Books like How to Get Rich

01

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel · Business

Zero to One began as notes from a Stanford course Thiel taught on startups in 2012, assembled into a book with co-author Blake Masters.

02

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Phil Knight · Memoir

Shoe Dog is Phil Knight's account of the first two decades of Nike, from the $50 loan he borrowed from his father in 1964 to fund his first shipment of Japanese running shoes to the company's IPO in 1980.

03

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz · Business

The Hard Thing About Hard Things is Ben Horowitz's account of what it actually feels like to run a company through crisis.

04

The Millionaire Fastlane

MJ DeMarco · Self-help

The Millionaire Fastlane is MJ DeMarco's argument that conventional financial advice — work for forty years, save 10 percent, invest in index funds, retire at 65 — is not a path to wealth but a path to a modestly funded old age, and that genuine financial freedom requires building a business rather than an investment portfolio.

05

Rich Dad Poor Dad

Robert T. Kiyosaki · Self-help

Rich Dad Poor Dad is Robert Kiyosaki's semi-autobiographical argument that the financial education most people receive — from schools, from parents, from conventional wisdom — prepares them for the wrong life.

06

100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them

Christopher Mayer · Business

Christopher Mayer built this book on research conducted earlier by Thomas Phelps, whose 1972 book 100 to 1 in the Stock Market studied stocks that returned one hundred times their purchase price.