People, who want to read books, have fun and entertainment in life. Books not only increase our knowledge, but also they also give us a sigh of relief from stress. These books are helpful for making our future because it gives us the par of excellence. By reading books, we can get the perfect solution of our problem. They give us the proper way to solve problems. An individual, who reads books, becomes mentally and spiritually strong. But today people do not want to read books because they want a fast alternative for getting information. They want to access knowledge by browsing various websites. The main benefit of Internet is that we can access it from any part of the world within a few clicks. On Internet, we can get knowledge on any topic. The people, who have the busy schedule in life, want to use net because it saves their money and time. There are so many book clubs available that attract the people for reading. These book clubs are also known as discussion groups or reading groups because they also organize a meeting of its group members. The meeting of the clubs gives the full freedom to the members to give his views over books. Most of the book clubs also provide a monthly magazine that gives the information about the recent published books.
India Today Book club, the exclusive book club, brings the wide collection of unique and distinctive books in the different categories for instance, Art and Reference Books, Fitness and Health, Classics, Children’s reading books, Information technology, Gardening, Medicine, History and many more. This book club sends books at the member’s address at no extra cost. It also provides the superb quality books on the heavy discounts. An individual can easily afford these books at the reasonable prices. This book club also gives a facility to its members to send a book as a gift to their well wishers. It sends the books in a very awesome gift wrapper. For placing order on ITBC, you have to select a book and payment of mode. You can also make payment by credit card, cheque or Demand Draft. This club provides books for the whole family.
To summarize, if somebody wants to make his bright future, then he should read books. These books really help him in making his career.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
A Better Way to Read Your Favorite Books
Audio books are sometimes the better way to "read" books. For people with a busy life style it is the only way they can take in books. They will listen to these audio books while driving and while doing household chores, and some people listen to audio books while working out.When audio books were first created they were not created as a way for busy people to read. They were created to help blind people that could not read print. This occurred in the year 1931. There were audio books that were created for a project called "Books for the Adult Blind Project". The American foundation for the blind first created audio books in 1932. In the year 1932 the first machine that allowed mass production was created and from that point on there were plenty of audio books created. In 1935 the United States government approved a program for blind adults to be mailed free audio books and this was called the Blind Project.Later on in the years with the popularity of the cassette tapes and recorders, the popularity of audio books also grew. They were made more readily available for people to get. In the year 1970 the Books on Tape program started to rent audio books to people. This started a craze of audio books and by the mid 1980's there were many audio book publishers. The business grew huge and now there are awards for audio books and a very big ceremony for it.With the invention of CDs and MP3s the popularity of audio books has once again risen. People can download audio books off the internet for a few dollars and put it on their iPods and mp3 players. This enables them to listen to the audio books at any time it is convenient for them. Audio books are no longer only for the blind of the world.Audio books not only come in the traditional books but also there are many top best sellers of the day. Self help tapes and CDs are also a very popular branch of the audio book world. People will listen to these items while on a long commute to and from work to help pass the time and make the most of their precious little time. With all of the things that people must do each day from cook dinner to walking the dog and everything in between it is no wonder that the popularity of audio books has grown. We have become a society of people on the go. What better way for someone to read a book then to listen to it being read or told to them while they are going for a peaceful jog or a while waiting for the little ones practice to be over and on the way home.Audio books are an industry that has seriously grown over the years. From people that are very young who cannot read yet to people who are elderly and have trouble seeing, audio books can be a blessing to them and that is why they are so popular. Whether you are someone who once loved to read many books and because of failing eye sight you can no longer read a book without seriously straining your eyes or maybe not even being able to see the words at all or someone who has not learned to read yet an audio book will be helpful to you.Audio books have many different types of people who use them and for many different reasons. Although they started out to help blind people read books and to this day are still used for the same reason, they also allow other people with needs to read books.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Alcoholics Anonymous: Twelve Steps or Six
Alcoholics Anonymous: Twelve Steps or Six? Dick B. © 2009 Anonymous. All rights reserved.
Where did the Twelve Steps Themselves Come From?
The answer is that the Twelve Steps, and the "Big Book" which suggested how to take them, came from a large number of sources--probably sixteen and counting. Those sources included the Bible, YMCA; the Salvation Army; the Gospel Rescue Missions; Worldwide Christian Endeavor Society; Oxford Group; Rev. Sam Shoemaker; Dr. Bob's wife Anne Ripley Smith; the necessity for conversion to Christ; Quiet Time; the Christian literature and devotionals early AAs read; New Thought writings; William D. Silkworth, M.D.; Professor William James of Harvard; renowned psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung; lay therapist Richard Peabody; and still others.
My books examine the various sources for each of the Steps. See By the Power of God, Twelve Steps for You, The Good Book and The Big Book, The Oxford Group and Alcoholics Anonymous, New Light on Alcoholism: God, Sam Shoemaker, and A.A., Turning Point: A History of Early A.A. Spiritual Roots and Successes; The Books Early AAs Read for Spiritual Growth; Anne Smith's Journal 1933-1939; Good Morning!: Quiet Time, Morning Watch, Meditation, and Alcoholics Anonymous; The James Club and The Original A.A. Program's Absolute Essentials. See the title pages of my main website (http://www.dickb.com/titles.shtml).
Recently, critics of A.A. and of our history have endeavored to bind and fetter the Twelve Steps to the Oxford Group, to "heresy," to "spirituality," to "spiritualism," to idolatry, to "not-god," to abysmal failures in recovery, to absurd names for God, to half-baked prayers, to self-made religion, to automatic writing, to New Thought, and even to "nothing at al."--as the latest A.A. General Service Conference-approved literature now suggests.
A.A.'s Big Book and the Joe and Charlie Big Book Seminars have made clear that an almost complete set of the Twelve Step ideas were tendered to Bill Wilson by his friend Ebby Thacher at Towns Hospital in 1934. The ultimate source of the Big Book and Twelve Step ideas was the writing of William Griffith Wilson (Bill W.) during the period beginning in early 1938 and ending in the spring of 1939. The Printer's Manuscript--soon to be published--shows the hundreds of changes made in the Multi lith copy of the Big Book just prior to sending the manuscript to the Printer. Moreover, 400 pages of Christian and Biblical material was tossed out in the editing process, as A.A.'s Pass It On and Bill's secretary Ruth Hock have confirmed. We now know from Wilson's own remarks that the Twelve Steps came largely from the teachings of Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr., that Bill actually asked Shoemaker to write the Twelve Steps; that Shoemaker declined; and that Bill nonetheless dubbed Rev. Sam a "Co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous." Thus the answer as to where the Twelve Steps came from and how they were written Bill Wilson lies in the documented facts themselves, and not in the unsupported reconstructions, characterizations, or opinions of critics and revisionists..
Were there Six Steps in the Original A.A. Program?
Answer: No! There exists a lot of confusion concerning the gross differences between the Original Christian Fellowship program founded in Akron on June 10, 1935, developed thereafter by November, 1937 and continuing through 1938. Here is what A.A. Cofounder Dr. Bob said in his last major address to AAs in Detroit in 1948--ten years after this formative period.
"At that point [in "early A.A. days"] our stories didn't amount to anything to speak of. When we started in on Bill D., we had no Twelve Steps either; we had no Traditions.
"But we were convinced that the answer to our problems was in the Good Book. To some of us older ones, the parts that we found absolutely essential were the Sermon on the Mount, the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians, and the Book of James. . . .
"It wasn't until 1938 that the teachings and efforts and studies that had been going on were crystallized in the form of the Twelve Steps. I didn't write the Twelve Steps. I had nothing to do with the writing of them. . . . We already had the basic ideas, though not in terse and tangible form. We got them, as I said, as a result of our study of the Good Book."
What were the Elements of the Original A.A. Program?
In November, 1937, Bill Wilson visited a week with Dr. Bob in Akron, Ohio. The two men "counted noses" and found that there were forty alcoholics who had stayed bone dry, 50% permanently cured, 25% cured after a relapse, and the remainder showing improvement. And then Bill went to New York seeking money from Rockefeller. Rockefeller dispatched his agent Frank Amos (later a trustee-to-be of the Alcoholic Foundation) to investigate and report on the program. We have copies of both the first and second Amos reports. The first came from the Rockefeller Archives; the second from my trip twenty years ago to the Stepping Stones archives. Both were displayed at our Nationwide Recovery Conference with Dick B. in Irvine, California on May 15 and 16, 2009. Part of Amos' report is set forth in A.A. General Service Conference-approved book, DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers.
The Seven Original Program Ingredients Summarized in the Frank Amos Report
The Frank Amos report to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., dated February 23, 1938, described the Akron "Program" founded in 1935. Amos said it was being carried out faithfully by the Akron group. The men in the group, he said, all looked to Dr. Bob for leadership. And these were the specifics Amos set forth about the "Program" [DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers (New York, N.Y.: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 1980), 131]:
• An alcoholic must realize that he is an alcoholic, incurable from a medical viewpoint, and that he must never drink anything with alcohol in it.
• He must surrender himself absolutely to God, realizing that in himself there is no hope.
• Not only must he want to stop drinking permanently, he must remove from his life other sins such as hatred, adultery, and others which frequently accompany alcoholism. Unless he will do this absolutely, Smith and his associates refuse to work with him.
• He must have devotions every morning-a "quiet time" of prayer and some reading from the Bible and other religious literature. Unless this is faithfully followed, there is grave danger of backsliding.
• He must be willing to help other alcoholics get straightened out. This throws up a protective barrier and strengthens his own willpower and convictions.
• It is important, but not vital, that he meet frequently with other reformed alcoholics and form both a social and a religious comradeship.
• Important, but not vital, that he attend some religious service at least once weekly.
What About the Six "Word of Mouth" Ideas Bill Wilson Mentioned?
First of all, it was Bill Wilson--not Dr. Bob--who spoke of these six word-of-mouth ideas. Bill called them "word of mouth." He said they varied from place to place and person to person. And I have actually located several different versions of these six ideas--one version written in Bill's own hand many years after the 1930's and given to me by his secretary Nell Wing. For the varieties of these so-called six ideas, see:
The first set, recorded in Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, 160.
The second set, recorded in The Language of the Heart, 200.
The third set, recorded in Lois Remembers, 92.
A purported fourth set--allegedly used by Dr. Bob--but actually not recorded in any literature commissioned by Dr. Bob, not recorded in the First Edition of Alcoholics Anonymous, attributed to Earl Treat and the founding of A.A. in Chicago, added in a later edition of the basic text as a story titled "He Sold Himself Short," and containing language that neither resembles Wilson's six ideas nor language used by Dr. Bob. The lengthy recital of what Dr. Bob allegedly did with Earl Treat at least two years after the founding of A.A. does not controvert Dr. Bob's statement that there were no Steps or Traditions at the beginning; that he didn't write the steps or have anything to do with writing them; and that the original program came from the Bible.
There are other versions also of the six Bill Wilson ideas. Further, as Bill himself stated specifically, the ideas for Bill's Twelve Steps came largely from the language and teachings of his friend Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr., rector of Calvary Episcopal Church in New York. There were no Steps in 1935. The Oxford Group had no Steps, and Bill expanded the six ideas to Twelve Steps as he wrote the Twelve Steps in late 1938.
About the Author
Writer, historian, retired attorney, Bible student, active and recovered member of the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous; author of 34 titles on the history and sources of early A.A.
Where did the Twelve Steps Themselves Come From?
The answer is that the Twelve Steps, and the "Big Book" which suggested how to take them, came from a large number of sources--probably sixteen and counting. Those sources included the Bible, YMCA; the Salvation Army; the Gospel Rescue Missions; Worldwide Christian Endeavor Society; Oxford Group; Rev. Sam Shoemaker; Dr. Bob's wife Anne Ripley Smith; the necessity for conversion to Christ; Quiet Time; the Christian literature and devotionals early AAs read; New Thought writings; William D. Silkworth, M.D.; Professor William James of Harvard; renowned psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung; lay therapist Richard Peabody; and still others.
My books examine the various sources for each of the Steps. See By the Power of God, Twelve Steps for You, The Good Book and The Big Book, The Oxford Group and Alcoholics Anonymous, New Light on Alcoholism: God, Sam Shoemaker, and A.A., Turning Point: A History of Early A.A. Spiritual Roots and Successes; The Books Early AAs Read for Spiritual Growth; Anne Smith's Journal 1933-1939; Good Morning!: Quiet Time, Morning Watch, Meditation, and Alcoholics Anonymous; The James Club and The Original A.A. Program's Absolute Essentials. See the title pages of my main website (http://www.dickb.com/titles.shtml).
Recently, critics of A.A. and of our history have endeavored to bind and fetter the Twelve Steps to the Oxford Group, to "heresy," to "spirituality," to "spiritualism," to idolatry, to "not-god," to abysmal failures in recovery, to absurd names for God, to half-baked prayers, to self-made religion, to automatic writing, to New Thought, and even to "nothing at al."--as the latest A.A. General Service Conference-approved literature now suggests.
A.A.'s Big Book and the Joe and Charlie Big Book Seminars have made clear that an almost complete set of the Twelve Step ideas were tendered to Bill Wilson by his friend Ebby Thacher at Towns Hospital in 1934. The ultimate source of the Big Book and Twelve Step ideas was the writing of William Griffith Wilson (Bill W.) during the period beginning in early 1938 and ending in the spring of 1939. The Printer's Manuscript--soon to be published--shows the hundreds of changes made in the Multi lith copy of the Big Book just prior to sending the manuscript to the Printer. Moreover, 400 pages of Christian and Biblical material was tossed out in the editing process, as A.A.'s Pass It On and Bill's secretary Ruth Hock have confirmed. We now know from Wilson's own remarks that the Twelve Steps came largely from the teachings of Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr., that Bill actually asked Shoemaker to write the Twelve Steps; that Shoemaker declined; and that Bill nonetheless dubbed Rev. Sam a "Co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous." Thus the answer as to where the Twelve Steps came from and how they were written Bill Wilson lies in the documented facts themselves, and not in the unsupported reconstructions, characterizations, or opinions of critics and revisionists..
Were there Six Steps in the Original A.A. Program?
Answer: No! There exists a lot of confusion concerning the gross differences between the Original Christian Fellowship program founded in Akron on June 10, 1935, developed thereafter by November, 1937 and continuing through 1938. Here is what A.A. Cofounder Dr. Bob said in his last major address to AAs in Detroit in 1948--ten years after this formative period.
"At that point [in "early A.A. days"] our stories didn't amount to anything to speak of. When we started in on Bill D., we had no Twelve Steps either; we had no Traditions.
"But we were convinced that the answer to our problems was in the Good Book. To some of us older ones, the parts that we found absolutely essential were the Sermon on the Mount, the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians, and the Book of James. . . .
"It wasn't until 1938 that the teachings and efforts and studies that had been going on were crystallized in the form of the Twelve Steps. I didn't write the Twelve Steps. I had nothing to do with the writing of them. . . . We already had the basic ideas, though not in terse and tangible form. We got them, as I said, as a result of our study of the Good Book."
What were the Elements of the Original A.A. Program?
In November, 1937, Bill Wilson visited a week with Dr. Bob in Akron, Ohio. The two men "counted noses" and found that there were forty alcoholics who had stayed bone dry, 50% permanently cured, 25% cured after a relapse, and the remainder showing improvement. And then Bill went to New York seeking money from Rockefeller. Rockefeller dispatched his agent Frank Amos (later a trustee-to-be of the Alcoholic Foundation) to investigate and report on the program. We have copies of both the first and second Amos reports. The first came from the Rockefeller Archives; the second from my trip twenty years ago to the Stepping Stones archives. Both were displayed at our Nationwide Recovery Conference with Dick B. in Irvine, California on May 15 and 16, 2009. Part of Amos' report is set forth in A.A. General Service Conference-approved book, DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers.
The Seven Original Program Ingredients Summarized in the Frank Amos Report
The Frank Amos report to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., dated February 23, 1938, described the Akron "Program" founded in 1935. Amos said it was being carried out faithfully by the Akron group. The men in the group, he said, all looked to Dr. Bob for leadership. And these were the specifics Amos set forth about the "Program" [DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers (New York, N.Y.: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 1980), 131]:
• An alcoholic must realize that he is an alcoholic, incurable from a medical viewpoint, and that he must never drink anything with alcohol in it.
• He must surrender himself absolutely to God, realizing that in himself there is no hope.
• Not only must he want to stop drinking permanently, he must remove from his life other sins such as hatred, adultery, and others which frequently accompany alcoholism. Unless he will do this absolutely, Smith and his associates refuse to work with him.
• He must have devotions every morning-a "quiet time" of prayer and some reading from the Bible and other religious literature. Unless this is faithfully followed, there is grave danger of backsliding.
• He must be willing to help other alcoholics get straightened out. This throws up a protective barrier and strengthens his own willpower and convictions.
• It is important, but not vital, that he meet frequently with other reformed alcoholics and form both a social and a religious comradeship.
• Important, but not vital, that he attend some religious service at least once weekly.
What About the Six "Word of Mouth" Ideas Bill Wilson Mentioned?
First of all, it was Bill Wilson--not Dr. Bob--who spoke of these six word-of-mouth ideas. Bill called them "word of mouth." He said they varied from place to place and person to person. And I have actually located several different versions of these six ideas--one version written in Bill's own hand many years after the 1930's and given to me by his secretary Nell Wing. For the varieties of these so-called six ideas, see:
The first set, recorded in Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, 160.
The second set, recorded in The Language of the Heart, 200.
The third set, recorded in Lois Remembers, 92.
A purported fourth set--allegedly used by Dr. Bob--but actually not recorded in any literature commissioned by Dr. Bob, not recorded in the First Edition of Alcoholics Anonymous, attributed to Earl Treat and the founding of A.A. in Chicago, added in a later edition of the basic text as a story titled "He Sold Himself Short," and containing language that neither resembles Wilson's six ideas nor language used by Dr. Bob. The lengthy recital of what Dr. Bob allegedly did with Earl Treat at least two years after the founding of A.A. does not controvert Dr. Bob's statement that there were no Steps or Traditions at the beginning; that he didn't write the steps or have anything to do with writing them; and that the original program came from the Bible.
There are other versions also of the six Bill Wilson ideas. Further, as Bill himself stated specifically, the ideas for Bill's Twelve Steps came largely from the language and teachings of his friend Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr., rector of Calvary Episcopal Church in New York. There were no Steps in 1935. The Oxford Group had no Steps, and Bill expanded the six ideas to Twelve Steps as he wrote the Twelve Steps in late 1938.
About the Author
Writer, historian, retired attorney, Bible student, active and recovered member of the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous; author of 34 titles on the history and sources of early A.A.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
How to Develop the Proper Mindset Needed for Your Home Business
If you were given a very voluminous book to read that would take you your entire lifetime to complete, how would you read it? Would you start from the beginning and read through, page after page untill you die? Would you not rather focus on the part of the book that is more important to you? If you apply practical wisdom you can find real satisfaction from reading the most voluminous book that exists on earth.
The book I just described is the internet. Have you ever tried to travel around the internet from website to website, page to page? Very likely, you felt really burdened by the endless links there are on the web. If you were to read all the information on the internet, your whole lifetime will certainly not be enough for you to cover the exercise. How much more profitable it would be then for you to focus on the matters that concern you mostly. And what matters would most certainly concern you than to feed your family and adequately care of their needs.
What if you learnt that right from your home, you can work and adequately provide for your family with just your laptop and internet connection? With this knowledge in mind, you do not need to burden yourself with too much information in the most voluminous book in the planet-the internet. If you have that book in your house, you can turn to the chapter that explains all that you need to know about Home Business and study some of its contents.
Of all the pages found on the internet however, the Home Business chapter seems to have the most deceptive content written by Ghosts Writers. it is very common to see a very well decorated, alluring page with too good to be true promises of many million dollar to be gained in just one day, only to discover after emptying your credit card that it is a scam. Hence, you need to be very careful because no one can be intelligent enough to avoid every single scam on the internet. But rest assured that there are genuine websites on the internet that can actually deliver their promises.
Are you ready now to start your home business? What should you know and do? First you need to make sure that you have knowledge of the right home business websites for every single transaction that you would involve in. This can be realized by trainings or recommendations from the people you know and trust; from news releases in reputable newspapers; from published reports in magazines, books, the media, and other reliable sources. Such knowledge will give you focus and guidance on the particular business that you wish to engage in. and for you to get such reliable information, you must reach out to them. It is very important too that you do a thorough research so that you know the length and the breath of the business you want to engage in-this will help you to minimize mistakes. Gathering all the necessary information for your home business is the same thing with writing a business plan for a land business; without a business plan, no business would succeed well.
With such a good preparation, you can then begin to acquire all the assets that you would need for your home business such as a computer, internet connectivity, a scanner, a digital camera, as well as a printer.
Another important thing is to know the business that is most profitable for you. It is very crucial that you do a thorough research on this matter. The internet is filled with thousands of business opportunities. Some are filled with dangerous risks; others are time consuming but less profitable. If care is not taken, you may lose focus and find yourself been swayed hither and thither like a tree in a heavy wind just because you want to grab all the opportunities all at once, only to discover later that you are actually buying great stress with you hard earned money. Such action will not take you anywhere. It will only increase your burden and your expenses. But if you are focused and shrewd in your home business activities, you will in time find satisfaction in reading the most complicated page that exists on the internet. Even if that is the only page you will need to read untill you die, your effort would have paid off, and you would have died satisfied with your success.
The book I just described is the internet. Have you ever tried to travel around the internet from website to website, page to page? Very likely, you felt really burdened by the endless links there are on the web. If you were to read all the information on the internet, your whole lifetime will certainly not be enough for you to cover the exercise. How much more profitable it would be then for you to focus on the matters that concern you mostly. And what matters would most certainly concern you than to feed your family and adequately care of their needs.
What if you learnt that right from your home, you can work and adequately provide for your family with just your laptop and internet connection? With this knowledge in mind, you do not need to burden yourself with too much information in the most voluminous book in the planet-the internet. If you have that book in your house, you can turn to the chapter that explains all that you need to know about Home Business and study some of its contents.
Of all the pages found on the internet however, the Home Business chapter seems to have the most deceptive content written by Ghosts Writers. it is very common to see a very well decorated, alluring page with too good to be true promises of many million dollar to be gained in just one day, only to discover after emptying your credit card that it is a scam. Hence, you need to be very careful because no one can be intelligent enough to avoid every single scam on the internet. But rest assured that there are genuine websites on the internet that can actually deliver their promises.
Are you ready now to start your home business? What should you know and do? First you need to make sure that you have knowledge of the right home business websites for every single transaction that you would involve in. This can be realized by trainings or recommendations from the people you know and trust; from news releases in reputable newspapers; from published reports in magazines, books, the media, and other reliable sources. Such knowledge will give you focus and guidance on the particular business that you wish to engage in. and for you to get such reliable information, you must reach out to them. It is very important too that you do a thorough research so that you know the length and the breath of the business you want to engage in-this will help you to minimize mistakes. Gathering all the necessary information for your home business is the same thing with writing a business plan for a land business; without a business plan, no business would succeed well.
With such a good preparation, you can then begin to acquire all the assets that you would need for your home business such as a computer, internet connectivity, a scanner, a digital camera, as well as a printer.
Another important thing is to know the business that is most profitable for you. It is very crucial that you do a thorough research on this matter. The internet is filled with thousands of business opportunities. Some are filled with dangerous risks; others are time consuming but less profitable. If care is not taken, you may lose focus and find yourself been swayed hither and thither like a tree in a heavy wind just because you want to grab all the opportunities all at once, only to discover later that you are actually buying great stress with you hard earned money. Such action will not take you anywhere. It will only increase your burden and your expenses. But if you are focused and shrewd in your home business activities, you will in time find satisfaction in reading the most complicated page that exists on the internet. Even if that is the only page you will need to read untill you die, your effort would have paid off, and you would have died satisfied with your success.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Corporate Speed Reading
The written word is everywhere. In today’s fast-paced, get-it-done-yesterday world, being able to speed read—and remember what you read—is nearly a matter of professional life or death. If your reading speed is more tortoise than hare, perhaps it’s time to look into a new way of reading.Learning to speed read actually involves teaching your brain to read in a new way."But wait!" you say. "It took years to learn how to read before. I just don’t have that kind of time."Never fear! With our Speed Read Complete Corporate edition, you will be able to double your reading speed in only an hour in the privacy of your own home or office! This time-tested method of teaching your brain to speed read has been taught in live seminars for decades all around the US and the e-books have been translated into five languages.Are you still unsure about signing up for an online speed reading course? Have you handed over hundreds of dollars before, only to read a few words a minute faster? 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In less than three weeks, you could even see a promotion at work due to your new-found love of learning.The Speed Read Complete was written based on a 3-day lecture course by Dr. Jay Polmar, an accomplished author and university and community college professor who has written more than 100 books. Dr. Polmar has helped hundreds of thousands all around the world read faster and get ahead. Let him help you improve your life!Benefits to Business with Speed Reading: Words are everywhere. No matter where you go, you cannot get away from the written word. Being able to read and comprehend faster will help you not only when you want to read for pleasure, but it will help you in business even more.The ability to speed read—reading more than 600 words in a minute with at least a 80% comprehension rate—will help you immensely in the corporate world. Read over corporate reports—yours and your competitors’—in half the time, giving yourself time to work on other projects. 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Supplement your study with our audio add-ons, to ensure rapid success. These MP3s, which can be downloaded to your favorite device, follow the books and include subjects such as memory enhancement and speed reading comprehension. We have also included audio courses on relaxation techniques and stress relief, developing self confidence, and eliminating the negative inner dialogue. Written by Dr. Jay Polmar, a former university instructor and author with over 40 titles to his name, Speed Read Complete Corporate has been used by professionals in all areas from government to education to the corporate world. Used by corporations, teachers, and government officials in over 25 countries, Speed Read Complete has been translated into five other languages to help people learn to speed read in their native language.Who Can Learn Speed Reading: The corporate world is dominated by life-long learners—people who take the time to learn everything they can about their chosen field and everything they can about corresponding subjects. But when you have a family and a life outside of work, carving out the time to read all those books can be difficult. New books on every subject are being published every day. How is one supposed to keep up at work, and keep up at home at the same time?You know that learning to speed read is the answer. Cutting your reading time in half or even more would give you the ability to simply devour the books you always wanted to read, the books you know you should read, and the ones you need to read to get ahead.You may have looked into 1-day or multiple day speed reading seminars or "home courses" before, only to be turned off by the price. One-day live speed reading seminars can set you back anywhere from $200 to $700, and their results are far from guaranteed.So what is a lower-level manager with aspirations of advancement to do?With Speedread.org’s course for the corporate man or woman, you can double your reading speed starting with our best-selling Speed Read in Only One Hour, which offers techniques to help you break poor habits learned when you were first learning to read. With our supplements for business professionals—Business Speed Reading Success, which focuses on Business and MBA professionals, and How To Get Things Accomplished In Less Time, which teaches smart time management—you will learn not only how to fly over the pages of corporate reports, you will also learn new techniques for note taking, concentration, recall and, with our Think Right course, you will also learn positive thinking exercises and stress relief to increase your reading speed even more.The corporate edition of our Speed Read Complete course also includes add-ons useful for generating sales, and includes one of the first-ever courses written on the Law of Attraction. Our proven audio courses teach the busy professional how to sit back and relax. Aimed at adults, corporate and business employees and MBA professionals, Speed Read Complete Corporate Edition offers not only the ability to speed read. Included in the Corporate Edition is also a time management course and a course to help you achieve your life goals by using the material from our Online Download Library of speed reading and self power improving publications.The best part is that not only will you be able to double your reading speed after the first one-hour lesson, but we have also had mid-level managers receive promotions as little as three weeks after starting our course!Written by Dr. Jay Polmar, an expert in the fields of speed reading, self-improvement, continuing education and self-growth, Speed Read Complete boasts a success rate unheard of in its industry and offers a full money back guarantee that you will be reading significantly faster in only 21 days. How Much Does Speed Reading Cost:Everyone is trying to save money these days. Finding bargains is quickly turning into the Western world’s favorite pastime. A close second is doing whatever one can to make oneself invaluable to his or her employer.What would you pay for that next promotion? What would you pay to practically guarantee a raise? In today’s global financial market, what would you pay for simple job security?Self-improvement classes of all types start anywhere from $200 to $2,000 and offer mixed results and mixed promises. There is one company, however, which offers worldwide results and guaranteed outcomes.Speedread.org, Inc. has condensed their 3-day live speed reading course into a compact, at-your-own-increasing-pace ebook course to help you—the busy business professional—not only make yourself invaluable to your employer, but to also improve your chances of getting that all-too-important promotion or surviving the latest round of job cuts.This course has been taught to everyone in the corporate world from busy executives to the administrative assistant answering the phones in more than 20 countries around the world in more than five languages, all with amazing results. Many mid-level managers see promotions in less than three weeks. Everyone who takes the course doubles their reading speed in just the first hour—some even triple or quadruple their reading speed!How much would you pay for the opportunity to get more done in less time, leaving more time for family, friends, or hobbies? What would you pay to practically ensure job security and a promotion? With our do-it-yourself speed reading course for the business person, you can not only increase your chance of thriving in these economic times, you can also choose the price you will need to pay!Starting at just $79.95 USD, you can be reading twice as fast in the very first hour! Our Speed Read Complete Corporate pack includes everything you need in a single electronic download! Our $99.99 USD CD Pack allows you to keep (or share with friends or your family members) a hard copy in the form of CDs. Or, if you would like hard copies to go along with the CDs, it's only $159.99 USD for over a dozen books with their corresponding CDs and other audio files.The Speed Read Complete Corporate course is specifically designed for the busy professional and is guaranteed to help everyone in the corporation from the newly-hired administrative assistant to the CEO. For a very affordable price, you can make an investment in yourself that will touch every aspect of your life.
Corporate Success / Goal Planning:Everyone creates them, knowingly and unknowingly—goals. Some goals are lofty and well-thought-out—such goals in business (get a raise by the end of the year), goals in relationships (be married by age 30), and goals in life (watch the Northern Lights in Alaska) are easy to quantify, to write down, to dream and to imagine. Other goals are implied and subconscious; such goals in business (commute to work without incident), goals in relationships (find someone to spend New Year's Eve with), and goals in life (leave this world a better place) may be harder to express. Speedread.org knows that you are more than just the business person dressing for success every morning. You are a complete person who does not spend every waking moment working—or if you do, you don't want to spend your life like that. Who you and what you do touches every single aspect of your life—your business life touches your social life; your social life touches your home life; your home life has a great impact on your spiritual life (whatever it may be); and your spiritual life determines how you perform in the business arena.For us to consider ourselves successful in life, our goals must be achieved. Consciously or not, we determine our own success—in small things (getting to work safely) and large things (being promoted to upper management)—by meeting our stated or unstated goals. We also measure others' successes or failures against our own goals. Because goal planning is mandatory for success, we have included many sections in our speed reading books. Our SpeedRead Complete Corporate course not only teaches how to read two to three—or even more—times faster than you can now, we also give you the tools to plan your goals to align with your purpose in life. To determine your personal goals, you simply need to look at what success means to you in your career, lifestyle, home life, spiritually, in a word: in everything. In our SpeedRead Complete Corporate course, we spend quite a bit of time on goal planning and the keys to success—not just in increasing the number of words read in a certain time frame, but in life. Reading is essential to life in today's world, but if you simply learn to speed read without a goal as to how to use your new knowledge, you will lose it.We know you are more than your business persona, and "success" in business may not necessarily mean success in life. At Speedread.org, we are determined to help you become not only a more successful business person, but a more successful human being. Lifelong Effects of Speed Reading:How would you like to remember 90% of what you read from anything—the newspaper, your favorite novel, business reports, your child's MySpace blog? How would you like to be able to read faster—maybe even four or five times faster—and still remember almost everything you read? How would you like this to happen in just one single hour? Impossible? Not hardly! With Speedread.org's Speed Complete Speed Reading Program, hundreds of thousands of people have done just that! But what can one do with the ability to read over 600 words per minute with a 90% retention rate?The lifelong effects of speed reading are numerous. First, you will finally be able to get to all those books on your list you have never had the time to read before. Suddenly, an hour's commute to work on public transportation won't mean simply a chapter or two… it will mean an entire book checked off your list! You won't even get that sense of disappointment when you finish a book just to finish it. With the Complete Speed Reading Program, and the new ability to retain nearly everything you read, you'll be able to discuss the book in next month's—or even next year's—book club! If you are in a profession that requires a lot of reading and just as much retention such as scholars, physicians, writers, doctors, attorneys, and countless other fields, being able to read even twice as fast can end up saving hours—even up to days or weeks—on an intense project.If you are a lifelong student—or just one who loves to learn and is always taking a course or two to help expand horizons—being able to read faster and comprehend more will, undoubtedly, be of a great boon to not only your ease of study, but also your GPA. Studies have also shown that the new way of reading taught to those who want to speed read may also assist the brain in learning a new language. Speed reading also has lifelong physical effects as well. The less time you spend reading, the less eye strain and eye and muscle fatigue you will experience. Because the Complete Speed Reading Program literally re-teaches your brain how to read, you learn how to remember more at the same time. Simply being able to remember what you have read can be just what you need to set yourself apart from the pack vying for that next promotion.Passing Along Your Knowledge:Nothing is worse for an avid reader and a lover of books than having a child who hates to read. Parents today know that reading to a child early in life will help them foster a love of reading and prepare them to read themselves, but sometimes not even that can be enough to foster a love of the written word. Reading parents know that aversion to reading will haunt their child for the rest of his life, making school harder… making life harder. But, as any parent knows, you cannot simply say to a 10-year-old who hates reading, "You're going to read and you're going to like it." You have to understand why reading is so difficult.Reading, today, is taught in an inefficient manner. "Average" readers today (of any language) read anywhere from 100 words per minute (usually for memorization purposes) to 700 words per minute ("skimming", looking only for specific key words). Statistics also show that as the words per minute go up, the reading comprehension goes down, and this is borne out in school test scores. With the pressure on slower readers of having to finish the reading section and the comprehension questions within a set period of time, most finally turn to skimming—looking only at key words in the question. This "cheater" method is only reinforced when the test comes back with a good grade (since they were only looking for specific words). What would you, as a parent, pay to not only teach your child a better, faster, and easier way of reading—but also one that jumps their reading comprehension up to over 90%?How about nothing! When you purchase Speedread.org's Complete Speed Reading Program, you have Speedread.org's permission—even its blessing—to pass the course on to your friends and family members who love to read and would like to read more or who are struggling to read and are on the fence about reading in general.Imagine your child reading every word on the standardized test page in under ten seconds… and remembering it! How would your child feel being the first done with the test instead of one of the last? Homework and studying time would be cut in half or more, giving all of you more family time. Studies and anecdotal reports from previous customers of Speedread.org have shown that less than a month after beginning the Complete Speed Reading Program, students' grades have only raised—in some instances raising from a C average to an A in only 21 days!Dr. Jay Polmar, author of over 40 books, spent years developing the Complete Speed Reading Program, and originally taught it to university students around the United States. Now, he brings his vast knowledge into the corporate world and into your child's bedroom. Bring a love of lifelong learning home to everyone in the family starting at under $80!Get More Accomplished in Less Time What would you do if you found yourself with an extra hour a day at work? Would you get a jump on the next day's work? Would you use it to surf the Internet and just "put in your time" until it was time to go home? Or would you use that extra hour to ensure you would have an extra hour every day to make yourself invaluable to your employer?Whether you are the receptionist or a CEO, chances are if you are part of today's corporate environment, you are—at least at certain times during the year—required to do extensive reading for your job. Quarterly reports can range from two pages to two hundred, and that can take some time to read—especially when you are supposed to be keeping up on what the competitors are doing. If you were able to read—and even more importantly recall—three quarterly reports in the time it took others to read just one, what would your job look like after four quarterly reports? With the Complete Speed Reading Program, Corporate Edition, you will be reading at twice the speed you were before in just the first hour! What would you do with an extra hour or two a day you never had before? Get more sleep? Spend time with your family? Take a class? Go out with friends? Finally do all those things you'd always said you wanted to do but never had time—like volunteering at a local charity?Dr. Jay Polmar, author of over 40 books, spent years developing the Complete Speed Reading Program, and originally taught it to university students around the United States. Now, he brings his vast knowledge into the corporate world and into your child's bedroom. Our Guarantee Corporate Speed Reading Overview:What started as a classroom course has evolved into an affordable do-it-yourself course designed to make business people—from administrative assistants to MBAs to CEOs—more valuable to their company in the form of The Complete Speed Reading Program. The Complete Speed Reading Program for the busy executive contains four books (available both as a PDF download and—if desired—in print): Speed Read in Only One Hour teaches the basic techniques and has multiple reinforcement exercises. Business Speed Reading Success is specifically designed for business people and MBAs. The book teaches techniques and vocabulary—as well as going more in-depth into the science behind speed reading and motivation.How To Get Things Accomplished In Less Time is essential for any busy corporate employee. With over 100 tips to boost your time, this book teaches some simple, easy-to-follow steps to better manage the extra time you have after learning to speed read.Think Right is a book not on speed reading, but—as Speedread.org takes a holistic approach to everything we do—helps one develop one's self-power and provides an ethical viewpoint on technology. Think Right focuses on learning to set your thoughts on what you want and then accomplishing it. In addition to the books, the Complete Speed Reading Program includes a dozen audio files designed to be listened to at any time—during a commute, during "down time", at work, or even during sleep—to buttress not only the speed reading, but the other topics covered in the books. Some of the audio files supplement the speed reading program while others cover reading comprehension, accelerated learning skills, memory enhancement and intuitive development. Others take the more relaxing bent, offering conditioning for relaxation and stress relief, developing self confidence and self power, and eliminating the inner dialogue.Our books and courses have been sold all over the world, having been translated into the six major world languages. Developed by Dr. Jay Polmar, an expert in the fields of self-improvement, continuing education and self-growth, The Complete Speed Read Program for Business boasts a success rate unheard of in its industry and offers a full money back guarantee that you will be reading significantly faster in only 21 days. Our Guarantee:Many businesses offer guarantees; most of them are hardly worth the paper they are printed on. Speed reading is no exception. Many of the speed reading seminars or do-it-yourself courses out there offer guarantees, but their products often fall short, or require intense, ongoing, and stressful learning techniques.Speedread.org GUARANTEES that you will be reading faster, stress-free, after just one hour or every penny of your money back. How can we offer this guarantee? We have 30 years of speed reading results! After offering this course—both in live classes and the do-it-yourself ebooks—for more than 30 years, we know it works, and works all over the world. Utilizing both ancient and modern methods to teach the brain a new way of thinking, and a new way of reading, we have over 100,000 copies in print, and even more in ebook format. In 30 years of live courses, and more than a decade of online courses and the "do-it-yourself" offered at http://www.speedreadcomplete.com/, Speedread.org has only had to refund less than 1/10 of 1 % of sales due to customer dissatisfaction! With a record like that, they can make—and back up—their money back guarantee.The course has been used by educators, government officers, and managers of corporations in more than 20 countries around the world and has been printed in the world's six major languages.While subsequent results are not guaranteed, Speedread.org continually receives word from satisfied customers that, in as little as three weeks after starting the course, they have received business promotions directly attributable to their new skills. Students, after taking the course, have raised grade point averages from the average "C" to the excellent "A".Developed by Dr. Jay Polmar, an expert in the ever-changing field of self-improvement, The Complete Speed Reading Program Corporate course, especially, has extra programs to help one succeed more. Speedread.org also believes the information provided is so essential, the company encourages its customers to pass their information on to spouses, children, and friends to help increase reading speed, productivity, free time, and goal achievement.
Corporate Success / Goal Planning:Everyone creates them, knowingly and unknowingly—goals. Some goals are lofty and well-thought-out—such goals in business (get a raise by the end of the year), goals in relationships (be married by age 30), and goals in life (watch the Northern Lights in Alaska) are easy to quantify, to write down, to dream and to imagine. Other goals are implied and subconscious; such goals in business (commute to work without incident), goals in relationships (find someone to spend New Year's Eve with), and goals in life (leave this world a better place) may be harder to express. Speedread.org knows that you are more than just the business person dressing for success every morning. You are a complete person who does not spend every waking moment working—or if you do, you don't want to spend your life like that. Who you and what you do touches every single aspect of your life—your business life touches your social life; your social life touches your home life; your home life has a great impact on your spiritual life (whatever it may be); and your spiritual life determines how you perform in the business arena.For us to consider ourselves successful in life, our goals must be achieved. Consciously or not, we determine our own success—in small things (getting to work safely) and large things (being promoted to upper management)—by meeting our stated or unstated goals. We also measure others' successes or failures against our own goals. Because goal planning is mandatory for success, we have included many sections in our speed reading books. Our SpeedRead Complete Corporate course not only teaches how to read two to three—or even more—times faster than you can now, we also give you the tools to plan your goals to align with your purpose in life. To determine your personal goals, you simply need to look at what success means to you in your career, lifestyle, home life, spiritually, in a word: in everything. In our SpeedRead Complete Corporate course, we spend quite a bit of time on goal planning and the keys to success—not just in increasing the number of words read in a certain time frame, but in life. Reading is essential to life in today's world, but if you simply learn to speed read without a goal as to how to use your new knowledge, you will lose it.We know you are more than your business persona, and "success" in business may not necessarily mean success in life. At Speedread.org, we are determined to help you become not only a more successful business person, but a more successful human being. Lifelong Effects of Speed Reading:How would you like to remember 90% of what you read from anything—the newspaper, your favorite novel, business reports, your child's MySpace blog? How would you like to be able to read faster—maybe even four or five times faster—and still remember almost everything you read? How would you like this to happen in just one single hour? Impossible? Not hardly! With Speedread.org's Speed Complete Speed Reading Program, hundreds of thousands of people have done just that! But what can one do with the ability to read over 600 words per minute with a 90% retention rate?The lifelong effects of speed reading are numerous. First, you will finally be able to get to all those books on your list you have never had the time to read before. Suddenly, an hour's commute to work on public transportation won't mean simply a chapter or two… it will mean an entire book checked off your list! You won't even get that sense of disappointment when you finish a book just to finish it. With the Complete Speed Reading Program, and the new ability to retain nearly everything you read, you'll be able to discuss the book in next month's—or even next year's—book club! If you are in a profession that requires a lot of reading and just as much retention such as scholars, physicians, writers, doctors, attorneys, and countless other fields, being able to read even twice as fast can end up saving hours—even up to days or weeks—on an intense project.If you are a lifelong student—or just one who loves to learn and is always taking a course or two to help expand horizons—being able to read faster and comprehend more will, undoubtedly, be of a great boon to not only your ease of study, but also your GPA. Studies have also shown that the new way of reading taught to those who want to speed read may also assist the brain in learning a new language. Speed reading also has lifelong physical effects as well. The less time you spend reading, the less eye strain and eye and muscle fatigue you will experience. Because the Complete Speed Reading Program literally re-teaches your brain how to read, you learn how to remember more at the same time. Simply being able to remember what you have read can be just what you need to set yourself apart from the pack vying for that next promotion.Passing Along Your Knowledge:Nothing is worse for an avid reader and a lover of books than having a child who hates to read. Parents today know that reading to a child early in life will help them foster a love of reading and prepare them to read themselves, but sometimes not even that can be enough to foster a love of the written word. Reading parents know that aversion to reading will haunt their child for the rest of his life, making school harder… making life harder. But, as any parent knows, you cannot simply say to a 10-year-old who hates reading, "You're going to read and you're going to like it." You have to understand why reading is so difficult.Reading, today, is taught in an inefficient manner. "Average" readers today (of any language) read anywhere from 100 words per minute (usually for memorization purposes) to 700 words per minute ("skimming", looking only for specific key words). Statistics also show that as the words per minute go up, the reading comprehension goes down, and this is borne out in school test scores. With the pressure on slower readers of having to finish the reading section and the comprehension questions within a set period of time, most finally turn to skimming—looking only at key words in the question. This "cheater" method is only reinforced when the test comes back with a good grade (since they were only looking for specific words). What would you, as a parent, pay to not only teach your child a better, faster, and easier way of reading—but also one that jumps their reading comprehension up to over 90%?How about nothing! When you purchase Speedread.org's Complete Speed Reading Program, you have Speedread.org's permission—even its blessing—to pass the course on to your friends and family members who love to read and would like to read more or who are struggling to read and are on the fence about reading in general.Imagine your child reading every word on the standardized test page in under ten seconds… and remembering it! How would your child feel being the first done with the test instead of one of the last? Homework and studying time would be cut in half or more, giving all of you more family time. Studies and anecdotal reports from previous customers of Speedread.org have shown that less than a month after beginning the Complete Speed Reading Program, students' grades have only raised—in some instances raising from a C average to an A in only 21 days!Dr. Jay Polmar, author of over 40 books, spent years developing the Complete Speed Reading Program, and originally taught it to university students around the United States. Now, he brings his vast knowledge into the corporate world and into your child's bedroom. Bring a love of lifelong learning home to everyone in the family starting at under $80!Get More Accomplished in Less Time What would you do if you found yourself with an extra hour a day at work? Would you get a jump on the next day's work? Would you use it to surf the Internet and just "put in your time" until it was time to go home? Or would you use that extra hour to ensure you would have an extra hour every day to make yourself invaluable to your employer?Whether you are the receptionist or a CEO, chances are if you are part of today's corporate environment, you are—at least at certain times during the year—required to do extensive reading for your job. Quarterly reports can range from two pages to two hundred, and that can take some time to read—especially when you are supposed to be keeping up on what the competitors are doing. If you were able to read—and even more importantly recall—three quarterly reports in the time it took others to read just one, what would your job look like after four quarterly reports? With the Complete Speed Reading Program, Corporate Edition, you will be reading at twice the speed you were before in just the first hour! What would you do with an extra hour or two a day you never had before? Get more sleep? Spend time with your family? Take a class? Go out with friends? Finally do all those things you'd always said you wanted to do but never had time—like volunteering at a local charity?Dr. Jay Polmar, author of over 40 books, spent years developing the Complete Speed Reading Program, and originally taught it to university students around the United States. Now, he brings his vast knowledge into the corporate world and into your child's bedroom. Our Guarantee Corporate Speed Reading Overview:What started as a classroom course has evolved into an affordable do-it-yourself course designed to make business people—from administrative assistants to MBAs to CEOs—more valuable to their company in the form of The Complete Speed Reading Program. The Complete Speed Reading Program for the busy executive contains four books (available both as a PDF download and—if desired—in print): Speed Read in Only One Hour teaches the basic techniques and has multiple reinforcement exercises. Business Speed Reading Success is specifically designed for business people and MBAs. The book teaches techniques and vocabulary—as well as going more in-depth into the science behind speed reading and motivation.How To Get Things Accomplished In Less Time is essential for any busy corporate employee. With over 100 tips to boost your time, this book teaches some simple, easy-to-follow steps to better manage the extra time you have after learning to speed read.Think Right is a book not on speed reading, but—as Speedread.org takes a holistic approach to everything we do—helps one develop one's self-power and provides an ethical viewpoint on technology. Think Right focuses on learning to set your thoughts on what you want and then accomplishing it. In addition to the books, the Complete Speed Reading Program includes a dozen audio files designed to be listened to at any time—during a commute, during "down time", at work, or even during sleep—to buttress not only the speed reading, but the other topics covered in the books. Some of the audio files supplement the speed reading program while others cover reading comprehension, accelerated learning skills, memory enhancement and intuitive development. Others take the more relaxing bent, offering conditioning for relaxation and stress relief, developing self confidence and self power, and eliminating the inner dialogue.Our books and courses have been sold all over the world, having been translated into the six major world languages. Developed by Dr. Jay Polmar, an expert in the fields of self-improvement, continuing education and self-growth, The Complete Speed Read Program for Business boasts a success rate unheard of in its industry and offers a full money back guarantee that you will be reading significantly faster in only 21 days. Our Guarantee:Many businesses offer guarantees; most of them are hardly worth the paper they are printed on. Speed reading is no exception. Many of the speed reading seminars or do-it-yourself courses out there offer guarantees, but their products often fall short, or require intense, ongoing, and stressful learning techniques.Speedread.org GUARANTEES that you will be reading faster, stress-free, after just one hour or every penny of your money back. How can we offer this guarantee? We have 30 years of speed reading results! After offering this course—both in live classes and the do-it-yourself ebooks—for more than 30 years, we know it works, and works all over the world. Utilizing both ancient and modern methods to teach the brain a new way of thinking, and a new way of reading, we have over 100,000 copies in print, and even more in ebook format. In 30 years of live courses, and more than a decade of online courses and the "do-it-yourself" offered at http://www.speedreadcomplete.com/, Speedread.org has only had to refund less than 1/10 of 1 % of sales due to customer dissatisfaction! With a record like that, they can make—and back up—their money back guarantee.The course has been used by educators, government officers, and managers of corporations in more than 20 countries around the world and has been printed in the world's six major languages.While subsequent results are not guaranteed, Speedread.org continually receives word from satisfied customers that, in as little as three weeks after starting the course, they have received business promotions directly attributable to their new skills. Students, after taking the course, have raised grade point averages from the average "C" to the excellent "A".Developed by Dr. Jay Polmar, an expert in the ever-changing field of self-improvement, The Complete Speed Reading Program Corporate course, especially, has extra programs to help one succeed more. Speedread.org also believes the information provided is so essential, the company encourages its customers to pass their information on to spouses, children, and friends to help increase reading speed, productivity, free time, and goal achievement.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Quickly Master The Techniques Of Reading Fast
Being able to learn to read fast is an ability that not many possess though everyone would like to possess such abilities. In fact, speed reading is highly regarded in just about every area of life and even though speed reading does not necessarily transform into greater intelligence, it can lead to greater knowledge and becoming better informed which is something that slow readers are not capable of attaining. You may test several different method to learn to read faster, but an alternative that is worth examining is utilizing a speed reading book.Reading FasterWith the assistance of a speed reading book you are able to do a much more than read written matter faster, you can also learn how to absorb what you have read and then hold the information better. Point of fact, by employing a speed reading book it is conceivable to condition your mind to read faster and in addition train the mind to grasp new concepts much faster and thus enrich the brain as well as spend less time in reading text.Speed reading books will also assist students who have to read a large amount of books on different topics. Since reading is a time consuming activity, learning to speed read will benefit students substantially by permitting them to pour through numerous subjects in the shortest possible time.Additionaly, a speed reading book can assist you at your workplace. This is another area in life where reading plays a significant role in discharging responsibilities better. Looking for information will be easier and more immediate if one has disciplined themself to read with the help of a speed reading book and though computers can simplify things considerably in this regard, being able to discover information more immediate is a certain advantage at the workplace.Perhaps the most direct way in which utilizing a book on speed reading will help you is when you pick up a novel and get through it in double time. Once you have perfected the art of speed reading, you will then be able to read a larger amount of books and so enrich your mind. In fact, you could complete a book in less than fraction of the time it takes a slower reader to finish the same book, and in addition, speed reading also helps when reading the daily newspaper as well as magazines.If one had a good speed reading eye, life as far as reading would be considerably enriched and in this fast paced world that we live in today, being able to read inconceivable amounts of information in the shortest possible time definitely has its own advantages.Instead of enrolling in a speed reading class, or correspondence courses, you should simply get hold of a good speed reading book and learn how to read faster, it will unquestionably benefit you in a number of significant ways.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Reminiscences Of A Must Read Book
If you haven't read it, Edwin Lefevre's Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is a classic book for active investors & traders. Although written in 1923, it is filled with useful thoughts, ideas and stories for anyone interested in trading, sentiment, charting, as well as general trade money management.
It details the fictional speculator Larry Livingstone, who is widely believed to be a pseudonym for fabled trader Jesse Livermore. Livermore/Livingstone utilized the ticker tape and chalk boards in the "bucket shops" to determine how a security would move in the short-term, without much regard to the fundamentals. The often used phrase (quoted in different ways) from this book is "The Tape Tells All" .... meaning the Chart (in modern terms) tells you what you need to know about the stock .... fundamental news, sentiment, etc are all shown in one way or another on the chart.Jack Schwager interviewed 30 of the greatest traders of all time (in his famous book Market Wizards) and asked them what book they found most valuable and would recommend to aspiring traders -- the most frequent response by far was Reminiscences.
Here is a sample of some of the many quotes from this timeless book that will certainly make you think and can help set the proper mindset of a successful investor:
But if after a long steady rise a stock turns and gradually begins to go down, with only occasionally small rallies, it is obvious that the line of least resistance has changed from upward to downward. Such being the case why should anyone ask for explanations? There are probably very good reasons why it should go down.
The speculator's deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statue books in the world and all the rule books on all the Exchanges of the earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.
At the same time I realise that the best of all tipsters, the most persuasive of all salesmen, is the tape.
I trade on my own information and follow my own methods.
Among the hazards of speculation the happening of the unexpected - I might even say of the unexpectable - ranks high.
The game does not change and neither does human nature.
A speculator must concern himself with making money out of the market and not with insisting that the tape must agree with him. Never argue with it or ask for reasons or explanations.
It sounds very easy to say that all you have to do is to watch the tape, establish your resistance points and be ready to trade along the line of least resistance as soon as you have determined it. But in actual practice a man has to guard against many things, and most of all against himself - that is, against human nature.
He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.
"I can't sleep" answered the nervous one."Why not?" asked the friend."I am carrying so much cotton that I can't sleep thinking about. It is wearing me out. What can I do?""Sell down to the sleeping point", answered the friend.
When I am long of stocks it is because my reading of conditions has made me bullish. But you find many people, reputed to be intelligent, who are bullish because they have stocks. I do not allow my possessions - or my prepossessions either - to do any thinking for me. That is why I repeat that I never argue with the tape.
Remember that stocks are never too high for you to begin buying or too low to begin selling.
I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold it out. Of all the speculative blunders there are few greater than trying to average a losing game. Always sell what shows you a loss and keep what shows you a profit.These are just a few of the pearls of wisdom found in this entertaining book that has held the test of time. Livermore was certainly a proponent of trend following ("the trend is your friend" is often attributed to him) and letting winners run while cutting losers short.
It details the fictional speculator Larry Livingstone, who is widely believed to be a pseudonym for fabled trader Jesse Livermore. Livermore/Livingstone utilized the ticker tape and chalk boards in the "bucket shops" to determine how a security would move in the short-term, without much regard to the fundamentals. The often used phrase (quoted in different ways) from this book is "The Tape Tells All" .... meaning the Chart (in modern terms) tells you what you need to know about the stock .... fundamental news, sentiment, etc are all shown in one way or another on the chart.Jack Schwager interviewed 30 of the greatest traders of all time (in his famous book Market Wizards) and asked them what book they found most valuable and would recommend to aspiring traders -- the most frequent response by far was Reminiscences.
Here is a sample of some of the many quotes from this timeless book that will certainly make you think and can help set the proper mindset of a successful investor:
But if after a long steady rise a stock turns and gradually begins to go down, with only occasionally small rallies, it is obvious that the line of least resistance has changed from upward to downward. Such being the case why should anyone ask for explanations? There are probably very good reasons why it should go down.
The speculator's deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statue books in the world and all the rule books on all the Exchanges of the earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.
At the same time I realise that the best of all tipsters, the most persuasive of all salesmen, is the tape.
I trade on my own information and follow my own methods.
Among the hazards of speculation the happening of the unexpected - I might even say of the unexpectable - ranks high.
The game does not change and neither does human nature.
A speculator must concern himself with making money out of the market and not with insisting that the tape must agree with him. Never argue with it or ask for reasons or explanations.
It sounds very easy to say that all you have to do is to watch the tape, establish your resistance points and be ready to trade along the line of least resistance as soon as you have determined it. But in actual practice a man has to guard against many things, and most of all against himself - that is, against human nature.
He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.
"I can't sleep" answered the nervous one."Why not?" asked the friend."I am carrying so much cotton that I can't sleep thinking about. It is wearing me out. What can I do?""Sell down to the sleeping point", answered the friend.
When I am long of stocks it is because my reading of conditions has made me bullish. But you find many people, reputed to be intelligent, who are bullish because they have stocks. I do not allow my possessions - or my prepossessions either - to do any thinking for me. That is why I repeat that I never argue with the tape.
Remember that stocks are never too high for you to begin buying or too low to begin selling.
I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold it out. Of all the speculative blunders there are few greater than trying to average a losing game. Always sell what shows you a loss and keep what shows you a profit.These are just a few of the pearls of wisdom found in this entertaining book that has held the test of time. Livermore was certainly a proponent of trend following ("the trend is your friend" is often attributed to him) and letting winners run while cutting losers short.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Warren Buffet Books - Are They Worth Reading?
Are any of the thousands of Warren Buffet books worth reading, that is the question. Warren Buffet was born in 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska and has become probably the world's most successful investor. He is the son of a stockbroker and Congressman, and of course everyone wants to learn about his investment secrets.
I don't think that Warren Buffet has actually written a book about his investment principals himself, but he has from time to time given hints in his annual letters to share holders of Berkshire Hathaway, and in other short notes and reports to the media.
However there have been a lot of books written about Warren Buffet by others who have tried to put together the story and ideas behind the man and his fortune.
In fact if you go to Amazon and do a search for "Warren Buffet" will find 2,576 books being listed, compare that to "Bill Gates", who for a long time was also considered to be the riches man in the world, and you only find 11 listings, that should give you some idea about the public obsession with the man.
I have only read one of his books called "The Warren Buffett Way", it was hard work and somewhat of a boring read. Much of the content of all these books on Warren Buffet seems to be the same basic information about value investing and being patient with your investments. I don't think there is much to be gained by reading more than one of them.
Here is a small selection of some of the better known ones:
The Warren Buffett Way, Second Edition by Robert G. Hagstrom, Ken Fisher, and Bill The Snowball - Warren Buffett and the Business of Life The essential Buffett library Investing - the Last Liberal Art - by Robert Hagstrom Buffett, by Roger Lowenstein The New Buffettology, by Mary Buffet and David Clark The Interpretation of Financial Statements, by Benjamin Graham Value Investing, by Janet Lowe Robert Hagstrom, The Warren Buffett Way Mary Buffett and David Clark, Buffettology Janet Lowe, Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the Word's Greatest Investor John Train, The Midas Touch: The Strategies That Have Made Warren Buffett 'America's Preeminent Investor'. Andrew Kilpatrick, Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett Warren Buffett, Lawrence Cunningham (editor), The Essays of Warren Buffett Janet M. Tavakoli, Dear Mr. Buffett: What An Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street
Many of these books are quite large, with many pages that would take a long time to read, and even longer to understand and make any sense of. A better way of understanding Buffet maybe to find articles which have summarised the Buffet principals into short concise lessons that can be quickly learnt and applied.
One point of caution however, and this is not investment advice, Buffet has made most of his fortune during the years of the great USA bull markets, times have changed and maybe these principals are no longer as effective as they used to be.
Hans Jacituz is a chartered professional engineer, full time trader and internet business owner. Read more educational articles and videos about day trader training and swing trading systems at his website
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Hans_Jacituz
I don't think that Warren Buffet has actually written a book about his investment principals himself, but he has from time to time given hints in his annual letters to share holders of Berkshire Hathaway, and in other short notes and reports to the media.
However there have been a lot of books written about Warren Buffet by others who have tried to put together the story and ideas behind the man and his fortune.
In fact if you go to Amazon and do a search for "Warren Buffet" will find 2,576 books being listed, compare that to "Bill Gates", who for a long time was also considered to be the riches man in the world, and you only find 11 listings, that should give you some idea about the public obsession with the man.
I have only read one of his books called "The Warren Buffett Way", it was hard work and somewhat of a boring read. Much of the content of all these books on Warren Buffet seems to be the same basic information about value investing and being patient with your investments. I don't think there is much to be gained by reading more than one of them.
Here is a small selection of some of the better known ones:
The Warren Buffett Way, Second Edition by Robert G. Hagstrom, Ken Fisher, and Bill The Snowball - Warren Buffett and the Business of Life The essential Buffett library Investing - the Last Liberal Art - by Robert Hagstrom Buffett, by Roger Lowenstein The New Buffettology, by Mary Buffet and David Clark The Interpretation of Financial Statements, by Benjamin Graham Value Investing, by Janet Lowe Robert Hagstrom, The Warren Buffett Way Mary Buffett and David Clark, Buffettology Janet Lowe, Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the Word's Greatest Investor John Train, The Midas Touch: The Strategies That Have Made Warren Buffett 'America's Preeminent Investor'. Andrew Kilpatrick, Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett Warren Buffett, Lawrence Cunningham (editor), The Essays of Warren Buffett Janet M. Tavakoli, Dear Mr. Buffett: What An Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street
Many of these books are quite large, with many pages that would take a long time to read, and even longer to understand and make any sense of. A better way of understanding Buffet maybe to find articles which have summarised the Buffet principals into short concise lessons that can be quickly learnt and applied.
One point of caution however, and this is not investment advice, Buffet has made most of his fortune during the years of the great USA bull markets, times have changed and maybe these principals are no longer as effective as they used to be.
Hans Jacituz is a chartered professional engineer, full time trader and internet business owner. Read more educational articles and videos about day trader training and swing trading systems at his website
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Hans_Jacituz
Sunday, May 3, 2009
'god's War', Christopher Tyerman. Book Review
Yes those nasty Crusades. In the post-modern, Marx-droid universe of salivating moppets and eager to please relativists ['please daddy tell us again about how nice the Saracens were and evil the Christians?']; it is quite easy to lose sight of reality. Muslims and Arabs good, Christians bad. Arab, Muslim and Turkish imperialism good, European fascist. So it is refreshing to read a dense, intellectual and accurate piece of work which describes the Crusades as they were – a complex political, military, and very human response to pre-modern Arab and Turkish designs at world conquest. They might have in effect saved Europe. Tyerman's overall conclusion is that, '..the internal, personal decision to follow the cross, to inflict harm on others at great personal risk, at the cost of enormous privations, at the service of a consuming cause, cannot be explained excused or dismissed either as a virtue or sin. Rather, its very contradictions spelt its humanity.' How true. The Crusades, erupting from Pope Urban II's call in 1095 to help the Eastern church against Turkish or Saracen depredation was full of cross purpose, material aims, personal vanity, spiritual earnestness, military valor, and political intrigue. That is what makes them such a great story. The Crusades were in many ways, extraordinarily successful. Men, money, material, and complex logistics were stretched over a thousand miles from the European heartland to the Holy Land and the Eastern mediterranean. The crusaders were usually quite outnumbered. Each of the 5 major Crusades, lasting roughly from 1095 to 1299 could only muster some 30.000 – 40.000 men, many of whom would melt away after a few months of soldiering, confident that any work combatting the Turks would gain them access into heaven. The Muslims, aided by their intimate knowledge of geography, millions of citizens from which to draw armies, proximate logistics, and supply, should easily have repulsed these infidels from any and all conquests. The fact that the crusaders were able to organise; embark; conquer; hold and build the incredible line of castle fortifications some of which, like the Krak de Chevaliers are still standing today, is one of the great achievements of pre-modern warfare. Tyerman's book is valuable because it relates history as it most likely was. The Crusades were viewed in Western Europe as bellum justum – a just war – a war to reclaim once Christian lands from infidel Turks; a war to push the Muslims out of Europe; a war to help save the Eastern church and bring it under the control of the Western. The casus belli for the conflict was varied and justified by theologians and lay political leaders alike. Jerusalem, the home of Christ and the origins of the Church had a profound and special attraction for an extremely religious and devout population. Tyerman rightly asserts that Muslim supremacism and war mongering made the Crusades a necessity. Large parts of Europe were under Muslim dominaton and, 'jihad was fundamental to the Faith, described by some as a sixth pillar of Islam. In theory fighting was incumbent on all Muslims until the whole world had been subdued, but it was a spiritual as well as military exercise from the start, and a corporate not individual obligation.' You won't read such an honest assessment of jihadic Mohammedism in the New York Times. Without a response Western Europe might very well have suffered the fate of the Eastern Church. As Tyerman states, 'it is hard to argue that we are dealing with an age any more credulous or unthinkingly accepting of religious truth than our own.' Certainly so. Contrary to modern media and educational manipulation, the Europeans of the 11th century and of the Crusades were not simpleton mental midgets, scurrying around mud hovels, wearing hair shirts practicing witch craft or listening to papal sermons with rotted teeth falling out. Western Europe in the early medieval period was a bustling, thriving, urbanising scene of activity, invention, and dynamism – everything one would expect to find and see, in an era of change, which heralded the creation of the modern political-economy. Tyerman's chapters are broken into outlining the 5 major crusades – all of them described in rather exhaustive fashion. Details on the military, political and church-oriented spiritual complexity are compelling and very human. The highly successful First Crusade, featuring many of France's and Germany's leading noblemen, families and Knights, is summarised by Tyerman as a dramatic episode, an event rarely told. The First Crusade's conquests from the borders of the shrinking Greek state [some 100 odd miles outside of modern day Constantinople or Istanbul], through the rough terrain of Anatolia, down the Lebanese coast, and on through to the borders of modern Gaza and east to Jerusalem, north east to Edessa, were an astonishing feat, accomplished in just 2 short years of fighting. A force of roughly 40.000 men, from different states, under various leaders with political infighting and intrigue, and weakly supported by the Greeks of the Eastern empire, had landed, marched, fought and won numerous victories over far larger Turkish hosts. From 1097 to 1099 when Jerusalem was taken, the Christian forces were always in demand and need of men, food, water, supplies, military weaponry, and the medieval tank or mounted Knight. Fully armed mounted knights were extremely expensive to maintain and only the rich could afford to pay their own way to the Holy Land, including horse, armor, servants and food. Of a force of 30.000 the crusaders might be lucky to count on 2.000 such men, their power often assuring a Christian victory over the lighter armed Turkish forces. As Tyerman notes about the complexity and astonishing prowess of the First Crusade, 'Yet the political, material, and military pillars of victory fail adequately to describe the structure of the First Crusade or alone explain its success. Although it is misleading to assume that all recruits and followers shared a similar intensity of religious motivation and zeal, without the element of ideology and spiritual exhiliration, there would have been no march to Jerusalem, let alone a successful conquest.' Military superiority, good organisation, personal genius, luck, good planning and a rough hewn solidarity were the reasons why the First Crusade succeeded. These crusaders had faith, believed in their cause and went through amazing deprivations before finally, in 1099 attacking, sacking and controlling their objective – Jerusalem. In spite of this success the Crusades were doomed to failure if and once the Muslims could unify their command and take advantage of Christian manpower weakness, internal political dissension and lack of Western European support. Importantly for the Muslims, the varied Christian states and sundry crusaders always had a hard time creating political and miltiary unity. Without a unified chain of military and political command, Christian conquests became difficult to defend. Another issue was resource scarcity. During the 200 years of the Crusading wars only a small fraction of European power was involved in trying to wrest and protect the Holy Land from Muslim occupation. If the average Crusade had about 40.000 fighting men involved it represented a small fraction of European manpower and also value-added GDP. Logistically such a force would entail a further 400.000 people to support the Crusade including those involved in shipping, transport, supply manufacture, arms provisioning, food supply, various support work and aiding the army directly in engineering, food and siege work. At most about 500.000-700.000 people would have been occupied in some way with the Crusades. Europe's population at that time was about 30 million in 1100 doubling by 1300 to more than 60 million. This signals that Europe was a fast changing, very productive and extremely wealthy society. So in effect we can say that less than 2 % of Europeans were involved with the Crusades – a rather paltry amount. The problem for the Christian East was getting money out of their fast growing home economies, and using such wealth to secure and deepen their hold on the Holy Land. Medieval Europe was still in the nascent phases of nation state creation. Its richest territory was Germany which was made up of many different and competing sub kingdoms. The German Emperor whilst powerful, did not have anything approaching the machinery of a modern state, nor the ability to extract monies to the level the later states would deem justifiable. France was not yet unified [and wouldn't be until after the Albigensian or Cathar crusades in southern France in the early 13th century]; Spain was bifurcated by Muslim conquest; Italy was split into many kingdoms; and the other parts of Europe were fragmented, small and preoccupied with internal matters. In short in about 1100, the European modern state and its ability to create wealth, tax it, and use it to fund centralised armies was not yet in existence. Therein lies the major factor for the eventual collapse of the Crusading ideal. Without a strong nation state structure where GDP can be centrally taxed and armies centrally managed, the Crusades were left with wealthy Kings and Lords paying the costs, supported by European wide Church taxation or tithes so make up the short fall. Even this was not enough. Many crusaders paid their own way, supporting themselves as they went with plunder. In fact many states such as France went into financial ruin due to the Crusades with some states and their noblemen spending an entire year or more of revenue just to reach the Holy Land. The Crusades were a very costly business indeed. Along the routes between Europe and the Holy Land, pillage and theft was common, and much of it directed against fellow Christians and where possible, the Jews. Attacks against Jews by crusaders along the path of their march, were legion. Tyerman relates that, 'Nothing in official Christian doctrine justified slaying Jews. Pope Alexander II had explicitly prohibited it when drawing a careful distinction between them and Muslims in 1063.' Without plunder or the promise of it, the Crusades never would have happened. This says nothing about the sack of Constantinople itself in 1204 and the looting of its wealth. Along with plunder comes carnage and the Crusades if savage, were no more savage than any other pre-modern war. The myth that the Muslims were tolerant multi-cultists devoted to easing the pain of conquered Jews and Christians and never engaging in mass slaughter and savagery is junk and bunk. As Tyerman elucidates, 'The recent Turkish conquests in the Near East had been accompanied by carnage and enslavement on a grand scale.......Massacres as well as atrocity stories were – and are – an inescapable part of war. In the face of a Muslim counter-attack, letting the locals live may not have seemed a prudent option to the Christian victors, however obscene the alternative.' How real that statement is. The Turks, and the Arabs before them, warred, raped, murdered and annihilated their way through Christian and Jewish territory. Submissive and cowed populations make convenient and easy to rule apartheid empires. So it was with the Muslim states of the Holy Land. Tyerman's book is a great one volume piece on why the Crusades happened, how they occured and just how complicated a story it all is. But a couple of things stand out when reading it. The faith and confidence of 11-14th century Europe is one. Their logistical and sometimes military brilliance in campaigning far from home is a second. The engineering achievements in fortifying and bringing to economic life an uncompromisingly harsh land is a third. And perhaps most importantly of all, is their clear headed appreciation of what Islam was all about – a cult of Mohammed, which desired to wipe out civilisation. It is a lesson that one thousand years later still resonates.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Warren Buffet Books - Are They Worth Reading
Are any of the thousands of Warren Buffet books worth reading, that is the question. Warren Buffet was born in 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska and has become probably the world's most successful investor. He is the son of a stockbroker and Congressman, and of course everyone wants to learn about his investment secrets.
I don't think that Warren Buffet has actually written a book about his investment principals himself, but he has from time to time given hints in his annual letters to share holders of Berkshire Hathaway, and in other short notes and reports to the media.
However there have been a lot of books written about Warren Buffet by others who have tried to put together the story and ideas behind the man and his fortune.
In fact if you go to Amazon and do a search for "Warren Buffet" will find 2,576 books being listed, compare that to "Bill Gates", who for a long time was also considered to be the riches man in the world, and you only find 11 listings, that should give you some idea about the public obsession with the man.
I have only read one of his books called "The Warren Buffett Way", it was hard work and somewhat of a boring read. Much of the content of all these books on Warren Buffet seems to be the same basic information about value investing and being patient with your investments. I don't think there is much to be gained by reading more than one of them.
Here is a small selection of some of the better known ones:
The Warren Buffett Way, Second Edition by Robert G. Hagstrom, Ken Fisher, and Bill The Snowball - Warren Buffett and the Business of Life The essential Buffett library Investing - the Last Liberal Art - by Robert Hagstrom Buffett, by Roger Lowenstein The New Buffettology, by Mary Buffet and David Clark The Interpretation of Financial Statements, by Benjamin Graham Value Investing, by Janet Lowe Robert Hagstrom, The Warren Buffett Way Mary Buffett and David Clark, Buffettology Janet Lowe, Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the Word's Greatest Investor John Train, The Midas Touch: The Strategies That Have Made Warren Buffett 'America's Preeminent Investor'. Andrew Kilpatrick, Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett Warren Buffett, Lawrence Cunningham (editor), The Essays of Warren Buffett Janet M. Tavakoli, Dear Mr. Buffett: What An Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street
Many of these books are quite large, with many pages that would take a long time to read, and even longer to understand and make any sense of. A better way of understanding Buffet maybe to find articles which have summarised the Buffet principals into short concise lessons that can be quickly learnt and applied.
One point of caution however, and this is not investment advice, Buffet has made most of his fortune during the years of the great USA bull markets, times have changed and maybe these principals are no longer as effective as they used to be.
I don't think that Warren Buffet has actually written a book about his investment principals himself, but he has from time to time given hints in his annual letters to share holders of Berkshire Hathaway, and in other short notes and reports to the media.
However there have been a lot of books written about Warren Buffet by others who have tried to put together the story and ideas behind the man and his fortune.
In fact if you go to Amazon and do a search for "Warren Buffet" will find 2,576 books being listed, compare that to "Bill Gates", who for a long time was also considered to be the riches man in the world, and you only find 11 listings, that should give you some idea about the public obsession with the man.
I have only read one of his books called "The Warren Buffett Way", it was hard work and somewhat of a boring read. Much of the content of all these books on Warren Buffet seems to be the same basic information about value investing and being patient with your investments. I don't think there is much to be gained by reading more than one of them.
Here is a small selection of some of the better known ones:
The Warren Buffett Way, Second Edition by Robert G. Hagstrom, Ken Fisher, and Bill The Snowball - Warren Buffett and the Business of Life The essential Buffett library Investing - the Last Liberal Art - by Robert Hagstrom Buffett, by Roger Lowenstein The New Buffettology, by Mary Buffet and David Clark The Interpretation of Financial Statements, by Benjamin Graham Value Investing, by Janet Lowe Robert Hagstrom, The Warren Buffett Way Mary Buffett and David Clark, Buffettology Janet Lowe, Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the Word's Greatest Investor John Train, The Midas Touch: The Strategies That Have Made Warren Buffett 'America's Preeminent Investor'. Andrew Kilpatrick, Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett Warren Buffett, Lawrence Cunningham (editor), The Essays of Warren Buffett Janet M. Tavakoli, Dear Mr. Buffett: What An Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street
Many of these books are quite large, with many pages that would take a long time to read, and even longer to understand and make any sense of. A better way of understanding Buffet maybe to find articles which have summarised the Buffet principals into short concise lessons that can be quickly learnt and applied.
One point of caution however, and this is not investment advice, Buffet has made most of his fortune during the years of the great USA bull markets, times have changed and maybe these principals are no longer as effective as they used to be.
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