uppose you bought a new house and moved into a neighborhood where your neighbor on the right was Microsoft’s Bill Gates, and on the left was Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, and across the street was legendary investor Warren Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway fame. Imagine further that every day one of them would walk to their mailbox to get their mail and wave to you, say hello, and invite you over to talk about business whenever you wanted 24-7. That can happen, metaphorically speaking of course, simply by investing a few dollars in the biographies of these highly successful business leaders and other books that they have authored. Go to Amazon.com and buy all of these books and create an instant “neighborhood” where you have access to the most important and influential business leaders of our time. Even if you don’t personally care for them, these people are proven business success stories and are sharing their business secrets with you and you’ll benefit by referring to the books often.

Bill Gates:
The Life and Business Lessons of Bill Gates
Amazon Review: This book offers an introduction to Gates, his business success and the lessons that we can learn from him.”

Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime
Amazon: “A heartfelt, deeply personal book, Showing Up for Life shines a bright light on the values and principles that Bill Gates Sr. has learned over a lifetime of “showing up”—lessons that he learned growing up during the Great Depression, and that he instilled in his children and continues to practice on the world stage as the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.”
Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy Amazon: “In his new book, Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates discusses how technology can help run businesses better today and how it will transform the nature of business in the near future.”

Jeff Bezos: The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon – Amazon: “Amazon.com’s visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn’t content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that’s never been cracked. Until now.”

Warren Buffett – The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Fourth Edition
Amazon: “As the book, Buffett autographs most, its popularity and longevity attest to the widespread appetite for this unique compilation of Buffett’s thoughts that is at once comprehensive, non-repetitive, and digestible.”

These five books will create an indispensable neighborhood of the world’s most successful business leaders. Sitting down to read one is like going for a visit to their home and having a cup of coffee. Answers to all of your business questions and inspiration to become as successful as you can be can be found in the pages of these treasures.