One Thousand Ways to Make $1000

by F.C. Minaker

First published in 1936, One Thousand Ways to Make $1000 is the long out-of-print book that Warren Buffett's biographers credit with shaping the legendary investor's business acumen and giving him his trademark appreciation of compound interest. After pulling a copy of One Thousand Ways off a library shelf at age eleven and devouring F.C. Minaker's plucky and practical business advice, Buffett declared that he would be a millionaire by the time he was 35. Written in the immediate, conversational style of Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, this book is full of inventive ideas on how to make money through excellent salesmanship, hard work, and resourcefulness. While some of the ideas may seem quaint today-goat dairying, manufacturing motor-driven chairs, and renting out billiard tables to local establishments are among the money-making ideas presented- the underlying fundamentals of business explained in these pages remain as solid as they were over seventy years ago. Covering a wide spectrum of topics including investing, marketing, merchandising, sales, customer relations, and raising money for charity, One Thousand Ways to Make $1000 is both a durable, classic business book and a fascinating portrait of determined entrepreneurship in Depression-era America. Every effort has been made to reproduce the content exactly as it was originally presented.

Genres: Business, Finance, Money, Economics, Nonfiction, Personal Finance, Entrepreneurship

410 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 1, 2010

Reviews

[George Velez · Rating 5 out of 5]

No wonder Warren Buffet is successful in business. Reading all of these old business success stories allows you to see the underlining principles behind business success, doing something you know that you're better than anyone else at, establish a process, keep data, and the wonderful magic of good marketing. Once you make it, watch your money by investing in what you know!

[Dmitry · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is a good argument to all socialists/collectivists about "it all because of your initial conditions" for redistribution of income by hard taxing any working man. Those people at the beginning of the 20th century living much poorer than we are today and finding all ways to make money. Classical capitalism that allows a small entrepreneur to find their way to provide something back to the society.
Also, a very nice view back on what amount of jobs have been eliminated by automation or by new technologies. And how richer is any person today. And how much we owe to the progress.

On the other side, for a person that knows what he likes to do and made that his profession, the book is probably not so much of a value.

[Smith Boutin · Rating 2 out of 5]

It is not what I thought, it is literally 1,000 to make 1,000 dollars doing... "pig farming, there is a big need for this bird, starting an oil company may be profitable..." My point is so books age. This one did!

[Vladimir Putin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rob a bank

[Sundaram Shanmugam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Salesman's bible

I read this book the first 200 pages and found that it is the best book for those who desire to become a salesman. It had a lot of information that can help any salesman selling any thing to increase his sales and commisions

[Narayandas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well a lot of people critics this book for its outdated concepts and to be true it is, but there few things that you can understand that this book is such assest for those who even don't know the term business, The book give space understand the concepts through stories, Experiences of the people So it is easy to understand and stories are quiet realistic

[Acho · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is a list of business ideas that are so old to this day, such as door to door advertising and selling things. however there are very few eye-catching ideas. My overall opinion is it could be good book for developing brainstorming possible business ideas, but not more than that.

[Ayesha Azeeza · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super book for making money for beginners

[Sostenus Keyate · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great book

[Kamal Sharma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book

I like this book very much, it is the great book for starting a business with small capital. Nice book

[Mausam Baduwal]

I like this book

[Nathanael Wittmann · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing book!

[Hazique Ali]

Very nice

[Dai Lo · Rating 1 out of 5]

Useless book.
1000 paragraph stories of someone needing money, then discovers some random ways to make money and they live happily ever after. Angry that I wasted my precious time on this junk.

[Joshua · Rating 2 out of 5]

Super long. Super old. But very interesting how much somethings change, and how much some things don't change.

[Vincent V · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very empowering to hear all of these businesses started from the ground without hardly any capital.

[Daniel Ottenwalder · Rating 3 out of 5]

Get started and become the best at whatever you sell/produce

[Hammadhaider · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best book

[Mohit · Rating 4 out of 5]

It'll teach you how many business has started and you'll get inspired to start yours too.

[Leonardo]

Es uno de los primeros libros que leyó Buffett sobre finanzas.

[Jon · Rating 1 out of 5]

A great passable book... if you want to be a salesman in the 1940s.

This book is 75% case studies and nearly all of them are identical and not in-depth where it's important: Person had $50 and spent it all on Thing and worked really hard to sell/advertise Thing to Buyer and now Person's business is worth $200,000. Now you don't need to read the book.

[Dipanshu Rajput · Rating 4 out of 5]

Start reading then i realize that it is one of the most terrific book forever and forever i cannot express it yeeeeh

[Terence · Rating 1 out of 5]

1000 books better than this one.

I understand that this book inspired Warren Buffet but it is dated, too much motherhood and apple pie, and not enough meaningful information. Mostly a book that says, 'you can do it!'

Don't recommend - believe me.

[Anand · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the best books(written during old times of Great Depression) recommended by Warren Buffet. The principles are still valid and one can find beautiful nuggets of business, marketing and communications while skimming/reading through 600 pages.

[Rajat Verma]

i think this book is amazing , and i wanna read it so i can learn some of the ideas for new business

[Sid Saransh · Rating 4 out of 5]

this is very effectively upgraded book for business tips.

[Harkirat Singh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very Good Book with all practical examples