Stop waiting for a “lucky break” and start creating your own luck. Ramit Sethi’s Your Move serves as a grit-filled manual for the “underdog” who wants to build a business without the fluff of overnight success myths. This book matters today because it prioritizes timeless psychological mindsets over fleeting marketing tactics that expire as markets…
Carl Dare’s 1914 manual, Profitable Squab Breeding, is a comprehensive, practical guide that revolutionized the perception of pigeon raising, shifting it from a fancier’s hobby to a rigorous, profitable agricultural pursuit. Drawing on a lifetime of experience, Dare meticulously lays out the blueprint for success, whether the venture is managed in a small town backyard…
A. R. Calhoun’s Business Hints for Men and Women is presented not merely as a textbook but as a condensed, indispensable manual of rules and laws that “every man, from the day laborer to the banker, should be familiar with”. Recognizing that many people fail due to ignorance of fundamental business practices, this volume systematically…
As an expert book reviewer, I present an in-depth summary and analysis of B. W. Dyer’s critical early guide to minimizing commercial uncertainty, About Sugar Buying for Jobbers. This essential 1921 booklet outlines how wholesale sugar buyers can transform the speculative nature of their business into a calculated endeavor by utilizing the then-new refined sugar…
Frederick A. Talbot’s Millions from Waste is a compelling and timely investigation into the staggering financial and material losses incurred by nations, particularly Britain, due to endemic carelessness regarding refuse. Published in 1920, the book serves as both a detailed economic indictment and a visionary catalog of ingenious solutions, drawing on wartime necessity and global…
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures by Charles Babbage (1832) is a seminal work exploring the mechanical and economic principles underlying 19th-century industrial production. Motivated by his extensive observations of workshops and factories during the construction of his calculating engine, Babbage aims to classify the operations of tools and machines and trace the consequences…
The Age of Big Business: A Chronicle of the Captains of Industry documents the extraordinary economic transformation of the United States in the fifty years following the Civil War. This period saw America rapidly shift from an agrarian society, dominated by farmers and small-scale manufacturing, to a highly organized industrial state. The book examines how…
This monograph, authored by Arthur J. Hoskin, M.E., serves as a non-technical guide dedicated to American laymen interested in the mining industry. Written in 1912, it aims to dispel the notion that mining is purely a speculative venture by establishing it as a legitimate commercial enterprise that offers assurance of success equal to any other…
How to Make Money, published in 1922 by John V. Dunlap, serves as both a motivational treatise and a practical guidebook aimed primarily at girls and women trapped in monotonous, low-wage occupations. The central premise is that fortunes are made through salesmanship, which is a skill anyone can learn. The book outlines numerous small business…
History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse’s Indian Root Pills by Robert B. Shaw documents the century-long lifespan of a unique American enterprise, tracing its origins in early 19th-century New York City through intense business litigation, the fabrication of its most famous product’s identity, and its eventual maturity and long tenure in…