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Books like The Magic of Thinking Big

Loved The Magic of Thinking Big by David Joseph Schwartz? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from business & economics, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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  1. 1

    The Lean Startup

    Eric Ries · 2011 · Business & Economics

    Build, measure, learn: the method that reshaped how new ventures are run; essential for founders.

  2. 2

    Moneyball

    Michael Lewis · 2003 · Business & Economics

    How a cash-strapped baseball team used data to beat richer rivals; a gripping story about questioning everything.

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    David Harum

    Edward Noyes Westcott · 1898 · Business & Economics

    The book, "David Harum," introduces a very interesting country banker with crackerbarrel philosophy which became a wonderful character for Will Rogers in the movie of the same name. --Tom Bruce at Ama

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    The Titan

    Theodore Dreiser · 1914 · Business & Economics

    Frank Algernon Cowperwood, the central character of Theodore Dreiser's previous work "The Financier," is now out of the Eastern District Penitentiary of Philadelphia. He still has his mistress and his

  5. 5

    Hester

    Margaret Oliphant · 1883 · Business & Economics

    "The aging Catherine Vernon, jilted in her youth, has risen to power in a man's world as head of the family bank. She thinks she sees through everyone and rules over a family of dependants with knowin

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    One Hundred Percent

    Upton Sinclair · 1920 · Business & Economics

    The protagonist in this story is a luckless opportunist in the middle of the Red Scare who becomes embroiled in a plot by the D.A. to infiltrate and spy on an enclave of Socialists who have been wrong

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    Etiquette in society, in business, in politics and at home

    Emily Post · 1922 · Business & Economics

    First published in 1922 under title: Etiquette in society, in business, in politics, and at home. The standard reference book on etiquette for all occasions.

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    Reminiscences of a stock operator

    Edwin Lefèvre · 1923 · Business & Economics

    Based on interviews with trader Jesse Livermore, called Larry Livingston in the book.

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    The theory of political economy

    William Stanley Jevons · 1871 · Business & Economics

    Originally published in 1871, The Theory of Political Economy was the first text to introduce the concept of utility theory into economics and the use of calculus as a way to simplify and present econ

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    Angel Pavement

    J. B. Priestley · 1930 · Business & Economics

    'Angel Pavement' provides readers with a vivid picture of London life before the war and the Blitz changed everything dramatically. Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the story centres

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