Adding:

7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
The Master Key by Charles Haanel

Here's my recommendations to my friends:

Think and Grow Rich
The Richest Man in Babylon
How to be a Billionaire
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
The Seeds of Greatness
If Success is a Game These are the Rules

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I'd like to add a couple of oldies but goodies to the list:

Winning Through Intimidation
Looking Out for #1

both by Robert Ringer (and, interestingly, have nothing to do with winning through intimidation)

The Greatest Salesman In The World - by: Og Mandino

That book definitely changed my life.


- Jared

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Psycho-Cybernetics is great.

Also love Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale.

The best book is, without question, Science of Being in Twenty Seven Lessons:

http://www.scienceofbeing27lessons.com/

I agree about " The Power of Your Subconscious Mind " - excellent book.

All other Law of Attraction authors follow each other - only think is there is no "Law of Attraction".

One of only three authors in this specific area to get it right is The Baron Eugene Fersen. Charles Haanel and a few others were students of his.

Science of Being in Twenty Seven Lessons stands alone as the ultimate work:

eBook: Science of Being in Twenty Seven Lessons

Amazon.com: Science of Being in Twenty Seven Lessons

660 pages of pure Gold.

The first book that radically changed my mind about business was Wave 4: Network Marketing in the 21st Century by Richard Poe. That really got me thinking about residual income and creating systems to follow.

The ones that come quickly to my mind:

Wave 4: Richard Poe
Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway: Susan Jeffers
Power of Focus: Jack Canfield
Cashflow Quadrant: Robert Kiyosaki
One Minute Millionaire: Bob Allen
Who Moved My Cheese: Spencer Johnson

"Feel the Fear" is especially well-loved. I read that every other year or so...I find it helps me get through my own self-imposed hang-ups

-Buzzy

My top ten self improvement books are:

1. The Richest Man In Babylon - George S Clason
2. 7 Habits - Stephen Covey
3. Manifesto - Barefoot Doctor
4. Psycho Cybernetics - Maxwell Maltz
5. The Secret of Letting Go - Guy Finley
6. Stop Thinking Start Living - Richard Carlson
7. Awaken The Giant Within - Tony Robbins
8. Success through a positive mental attitude - W Clement Stone
9. The EMyth - Micheal Gerber
10. How to get from where you are to where you want to be - Jack Canfield


All of these have inspired me in different ways and had a positive impact on my life. The Secret of Letting Go helped me through a very difficult time in my life about 4 years ago and changed my way of thinking about life completely. I am a much happier person now!

Cheers Keith

i think think rich and grow rich is great. Really has stood the test of time, some great gems in there.

The book that's been the foundation for my reading of other self-help books is:

Boundaries: When to Say YES, When to Say NO, To Take Control of Your Life, by Henry Cloud and John Townsend

In my opinion other self-help topics can only go so far if you don't have a firm foundation in setting personal boundaries.

I've read How To Win Friends and Influence People. Definitely changed my life.

I've read most everybook listed on this post and there is 1 book that brings it all together perfectly...I didn't see it mentioned....

Secret of the Ages by Robert Collier...Not only did he write the best book ever but he's also the man who coined the copywriting term "Meet them at the conversation in their head"...His Robert Collier Letter book is a MUST read for anyone.

Matt, I only heard of Orison Swett Marden thanks to a quote in "Awaken the Giant Within". I followed up on his name probably over a year ago, and had since forgotten all about him -- thanks for the reminder and the link!

I read the title of this thread and the first thing I thought was richest man and there it is in your top 10 list. Although I have no idea how you can narrow down just top 10. You should have a top thousand.

This is my personal opinion
Clint

Think and Grow Rich By Napolean Hill

My favorite book

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

think and grow rich & greatest salesman in the world

I read only Thinks and Grow Rich by Naopleon Hill and I'm really happy that you choose to place that in first position.

I read also the Gardenbella suggested Who Moved My Cheese by Johnson Spencer, that's really interesting.

For the others... I will try to read them in a next future.
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I got a chance to read book no. 2,6 and 10. No idea about all the others but will surely look into these books as title looks really impressive and attractive and beneficial as well specially think and grow rich would be my first priority.
Thanks for the heads up though
Webmatic

Here's a few good and not very well-known books

1. Neo-Tech Zon Power I&O Publications
2. Global Wealth Erik Savage
3. Neo-Tech Business Control Mark Hamilton
4. Your First 100 Million Dan Pena
5. Thick Face, Black Heart Chin-Ning Chu

I would add few more on this
1.A monk who sold his ferrari-robin sharma
2.Power Of Now-Ekhart Tolle.

If you had probs - just skype the mesage OR DM
Thanks.

Here are a couple more I really liked - hope you do too!

Become a Magnet To Money -- by Bob Proctor and Michelle Blood (Great exercise for expanding your beliefs about what you think is possible for you)

The Top 10 Distinctions Between Millionaires and the Middle Class -- by Keith Cameron Smith

I like the following books:

1. Who Move My Cheese, Spencer Johnson

2. Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki

3. The Automatic Millionaire, David Bach

There are more that I must read.

The Awakening Course by Joe Vitale is great, it really combines a lot of his programs into one, including The Attractor Factor, The Missing Secret, Zero Limits, and a lot of new content also. I'd recommend it.

Of course, I also read the classics like The Science of Getting Rich and Think and Grow Rich.

I haven't read Master Key yet, but have it laying around? Should I read it?

Thanks for the info will check out!!

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For me, it was Your Forever by Tuesday Lobsang Rampa

4 hour work week by tim farris is great!

also

Thinking body dancing mind. tao for life, business, and sports = Perfect!

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My favorites are:

Think and Grow Rich
The Magic of Believing
One Minute Millionaire
The Attractor Factor
The Secret
TNT: The Power Within You
The Magic of Getting What You Want
The Magic of Getting Thinking Big

Thanks for sharing all of your lists! There are quite a number of books that I have noted and will definitely do my best to pick them up for a good read!

BTW, have any of you read The Millionaire Course by Marc Allen?

That is the very first book that introduced me to Personal Development and the Law of Attraction. It actually helped me change the way I thought!

From there, I moved on to others like Think and Grow Rich, Science of Getting Rich, Power of the Subconscious Mind, Awaken the Giant Within, etc.

All Anthony Robbins
All Wayne Dyer
All Deepak Chopra - especially Quantum Healing
The 4 Hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss
Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki
The Attractor Factor - Joe Vitale
The Magic Of Thinking Big - David J Scwhartz
Think Big and Kick Ass Like Donald Trump
All Marketers Are Liars - Seth Godin
The Soul Of Money - Lynne Trist
Business Laid Bare - Richard Branson
The Real Deal - James Caan
The Google Story
You Can Do It - Duncan Bannatyne
Think and Grow Rich - Napolean Hill

ton and tons and tons more, could go on for hours!

Hey Warriors,

My all time favorite book is actually 4 books in one.

It's called "The Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn"

I can't recommend this material enough!

Practicing The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle

Positioning by Al Reiss and Jack Trout

Two quality books

Rich

I love anything written by Dr John Demartini and of course William Wattles

I'm reading "A Happy Pocket Full of Money" right now. It is very heavy in some areas but great stuff.

I 've read Napoleon Hill's and Carnegie's books, yes great books! I might add How To Stop Worrying and Start Living by Carnegie too.

I second the Science of Getting Rich. I turned someone on to it and they claim their friend really got rich.

I am reading The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz and it is very good. It talks a lot about understanding true reality. Also, the Secret to Money is Having Some by Stuart Wilde, How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis and everything by Jiddu Krishnamurti, most of which is free on the net.

The Greatest Salesman in the World by OG MANDINO

I love this thread. I've been into personal development since I was about 19. Below are the books that have had the largest effect on my life. Tony Robbins stuff being the biggest. Seen him live. Love him

mans search for meaning
as a man thinketh
awaiken the giant within
unlimited power
one minute millionaire
the luck factor
the success principles
rich dad poor dad

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HI guys , there is an ebooks nobody is talking about. i've read many personality develpment ebooks. many of you are talking about some famous book like, think and grow rich, psychocybernatics, master key system etc, what i recomend reading is
" message of a master". If anyone want a copy, its included in my 101 package. see signature.

I'm not really into reading but I'll check those out. Video tutorials and guides are the way to go in my opinion.

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Seriously everyone check out the free book in my sig. It is called Wink and Grow Rich, I have no affiliation to the book at all. I have never once seen anyone mention it on here but I guarantee once you read it, it will blow you away. Please check it out and let me know what you guys think.

Great Thread! Napoleon Hill by far #1

The Alchemist is a good one. I also like Buy-ology by Martin Lindstrom

Here's my top 3 ...

* How to Find Your Real Self by Mildred Mann

* The 7 Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra

* The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

Actually, I wrote an article about why they are my top three here ...

Top Three Books for Personal Development

Will

Here's my list..


-How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
-The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
-Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins
-Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

--Others--
-The Game by Neil Straus (& The Rules of the Game)
-Influence by Robert B. Cialdini

Yes, 7 habits is a good book All about work-life balance. Speaking of which, came across a cool

Law of success in 16 lessons - Napolean Hill

This book changed my life!

There are some fantastic personal development books on this list. Just added a few more books to my reading list!!

One of the best books I have read is 'Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do'.

Given that a lot of poeple quit when they are within reach of their goal, perseverance and hanging tough are invaluable qualities to have in pursuit of your goals and dreams.

7 Habits of Highly Effecive Peolpe has shaped the past 15 yrs of my life.

Winlin

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I've read many of the books mentioned and they all have added great value to my life. I would like to add Brian Tracy's Maximum Achievement to the list.

When it come to personal development. The key is to get change in our life and experience different results. Maybe you will disagree with me, I found reading less and implement more is a better strategies. If we just keep reading but not taking any action, all the time we read and learn are wasted.

I suggest you find one book and keep reading it until you can master the tips or principle there. Develop your own system and taking action. then reading other books and get inspiration to improve your system.

How about 'If I can Forgive so can You' by Denise Linn... loved the book

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My pick would be The Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace Wattles.

It's an old book, but it gets right down to the beliefs of what used to be called "New Thought"--an outgrowth of 19th-century philosophies that were way ahead of their time in considering thought to be the underlying element of the whole universe.

My #1 Book on Personal Development:
- 1996 - by New York Times science writer PhD Daniel Goleman

This man is a genius and demonstrates that our emotions play a much greater role in thought, decision making and individual success than is commonly acknowledged. Wow!!!

If you want to learn how to master your emotions try Brainwave Entrainment and Self-Hypnosis. Both techniques are super effective for increasing your emotional intelligence IQ without much effort

I've been doing 1 hr session 4 times a week for 6 months now and I can notice a biiiiig difference in my mood.

Visit: TheNewHealers.com for more info.

Happy New Year everyone!
Every book in the list has the same aim but Napaleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich impacted me most..

Reading is my hobby and you have provide good food for my hobby. I have never read this development books. This is really nice to read this personal development book. I am sure that I will purchase first 5 book with in a week and after complete it. Go for another bunch. This is really nice sharing of idea over here about book.

One book I really enjoy is "Science of Mind" by Ernest Holmes. It's a great look on the mind

The 2 books that got me started off when I was young punk at the polar opposite end of being a fan of personal development was Jim Rohn's "Seven Strategies For Wealth and Happiness," and "Notes From a Friend" by Tony Robbins.

For me the power of these books speaks to the fact that I was ANYTHING but interested in listening to old white guys telling me what to do... AND the message in these books STILL connected with me.

So now, whenever I meet someone who's a babe to the Personal Growth arena, these are the two books I put into their hands.

"Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Dynamite was a third book I got started with but since then, I've opted to steer people towards his lesser known, more awesome book, "Grow Rich With Peace of Mind".

Agree with everyone on the recomendations there.

Recently I read - Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Cashflow Quadrant which made me re think about the book I always recommend to people - Rich Dad, Poor Dad. I noticed some inconsistencies in his story. I wonder if anyone else has had these thoughts?, I have always spoken very highly of this book until now.

On another note about Self Help Books, remember - "Its not what you read, its what you do with the information after reading it"
How many times have you read an "amazing book" and then never put into action what you learned.

Great thread!

These ones changed my life!

Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life: Wayne Dyer
**The Monk Who sold His Ferrari: Robin Sharma
The Power of Now: Echart Tolle
The Celestine Prophecy: James Redfield

Pretty good list bradles looking forward to have a copy at least one of the book on your list.

Think and grow rich for sure. The classic and base of all other personal development books

Here are a few more...

The Bible
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff - Richard Carlson
The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
Personal Power - Anthony Robbins

Any religious book can force you for all basic developments, I agree with most of the people choices, i had to look many of them as i don't know about them. Hope they are available at google books for free.

Ones I really like are:
Frogs Into Princes- Richard Bandler
The Master Key by Charles Haanel

Great post! Thanks for the info. I might read some of the books you suggested here. thanks a lot!

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Lots of great share - I wanted to awake that thread because I'd love to see you guys share more about books. It will guide to me to select a few of great books and study them often.

131 posts about Personal Development books and only one mention of Richard Bandler??

Bandler, Richard & John Grinder (1975a). The Structure of Magic I: A Book About Language and Therapy. Palo Alto, CA: Science & Behavior Books.. ISBN 0-8314-0044-7.

Bandler, Richard & John Grinder (1975b). The Structure of Magic II: A Book About Communication and Change. Palo Alto, CA: Science & Behavior Books.. ISBN 0-8314-0049-8.

Grinder, John, Richard Bandler (1976). Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Volume I. Cupertino, CA :Meta Publications..

John Grinder, Richard Bandler, Judith Delozier (1977). Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Volume II. Cupertino, CA :Meta Publications..

John Grinder, Richard Bandler (1979). Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming. Moab, UT: Real People Press.. pp. 194pp. ISBN 0-911226-19-2.

Grinder, John; Richard Bandler; Connirae Andreas (Ed.) (1981). Trance-Formations: Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Structure of Hypnosis. Moab, UT: Real People
Press.. ISBN 0-911226-23-0.

Grinder, John and Richard Bandler (1983). Reframing: Neurolinguistic programming and the transformation of meaning. Moab, UT: Real People Press.. pp. -. ISBN 0-911226-25-7.

Using Your Brain for a Change, 1985 (ISBN 0-911226-27-3)

Magic In Action, 1992 (ISBN 0-916990-14-1)

Time for a Change, 1993 (ISBN 0-916990-28-1)

Richard Bandler (1993). The Adventures of Anybody. Meta Publications. pp. 96pp. ISBN 091699029X.
Persuasion Engineering - 1996 (ISBN 0-916990-36-2)

Richard Bandler, Owen Fitzpatrick (2005). [- Conversations: Freedom Is Everything and Love Is All the Rest]. Mysterious Publications. pp. -288pp. ISBN 0-9551353-0-3.

Richard Bandler (21 August 2008). [- Get The Life You Want: The Secrets to Quick and Lasting Life Change with Neuro-Linguistic Programming]. HCI. pp. -229. ISBN 978-0-7573-0776-8.

Richard Bandler (2008). [- Richard Bandler's Guide to Trance-formation: How to harness the power of hypnosis to ignite effortless and lasting change]. HCI. pp. -331. ISBN 978-0-7573-0777-5.

Richard Bandler. Make Your Life Great.

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hey man this list is awesome and I've read them all except:

6 - Richest Man in Babylon: George Clason
8 - Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life: Wayne Dyer

I have to say that it's amazing how these books will stand the test of time. Classics always do. Another great book is ..the road less traveled.

I've read these. Just started on Tony Robbins. Great so far!

Daniel

i would say dani johnson "first steps to success", what an amazing millionaire book

thanks

Mark

My top three...

1. How to Win Friends & Influence People - cheesy title, timeless advice!

2. The Power of Intention - or anything by my teacher Wayne Dyer

3. Don't Sweat the Small Stuff - A great one to dip into when needed

SUPER TIP:
Life's Little Instruction Book - pull this one out at the dinner table and get your kids or family member to read one out each. Makes for great positive conversation over your food!

If you like Wayne Dyer, you can see the PBS special of my second choice book here:

Wayne Dyer - Power of Intention pt 1 Complete Version - YouTube
Potentially life changing

My #1 for the past 2 months that I read almost everyday is: Infinite Possibilities - The Art of Living Your Dreams by Mike dooley. It is powerful, well written and easy to read.

My Top Ten Personal Development Books of all time are;
(1) Ask and It Is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks
(2) Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
(3) Loving What Is by Byron Katie
(4) Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsh
(5) Home with God by Neale Donald Walsh
(6) A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
(7) Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
(8) You Are That! Gangaji
(9) The Law of Attraction by Esther and Jerry Hicks
(10) The Vortex by Esther and Jerry Hicks
Great question!

only read Thinks and grow rich and Science of Getting Rich,
like to read other books, thanks for all your sharing.

I have read many books,
but this is the one I like most and I have read it more than one time
Thinks and Grow Rich: Napoleon Hill

I haven't read many, but here's my ranking of the ones that I have read.

1) The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
1b) The Law of Success by Napoleon Hill
2) Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
3) Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude by W. Clement Stone and Napoleon Hill
4) The Magic of Believing by Claude Bristol
5) TNT by Claude Bristol
6) How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty
7) How To Get Rich by Felix Dennis
8) The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz
9) Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker

I'm having a hard time thinking of a 10th one at the moment.

How Would Love Respond: Kurek Ashley

I love this book among all of them.

almost read them all, except A new Earth

Great post.Thanks to all for sharing this books.

Some great collection of books.
I have a lot of them.
Now to get them all on my bookshelf is the next step.





-Zachary Prohodsky
http://zacharyprohodsky.com/books/believe-great-book/

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All GREAT books...time to extend my collection

It would have to be " Thinks and Grow Rich: Naopleon Hill".

But, you can't just think and be rich one day.

Action is the biggest piece missing from most self-improvement books and courses.

The question you must ask yourself is when will you take consistent action to reach your goals.

If you're not taking consistent action, it could be that your current position in life isn't painful enough. Pain is a motivator.

My Top 5:
Tuesdays with Morrie
Fountainhead
As a man thinketh
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
The how of Happiness

Thank you Mark for sharing this valuable book list.I will try to collect all of this books.

Nice list thanks for the share

Never read "A New Earth: Echart Tolle"

Cheers,

C.G.

I'm currently reading "The Mind Made Prison" by Mateo Tabatabai. The book goes into the topic of limiting beliefs and changing those limiting beliefs into something that will allow you to live a more healthier life. So far, it has been a great read and it forces you to really think about some of the things in your life that are holding you back from being the most powerful version of yourself.

Many of these books listed are my standby favourites. I still think Stephen Covey' s 7 Habits is my all time fav.

Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers" was inspirational to me in so many ways. His stories and examples of hard work, values and beliefs that are created by our surroundings, that help to catapult the most unsuspected to success. It is a fun read as well as interesting.

Congratulations to everyone for sharing some fabulous material. I have added some new people to my must read list.

Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Dr. Stephen R. Covey belong on this list.

My favorites are:

Think and Grow Rich
Think Like a Billionaire Become a Billionaire
How To Impact and Influence Others

There are some others but I didn't want to write the wrong titles out. These books has been sitting in my house for years and I never knew what gems they were until my business community challenged everyone to listen to audios and read daily. So I started to realize what I had. These books carry hidden messages for myself, it is like every time I read these books I get something knew from them that I didn't get the first time I read them. Lovin' personal development.

Mastery by Robert Greene is a great book as well. Definitely check it out!

(1)The Bible
(2)Think&Grow Rich
(3)How to win Friends and influence people
(4)7 Habit of High Effective people
(5)Richest man in Babylon
(6)Rich Dad Poor Dad
(7)The Secret
(8)The Magic of Thinking Big
(9)The Law of Attraction
(10)Ask and It is Given

Those are great books indeed. I am still reading some of them. Great sharing.

Has any one read this book? I think I need to read this.

Thanks for the list
I've read #1 and #6


Ean

1.the greatest salesman in the world
2.the lider without a title
3. The 50th. low.

Those three book's change my whole life

My list:

Science of Getting Rich: Wallace D Wattles
You Were Born Rich: Bob Proctor

Not quite personal development books but some of my absolute favorites that have inspired me, helped me grow and get through hard times.

The Ringing Cedars of Russia Series (All the books in the series are great): Vladimir Megre
Way of the Peaceful Warrior: Dan Millman
The Journeys of Socrates: Dan Millman

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