pyramids of the earth. Yet I will not fail, as the others, for in my hands I now hold the charts, which will guide me through perilous waters to shores, which only yesterday seemed but a dream. Failure will no longer by my payment for my struggle. Just as nature made no provision for my body to tolerate pain neither has it made any provision for my life to suffer failure. Failure, like pain, is alien to my life. In the past I accepted it as I accepted pain. Now I reject it and I am prepared for wisdom and principles which will guide me out of the shadows into the sunlight of wealth, position, and happiness far beyond my most extravagant dreams until even the golden apples in the Garden of Hesperides will seem no more than my just reward. Time teaches all things to he who lives forever but I have not the luxury of eternity. Yet, within my allotted time I must practice the art of patience for nature acts never in haste. To create the olive, king of all trees, a hundred years is required
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by Xxpress(m): 2:06pm On Aug 30, 2015
ernie4life:


The Scroll Marked I
Today I begin a new life


Today I shed my old skin, which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all. Today I will pluck grapes of wisdom from the tallest and fullest vines in the vineyard, for these were planted by the wisest of my profession who have come before me, generation upon generation. Today I will savor the taste of grapes from these vines and verily I will swallow the seed of success buried in each and new life will sprout within me. The career I have chosen is laden with opportunity yet it is fraught with heartbreak and despair and the bodies of those who have failed, were they piled one atop another, would cast its shadow down upon all the pyramids of the earth. Yet I will not fail, as the others, for in my hands I now hold the charts, which will guide me through perilous waters to shores, which only yesterday seemed but a dream. Failure will no longer by my payment for my struggle. Just as nature made no provision for my body to tolerate pain neither has it made any provision for my life to suffer failure. Failure, like pain, is alien to my life. In the past I accepted it as I accepted pain. Now I reject it and I am prepared for wisdom and principles which will guide me out of the shadows into the sunlight of wealth, position, and happiness far beyond my most extravagant dreams until even the golden apples in the Garden of Hesperides will seem no more than my just reward. Time teaches all things to he who lives forever but I have not the luxury of eternity. Yet, within my allotted time I must practice the art of patience for nature acts never in haste. To create the olive, king of all trees, a hundred years is required

A very good book. I read it some years back. Want to read it again.
Re: Books Every Investor Should Read by Joysmart(f): 3:55pm On Aug 30, 2015
Please I'll also love the soft copies and audios my email address is Kelechismart@gmail.com.
So glad i bumped into this wonderful thread

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