2014 Year in Review

Number of Books Read = 83
Number of Pages Read = 23,487

Non-Fiction Highlights
1) Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace
2) How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
3) Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
4) Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen
5) Brief by Joseph McCormack
6) Zero to One by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
7) The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
8) Talk Like TED by Carmine Gallo
9) Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
10) Lincoln by David Herbert Donald

Fiction Highlights
1) Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2) The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
3) The Gunslinger by Stephen King
4) The Prestige by Christopher Priest
5) The Shining by Stephen King

Favorite Quotes
1) “I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep.” -Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
2) ”If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” -Albert Einstein
3) “I will prepare and some day my chance will come.” -Abraham Lincoln
4) “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” -Nelson Mandela
5) “I remind myself every morning: nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So, if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.” -Larry King
6) “Victory awaits him who has everything in order—luck, people call it.” -Roald Amundsen
7) “Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
8) "When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary.” –Dale Carnegie
9) “I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” -Abraham Lincoln
10) “What you will become in five years will be determined by what you read and who you associate with.” -Charles “Tremendous” Jones

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