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The Acorn Story

“From a tiny acorn the mighty Oak shall grow”

The largest companies in the world today were started by an entrepreneur with a revolutionary idea and the vision, passion and business sense to make it succeed. The investors who believed in that vision early on not only profited immensely but created breakthroughs in many fields that we take for granted today.

Here are a few of the greatest success stories of our time along with the entrepreneurs and management that made it happen*:

Amazon
Apple
Berkshire Hathaway
Cisco Systems
Coca-Cola
Ebay
Facebook
Fedex
General Electric
Google
Intel
Koch Industries
Microsoft
Starbucks
Walmart
Wikipedia

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MUST READ

Business & Investing Success

The Intelligent Investor — By Benjamin Graham
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits — By Phil Fisher
Technical Analysis of Stock Trends — By Edwards and McGee
One Up on Wall Street, Beating the Street — By Peter Lynch
Security Analysis — By Benjamin Graham & David Dodd
Rich Dad, Poor Dad — By Robert Kiyosaki
The Essays of Warren Buffett — By Warren E. Buffett
Market Wizards, The New Market Wizards, Stock Market Wizards — By Jack Schwaeger
Think and Grow Rich, Law of Success — By Napoleon Hill
Never Eat Alone — By Keith Ferrazzi
The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers — By Malcolm Gladwell
The Wisdom of Crowds — James Surowiecki
Good to Great, Built to Last - By Jim Collins
Wikinomics — By Don Tapscott
The Black Swan — By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Fortune's Formula — By William Poundstone

Business Success Autobiographies

Straight from the Gut, Winning — By Jack Welch
A Passion to Win — By Sumner Redstone
Business @ the Speed of Thought — By Bill Gates
Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time — By Howard Schultz
Grinding it Out: The Making of McDonalds — By Ray Kroc
Losing My Virginity — How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way — By Richard Branson
How to be Rich, His Formulas — J. Paul Getty
Lucky or Smart — By Bo Peabody
My Years with General Motors — By Alfred P. Sloan
The Real Deal — My Life in Business and Philanthropy — By Sandy Weill
The Ten Commandments for Business Failure — By Donald R. Keough
Iacocca — An Autobiography — By Lee Iacocca
Sam Walton: Made In America — By Sam Walton
Only the paranoid Survive, High Output Management — By Andrew S. Grove
The Age of Turbulence — By Alan Greenspan

 
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