4.48 avg rating — 55,075 ratings

"A great story about how to pursue your dreams even though everybody else - even your own biological needs - seem to be against you."

4.16 avg rating — 823,273 ratings

"Possibly the best self-help book ever. The first three habits are especially great guidelines of how to get hold of yourself."

4.08 avg rating — 850 ratings

"If there's anything men have ever wanted throughout our history, the guys in Plutarch's "Lives" have actually had it - self-possesion, triumphs, girls, booze, money, power, fear, respect, fame etc. How they've lost it is another great cautionary tale."

3.78 avg rating — 8,295 ratings

"An excellent example of what you shouldn't be doing when you're young (hint - waiting for your life to become what you want it to be, without doing anything in this direction)."

4.22 avg rating — 1,151,993 ratings

"A self-help classic to get past other people to your goals - by helping them achieve or retain their own."

4.09 avg rating — 728,351 ratings

"Probably the best advice on how to get rich - live like the rich first (e.g. work to learn not to get money) and the money will work for you."

4.10 avg rating — 347,191 ratings

"With true comrades-in-arms anything is not only possible but great fun."

4.33 avg rating — 1,026,115 ratings

"An epic story of self-elevation and triumphal vindication - the last things your enemies would hear is your true name."

3.55 avg rating — 6,775 ratings

"The world is a dark place and in the war between the strong and the weak not only one side may lose."

3.70 avg rating — 906 ratings

"Well, Goodreads had no other collection of Joseph Conrad's short stories so I chose this one symbolically - Conrad skilfully shows how men are unconsciously driven by forces greater than themselves and how important it is to navigate away from these powers."

4.15 avg rating — 75,814 ratings

"It's a bit too hedonistic for me but still provides plenty of tactical advice on how to pursue your goals."