Harriman House: 293 books
The Midas Touch
The strategies that have made Warren Buffett the world's most successful investor
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
Second edition featuring a brand new foreword. If you had put $10,000 in Buffett's original investing partnership at its inception in 1956, you would have collected about $293,738 by the time he dissolved it at the end of 1969. He had never suffered a down year, even in the severe bear markets of 1957,...
Wake Up and Sell the Coffee!
The story of Coffee Nation and how to start, build and sell a high-growth business
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
A high-growth success story In 1996 Martyn Dawes set out to build a high-growth business with the will to do whatever it would take to make it a success. Little did he realise how his will would come to be tested, but in 2008 he sold this company - Coffee Nation - for £23m. Along the way, among many...
Eyewitness: The rise and fall of Dorling Kindersley
The Inside Story of a Publishing Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
By the close of the last millennium Dorling Kindersley had become one of the most recognisable brands in publishing. Across the range of illustrated household reference titles, from children's books to travel guides, its distinctive look of colourful images cut out against a white background could...
Investing with Anthony Bolton
The anatomy of a stock market winner
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Who is the most successful investment manager in Britain? Arguments could rage forever, but no professional would dispute that Anthony Bolton of Fidelity is among the very best. £1,000 invested in his Special Situations fund at its launch in 1979 was worth more than £125,000 twenty seven years later....
by Emma Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
As the UK witnesses record numbers of people starting a business, accessing the funds to start and grow has become a popular topic. As a small business there are other fund-raising options open to you, from charities to government, social enterprise funds to credit cards, and community lenders. Fifty...
Ratios Made Simple
A beginner's guide to the key financial ratios
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Ratios provide an extremely effective method of understanding company accounts. At their most basic this usually involves taking one figure from the published accounts and dividing it by another - however, this seemingly simple process can reveal an enormous amount about both the nature and performance...
Investing Through the Looking Glass
A rational guide to irrational financial markets
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
The investment markets have never been more dangerous. Interest rates are at all-time lows; the sanctity of cash deposits is under threat; government bonds are expensive and offer ultra-low or negative yields; equity markets are largely detached from reality after years of loose monetary policy. Investors...
How to Analyse Bank Financial Statements
A concise practical guide for analysts and investors
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
The financial statements of banks differ very much from those of non-banks. The assets and liabilities are mostly financial based, and the equity ratio is far lower than the equity ratios of industrial companies. Banking supervision has a big influence on the financial statements too. Recent years have...
The Rise of the Humans
How to outsmart the digital deluge
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The era of digital distraction How do we cope with today's information (over)flow? Why do we overdose on information? When and how should we switch off - and why is "disconnecting" important? This is not a Big Data book, but an attempt to pinpoint the problems: Our habit of overdosing on information....
The Start-Up Guide
How to Start a Successful Small Business
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
The Start-Up Guide is THE indispensable book for anyone looking to set up their own small business. It's a process everyone has dreamed of, but it can often be shrouded in the mist of spreadsheets and red tape (not to mention Dragon smoke). The real process is simple and fun - in fact it can be the most...
The Choice Factory
25 behavioural biases that influence what we buy
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Before you can influence decisions, you need to understand what drives them. In The Choice Factory, Richard Shotton sets out to help you learn. By observing a typical day of decision-making, from trivial food choices to significant work-place moves, he investigates how our behaviour is shaped by psychological...
Money, Blood and Revolution
How Darwin and the doctor of King Charles I could turn economics into a science
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Economics is a broken science, living in a kind of Alice in Wonderland state believing in multiple, inconsistent, things at the same time. Prior to the financial crisis, mainstream economics argued simultaneously for small government on taxation, regulation and spending, but big government on monetary...
How to Get Lucky
13 techniques for discovering and taking advantage of life's good breaks
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Max Gunther's lost classic brought back into print. Most people imagine that you're born lucky or you get lucky. Max Gunther shows you how you get lucky. The fact is that some people really are luckier than others and not by accident. Lucky people arrange their lives in characteristic patterns. They...
The MEJT System
A New Tool for Day Trading the S&P 500 Index
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
A new technical analysis tool for S&P 500 day traders The MEJT system is a brand new and exclusive tool for use alongside other technical analysis techniques in day trading the Standard and Poor's 500 Index. It is based on the principle that price action at certain times of the day can allow traders...