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      • CS Lewis - The Screwtape Letters
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      • Eric Berne - Games People Play
      • Isabel Briggs Myers - Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
      • Louann Brizendine - The Female Brain
      • David D Burns - Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
      • Robert Cialdini - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
      • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Creativity
      • Albert Ellis - A Guide To Rational Living
      • Milton Erickson - Teaching Tales
      • Erik Erikson - Young Man Luther
      • Hans Eysenck - Dimensions of Personality
      • Sigmund Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams
      • Malcolm Gladwell - Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
      • Carl Jung - The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
      • Alfred Kinsey - Sexuality In The Human Female
      • Abraham Maslow - Motivation and Personality
      • Stanley Milgram - Obedience To Authority
      • IP Pavlov - Conditioned Reflexes
      • Jean Piaget - The Language and Thought of the Child
      • Carl Rogers - On Becoming A Person
      • BF Skinner - Beyond Freedom & Dignity
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      • James Allen - The Path to Prosperity
      • Genevieve Behrend - Your Invisible Power
      • Richard Branson - Losing My Virginity
      • Warren Buffett - The Essays of Warren Buffett
      • Rhonda Byrne - The Secret
      • Andrew Carnegie - The Gospel of Wealth
      • Felix Dennis - How To Get Rich
      • Peter Drucker - Innovation and Entrepreneurship
      • Harv Eker - Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
      • Milton Friedman - Capitalism and Freedom
      • Michael E Gerber - The E-Myth Revisited
      • Benjamin Graham - The Intelligent Investor
      • Esther & Jerry Hicks - Ask And It Is Given
      • Conrad Hilton - Be My Guest
      • Joe Karbo - The Lazy Man's Way To Riches
      • Catherine Ponder - Open Your Mind To Prosperity
      • Ayn Rand - Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
      • Donald Trump - The Art of the Deal
      • Max Weber - The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
      • Prosperity Principles
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      • Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex
      • Heraclitus - Fragments
      • Soren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling
      • Thomas Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
      • Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is the Massage
      • John Stuart Mill - On Liberty
      • Montaigne - Essays
      • Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
      • Plato - The Republic
      • Karl Popper - The Logic of Scientific Discovery
      • John Rawls - A Theory of Justice
      • Jean-Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness
      • Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Black Swan
      • Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations
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    • The Science of Getting Rich
    • The Art of War
    • The Prince
    • The Wealth of Nations
    • The Republic
    • The Tao Te Ching
    • Meditations
    • Beyond Good and Evil
    • Origin of Species
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Tom Butler-Bowdon

success classics

50 SUCCESS CLASSICS
Second edition (2017)

by Tom Butler-Bowdon

Millions of us are drawn each year to find the one great book that will capture our imagination and inspire us to chart a course to personal and professional fulfillment. 50 Success Classics is the first and only ‘bite-sized’ guide to the most important and inspiring works that have already demonstrated their power to change lives.

Below is a list of books covered in the second (2017) edition of 50 Success Classics: Your Shortcut to the Most Important Ideas on Motivation, Achievement, and Prosperity (published by Nicholas Brealey/Hachette, London & Boston).
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  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. Warren Buffett (by Roger Lowenstein) Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist (1995)
  8. Andrew Carnegie Autobiography (1920)
  9. Chin-ning Chu Thick Face Black Heart (1992)
  10. George S Clason The Richest Man in Babylon (1926)
  11. Robert Collier Secrets of the Ages (1926)
  12. Jim Collins Good To Great (2001)
  13. Russel H Conwell Acres of Diamonds (1921)
  14. Stephen R Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People(1989)
  15. Angela Duckworth Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (2016)
  16. Henry Ford My Life and Work (1922)
  17. Benjamin Franklin The Way To Wealth (1758)
  18. Timothy Gallwey The Inner Game of Tennis (1974)
  19. Bill Gates (by James Wallace & Jim Erickson) Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire (1992)
  20. Jean Paul Getty How To Be Rich (1961)
  21. Les Giblin How to Have Power and Confidence In Dealing With People (1956)
  22. Malcolm Gladwell Outliers: The Story of Success (2008)
  23. Baltasar Gracian The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
  24. Adam Grant Give and Take (2013)
  25. Earl G Graves How To Succeed in Business Without Being White (1997)
  26. Darren Hardy The Compound Effect (2010)
  27. Napoleon Hill Think and Grow Rich (1937)
  28. Muriel James & Dorothy Jongeward Born To Win (1971)
  29. Steve Jobs (by Brent Schlender & Rick Tetzeli) Becoming Steve Jobs (2015)
  30. Spencer Johnson Who Moved My Cheese? (1998)
  31. Robert Kiyosaki Rich Dad, Poor Dad (1997 )
  32. Ray Kroc Grinding It Out (1977)
  33. David Landes The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (1998)
  34. Nelson Mandela Long Walk To Freedom (1994)
  35. Orison Swett Marden Pushing To The Front (1894)
  36. JW Marriott Jnr The Spirit To Serve (1997)
  37. Donald T Phillips Lincoln On Leadership (1992)
  38. Catherine Ponder The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity (1962)
  39. Cheryl Richardson Take Time For Your Life (1998)
  40. Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power (1986)
  41. Eleanor Roosevelt (by Robin Gerber) Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way (2002)
  42. David Schwartz The Magic of Thinking Big (1959 )
  43. Florence Scovel Shinn Secret Door to Success (1940)
  44. Ernest Shackleton (by Margot Morrell & Stephanie Capparell) Shackleton's Way (2001)
  45. Thomas J Stanley The Millionaire Mind (2000)
  46. Brian Tracy Maximum Achievement (1993)
  47. Sun Tzu The Art of War (4th century BCE)
  48. Sam Walton Made in America (1992)
  49. Wallace Wattles The Science of Getting Rich (1910)
  50. John Whitmore Coaching For Performance (2008)

Source: 50 Success Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on motivation, achievement and prosperity by Tom Butler-Bowdon (London & Boston: Nicholas Brealey).
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"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

"Many thanks for 50 Success Classics...and for the inclusion of so many impressive and well-known success authors. Many of their works I have studied, enjoyed and learned from. It is a delight to see them all included in one volume, in which one can be exposed to numerous success ideas so conveniently. I shall be recommending this book to my readers worldwide.

Catherine Ponder, author of The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity

"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


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  • Home
  • 50 Classics Series
    • 50 Self-Help Classics >
      • James Allen - As A Man Thinketh
      • Dale Carnegie - How To Win Friends and Influence People
      • Stephen Covey - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
      • Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-Reliance
      • Benjamin Franklin - Autobiography
      • Louise Hay - You Can Heal Your Life
      • Joseph Murphy - The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
      • Samuel Smiles - Self-Help
      • Teilhard de Chardin - The Phenomenon of Man
    • 50 Success Classics >
      • Claude M Bristol - The Magic of Believing
      • Jim Collins - Good To Great
      • Russell H Conwell - Acres of Diamonds
      • Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich
      • Catherine Ponder - The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity
      • David J Schwartz - The Magic of Thinking Big
      • Wallace Wattles - The Science of Getting Rich
    • 50 Spiritual Classics >
      • Carlos Castaneda - Journey to Ixtlan
      • Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet
      • Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception
      • Carl Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections
      • Margery Kempe - The Book of Margery Kempe
      • CS Lewis - The Screwtape Letters
      • Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements
      • 50 More Spiritual Classics
    • 50 Psychology Classics >
      • Eric Berne - Games People Play
      • Isabel Briggs Myers - Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
      • Louann Brizendine - The Female Brain
      • David D Burns - Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
      • Robert Cialdini - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
      • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Creativity
      • Albert Ellis - A Guide To Rational Living
      • Milton Erickson - Teaching Tales
      • Erik Erikson - Young Man Luther
      • Hans Eysenck - Dimensions of Personality
      • Sigmund Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams
      • Malcolm Gladwell - Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
      • Carl Jung - The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
      • Alfred Kinsey - Sexuality In The Human Female
      • Abraham Maslow - Motivation and Personality
      • Stanley Milgram - Obedience To Authority
      • IP Pavlov - Conditioned Reflexes
      • Jean Piaget - The Language and Thought of the Child
      • Carl Rogers - On Becoming A Person
      • BF Skinner - Beyond Freedom & Dignity
    • 50 Prosperity Classics >
      • James Allen - The Path to Prosperity
      • Genevieve Behrend - Your Invisible Power
      • Richard Branson - Losing My Virginity
      • Warren Buffett - The Essays of Warren Buffett
      • Rhonda Byrne - The Secret
      • Andrew Carnegie - The Gospel of Wealth
      • Felix Dennis - How To Get Rich
      • Peter Drucker - Innovation and Entrepreneurship
      • Harv Eker - Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
      • Milton Friedman - Capitalism and Freedom
      • Michael E Gerber - The E-Myth Revisited
      • Benjamin Graham - The Intelligent Investor
      • Esther & Jerry Hicks - Ask And It Is Given
      • Conrad Hilton - Be My Guest
      • Joe Karbo - The Lazy Man's Way To Riches
      • Catherine Ponder - Open Your Mind To Prosperity
      • Ayn Rand - Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
      • Donald Trump - The Art of the Deal
      • Max Weber - The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
      • Prosperity Principles
    • 50 Philosophy Classics >
      • Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex
      • Heraclitus - Fragments
      • Soren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling
      • Thomas Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
      • Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is the Massage
      • John Stuart Mill - On Liberty
      • Montaigne - Essays
      • Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
      • Plato - The Republic
      • Karl Popper - The Logic of Scientific Discovery
      • John Rawls - A Theory of Justice
      • Jean-Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness
      • Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Black Swan
      • Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations
    • 50 Politics Classics
    • 50 Economics Classics
    • 50 Business Classics
  • BOOK INSIGHTS
  • Capstone Classics
    • Think and Grow Rich
    • The Science of Getting Rich
    • The Art of War
    • The Prince
    • The Wealth of Nations
    • The Republic
    • The Tao Te Ching
    • Meditations
    • Beyond Good and Evil
    • Origin of Species
  • Testimonials
  • Foreign Editions
  • Think Long
  • About the author
  • Contact
  • New Page