• Rich Dad Poor Dad (Favorite book) • Cashflow Quadrant • Guide To Investing • The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing (was my 1st pure real estate book) • The Art of Deal • The ABC's of Real Estate Investing • The Unofficial Guide to Real Estate Investing • The E-myth • The Power of Positive Thinking • The Magic of Thinking Big • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People • The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership • Awakening the Giant Within • Your Erroneous Zones • The Power of Now • Emotional Intelligence • Think and Grow Rich • Start With Why • Slight Edge • The Compound Effect • 48 Laws of Power • The Wealth of Nations • The Art of Seduction • The 5 Love Languages • The Art of Start • The Crash Course • Business Model Generation • Secrets of the Millionaire Mind • The Secret • The Art of War • Emotional Intelligence • The Psychology of Winning • The 4 Agreements • The Richest Man in Babylon • The 7 Spiritual Laws of Success • The monk who sold his Ferrari • A whole new world • Your Erroneous Zones • As Man Thinketh • Eat that Frog I read Rich Dad Poor Dad and I quitted from College in 2012 (I started in Real Estate in 2007), I was about to start a degree on Computer Science with a minus concentration in business administration. Now I'm a a real estate investor. I've read more than 305 books in these past 2 years.

I don't think I could select one book that drastically changed my life, but there have been simple passages or even a few words in many books that have had a profound effect on me. For example, in Jim Rohn's book The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle there is a short paragraph about little things having big impacts. (I actually believe the book Compound Effect was written based on that idea as I'm pretty sure Darren Hardy was an employee of Jim Rohn at one time.) I'm paraphrasing but essentially the idea was that the little things you do each day compound. If you just wrote one offer a day, it only takes 20 minutes or so, at the end of the week, you'd have written 5 offers. Keep going for a month and you end up with 20 or so. Likewise, if you sat on your rear and watched the kartrashians for 1/2 hour a week for how every many years they've been dumbing down humanity, you'd probably have spent 2-3 days in total with the kartrashians for what result? Side note; how is it that I don't even own a T.V. but can probably name everyone on that show? What a virus... I really don't remember much else that was in that book, but that one idea really kicked me in the arse and that is what I look for when I read; I want that one strand of advice that I can put to work now like a piece of DNA I can genetically implant into my code. Little mistakes made every day add up to big errors over elapsed time. Powerful stuff. Now I need to reread the book and see what other nugget I can extract.

Rob K. that's awesome that you like the Fountainhead better than Atlas Shrugged as I totally agree it was the better of the two. (I always feel like I'm in the minority.) I'd throw out the "Slight Edge" by Jeff Olson. It's basically the same premise that @Aaron Mazzrillo talks about, that is, small actions compounding into big results. Really makes you start to question all the small decisions you make day in and day out and the effects they have on you overall.

My life is constantly changing so for me I loved. 1. The trick to money is having some 2. Secrets of the Millionaire mind. More than books I think listening to youtube has had tremendous impact. Jim Rohn is a favorite of mine. Every time I listen to him for a few days or weeks at a time I make huge leaps and bounds. When I originally started listening to him I was making $44k a year- I pretty much almost made that with my first rehab sale so far this year. He had a valuable lesson- You don't get paid for time you get paid for value. The value that you bring to the market place is what people pay you for- if you want to make more money become more valuable!

When I went to grad school, my favorite engineering teacher made this comment, and it struck a nerve. He said "I know what you should be doing in life just by looking at your night stand." I went home and saw 3 real estate books on my night stand. Apparently, real estate has always been my passion, not engineering. :) I have been a student of real estate since the late 90's. I've read more real estate books than engineering books. However, the 1% rule mentioned in various books didn't exist in the Bay Area at that time. After some research, I flew to Florida to look at properties that exceeded the 1% rule in the early 2000. In some cases, they met the 2% rule. It was a major disappointment when I showed up in Tampa Bay to check them out. These neighborhoods were so sketchy. So I went to DFW Texas afterward in search of investment properties. Apparently, the 1% rule also didn't apply in the neighborhoods I wanted to buy in TX. It was closer to 0.7% rule. In addition, their property tax was about 3% so that was a big turn off because it would have made my fixed holding cost too high. I went home and looked at 4plexes in San Jose selling for $700k while bringing in $4,000-$4,400/month. Interest rate was around 7% at that time. The numbers did not compute so sat out until 2009. Fortunately, things worked out for the best.

I agree... I keep telling my kids "just imagine if you woke up today with only what you thanked God for the night before"??.

A few books that changed my life... The Bible Atlas Shrugged The Millionaire Mind The Psychology of the Deal If You Fear Public Speaking More Than Death, You Are Doing It Wrong

1. Freedom in an Unfree World - Harry Browne 2. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand 3. How I Turned $1,000 into Three Million in Real Estate in My Spare Time - Bill Nickerson 4. Real Estate Tsunami - Ingersoll 5. The Sky's the Limit - Passion and Property in Manhattan - Steven Gaines

"Who has seen the wind?" (W.O. Mitchell), The Metamorphosis (Kaftka), and "A Clockwork Orange" (Burgess) ... but don't ask me to tie them back to real estate investing.

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Rich Dad Poor Dad (Favorite book)
Cashflow Quadrant
Guide To Investing
The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing (was my 1st pure real estate book)
The Art of Deal
The ABC's of Real Estate Investing
The Unofficial Guide to Real Estate Investing
The E-myth
The Power of Positive Thinking
The Magic of Thinking Big
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
Awakening the Giant Within
Your Erroneous Zones
The Power of Now
Emotional Intelligence
Think and Grow Rich
Start With Why
Slight Edge
The Compound Effect
48 Laws of Power
The Wealth of Nations
The Art of Seduction
The 5 Love Languages
The Art of Start
The Crash Course
Business Model Generation
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
The Secret
The Art of War
Emotional Intelligence
The Psychology of Winning
The 4 Agreements
The Richest Man in Babylon
The 7 Spiritual Laws of Success
The monk who sold his Ferrari
A whole new world
Your Erroneous Zones
As Man Thinketh
Eat that Frog

I read Rich Dad Poor Dad and I quitted from College in 2012 (I started in Real Estate in 2007), I was about to start a degree on Computer Science with a minus concentration in business administration. Now I'm a a real estate investor. I've read more than 305 books in these past 2 years.

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