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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Ben Horowitz, Kevin Kenerly, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

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Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

Robert T. Kiyosaki

4.7 on Amazon

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Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

Gino Wickman

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Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

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4.5 on Amazon

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Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You

John Warrillow, Erik Synnestvedt, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Professional Chef

The Culinary Institute of America (CIA)

4.8 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell

Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

Scott Adams

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness

Morgan Housel, Chris Hill, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

SPIN Selling

Neil Rackham

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

Christian Brose and Hachette Books

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

Josh Kaufman and Worldly Wisdom Ventures LLC

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Leadership Is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say--and What You Don't

L. David Marquet and Penguin Audio

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Basic Economics

Thomas Sowell

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

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bassman9000onJune 26, 2021

That the whims of a few, or even a single bureaucrat, are not normal business risk. Read Sowell's Basic Economics on how arbitrary regulations distort the market.

fidelramosonMay 17, 2021

I think you confuse free market with "no rules, everything is allowed", which is not what I am proposing. Those monopolies you mention in the abstract are largely possible because laws make it much more difficult than it could be for competitors to arise. In a free market most monopolies are unstable and don't last long. Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom and Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics both have chapters dedicated to monopolies and how states are the main reason they can be sustained.

Negative externalities, like environmental damage, should ideally be internalized, although I grant that this is not always easy. Private ownership of all land might help, as public ownership dilutes responsibility.

> I think your view is extremely naive.

Isn't it interesting that I think the same about your view? :)

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