Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2017-05-30
Books mentioned on David Chilton - The Human Blitzkrieg - [Invest Like the Best, EP.39]
This week's conversation was especially fun. I have a long history with my guest, Dave Chilton, but this was the first time we'd met in person.
Dave Chilton recommended The Accounting Game by Darrell Mullis and others, and discussed What Works on Wall Street by James P. O'Shaughnessy, Dave Ramsey's Complete Guide to Money by Dave Ramsey, and Zero to One by Peter Thiel and others. Patrick O'Shaughnessy recommended Modern Monopolies by Alex Moazed and Boyd by Robert Coram.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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What Works on Wall Street
Discussed“And while I was waiting for it to be tailored, I went into the Barnes & Noble, and there was your father's book. And I bought it. And over the next week, I read, what works on Wall Street?”
Where to get it
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Dave Ramsey's Complete Guide to Money
Discussed“So, I started working on a book. This was when I was 24 called The Ultimate Guide to Losing Money. And it was a humorous look at all the mistakes people make with their finances and insurance, savings, and everything else.”
Where to get it
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The Accounting Game
Recommended“It's too bad, by the way, that more entrepreneurs don't have a grasp of basic accounting. Do you remember the book? You're pretty young, but it was out maybe 20 years ago and I think it's still around called The Accounting Game.”
Where to get it
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Zero to One
Discussed“That's why I think we're going to see more short books. We're starting to see that, you know, zero to one, that type of thing. I think we're going to see more of that. And that was a very good book because it made you think.”
Where to get it
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Modern Monopolies
Recommended“I read an awesome book, had a guy on the podcast named Alex Mosed about the platform business model. Yeah, yeah. It was a big book. He did well with that. Yeah. Modern Monopolies was the name of the book.”
Where to get it
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Boyd
Recommended“I just recommended a book about military philosophy that you can apply to business, which is basically blitzkrieg, but popularized in the US by a fighter pilot named John Boyd, which is a biography you should read if you haven't. It's phenomenal. It's called Boyd.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Crazy Plates
“And one of the first things that drew me to Janet and Greta, the two cookbook sisters who wrote Looney Spoons and Crazy Plates was their passion was to help people eat more healthfully.”
Plugged Millennial Money
“And I was fascinated by investing. And I wanted to write sort of a summary book. I was 26 as well when I came up with the idea. And the publisher told me, well, you know, kind of like you said, who the hell are you”
Passing Efficiently Inefficient
“We spent the first part of our conversation talking about this equilibrium point. Obviously, you need some active, one, to set prices, two, to provide liquidity. And there's a very famous book, in our circles anyway, called Efficiently Inefficient”