Business audiobooks

One Nation Under Gold

By: James Ledbetter

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Worshiped by Tea Party politicians but loathed by sane economists, gold has influenced American monetary policy and has exerted an irrational influence on the national psyche for centuries. It is an existential quest that extends to today, as millions of investors remain entranced by the metal, and as right-wing presidential candidates present... Read more

A History of the United States in Five Crashes

By: Scott Nations

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In this absorbing, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history in the vein of the works of Michael Lewis and Andrew Ross Sorkin, a financial executive and CNBC contributor examines the five most significant stock market crashes in the United States over the past century, revealing how they have defined the nation today.THE PANIC... Read more

How to Make Your First Million

By: Warren Ingram

Narrated by: Adrian Galley

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Your easy-to-understand guide to financial freedom! Have you ever wondered how wealthy people actually made their first million? Here is a book that shows how various people have made their money in their own unique ways, thus allowing you to find a method that works for you so that you, too, can make your first million and gain financial... Read more

One Mission

By: Chris Fussell & C. W. Goodyear

Narrated by: Chris Fussell & General Stanley McChrystal

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From the co-author of the New York Times bestseller Team of Teams, a practical guide for leaders looking to make their organizations more interconnected and unified in the midst of sudden change.
 
Too often, companies end up with teams stuck in their own silos, pursuing goals and metrics in isolation. Their traditional autocratic structures... Read more

Money Machine

By: Gary Smith

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In Money Machine, Gary Smith shows you how billionaire investors like Warren Buffett make their fortune and achieve 8% returns each year using value investing. Money Machine is filled with expert advice on how to:


Identify the "intrinsic value" of a company
Decide which stocks to pick and which to avoid
Time the market for the greatest... Read more

The Mississippi Scheme

By: Man with a Cat

Narrated by: Man with a Cat

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early 18th century, eighty years prior to revolution, France went wild for stocks and bonds. Mechanics dropped their tools, tradesmen closed their shops. There was but one profession, one employment, one occupation, for persons of all ranks from peasant to prince. And that profession was speculating in stocks. This is the story of the... Read more

Negotiating 101

By: Peter Sander

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A quick-and-easy guide to core business and career concepts—no MBA required!

The ability to negotiate a deal. Confidence to oversee staff. Complete, accurate monitoring of expenses.

In today’s business world, these are must-have skills. But all too often, comprehensive business books turn the important details of best practices into tedious... Read more

Psyched Up

By: Daniel McGinn

Narrated by: Johnathan McClain

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Closing the sale. Asking for a raise. Nailing the big presentation. Of the 2,000 hours you work every year, your success or failure is determined in the couple of dozen crucial hours when you need to bring your absolute best. Will you?

The last few minutes before a major challenge can be terrifying. Ever wished you knew how to make sure you ace... Read more

The Road to Serfdom, the Definitive Edition

By: Friedrich A. Hayek

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock,... Read more

Hunch

By: Bernadette Jiwa

Narrated by: Bernadette Jiwa

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Where will your next big idea come from?

Analyzing hard data? A corporate brainstorming session? Customer focus groups? Or closer to home?
 
Successful people don’t wait for proof that their idea will work. They learn to trust their gut and go.

In Hunch, international bestselling author and business adviser Bernadette Jiwa shows you how to harness... Read more

Capitalism and Freedom, Fortieth Anniversary Edition

By: Milton Friedman & Rose D. Friedman

Narrated by: Michael Edwards

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy—one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition... Read more

Real Artists Don't Starve

By: Jeff Goins

Narrated by: Stu Gray

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeff Goins dismantles the myth that being creative is a hindrance to success by revealing how an artistic temperament is a competitive advantage in the marketplace.?The myth of the starving artist has dominated our culture, seeping into the minds of creative people and stifling their pursuits. The truth is that the world's most successful... Read more

If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?

By: Alan Alda

Narrated by: Alan Alda

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Award-winning actor Alan Alda tells the fascinating story of his quest to learn how to communicate better, and to teach others to do the same. With his trademark humor and candor, he explores how to develop empathy as the key factor.

“Invaluable.”—Deborah Tannen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of You’re the Only... Read more

The Mathematical Corporation

By: Josh Sullivan & Angela Zutavern

Narrated by: Fleet Cooper

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The most powerful weapon in business today is the alliance between the mathematical smarts of machines and the imaginative human intellect of great leaders. Together they make the mathematical corporation, the business model of the future.

We are at a once-in-a-decade breaking point similar to the quality revolution of the 1980s and the dawn of... Read more

100 Ways to Motivate Others, Third Edition

By: Steve Chandler & Scott Richardson

Narrated by: Fred Stella

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

"Steve Chandler's coaching has had a tremendous impact in my life. He was vital to my personal transformation from a man of ideas and dreams to a person of action and reality."
--Radames Soto, former managing director, The Wall Street Journal"Steve Chandler lights you up with the glow of his internal neon--what he proposes is so rock solid and... Read more

Weird in a World That's Not

By: Jennifer Romolini

Narrated by: Em Eldridge

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

An honest, sharp-witted, practical guide to help you get and keep the job you want—from an outsider whose been there and done it, a woman who went from being a broke, divorced, college dropout to running some of the biggest websites in the world.Jennifer Romolini started her career as an awkward twenty-seven-year-old misfit, navigated her way... Read more

Archangel Ink Self-Publishing Report

By: Rob Archangel

Narrated by: Rob Archangel

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Go from pending to published.

Want to publish a book?

If the idea of becoming an author is at the top of your bucket list, this is the good news you've been waiting for: it's not nearly as difficult as it used to be to create a book and get it published. Yet when you're still in the dream phase, your book-to-be is basically in perpetual pending... Read more

How to Attract Money - Abridged

By: Joseph Murphy

Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: Yes

If You Read JUST ONE book on the Mental Steps to Success—This Is It

Here is mastermind Joseph Murphy’s most powerful, precise program for using the visualizing faculties of thought to attain the life you want. Whole volumes have been written on the topics that Murphy boils down to their essentials in this all-in-one guide.
` This special edition... Read more

The Science of Being Great - Abridged

By: Wallace Wattles

Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Within This Short Book Is the ONE SECRET That Will Deliver you to Greatness

We all dream of being celebrated, rewarded, and recognized—in short, of being great. But so few people actually attain greatness. Why?
In The Science of Being Great, legendary success writer Wallace D. Wattles demonstrates exactly how you can move from merely thinking of... Read more

Ask Outrageously!

By: Linda Swindling

Narrated by: Linda Swindling

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Stop Holding Yourself Back—It's Time to Go Ask!


The strongest relationships, top sales groups, and most successful organizations have one thing in common: people who have the courage to ask outrageously. This doesn't mean being obnoxious or taking advantage of people. It means not compromising, taking a risk to get what you know you need, not... Read more

Collaborating with the Enemy

By: Adam Kahane

Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

International consultant Adam Kahane teaches us how to work with people whom we might not like or trust. He explains how flexibility and improvisation can lead to what he calls "stretch collaboration." He outlines the five misunderstandings that keep people from effectively collaborating with "those people" and shows readers how they can... Read more

Ask Outrageously!

By: Linda Swindling

Narrated by: Linda Swindling

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you asking for what you want or just taking what you are given? Chances are, it's the latter. Linda Swindling will teach you how to ask outrageously-and get the results you want.


Not getting what you want or living with what someone decides you deserve is exhausting and dispiriting. Linda Swindling provides principles, tactics, and strategies... Read more

Communicate Like a Leader

By: Dianna Booher

Narrated by: Dianna Booher

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Draw Them In, Don't Drive Them Away!


People often get promoted to leadership positions without knowing how to communicate an inspiring strategic vision to the people who report to them. So they focus on what they know: tactics, not strategy. As a result, they become stuck in micromanagement mode.

Dianna Booher wants to prevent micromanagement... Read more

Sell Like a Team

By: Michael S. Dalis

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Build a championship sales team that prepares, practices, and plays in sync-and closes every deal

Gone are the days of meeting a client for lunch, chatting about your product, and closing the sale over dessert. Buyers today look very differently from those of the past. They make networked purchasing decisions by committee, with diverse roles,... Read more