Character by Samuel Smiles, exploring how habits, discipline, and personal responsibility form the foundation of strong character and lasting success.

A Finance Book Club Original: Benjamin Graham, the quiet architect of value investing, who turned market chaos into a system of discipline, taught generations how to separate price from value, and built a framework that still guides investors today.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, examining how emotion, environment, and consistency influence long-term results and sustained achievement.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, exploring how desire, belief, and disciplined action shape the foundation of success.

Orison Swett Marden explores how to conserve, direct, and apply your energy through purpose, persistence, and discipline to create long term success and influence.

Energy and How to Make the Most of It by Orison Swett Marden explores his argument that vitality, focus, health, and disciplined effort are the true foundations of success.

A Finance Book Club Original: J. P. Morgan, the banker who stepped in when America’s financial system was on the brink, brought order to chaos, and helped build the foundation of modern American industry.

This episode focuses on Carnegie’s final conclusions.
It covers wealth and responsibility, poverty and inequality, philanthropy, and the long-term consequences of business power in society.

This episode moves from the individual to the system.
It covers wealth, philanthropy, trusts, factories, steel, oil and gas, and the industrial forces that reshaped markets and living standards in America.

Published in 1902, The Empire of Business is a collection of essays by Andrew Carnegie on success in the industrial age. This episode covers his views on individual ambition, discipline, thrift, labor and capital, and how personal habits compound into long-term opportunity.