Breda, 11 September 2020

Books to read for passionate business students. Most books are on the topic of motivation, finance,
investments, the 2008 crisis and Warren Buffett.

In random order…

1. The essays of Warren Buffett – Lawrence A. Cunningham

2. Rogue trader – Nick Leeson (Accounting scandal that let the oldest bank in the world go bankrupt:
Barings Bank)
3. A colossal failure of common sense – Lawrence G. Mc Donald (how Lehman Brothers went
bankrupt)
4. The smartest guys in the room – Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind (How Enron went bankrupt)
5. The intelligent investor – Benjamin Graham
6. Warren Buffett Accounting – Stig Brodersen & Preston Pysh
7. Warren Buffett and the interpretation of financial statements – Mary Buffett & David Clark
8. Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill > how to achieve anything
9. The Big Short – Michael Lewis > great book on the 2008 crisis caused by AAA mortgage
investments
10. The Snowball biography on Warren Buffett – Alice Schroeder
11. Back to school: questions and answers session with business students – Warren Buffett
12. You squared – Price Pritchett > how to motivate yourself for success
13. Flash boys – Michael Lewis
14. Money and Power (how Goldman Sachs came to rule the world) William D. Cohan
15. Liar’s Poker – Michael Lewis
16. Boomerang – Michael Lewis
17. The 7 habits of highly effective people – Stephen Covey
18. How to win friends and influence people – Dale Carnegie
19. Maximum Achievement – Brian Tracy – a Classic on the topic on how to change behavior in order
to reach your full potential

More to come as I keep reading..