Entrepreneur and real estate investor in Athens, Georgia; owns Bolt Storage, Somewhere and RE Cost Seg among seven companies that employ over 325 people, and writes The Sweaty Startup newsletter.
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1 book of their own · 12 articles · 21 books they recommend
“my friend Nick Huber's excellent new book on how to get rich by starting blue collar businesses” — Andrew Wilkinson
Source: Newsletter
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson
| The Sweaty Startup | – | Andrew Wilkinson |
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason
Why a business can stay small on purpose instead of chasing growth.
Also recommended by: Cal Newport, David Hellmann, Eric Jorgenson and 2 others
Small firms fail when technicians run them; build systems that run the business.
Also recommended by: Alex Lieberman, Ali Abdaal, Andrew Wilkinson and 5 others
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Alex Lieberman, Alexis Ohanian and 6 others
How a running-shoe importer became Nike, surviving one cash crisis after another.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai and 24 others
Samuel Zemurray rose from selling ripe bananas to taking over United Fruit.
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ryan Holiday, Andrew Wilkinson and 2 others
How Rockefeller built Standard Oil, faced its breakup and gave his fortune away.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Charlie Munger and 11 others
Decision rules from building Bridgewater: radical truth and radical transparency.
Also recommended by: Alfred Lin, Nat Eliason, Andrew Lokenauth and 27 others
When to push through a hard stretch and when to quit a dead end.
Also recommended by: Brian Armstrong, Nat Eliason, Ev Williams
A plant manager learns that a system's output is set by its bottleneck.
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 4 others
Build habits by making them obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying.
Also recommended by: Ali Abdaal, Balaji S. Srinivasan and 20 others
Tim Ferriss's book belongs on a personal-finance list not for its investment advice but for its income argument: the fastest way to reach financial independence may be redesigning how and where you work rather than cutting spending to the bone. The 'new rich' framework is deliberately provocative, and the specific tactics age poorly, but the income-side case remains underweighted in most FIRE writing.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Ev Williams and 19 others
Seven habits, from being proactive to win-win, that build personal effectiveness.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Jim Collins and 9 others
Techniques for handling people, being liked and winning others to your view.
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Alex and Books and 12 others
FBI hostage-negotiation tactics: labelling, mirroring and calibrated questions.
Also recommended by: Alfred Lin, Nat Eliason and 5 others
Two fathers contrasted to argue that schools fail to teach how money works.
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Andrew Lokenauth and 5 others
From abused child and 300-pound exterminator to Navy SEAL, and how to get tough.
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Alex and Books, Ali Abdaal and 6 others
A step-by-step playbook for growing a small business, from Ramsey's own company.
Also recommended by: David Cancel
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, David Cancel, Nat Eliason and 3 others
Forty-eight rules for gaining and keeping power, each shown by historical episodes.
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ryan Holiday, Iman Gadzhi and 2 others
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