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I would like to give some advice to all the up and coming entrepreneurs; if you really want to be a superstar not only do you have to work harder and smarter than the competition, but you must always keep learning. I built a company from a bucket of water and a sponge into a National Car Wash Franchise System in 23 states. To do this you need to know more than what they taught you in school and you can never turn off your brain. Every person is different and has different interests. But I would like you to read through my recommended reading list. This is a list I hand out to MBA and Entrepreneurial Students when I give speeches. It is a list of recommended book, biography, audio tapes and movies.
I see the need for the modern Entrepreneur for on going learning, which must not stop after HS. In order to continue a life long education it is important to understand and observe the world, understand our places in it. We must also realize the ideals that got us here and the people who worked so hard to bring about the change needed to propel mankind’s future.
Below is a list of recommended Biographies, Books, Audio Tapes and Movies, which can assist you in your lifetime of learning and your pursuit of happiness as you Entrepreneur warriors deliver mankind everything we see, every where we go. We owe it all to you; you are the most noble of all people, you are the builders of civilization. I thank you for your continued efforts and urge you to continue your education do you can be even stronger.
People:
Maya Angilou
Bertrand Russell
John Nash
Chuck Yeager
Charles Deming
Milton Friedman
Fredrick Winslow Taylor
Cecil Rhodes
Jane Goodall
Juaque Custaeu
Betsy Ross
Aristotle
Winston Churchill
Alexander the Great
Bill Gates
Steve Balmer
Fred Smith (Fed Ex)
Michael Dell
General Patton
Ronald Reagan
Princess Diana
Jack Welsh
Ray Kroc
Tom Monahan
Richard Branson
Einstein
HP Founders
Greenspan
Volker
Sam Walton
Walt Disney
Thomas Edison
L. Ron Hubard
Gandhi
Thomas Paine
Howard Shultz (starbucks)
Yanklevich
Henry Ford
Lance Armstrong
Pele
Louis Roukeyser
Von Clauswitz
Vince Lombardi
Tiger Woods
Joe Nameth
Wayne Gretsky
Mark Spits
Carl Lewis
Neil Armstrong
Hank Aron
Schwartzkoff
Babe Ruth
Steven Wolfram
Steven Hawkins
Thomas Jefferson
The President
Nelson Mandella
Warren Buffet
Larry Ellison
Dave Thomas
Ted Turner
Craig McCaw
Andy Grove
Steven Spielberg
Gene Roddenberry
Carl Seagan
Books:
What they don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School
The Death of Competition
Win Win Scenarios
Infoprenuers
Swim With the Sharks…
What Color is Your Parachute
The Sky is not the Limit The Ground is
Winning Numbers
People of the Century By Dan Rather
Profiles of Genius
Winning
It is Always Something
Holographic Universe
Believe to Achieve
The GE Way
The World on Time
Millionaire Next Door
Think and Grow Rich
Bible
500 Year Delta
Finite Capacity Scheduling
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
It Ain’t as Easy as it looks
Blown to Bits
A Future Perfect
The Whiz kids
Disruptive Technology
Opportunity in Chaos
Dilbert series
Trump series
Essays of Warren Buffet
If it Ain’t Broke, Break it
We Seven
Rocking the Ages
In all His Glory
Big Blue
Shapes of Time
Start Small Finish Big
E-Myth
Psychocybernetics
A Salesmen is a Problem Solver
Innovation
Guerilla Marketing series
Slim Forever
Grinding it Out
Net Centric Warfare
On War
Pour Your Heart Into It
Books to understand reality:
Virus Hunters of CDC
Bin Laden, INC.
Germs
Hot Spot
Cobra Event
Clone
Brief History of Time
The Road Ahead
Most of the reading list of the “Futurists”
Machiavelli
Theory and Practice of Hell
Mien Koff
Proudy’s book on JFK
US VS. Microsoft
Confessions of a Stockbroker
Confessions of a VC
Secrets of the Temple
McLibel
The Rotten Heart of Europe
Amsterdam and the History of Commerce
The Art of War
VonClauswitz on War
JFK Reckless Youth
Tapes:
The Psychology of Winning
Benjamin Franklin Series from Franklin Quest
Mega Memory
Executive Summaries
Audio People:
Brain Tracy
Tom Hopkins
Tom Peters
Tony Robbins
*comments: Motivational Tapes tend to be too showy, but have some value.
People should listen to tapes instead of wasting time, if you are not observing things, you should be learning something.
Favorite Movies:
Top Gun
Vision Quest
Karate Kid
St. Elmos Fire
Rocky
Matrix
Star Wars
Authors with multiple books he reads (fiction):
Ayn Rand
Arthur C Clark
Michael Creighton
Ben Bova
Tom Clancy
Tolstoy
Shakespeare Plays and Cliff ‘s Notes
Charles Dickens
Isaac Asimov
Favorite Periodicals:
Foreign Affairs
Aviation Week and Space Technology
Wired
Red Herring
Scientific American
Popular Science
Popular Mechanics
Flying
Economist