The Greatest Success Books Ever
Reading the Top 50 Success Classics would be a worthy venture but would take forever, fortunately there is now a brilliant book which introduces and summarizes them so that you can evaluate which ones you actually want to read.
The author Tom Butler-Bowdon states that he make himself a guinea pig for every book that he writes about, trying out the strategies, tips and laws in each. To other people he recommends finding one or two books they love and living according to them. On the other hand, thanks to his work as a contemporary "scholar of success," he has had the privilege of discovering hundreds of powerful self-development tools that most people don't even know about. The rest of his life will be devoted to making "success" a proper field of study in the way that "management," for instance, entered the universities. At present it is the domain of the motivational gurus, but in the future he thinks it will get more rigorous and scientific.
There are many different types of Success, we have different Success Ambitions, we have different Skills and are held back by different Problems so that's why the 50 Classic Success Books Book is so useful in identifying which Success Classic is most suited to our needs!
This lens is dedicated to this idea that Success can be learnt and studied please read on...
What's the Book About
(some Testimonials)
Insightful commentaries on 50 key books.
300 pages of life-changing wisdom and advice.
Testimonials
"This incredible book gives you the best of success literature ever written - in one easy book that you can read and reread for years."
Brian Tracy, author of
Goals and Million Dollar Habits
"A highly readable collection! 50 Success Classics presents a smorgasbord of some of the best thinking on what success really means."
Kenneth Blanchard, co-author of
The One Minute Manager
"I can't imagine needing any other success book after reading 50 Success Classics. It has every piece of wisdom you'll every need to make your life extraordinary."
Cheryl Richardson, author of
Life Makeovers
"I only wish this book had been available years ago - it could have saved me countless hours sifting through the dross by instead pointing me to the really inspirational works. Very highly recommended."
Jim Ewan,
Vice-President of The Speakers Association
Top 50 Classic Success Books by Tom Butler-Bowden
Featured Books
1. Horatio Alger Ragged Dick (1867)2. Warren Bennis On Becoming A Leader (1989)
3. Frank Bettger How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success in Selling (1947)
4. Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson The One Minute Manager (1981)
5. Edward Bok The Americanization of Edward Bok (1921)
6. Claude M Bristol The Magic of Believing (1948)
7. Andrew Carnegie Autobiography (1920)
8. Chin-ning Chu Thick Face Black Heart (1992)
9. George S Clason The Richest Man in Babylon (1926)
10. Robert Collier Secrets of the Ages (1926)
11. Jim Collins Good To Great (2001)
12. Russel H Conwell Acres of Diamonds (1921)
13. Stephen R Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
14. Michael Dell Direct From Dell (1999)
15. Henry Ford My Life and Work (1922)
16. Benjamin Franklin The Way To Wealth (1758)
17. Timothy Gallwey The Inner Game of Tennis (1974)
18. Robin Gerber Leadership The Eleanor Roosevelt Way (2003)
19. John Paul Getty How To Be Rich (1961)
20. Les Giblin How to Have Power and Confidence In Dealing With People (1956)
21. Baltasar Gracian The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
22. Earl G Graves How To Succeed in Business Without Being White (1997)
23. Napoleon Hill Think and Grow Rich (1937)
24. Napoleon Hill & W Clement Stone Success With a Positive Mental Attitude (1960)
25. Tom Hopkins The Official Guide to Success (1982)
26. Muriel James & Dorothy Jongeward Born To Win (1971)
27. Spencer Johnson Who Moved My Cheese? (1998)
28. Robert Kiyosaki Rich Dad, Poor Dad (1997 )
29. David Landes The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (1998)
30. Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz The Power of Full Engagement (2003)
31. Roger Lowenstein Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist (1995)
32. Nelson Mandela Long Walk To Freedom (1994)
33. Orison Swett Marden Pushing To The Front (1894)
34. JW Marriott Jnr The Spirit To Serve (1997)
35. Margot Morrell & Stephanie Capparell Shackleton's Way (2001)
36. Donald T Phillips Lincoln On Leadership (1992)
37. Catherine Ponder The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity (1962)
38. Cheryl Richardson Take Time For Your Life (1998)
39. Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power (1986)
40. David Schwartz The Magic of Thinking Big (1959 )
41. Florence Scovell Shinn Secret Door to Success (1940)
42. Thomas J Stanley The Millionaire Mind (2000)
43. Brian Tracy Maximum Achievement (1993)
44. Sun Tzu The Art of War (4 th century BCE)
45. Sam Walton Made in America (1992)
46. Wallace Wattles The Science of Getting Rich (1910)
47. Jack Welch Jack: Straight From the Gut (2001)
48. John Whitmore Coaching For Performance (1992)
49. Richard Wiseman The Luck Factor (2003)
50. Zig Ziglar See You At The Top (1975)
Best Success Books
Top 50 Success Books on Amazon
Ragged Dick
Amazon Price: $22.99 (as of 11/14/2009) 
On Becoming a Leader
Amazon Price: $11.90 (as of 11/14/2009)
How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling
Amazon Price: $11.20 (as of 11/14/2009)
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