The Best Investment Books and Wealth Building Reads…

Take the same pathway we took on our journey by reading the following list of best investment books that have influenced our wealth building journey.

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Must Read Investment Books

The Best of the Best Investment Books

Are you looking to take control of your financial future? Whether you’re a seasoned investor or just getting started, having a solid understanding of investment strategies for Canadians is crucial for financial success. But with so many books on the subject, where do you begin? In this article, we have compiled a list of the top must-read investment books that are guaranteed to provide you with valuable insights and knowledge. From classics like “The Intelligent Investor” by Benjamin Graham to modern classics like “Rich Dad Poor Dad” by Robert Kiyosaki, these books offer a wide range of perspectives and strategies to help you make informed investment decisions in Canada. Each book on our list has been carefully selected based on its reputation, author expertise, and reader reviews, ensuring that you get the most out of your reading experience. Whether you’re interested in stocks, real estate, or mutual funds, there’s a book on our list that will meet your needs. So, if you’re ready to level up your investment game and achieve financial success, keep reading to discover the top must-read investment books that will help you on your journey.

Rich Dad Poor Dad Robert Kiyosaki

Rich Dad Poor Dad

What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

Rich Dad Poor Dad is Robert’s story of growing up with two dads — his real father and the father of his best friend, his rich dad — and the ways in which both men shaped his thoughts about money and investing. The book explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to be rich and explains the difference between working for money and having your money work for you.

Becoming Your Own Banker

A book that tells the truth about Dividend-Paying Whole Life Insurance. Exercise your imagination with this major paradigm shift. The 5000 year old banking system has been setup to benefit banks, their owners, and other financial institutions – not you! This is why the average American spends over 34.5% of all their after tax income on interest and other financing costs each and every year. 

Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school
Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school

$100M Offers

How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No

I took home more in a year than the CEOs of McDonalds, IKEA, Ford, Motorola, and Yahoo….combined….as a kid in my twenties….using the $100M Offer method. It works. And it will work for you.

Think and Grow Rich

This Book Could Be Worth a Million Dollars to You

Here are money-making secets that can change your life. Inspired by Andrew Carnegie’s magic formula for success, this book will teach you the secrets that will bring you a fortune. It will show you not only what to do but how to do it. Once you learn and apply the simple, basic techniques revealed here, you will have mastered the secret of true and lasting success. And you may have whatever you want in life.

Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school
Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school

Atomic Habits

An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving–every day. James Clear, one of the world’s leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

Rule #1

Building a Storybrand - Donald Miller

Building a Storybrand

Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant

Why Are These The Best Investment Books?

We know what you’re thinking: “some of these books aren’t about investing?”

The reality is that some of the best investment books we’ve ever read are not explicitly about investing in stocks, bonds, real estate or other asset classes. They are about shifting your mindset from scarcity to abundance, building out a business or side-hustle so you can earn enough additional income to actually invest, or to craft the necessary habits required to become successful in building wealth.

Trust us when we say that the books above and – when you’re ready – those that follow are the best investment books for the 1% (like you) who are trying to gain an edge on the other 99% of the population.

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

—Malcolm X

Mindset & Psychology

The Best Investment Books to Shift Your Thinking

Never will you hear the best investors in the world make a claim that “mindset doesn’t matter” or that “becoming successful is all about skill and never about beliefs”.

The reality is that those who hold all the gold, tend to have the best habits of mind whether explicitly developed or unconciously inherited over their lives.

The following list are what we would consider to be the best investment books to shift your thinking and grow your mental habits in a productive way.

The Richest Man in Babylon

The secret of the rich isn’t a secret at all

The Richest Man in Babylon has been a favorite of Dave Ramsey’s for years. Set in ancient Babylon, this book is an inspiring collection of stories about people who have struggled with—and overcome—the same money problems most Americans face: feeling trapped by debt, living paycheck to paycheck, with little to no savings.

Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school
Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school

How to Be a Billionaire

Proven Strategies from the Titans of Wealth

“A truly enlightening work filled with fundamental strategies that have worked for others.Martin Fridson documents the essential principles inherent in every billionaire’s success.”

Unleash the Power Within

Personal Coaching to Transform Your Life!

How do you really want to live? What are you most excited about? What are you grateful for? Do you often feel “stuck” in your life? Are you unable to make changes or break through past beliefs? We often look outside ourselves for these answers. When we do, we give away our power. It’s time to find your own answers…uncover your own internal motivations…and set your own rules!

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Die with Zero

The Psychology of Money

Outwitting the Devil

Unshakeable

Real Estate Investing

The Best Investment Books to Build Your Real Estate Portfolio

The vast majority of the most wealthy fortunes in the world have been generated through owning and investing in real estate. How is it possible that the banking sector and government has managed to convince society that investing in stocks and bonds is the way to go?

The following list are what we would consider to be the best investment books to learn why real estate investing is the #1 wealth building strategy for the Canadian Wealth Secrets Team, how you can start positioning yourself to build your own portfolio and some ways you can get started sooner than later through joint venture agreements and other opportunities. 

Nothing Down for the 2000s

Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate

With more than a million copies in print, Robert Allen’s Nothing Down for the ’90s has probably helped more people achieve success in real estate than any book in history. Countless numbers of his readers are now financially independent and many actual millionaires attribute their wealth to his techniques. 

Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school
Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school

Busting the Real Estate Investing Lies

Through the Most Time-Tested, Least Volatile Path to Financial Freedom (Busting the Money Myths Book Series)

If you think that real estate investing is risky, costly, time-consuming, and complicated, think again. Investing in real estate is actually the smartest, most powerful tactic to create a reliable, passive form of income—if you use it right.

HOLD

How to Find, Buy, and Rent Houses for Wealth

Learn how to obtain financial freedom through real estate. The final book in Gary Keller’s national best-selling Millionaire Real Estate Investor trilogy teaches the proven, reliable real estate investing process to achieve financial wealth

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"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

—Malcolm X

Stock Market Investing & Stock Trading

The Best Investment Books to Trade in the Stock Market

Early in our adult lives, each member of the Canadian Wealth Secrets Team had negative experiences associated with investing in the stock market. After spending more than a decade learning and investing in real estate, we recognized that while our ignorance related to the stock market may seem like bliss, the reality is that we were hurting ourselves by not investing the time and energy to understand the stock market including macro-economics, fundamental analysis of stocks, bonds and indices, and technical analysis. 

Therefore, we have invested a significant amount of time, energy and money through courses and programs to understand the stock market and how we can use it to help us on our wealth building journey. The following list are what we would consider to be the best investment books to get you learning about investing in the stock market so that you aren’t blindly following your big bank’s strategy without any confidence.

I Will Teach You to Be Rich

No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works

Buy as many lattes as you want. Choose the right accounts and investments so your money grows for you—automatically. Best of all, spend guilt-free on the things you love. Personal finance expert Ramit Sethi has been called a “wealth wizard” by Forbes and the “new guru on the block” by Fortune. Now he’s updated and expanded his modern money classic for a new age, delivering a simple, powerful, no-BS 6-week program that just works.

Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school
Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school

Get Rich with Options

Four Winning Strategies Straight from the Exchange Floor

A detailed guide to successfully trading stock and commodity options

After numerous years as an options market-maker in the trenches of the New York Mercantile Exchange, few analysts know how to make money trading options like author Lee Lowell. Now, in the Second Edition of Get Rich with Options, Lowell returns to show you exactly what works and what doesn’t.

The Intelligent Investor

The Definitive Book on Value Investing A Book of Practical Counsel

Enjoy a great read by Warren Buffet’s mentor, Benjamin Graham. You’ll understand how some of the greatest investors of all time value companies and when they believe a company is undervalued and ready for your capital.

Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school
Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school

The Most Important Thing

The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks is a book that offers valuable insights into successful investing. Marks, an experienced investor and co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, explores the fundamental principles and concepts necessary for achieving investment success. In his book, Marks emphasizes the importance of understanding and managing risk, and how it is crucial to be aware of market cycles and investor psychology. He advocates for a thoughtful and contrarian approach to investing, encouraging readers to think independently and question conventional wisdom. Through a combination of insightful anecdotes and practical wisdom, Marks provides readers with a clear framework for making intelligent investment decisions and navigating the complexities of the financial markets.

The Education of a Value Investor

The Warren Buffet Way

A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Payback Time

The Black Swan

Trading in the Zone

Millionaire Teacher

Antifragile

INFINITE BANKING: WHOLE LIFE INSURANCE STRATEGIES

The Best Investment Books for Tax & Estate Planning

We are the first to admit it: we never thought that there would ever be a place for a whole life insurance policy in the early years of our wealth building journey. Some of the most well known financial advisors in the world have always called it a “bad investment” and we agreed… until we learned how powerful properly structured whole life insurance policies can be for long-term wealth creation, tax planning and overall succession planning.

We have spent thousands of hours reading, watching and meeting with experts in the Infinite Banking world to understand exactly how a properly structured whole life insurance policy can easily be one of the greatest tools in your wealth building arsenal. Below you will find the best investment books to get you properly structured now for the wealth you’ll be accumulating over the remainder of your lifetime. 

Full disclosure: reading all of these books will not necessarily mean you will “know it all” when it comes to the why or how of Infinite Banking, but you’ll certainly be on the right track to get your first whole life insurance policy opened to avoid the regret these Canadian Wealth Secretss feel having not acted years ago.

Be the Bank!

How the Wealthy CONTROL and COMPOUND Their Money and How You Can Too!

For years, many of us have been brainwashed into thinking that investing in RRSPs and mutual funds is the only way to save money. Year over year, we pay our bills and funnel money into the stock market, hoping that one year, we will see the return of a lifetime, which we think will make us rich.

Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school
Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school

Infinite Banking for Real Estate Investors

How the Wealthy CONTROL AND COMPOUND Their Money and How You Can Too!

It sounds so simple, but this advice is seldom followed. We have 10% of the population controlling 90% of the wealth. And what do most people do? They follow the same strategies of the 90% of the population that controls 10% of the wealth! 90% of millionaires and billionaires became wealthy through real estate. 

Bank on Yourself

The Life-Changing Secret to Protecting Your Financial Future

The Wall Street JournalUSA Today, and BusinessWeek bestseller Bank On Yourself: The Life-Changing Secret to Growing and Protecting Your Financial Future reveals the secrets to taking back control of your financial future that Wall Street, banks, and credit card companies don’t want you to know.

Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school
Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school

Family Banking with Purpose

A Story About Financial Freedom Through Infinite Banking

Do you feel like you are facing a financial headwind?
re you trying to balance how to get rid of debt, save for college, plan for retirement, build passive income, and enjoy life along the way?

You are not alone! It can feel almost impossible when 
over half of your income is going to taxes and debt repayment.

What Would the Rockefellers Do?

Build Your Family Bank

Perpetual Wealth

Build Your Human Equity Line of Credit

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

—Malcolm X

Entrepreneurship & Side-Hustling

The Best Investment Books for Generating More Income & Seed Funds

I know: the reason you are so heavily invested in learning how to build your wealth is to work less, not more. However, the reality is that too many people are seeking ways to replace their current income when they should be finding ways to add to their current income in order to build their investment portfolio. This means that unless you have a substantial amount of monthly cashflow coming in from your current career, you may need to work harder and for longer each day to generate that investment seed money you need to get the ball rolling.

Luckily for the Canadian Wealth Secrets Team, each of us has always had the passion to learn and explore new opportunities and that has led us down some interesting paths to “side hustles” and even changing career paths. Regardless of where you are in the journey, here are the best investment books to get you to understand how you might open your own business or how you can start a side-hustle that will provide you with the extra funds you need to build your investment portfolio.

Selling the Invisible

A Field Guide to Modern Marketing

SELLING THE INVISIBLE is a succinct and often entertaining look at the unique characteristics of services and their prospects, and how any service, from a home-based consultancy to a multinational brokerage, can turn more prospects into clients and keep them. SELLING THE INVISIBLE covers service marketing from start to finish.

Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school
Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school

$100M Offers

How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No

I took home more in a year than the CEOs of McDonalds, IKEA, Ford, Motorola, and Yahoo….combined….as a kid in my twenties….using the $100M Offer method. It works. And it will work for you.

Fix This Next

Make the Vital Change That Will Level Up Your Business

From Mike Michalowicz, the author of PROFIT FIRST, CLOCKWORK, and THE PUMPKIN PLAN, comes the ultimate diagnostic tool for every entrepreneur.
The biggest problem entrepreneurs have is that they don’t know what their biggest problem is. If you find yourself trapped between stagnating sales, staff turnover, and unhappy customers, what do you fix first?

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Never Split The DIfference - Chris Voss

Never Split The Difference

Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

“The goal is to identify what your counterparts actually need (monetarily, emotionally, or otherwise) and get them feeling safe enough to talk and talk and talk some more about what they want.”

Coaching, Mentoring and Counselling

The Best Investment Books for Building and Keeping Partnerships

Of course most want investing to be as passive as possible and it certainly can be. However, real wealth is created when you constantly learn and find ways to build relationships that can lead to partnerships and collaborative opportunities. 

Not a people person? Well, you should start now to overcome that challenge as building wealth beyond simply investing in the typical markets open and available to the average person is unlikely to get you there. These are the best investment books to help you better understand yourself and the people you will need to be working with (not against) to maximize your opportunity to win with others at the investing game.

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THE COACHING HABIT

SAY LESS, ASK MORE & CHANGE THE WAY YOU LEAD FOREVER

In Michael Bungay Stanier’s The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact.
Drawing on years of experience training more than 10,000 busy managers from around the globe in practical, everyday coaching skills, Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples’ potential.

HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE

Dale Carnegie’s rock-solid, time-tested advice has carried countless people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. One of the most groundbreaking and timeless bestsellers of all time, How to Win Friends & Influence People will teach you:

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INFLUENCER

The Power to Change Anything

Whether you’re a CEO, a parent, or merely a person who wants to make a difference, you probably wish you had more influence with the people in your life. “Influencer” a thought-provoking book that combines the remarkable insights of behavioral scientists and business leaders with the astonishing stories of high-powered influencers from all walks of life.

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LEADERS EAT LAST

SWITCH

CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS

NUDGE

SPEAKING, PRESENTING, AND STORYTELLING

RESONATE

Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences

Presentations are meant to inform, inspire, and persuade audiences. So why then do so many audiences leave feeling like they’ve wasted their time? All too often, presentations don’t resonate with the audience and move them to transformative action.

Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school
Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school

LEAD WITH A STORY

A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire

Clarity is key for any successful leader, so much so that top corporations, such as Micorsoft. Nike, Proctor and Gamble, Kimberly Clark, and many more, have incorporated storytelling into their leadership training programs.

THE PRESENTATION SECRETS OF STEVE JOBS

How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience

Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s wildly popular presentations have set a new global gold standard―and now this step-by-step guide shows you exactly how to use his crowd-pleasing techniques in your own presentations.

Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

—Malcolm X

HOW LEARNING WORKS:

INTELLIGENCE, TALENT, COGNITIVE SCIENCE, AND MORE

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HOW WE LEARN

THE SURPRISING TRUTH ABOUT WHEN, WHERE, AND WHY IT HAPPENS

From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness, distraction, and ignorance are the enemies of success. We’re told that learning is all self-discipline, that we must confine ourselves to designated study areas, turn off the music, and maintain a strict ritual if we want to ace that test, memorize that presentation, or nail that piano recital.

TALENT CODE

Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How

What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? In this groundbreaking work, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople—and everyone else—with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others.

Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school
Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school

MINDSET: THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY OF SUCCESS

From the renowned psychologist who introduced the world to “growth mindset” comes this updated edition of the million-copy bestseller—featuring transformative insights into redefining success, building lifelong resilience, and supercharging self-improvement.

A MORE BEAUTIFUL QUESTION

SMARTER

OUTLIERS

MAKE IT STICK

 

WHY WE MAKE MISTAKES

RANGE

OUTLIERS

THE POWER OF MOMENTS

ACCESS, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION

WHITE FRAGILITY 

WHY IT’s So HARD FOR WHITE PEOPLE TO TALK ABOUT RACISM

In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence.

Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school
Canadian Wealth Secrets - Your teachers said go to school

How to Be an Antiracist

Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types.

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

—Malcolm X