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Carrot Juice

Carrots contain high levels of beta-carotene – an antioxidant that may help oxygenate your blood, brain and body tissues. You will need 5-10 carrots depending on their size for a full glass of juice.

Fruit and Nut Juice

Combine 1 cup of fresh squeezed apple juice with 1 banana, 1 tbsp. of wheat, rice or oat bran and eight to 12 almonds. Blend thoroughly, adding water for desired taste and consistency.

Beetroot Juice

Juice and drink one to two beets, adding fresh apple juice to taste. Beetroot juice is one of the richest dietary sources of antioxidants and nitrates that may improve blood pressure and blood flow throughout the body, including the brain, heart, muscles, and more.

Green Juices

Chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants, helps oxygenate the blood, creating increased brain function and physical energy. Example recipe could be 1 large cucumber, 8 celery stalks, 1 handful kale, 1 handful spinach, 1 handful parsley, 1/4 lemon and 1 piece ginger.

Pomegranate Juice

It’s high in sugar and calories, but delivers an abundant dose of antioxidants. These substances appear to protect brain function and may ward off cancer. You will need 1 whole pomegranate and even if the juice is a little tart avoid adding sugar like so many recipes say.

Cranberry Juice

Cranberry juice is packed with vitamin C, which is vital to a healthy immune system. You may want to add some apples in with the cranberries for added flavor.

Blueberry Juice

Take one cup of blueberries and  prepare some daily juice with them. Besides their antioxidant action, blueberries contain a lot of vitamin C, minerals and fibers.

Cherry Juice

Besides delivering a wealth of antioxidants, cherry juices appear to have anti-inflammatory properties.

Acai Berry Juice

Acai pulp appears to have a higher concentration of antioxidants than cranberries, blackberries, strawberries, or blueberries. Acai berries are often turned into pulp, made into powder, or turned into concentrated liquid form before being transported. You can usually find most of these things in any health food store.

Red Grape Juice

Red grape juice contains potent antioxiodants — flavanoids and resveratrol. The key is that wine and juice are made with the entire grape — seeds, skin, and all.

1. “Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.” – Tony Robbins

2. “Screw it, Let’s do it!” – Richard Branson

3. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

4. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar

5. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates

6. “Capital isn’t scarce; vision is.” – Sam Walton

7. “Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki

8. “I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffet

9. “I’ve been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.” – Russell Simmons

10. “Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.” – Mark Cuban

11. “I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of not trying.” – Jay Z

12. “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.”  - Henry Ford

13. “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson

14. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

15. “Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

16. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates

17. “If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

18. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” – Henry Ford

19. “I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.” – Jack Welch

20. “If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.” – Jeff Bezos

21. “We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.” –Pete Cashmore

22. “Timing, perseverance and 10 years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” – Biz Stone

23. “High expectations are the key to everything.”  - Sam Walton

24. “It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.”  - Mark Cuban

25. “Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.” – Richard Branson

26. “Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn’t you have fun at work?” – Richard Branson

27. “Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.” – Tony Hsieh

28. “I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.” – Mark Zuckerberg

29. “If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.” – Reid Hoffman

30. “Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.” – Jack Dorsey

Tell us your favorite entrepreneur quotes in the comments!

Everything on here will educate and inspire you. Spend a few less minutes watching cute animals and a few more minutes learning about these amazing people.

1.) Warren Buffett – Billionaire Investor

Buffet with Bill and Melinda Gates

2.) Bill Gates – Founder of Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates sit down at the All Things Digital Conference.

3.) Larry Ellison – Founder of Oracle

Oracle founder on Achivement.org

4.) Mark Cuban – Owner of the Dallas Mavericks and HDNet

”When I die, I want to come back as me” at TechCrunch

5.) Oprah Winfrey – Media Entrepreneur

Larry King Interviews Oprah on The Secret.

6.) Tony Robbins – Peak Performance Coach and Entrepreneur

Tony Robbins’ TED Talk “Why we do what we do and how we can do it better”

7.) Richard Branson – Billionaire founder of Virgin

15 Small Business Lessons with Branson at Open Forum

8.) Mark Zuckerberg – Founder of Facebook

60 Minutes Interview

9.) Jack Dorsey – Founder of Twitter and Square

The Innovator: Jack Dorsey 60 Minutes

10.) Ted Turner – Media Entrepreneur

Interviewed by Mashable’s Pete Cashmore at the UN

11.) George Soros – Billionaire Investor

Eric Schmidt Interviews George Soros at Google

12.) Jeff Bezos – Founder of Amazon.com

Wired’s Chris Anderson Interviews Bezos

13.) Sergey Brin and Larry Page – Google Founders

Ted Talk on Google

14.) Elon Musk – Founder of Paypal, Tesla and SpaceX

Entrepreneur Mentor Interview at Mahalo

15.) Ron Conway – Venture Capitalist

Hour long interview with Ron Conway at Stanford Business School

16.) Michael Dell – Founder of Dell Computers

Mastermind interview with Michael Dell

17.) Marc Andreessen – Software Entrepreneur

”We’re not in a bubble” at the Wall Street Journal

18.) Paul Graham – Founder of Y-Combinator

How Y Combinator Helped 172 Startups Take Off

19.) Jay-Z – Hip Hop Entrepreneur

Interview on Forbes with Jay-Z and Warren Buffet

20.) Michael Bloomberg – Entrepreneur and Mayor of New York

Bloomberg Speaking at Techstars New York Demo Day

21.) Tony Hsieh – Founder of Zappos

Under30CEO talks about company culture with Tony Hsieh.

22.) Sean Parker – Internet Entrepreneur

Jimmy Fallon drills Sean Parker on tech.

23.) Tim O’Reilly – Software and Media Entrepreneur

Jason Calacanis interviews Tim O’Reilly at SXSW

24.) Steve Wozniak – Founder of Apple

Founders at Work with Woz

25.) Phil Knight – Founder of Nike

Exclusive Interview by Oprah on Nike

26.) Howard Schultz – Founder of Starbucks

The Harvard Business Review Interviews Starbucks Founder

27.) Carl Icahn – Billionaire Investor

Ichan’s Drexel University Commencement Speech

28.) Pierre Omidyar – Founder of Ebay

The Guardian does a rare interview with Omidyar

29.) Ralph Lauren – Fashion Entrepreneur

Oprah interviews RL

30.) Charles Schwab – Investor

Money Magazine talks investing with Schwab

31.) Reid Hoffman – Founder of LinkedIn

Billionaire Founder gives 5 tips to startups on WSJ

32.) Peter Thiel – Founder of Paypal and Venture Capitalist

Billionaire on BigThink

33.) Steve Case – Founder of AOL

Talks Job Creation via Startup America on CNBC

34.) Jimmy Wales – Founder of Wikipedia

John Stewart interviews Jimmy Wales on the Daily Show

35.) Andrew Mason – Founder of Groupon

Bloomberg Interviews the Founder of Groupon

36.) Ariana Huffington – Founder of The Huffington post

Talks about breaking into blogging at Technorati

37.) Donald Trump – Billionaire Real Estate Investor

Under30CEO Interview with Donald Trump

38.) John Doerr – Billionaire Venture Capitalist

Mark Zuckerberg with John Doerr

39.) Wayne Huizenga – Founder of Blockbuster, Waste Management and Pro Sports team owner

Talks on CNBC about the Art of the Deal

40.) Barry Diller – Media Executive

Diller talks to CNN at SXSW

41.) Herb Kelleher – Founder of Southwest Airlines

Has a series of interviews on I am CNBC

42.) Bob Parsons – Founder of GoDaddy

Starting GoDaddy

43.) Diddy – Hip Hop Entrepreneur

ABC News calls Diddy the Modern Mogul

44.) Ev Williams – Founder of Twitter

Interviewed by Charlie Rose

45.) Fred Wilson – Venture Capitalist

Chris Dixon interviews Fred Wilson

46.) David Cohen – Founder of Techstars

ReadWriteWeb interviews Techstars founder

47.) Chris Dixon – Venture Capitalist

Here is an in depth interview with Chris Dixon on Mixergy

48.) Michael Arrington – Founder of Techcrunch

A day in the life of a $10million a year blogger

49.) Gary Vaynerchuk – Media/Wine Entrepreneur

Jason Calacanis interviews Gary in one of the best This Week in Startups ever.

50.) Jason Calacanis – Internet Entrepreneur and Investor

Jason Calacanis gets interviewed on This Week in Startups

51.) Jason Fried – Internet Entrepreneur

Big Think Interviews Jason Fried about ReWork

52.) Dharmesh Shah – Founder of Hubspot

Interview of  Dharmesh on Mixergy

53.) Mark Suster – Venture Capitalist

Gets interviewed by Jascon Calcanis before he takes over This Week In Venture Capital

54.) Dennis Crowley – Founder of Foursquare

Kevin Rose interviews Dennis Crowley

55.) Pete Cashmore – Founder of Mashable

Pete Cashmore at SXSW

56.) Brad Feld – Venture Capitalist

Vator News asks How to Get Funding

57.) Matt Mullenweg – Founder of WordPress

Inc Magazine features Matt in their greg series “The Way I Work”

58.) Kevin Rose – Founder of Digg.com and Podcaster

Interview at Web2.0 Summit 2011

59.) Peter Shankman – Founder of Help a Reporter

BlogCastFM Interviews Peter Shankman

60.) Eric Ries – Entrepreneur and Author

On Techcrunch: “Don’t Be In A Rush To Get Big, Be In A Rush To Have A Great Product”

61.) David Tisch – Director of Techstars New York

TechCocktail interviews David Tisch and David Cohen

62.) John Reese – Internet Marketer

Tony Robbins interviews Frank Kern and John Reese

63.) Keith Ferrazzi – Author of Never Eat Alone

WSJ asks Keith Ferrazzi “Who’s Got Your Back?”

64.) Gina Trapani – Founder of Lifehacker

Tim Ferriss interviews Lifehacker Gina Trapani

65.) Neil Strauss – Author and Marketer

Speaks in the series: Authors @Google

66.) Chris Brogan – Blogger and Marketer

Talks about helping small businesses at CES2011

67.) Daniel Pink – Author and Journalist

CBS Moneywatch asks Daniel “What Really Motivates Workers?”

68.) Ivanka Trump – Entrepreneur

Huffington Post interviews Ivanka in the Trump Tower

69.) Ben Huh – Founder of Cheezeburger Media Network

Shama Kabini interviews Ben on the future of journalism

70.) Ben Lerer – Founder of Thrillist

Ben on starting Thrillist

71.) Kenneth Cole – Fashion Entrepreneur

Kenneth talks to CNN about the inspirational storiesin his book

72.) Naveen Jain – Internet Entrepreneur

Jain on Bloomberg talking about Google Lunar X Prizerace to the moon

73.) Guy Kawasaki – Author and Entrepreneur

Talk at Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner. “Entrepreneurship is for you young people”

74.) Magic Johnson – Entrepreneur and NBA Hall of Famer

Our friend Tiffany Black Interviews Magic Johnson on Inc

75.) Ryan Allis – Founder of iContact

On his $169M sale to Vocus

76.) David Karp – Founder of Tumblr

David Karp on TechCrunchTVsays Blogs Don’t Work

77.) Ashton Kutcher – Early Stage Investor

What Ashton Kutcher looks for in tech investments on TechCrunch

78.) Tyra Banks – Media Entrepreneur

On going to Harvard Business Schoolat CBS News

79.) Steve Young – Venture Capitalist

Talks about his investment strategy on Bloomberg TV

80.) Ryan Leslie – Hip Hop Entrepreneur

This Harvard Grad interviewed on Fox Business

81.) Rob Dyrdek – Action Sports Entrepreneur

Inc calls Fantasy Factory America’s Coolest Workspace. Q+A With Dyrdek

82.) MC Hammer – Hip Hop Entrepreneur

Interview at Web2.0 Summit

83.) Chamillionaire – Hip Hop Entrepreneur

Michael Arrington talks social currency with Chamillionaire

84.) Darren Rowse – Blogger

Gideon Shalwick interviews ProBlogger

85.) Gina Bianchini – Founder of Ning

Gina Bianchini talks about founding Leanin.org

86.) Sara Blakely – Founder of Spanx

Talks about Resiliency on Entrepreneur

87.) Russel Simmons – Hip Hop Entrepreneur

NPR Interviews Entrepreneur Russel Simmons

88.) Wendy Kopp – Founder of Teach for America

Talks about Teach for American on the Colbert Report

89.) Kevin Plank – Founder of Under Armour

How I Did It with Inc Magazine

90.) Anita Roddick – Founder of The Body Shop

Anita tells their entrepreneurial story

91.) Robert Kiyosaki – Entrepreneur and Author

Under30CEO Interviews Robert Kiyosaki

92.) Justine Ezarik – Media Entrepreneur

FastCompany on iJustine getting 300 million YouTube views

93.) Barbara Corcoran – Real Estate Entrepreneur

Under30CEO Interviews Barbara Corcoran

94.) Rev Run – Hip Hop Entrepreneur

Huffington Post Interviews Rev Run

95.) Blake Ross – Founder of Mozilla

How to Make Millions

96.) Tim O’ Shaughnessy – Founder of Living Social

Business Insider interviews Living Social founder

97.) Dave Morin – Founder of Path

Interview at Techcrunch Disrupt with Dave Morin

98.) Brian Solis – Marketer

The Rise to the Top Interviews Brian Solis

99.) Robert Scoble – Blogger

Watch Scoble at Stanford Business School

100.) Seth Godin – Marketing guru

Under30CEO interviews Seth Godin

101.) Richard Branson – Founder of Virgin Group

Life at 30,000 feet – Talk at TED

102.) Kevin Systrom – Founder Instagram

Kevin Rose interviews Kevin Systrom

103.) Drew Houston – Founder Dropbox

Forbes get the inside story behind Dropbox

104.) Steve Jobs – Founder Apple Inc.

Rare 1990 interview with Steve Jobs

105.) Steve Jobs – Founder Apple Inc.

2010 interview with Apple CEO Steve Jobs

106.) David Karp – Founder Tumblr

Interview on Tumblr growth and monetization

107.) John Paul Dejoria – Founder Paul Mitchell Systems and Patron

Barbra Walters interviews John on being a billionaire

108.) Lynn Tilton – Private equity queen

Barbra Walters interviews Lynn on going from rags to riches

109.) Michael Jordan – NBA Hall of Famer

Michael Jordan turns 50 and talks about his drive

110.) Yvon Chouinard – Founder Patagonia

Yvon is interviewed about his life and values

111.) Mary Kay Ash – Founder Mary Kay Cosmetics

A look back on a 1979 interview with Mary Kay Ash

112.) Tim Ferriss – Best selling author

Tim Ferriss Interview on The 4-Hour Workweek

113.) Sherly Sandberg – COO of Facebook

Women & Money interview on 60 Minutes

114.) Marissa Mayer – CEO Yahoo

NPR Correspondent Laura Sydell interviews Marissa on her life

115.) Ben Silbermann – Co-founder Pinterest

Ben Silbermann on startups and going your own way

116.) Jenn Hyman –  Co-founder and CEO of Rent the Runway

How Rent the Runway delivers “Cindarella Moments”

117.) Alexandra Wilson – Co-founder Gilt Groupe

How Gilt was built and changed the way millions shop

118.) Jason Goldberg – Founder Fab.com

Kevin Rose interviews Jason on Foundation

It’s crazy but I’m sure we missed some. Let us know in the comments!

Jared O’Toole is the co-founder of Under30Media. You can find him on Twitter or Google. 

The world is getting smaller everyday and knowing multiple languages is more important than ever. It doesn’t just make traveling more enjoyable but as business becomes more global it opens up more opportunities. The toughest part is of course learning the language but it can be fun! Here are some ideas…

Before you travel

1. Buy children’s books. Children’s books are the most basic reading you will find in any language. Any words you don’t know you can easily look-up with the help of your dictionary or smart-phone.

2. Watch movies in the language. Dive even further into the local culture by watching movies from the area.

3. Find locals. Get out in your community and find out where people are speaking and using the language you’re using ie. Chinatown. Try shopping, ordering food and asking for directions in the language you’re learning.

4. Listen to children’s songs. Just like children’s books, children’s songs are as simple as they come. You can find songs that can help you practice basic numbers, letters and phrases.

5. Find a friend who knows the language and only speak in it. Having a friend who knows the language is a huge asset. Mastering casual conversation is one of the toughest things you will learn.

6. Get your news online in another language.  You watch the news anyway, so it’s another opportunity to practice reading and listening to videos.

7. Use technology. There are numerous resources online and for your smart-phone to help you learn. Here are a few of the best to check out.

BBC Languages – An extensive resource covering some of the most popular languages and cultures.

Mac Genius – Genius helps you memorize things. Genius organizes your information and carefully chooses questions using an intelligent “spaced repetition” method that’s based on your past performance.

Anki – Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy that works on PC. It is a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.

Talking Translator/Dictionary (Android & IOS) – Speak a sentence and hear the translation. Plus many other useful features.

Google Translate (Android & IOS) – Translate text and speech between more than 60 languages

8. Skype Partners. You can use The Mixxer to find language partners over Skype. This service will help connect you with someone looking to learn your native language while you try to learn theirs.

9. Meetup.com for language meet-ups. Find local meet-ups for language groups. There are a lot of groups out there covering most languages where people gather to hang out and speak the language in a social setting.

10. Private tutor – find a college student. Oftentimes a private tutor is the best way to get to the next level. Use them to help clean up areas you struggle with or point out mistakes you tend to make.

11. Pick up foreign editions of your favorite magazine. Reading things you’re familiar with will help you put phrases together in context.

12. Change your computer settings. Force yourself to get stuff done and discover pictures of puppies in another language.

13. Eat out! Find restaurants that offer menus in both languages. Again, make sure to only order in the language you’re trying to learn.

14. Cook in a foreign language. Find a recipe and see if you can get it right!

15. Hit YouTube. You can find a lot of your favorite videos you waste time watching anyway in foreign languages.

16. Write basic lists in a foreign language. These can be shopping lists, reminders, or anything you do frequently.

Take the trip!

The absolute best way to learn a language is to throw yourself into the scene. Force yourself to figure out how to communicate and get what you need. Just hearing the language all day long from your surroundings will help you pick up on many things.

It’s also one of the more fun things you can do and an experience you won’t forget.

17. Date a local. This can’t be guaranteed but whether you succeed or not you will learn a lot trying! The initial conversation will be a major test and if you succeed you will have someone that you can practice with everyday.

18. Stay in hostels. Hostels will provide you with the most authentic experience. Even if you don’t spend your entire trip there just staying and interacting for a few nights is beneficial.

19. Hire a local guide. Most local guides will only speak their native language and you can use the experience as a way to test yourself to describe things and ask questions.

20. Haggle. Put your negotiating skills to the test and see if you can convince someone to give you a deal.

21. Watch local TV. Your hotel may offer other options but don’t use them!

22. Attend local events/gatherings. The more you engage and get involved in the scene the more of the language you will pick up.

23. Go out to local bars. Make sure to order everything in the local language. After a few drinks you will really be tested to see if you can correctly get your message across.

24. Don’t use maps. Make sure to always ask for directions and read the signs.

25. Only use local currency. Many places might accept multiple currencies but don’t even carry anything else.

26. Get a job. If you’re staying for awhile it could be useful to pickup a basic job. Working a few months in a surf shop in a foreign country will not only be fun but will force you to learn and use the language.

27. Ask locals to take pictures of you. Figure out how to explain what you want and how to use your camera.

Have fun!

Jared O’Toole is the co-founder of Under30Media. You can find him on Twitter or Google. 

Looking for some new people to follow on twitter? We have compiled 26 awesome people in business that are very active on twitter. It’s a great way to get a quick look into what and how they think as they run some of the most influential companies we use everyday. Let us know who we missed in the comments below.

Aaron Levie - Co-Founder and CEO of Enterprise Cloud Software Box.
Follow @levie

Dick Costolo -  Current CEO of Twitter and was its former COO.
Follow @dickc

Chris Dixon - Investor at Andreessen Horowitz. Previously. Co-founder/CEO of Hunch (acquired by eBay). Co-founder of Founder Collective, a seed-stage venture fund.
Follow @cdixon

Michael Arrington – Founder of Techcrunch and current founder of Crunchfund.
Follow @arrington

Rupert Murdoch -  Murdoch is the 38th richest person in the US and the 106th-richest person in the world. He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of global media holding company News Corporation, the world’s second-largest media conglomerate.
Follow @rupertmurdoch

Jack Dorsey – The creator of Twitter and as the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company.
Follow @JACK

Om Malik – Founder of GigaOM. Venture Partner at True Ventures.
Follow @om

Steve Case - Co-founder of AOL; now Chairman of Case Foundation and Revolution (LivingSocial, Zipcar, Exclusive Resorts, Everyday Health, FedBid, Miraval, etc)
Follow @SteveCase

Reid Hoffman – Co-founder of LinkedIn. Former executive Vice President of PayPal.
Follow @reidhoffman

Richard Rosenblatt - Co-Founder, Chrm and CEO, Demand Media. Let’s talk business, social, and whatever is interesting at that moment.
Follow @demandrichard

Dennis Crowley – Co-founder of the popular social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare.
Follow @DENS

Ben Horowitz - Co-founder and Partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz based in Menlo Park. Former Co-founder Loudcloud (Opsware).
Follow @bhorowitz

Jonah Peretti - Founder/CEO, BuzzFeed.
Follow @peretti

Elon Musk – Best known for founding SpaceX, and co-founding Tesla Motors and PayPal.
Follow @elonmusk

Paul Graham - In 2005 he and Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, and Trevor Blackwell started Y Combinator. Previoulsy he had founded Viaweb.
Follow @paulg

Ben Lerer - Co-founder @Thrillist, @JackThreads, @LererVentures.
Follow @benjlerer

Michael Lazerow - CMO, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, CEO/Founder: Buddy Media, U-Wire/Student Advantage, Lazerow Consulting.
Follow @lazerow

Marissa Mayer - President and CEO of Yahoo. Previously employee number 20 at Google.
Follow @marissamayer

Jef Weiner - CEO at LinkedIn.
Follow @jeffweiner

Richard Branson - Founder and Chairman of Virgin Group which operates over 400 companies. Net worth $4.2 billion.
Follow @richardbranson

Mark Cuban – Owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theatres, and Magnolia Pictures. Formerly founded Broadcast.com which was acquired by Yahoo! for $5.9 billion.
Follow @mcuban

Bob Parsons - Executive chairman and founder of GoDaddy.com.
Follow @DrBobParsons

Steve Forbes - Chairman & Editor-In Chief, Forbes Media. Co-Author of Freedom Manifesto; Why Free Markets are Moral & Government Isn’t.
Follow @steveforbesceo

Doug Ulman - President and CEO of Livestrong Foundation.
Follow @livestrongceo

Pete Cashmore - CEO and Founder of Mashable.com.
Follow @petecashmore

Tim O’Reilly - Founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media.
Follow @timoreilly

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, and principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity–principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich has been called the “Granddaddy of All Motivational Literature” and was the first book to address what makes a winner.

In Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill draws on stories of Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and other millionaires of his generation to illustrate his principles.

Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) enjoyed a long and successful career as a lecturer, an author, and a consultant to business leaders. Think and Grow Rich is the all-time bestseller, having sold 15 million copies worldwide, that sets the standard for motivational thinking.

The Lean Startup – Eric Reis

Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable.  The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way that companies are built and new products are launched.

Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business.

The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively.  Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute.

The E-Myth Revisited - Michael E. Gerber

In this first new and totally revised edition of the 150,000-copy underground bestseller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all businesses that succeed. He then shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business whether or not it is a franchise. Finally, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in your business. After you have read The E-Myth Revisited, you will truly be able to grow your business in a predictable and productive way.

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich - Tim Ferriss

What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer:

“I race motorcycles in Europe.”
“I ski in the Andes.”
“I scuba dive in Panama.”
“I dance tango in Buenos Aires.”

He has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing subculture who has abandoned the “deferred-life plan” and instead mastered the new currencies—time and mobility—to create luxury lifestyles in the here and now.

Whether you are an overworked employee or an entrepreneur trapped in your own business, this book is the compass for a new and revolutionary world.

Rework - Jason Fried

Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you’re looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf.

Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you’ll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don’t need outside investors, and why you’re better off ignoring the competition. The truth is, you need less than you think. You don’t need to be a workaholic. You don’t need to staff up. You don’t need to waste time on paperwork or meetings. You don’t even need an office. Those are all just excuses.

What you really need to do is stop talking and start working. This book shows you the way. You’ll learn how to be more productive, how to get exposure without breaking the bank, and many more counterintuitive ideas that will inspire and provoke you.

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose - Tony Hsieh

The hip, iconoclastic CEO of Zappos shows how a different kind of corporate culture can make a huge difference in achieving remarkable results — by actually creating a company culture that values happiness –and then delivers on it.

• Pay brand-new employees $2,000 to quit
• Make customer service the responsibility of the entire company-not just a department
• Focus on company culture as the #1 priority
• Apply research from the science of happiness to running a business
• Help employees grow-both personally and professionally
• Seek to change the world
• Oh, and make money too . . .

Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way - Richard Branson

“Oh, screw it, let’s do it.”

That’s the philosophy that has allowed Richard Branson, in slightly more than twenty-five years, to spawn so many successful ventures. From the airline business (Virgin Atlantic Airways), to music (Virgin Records and V2), to cola (Virgin Cola), to retail (Virgin Megastores), and nearly a hundred others, ranging from financial services to bridal wear, Branson has a track record second to none.

Losing My Virginity is the unusual, frequently outrageous autobiography of one of the great business geniuses of our time. When Richard Branson started his first business, he and his friends decided that “since we’re complete virgins at business, let’s call it just that: Virgin.” Since then, Branson has written his own “rules” for success, creating a group of companies with a global presence, but no central headquarters, no management hierarchy, and minimal bureaucracy.

The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything - Guy Kawasaki

A new product, a new service, a new company, a new division, a new organization, a new anything—where there’s a will, here’s the way.

It begins with a dream that just won’t quit, the once-in-a-lifetime thunderbolt of pure inspiration, the obsession, the world-beater, the killer app, the next big thing. Everyone who wants to make the world a better place becomes possessed by a grand idea.

But what does it take to turn your idea into action?

In The Art of the Start, Guy Kawasaki brings two decades of experience as one of business’s most original and irreverent strategists to offer the essential guide for anyone starting anything, from a multinational corporation to a church group. At Apple in the 1980s, he helped lead one of the great companies of the century, turning ordinary consumers into evangelists. As founder and CEO of Garage Technology Ventures, a venture capital firm, he has field-tested his ideas with dozens of newly hatched companies. And as the author of bestselling business books and articles, he has advised thousands of people who are making their startup dreams real.

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t - Jim Collins

The Challenge:
Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning.

But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?

How To Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie

One of the best known motivational books in history: Since it was released in 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold more than 15 million copies. Carnegie’s first book is timeless and appeals equally to business audiences, self-help audiences, and general readers alike.

Proven advice for success in life: Carnegie believed that most successes come from an ability to communicate effectively rather than from brilliant insights. His book teaches these skills by showing readers how to value others and make them feel appreciated rather than manipulated.

As relevant as ever before: In the age of Steven Covey and Tony Robbins, Dale Carnegie’s principles endure. The original edition was published in response to the Great Depression, and this fresh hardcover edition will appeal now more than ever to readers wanting tried and true advice on how to deal with a depressed economy. Readers can learn how to get the job they want, improve the job they have, and make the best of any situation.

The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future - Chris Guillebeau

In The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau shows you how to lead of life of adventure, meaning and purpose – and earn a good living.

Still in his early thirties, Chris is on the verge of completing a tour of every country on earth – he’s already visited more than 175 nations – and yet he’s never held a “real job” or earned a regular paycheck.  Rather, he has a special genius for turning ideas into income, and he uses what he earns both to support his life of adventure and to give back.

There are many others like Chris – those who’ve found ways to opt out of traditional employment and create the time and income to pursue what they find meaningful.  Sometimes, achieving that perfect blend of passion and income doesn’t depend on shelving what you currently do.  You can start small with your venture, committing little time or money, and wait to take the real plunge when you’re sure it’s successful.

In preparing to write this book, Chris identified 1,500 individuals who have built businesses earning $50,000 or more from a modest investment (in many cases, $100 or less), and from that group he’s chosen to focus on the 50 most intriguing case studies.  In nearly all cases, people with no special skills discovered aspects of their personal passions that could be monetized, and were able to restructure their lives in ways that gave them greater freedom and fulfillment.

Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell

In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of “outliers”–the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?

His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.

Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert T. Kiyosaki

Rich Dad Poor Dad, the #1 Personal Finance book of all time, tells the story of Robert Kiyosaki and his two dads—his real father and the father of his best friend, his rich dad—and the ways in which both men shaped his thoughts about money and investing. The book explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to be rich and explains the difference between working for money and having your money work for you.

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) – Seth Godin

The old saying is wrong—winners do quit, and quitters do win.

Every new project (or job, or hobby, or company) starts out exciting and fun. Then it gets harder and less fun, until it hits a low point—really hard, and not much fun at all.

And then you find yourself asking if the goal is even worth the hassle. Maybe you’re in a Dip—a temporary setback that will get better if you keep pushing. But maybe it’s really a Cul-de-Sac, which will never get better, no matter how hard you try.

According to bestselling author Seth Godin, what really sets superstars apart from everyone else is the ability to escape dead ends quickly, while staying focused and motivated when it really counts.

Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion - Gary Vaynerchuk

Do you have a hobby you wish you could do all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take those passions and make a living doing what you love. In CRUSH IT! Why NOW Is The Time To Cash In On Your Passion, Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses. Gary spent years building his family business from a local wine shop into a national industry leader. Then one day he turned on a video camera, and by using the secrets revealed in this book, transformed his entire life and earning potential by building his personal brand. By the end of this book, any reader will have learned how to harness the power of the Internet to make their entrepreneurial dreams come true. Step by step, CRUSH IT! is the ultimate driver’s manual for modern business.

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World - Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of our financial system, from its genesis in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. What’s more, Ferguson reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history, arguing that the evolution of credit and debt was as important as any technological innovation in the rise of civilization. As Ferguson traces the crisis from ancient Egypt’s Memphis to today’s Chongqing, he offers bold and compelling new insights into the rise, and fall, of not just money but Western power as well.

Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built - Richard S. Tedlow

Seven business innovators and the empires they built.

The pre-eminent business historian of our time, Richard S. Tedlow, examines seven great CEOs who successfully managed cutting-edge technology and formed enduring corporate empires.

With the depth and clarity of a master, Tedlow illuminates the minds, lives, and strategies behind the legendary successes of our times:

- George Eastman and his invention of the Kodak camera;
- Thomas Watson of IBM;
- Henry Ford and his automobile;
- Charles Revson and his use of television advertising to drive massive sales for Revlon;
- Robert N. Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit and founder of Intel;
- Andrew Carnegie and his steel empire;
- Sam Walton and his unprecedented retail machine, Wal-Mart.

The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail - Clayton M. Christensen

His work is cited by the world’s best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic bestseller, innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right—yet still lose market leadership. Read this international bestseller to avoid a similar fate.

Clay Christensen—who authored the award-winning Harvard Business Review article “How Will You Measure Your Life?”—explains why most companies miss out on new waves of innovation. No matter the industry, he says a successful company with established products WILL get pushed aside unless managers know how and when to abandon traditional business practices. Offering both successes and failures from leading companies as a guide, The Innovator’s Dilemma gives you a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation.

Sharp, cogent, provocative, and one of the most influential business books of all time—The Innovator’s Dilemma is the book no manager or entrepreneur should be without.

Liar’s Poker - Michael Lewis

The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.

Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush.

Liar’s Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years—a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Michael Lewis’s knowing and hilarious insider’s account of an unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune.

The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business - Josh Kaufman

Getting an MBA is an expensive choice-one almost impossible to justify regardless of the state of the economy. Even the elite schools like Harvard and Wharton offer outdated, assembly-line programs that teach you more about PowerPoint presentations and unnecessary financial models than what it takes to run a real business. You can get better results (and save hundreds of thousands of dollars) by skipping B-school altogether.

Josh Kaufman founded PersonalMBA.com as an alternative to the business school boondoggle. His blog has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the best business books and most powerful business concepts of all time. Now, he shares the essentials of entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, negotiation, operations, productivity, systems design, and much more, in one comprehensive volume. The Personal MBA distills the most valuable business lessons into simple, memorable mental models that can be applied to real-world challenges.

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Daniel H. Pink

Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That’s a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose-and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - David Allen

In today’s world, yesterday’s methods just don’t work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country. Allen’s premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective productivity and unleash our creative potential. In Getting Things Done Allen shows how to:

* Apply the “do it, delegate it, defer it, drop it” rule to get your in-box to empty
* Reassess goals and stay focused in changing situations
* Plan projects as well as get them unstuck
* Overcome feelings of confusion, anxiety, and being overwhelmed
* Feel fine about what you’re not doing

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die - Chip and Dan Heath

Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas–business people, teachers, politicians, journalists, and others–struggle to make their ideas “stick.”

Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? In Made to Stick, accomplished educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath tackle head-on these vexing questions. Inside, the brothers Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the “human scale principle,” using the “Velcro Theory of Memory,” and creating “curiosity gaps.”

In this indispensable guide, we discover that sticky messages of all kinds–from the infamous “kidney theft ring” hoax to a coach’s lessons on sportsmanship to a vision for a new product at Sony–draw their power from the same six traits.

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Yvon Chouinard

In his long-awaited memoir, Yvon Chouinard-legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and founder of Patagonia, Inc., shares the persistence and courage that have gone into being head of one of the most respected and environmentally responsible companies on earth. From his youth as the son of a French Canadian blacksmith to the thrilling, ambitious climbing expeditions that inspired his innovative designs for the sport’s equipment, Let My People Go Surfing is the story of a man who brought doing good and having grand adventures into the heart of his business life-a book that will deeply affect entrepreneurs and outdoor enthusiasts alike.

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