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I libri che ho letto, per gli imprenditori che vogliono passare dal gestire un'azienda all'investire in aziende.
Exit & Reinvest
Books I read
My reading list for owners who want to move from working in a business to investing in businesses. Print, Kindle and audiobook.
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Built to Sell
John Warrillow
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)The book behind my Exit page. A business that needs you is worth less to a buyer. Build it to run without you.
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Finish Big
Bo Burlingham
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)How owners exit well, and what happens to them after the sale. Read it a few years before you sell, not a few weeks.
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The Art of Selling Your Business
John Warrillow
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)What buyers really pay for, and how owners win the deal of a lifetime.
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Exit Rich
Michelle Seiler Tucker & Sharon Lechter
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)A step-by-step method for making a business sellable, and selling it for more.
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Buy Then Build
Walker Deibel
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Why buying an existing business can beat starting from zero. The Reinvest playbook.
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The E-Myth Revisited
Michael E. Gerber
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Work on the business, not in it. The first step to a business someone will want to buy.
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The Outsiders
William N. Thorndike
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Eight CEOs judged on one thing: where they put the cash. Deciding where the money goes is the job after an exit.
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The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Getting rich and staying rich are different skills. Read it before the sale proceeds land.
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The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)The classic on investing with a margin of safety. Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
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The Snowball
Alice Schroeder
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)The life and business of Warren Buffett, and how patient capital compounds.
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Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charles T. Munger
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Mental models for better decisions, from Buffett’s long-time partner.
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Rich Dad Poor Dad
Robert T. Kiyosaki
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Where the operator-to-investor idea starts: own assets, don't just earn a wage.
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Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Negotiation from a former FBI hostage negotiator. Useful on both sides of a deal.
Leadership
Simon Sinek
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Start With Why
Simon Sinek
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)The book behind my homepage. Buyers and investors back your why before they back your numbers.
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The Infinite Game
Simon Sinek
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Business is a marathon, not a sprint. Play to keep playing, and an exit becomes your next move, not your ending.
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Leaders Eat Last
Simon Sinek
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Why some teams pull together and others don’t. Trust is what makes a business run without you.
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Find Your Why
Simon Sinek, David Mead & Peter Docker
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)The practical workbook for putting your why into words, for you and your team.
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Together Is Better
Simon Sinek
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)A short illustrated book on purpose and the people you build with.
Running a business
Business & leadership
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Principles: Life and Work
Ray Dalio
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Write your rules down before the deal, not in the middle of it. The clearest decision framework I know.
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
Ray Dalio
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Debt, rates and power move in cycles. Read it before you decide when to sell and where to reinvest.
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Business Adventures
John Brooks
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Twelve true stories of companies winning and losing. Proof that the numbers never tell the whole story.
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The Real-Life MBA
Jack Welch & Suzy Welch
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)No theory, just how companies are actually run and grown. The MBA I would hand any operator.
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Smart Thinking
Bryan Greetham
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)How to think clearly and test your own assumptions. Every deal needs that skill.
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The Diary of a CEO
Steven Bartlett
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)The 33 laws of business and life, from the host of The Diary of a CEO.
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Happy Sexy Millionaire
Steven Bartlett
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Success, money and happiness, and why they are not the same thing.
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Zero to One
Peter Thiel
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Notes on building something new instead of copying what already exists.
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Good to Great
Jim Collins
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)The research on why some companies make the leap and others never do.
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Built to Last
Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)What separates companies that endure for generations from the rest.
Growing a company
Strategy & habits
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Running a business when there are no easy answers. Honest about the bad days.
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The Personal MBA
Josh Kaufman
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)The core of a business education in one book.
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Traction
Gino Wickman
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)A simple operating system for running a business, so it stops depending on the owner.
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Scaling Up
Verne Harnish
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)People, strategy, execution and cash: the four decisions every growing company faces.
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$100M Offers
Alex Hormozi
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)How to make an offer so good people feel stupid saying no.
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Who Not How
Dan Sullivan & Benjamin Hardy
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Stop asking how to do it yourself. Ask who can do it with you.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)How we actually make decisions, and the mistakes we keep repeating.
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)The classic on personal effectiveness and leadership.
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Still the best book on dealing with people, nearly 90 years on.
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Atomic Habits
James Clear
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Small changes, compounded. The same maths as a good investment.
Money & mindset
Tony Robbins
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Awaken the Giant Within
Tony Robbins
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Taking control of your decisions, emotions and finances.
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Unlimited Power
Tony Robbins
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Robbins’ first book on performance and achievement.
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Money: Master the Game
Tony Robbins
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Seven steps to financial freedom, from interviews with leading investors.
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Unshakeable
Tony Robbins
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)A financial freedom playbook for staying calm when markets are not.
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The Holy Grail of Investing
Tony Robbins & Christopher Zook
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)How some of the world’s largest investors use private markets.
Founders
Biographies
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Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)The authorised biography, written with Jobs’ cooperation.
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Becoming Steve Jobs
Brent Schlender & Rick Tetzeli
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)How a reckless upstart became a visionary leader.
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I, Steve
George Beahm (ed.)
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Steve Jobs in his own words.
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Insanely Simple
Ken Segall
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)The obsession with simplicity that drove Apple, from the man behind “Think Different”.
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Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)The biography, after two years shadowing Musk.
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Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)How Musk built Tesla and SpaceX, and what drives him.
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Liftoff
Eric Berger
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)The desperate early days of SpaceX, when one more failure would have ended it.
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Power Play
Tim Higgins
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)Tesla’s fight to survive and the bet of the century.
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Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
Buy on Amazon (si apre in una nuova finestra)The founder of Nike on building a company with no money and a lot of nerve.
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Prefer to listen?
Audiobooks
Try Audible free (si apre in una nuova finestra)Most of these books are on Audible. New members can start with a free trial.
Tools I use
Software I recommend
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Xero
Accounting
Cloud accounting: invoicing, bank reconciliation, payroll and BAS. It is what I ask a business to be on before we talk about its numbers, because I need to see the numbers.
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SiteMinder
Hotel distribution
Channel manager for accommodation. It connects rooms and rates to the booking sites from one screen, instead of managing each channel separately.