白手起家的亿万富豪们读什么书

Hi, this is Tom Corley. I’m the author of "Rich Habits."

我是汤姆.科利,“富人的习惯”一书的作者。

Wealth, success, being in the middle class, being poor is all about your habits. Reading certain specific books — this is what the self-made millionaires do to help increase their wealth.

财富，成功以及当中产还是做穷人，最重要的就是你的习惯。读特定类别的书籍，这是很多白手起家的富豪，增加财富的秘诀。

You don’t have to do a lot. 15 to 20 minutes is all it takes to develop more knowledge, to build your knowledge-base and to improve yourself. You start out with that 15 to 20 minutes of reading every day, and the next thing you know you’ll be doing an hour a day because you’ll be so excited about all the information that you’re learning.

你不需要读太多书，仅需要15到20分钟，你就能获取更多知识，构筑提升自己的知识体系。接下来，你就会发现，你每天会用一个小时来做这件事情，你因为你对于自己每天通过读书获得的信息，感到兴奋不已。

So, I found in my research that there are some common books that the self-made millionaires read. Now, there are self-help books that they read and "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is one of them. But they also read a lot of biographies of other successful people.

我在我的研究中发现，有一些书是白手起家的富豪们爱读的。以下是这些富豪们爱读的书：“如何获得朋友以及认识有影响力的人”是其中一类书；他们还爱读成功人士的自传。

Why? Why would they read about someone else’s life? Inside these books — these autobiographies or these biographies of successful people is actually a history of all the mistakes that they made. And one of the things that I uncovered in my research is: mentors are the fast-track to building wealth. Well, a book — an autobiography or biography can be a mentor. It can point you in the right direction. It can tell you what to do and what not to do.

为什么呢？为什么他们会想读别人的生活呢？在这些成功人士的自传或者传记中，有他们的经验教训。在我的研究中，揭示的一件事情是：有导师可以快速致富。那么，一本传记或者自传完全可以作为一位导师。它可以为你指引正确的方向，可以告诉你什么可以做，什么不可以做。