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Best of The Gurus

39 Great Lessons for Creative People: A Summary of Hugh Macleod's Ignore Everybody
The Best of Suze Orman's Financial Advice: 40+ Tips and Tricks
The Best of Leo Babauta: Lessons For A Simpler Life
The 5 Good and 5 Bad Lessons from the Happiness Project
The 3 Lessons from Neil Pasricha's The Book Of Awesome
The Greatest Life-Changing Wisdom from Randy Pausch's Last Lecture
The Greatest Life Lessons from Morrie Schwartz
The 3 Main Lessons from Jamie's Food Revolution
The 14 Best pieces of Weight-Loss Wisdom from Geneen Roth
14 Important Startup Rules: The Success Manual
Jack Welch's Greatest Quotes: The Success Manual
Henry Ford's Greatest Quotes: The Success Manual
20+ Management Lessons From Google: The Success Manual

David Ogilvy's Timeless Rules for Advertising and Marketing
The Best Wisdom of Tom Peters
The Best of Seth Godin: The Best Seth has Written or Said
The Best of Guy Kawasaki: the best Guy Ever Wrote or Said

Peter Drucker' Rules of Management: The Best that Drucker ever said or wrote

Lessons from Garry Kasparov's How Life Imitates Chess
The Essential Wisdom of Regina Brett
The Best Lessons of Steve Pavlina
 

Have Better People Skills
How to be remarkable #56: Assess People's Performance
How to be remarkable #55: Manage Conflicts Among People
How to be remarkable #54: Build Teams and Bring People Together for a Purpose
How to be remarkable #53: Be a teamplayer, sometimes
Body Language made simple, very simple
How to be remarkable #51: Be a great public speaker
How To Talk Well and Impress Everyone
A simple guide to becoming a Great Listener
How to be Remarkable #50: Be a Great Communicator
The Networker's Bible: 75+ tips on connecting and influencing people

How to be remarkable #47: Handle Difficult and Angry People

How to Confront Difficult People: the 100 words guide

How to be remarkable #48: Argue well

Lead People
A simple guide to motivating your people
The Zen of Leadership 175+ greatest bits of wisdom for all who want to lead people
How to be Remarkable #49: Have Charisma

Entrepreneurs
The 2 most important documents for every businessman (and their sample format)
21 of the Greatest Rules for the Entrepreneurs of this World

Have Better Business and Work Skills

The Manager's Bible: 100+ Things That Every Manager Should Know
The Success Manual: Do we need MBAs?

What is the ideal size for a great team?
A simple guide to personality theories: The Success Manual
A simple guide to 9 useful time-based rules: Elevator Pitch, First 100 days, 90 second honeymoon and more
30+ Best Quotes and Advice for CEOs and Managers: The Success Manual
9 Major Management Concepts: The Success Manual
The Zen of Promoting Your Business Part 1
The Zen of Promoting Your Business Part 2 - Promoting Your Business Online
Planning 101: 30 Useful Pieces of Wisdom

The Superstar Salesman's Handbook: 150+ Greatest Tips on selling

How to be remarkable #52: Take Decisions

The Negotiator's Bible: 100+ Tips and Tricks on being a negotiation god
The Ultimate Steve Jobs Presentation Guide
How to make meetings work: A collection of best advice of all time
The Zen of Mastering E-mail: In Under 100 words
The Time Management Bible
The Project Manager's Cheat Sheet
The Persuader's Bible: 101 Ways to Get anyone do do what you want
The Bible to Analysing Things: Stakeholder analysis, SWOT, 5 Cs Analysis, PEST Analysis, PERT and Action Analysis
How to be remarkable #43: Build Great Relationships
A simple guide to reading fast, really fast

Teach Yourself
The Ultimate Guide to Succeeding as a Student - Part 1 - Learning
The Ultimate Guide to Succeeding as a Student - Part 2 - Taking Exams
How to be remarkable #42: Teach Yourself

Managing Career and Professions
Managing Careers 101: The best things man ever said or wrote
A simple guide to promoting your freelance business: The 300 words version
The Self Employment Bible: How to successfully work for yourself
The Giant Guide to becoming a superstar at the workplace

How to be remarkable #46: Be Productive
How to be remarkable #45: Build Your Own Personal Brand
How to be remarkable #44: Be Effective in Life and at work

Read & Write Better

The Art of Great Writing: 60 Writing Tips from 6 All-time Great Writers

The Art of Great Writing Part 2 - 125 More Tips from 20+ All Time Great Writers

The 100 greatest books of all time everyone must read
Top 15 Novels About Work

The Bible of Business Writing: How to write memos, letters, e-mails, press releases, business reports, newsletters, articles and tip sheets
A simple guide to becoming a great writer on the internet
 

Be Smarter
25 Effective Ways to Solve Problems - Part 1
25 Ways to Solve Problems - Part 2
A simple guide to keeping your brain sharp
How to be remarkable #41: Be a genius
Be remarkable #40: Be Creative
 

Make Money, Save Money

Making Money Online in your Spare Time: 50 Ways & 150 sites

How to Become Rich and Famous: The 100 words Guide
How to Become Rich Part 2: Peter Lynch's Universally Proven rules of investing
How to Become Rich: Warren Buffet's 18 Greatest Wealth Rules

How to Become Rich Part3: The Power of Compounding
 

Have Power
A simple guide to the best wisdom of Machiavelli
How to be remarkable #36 : Have Power

Be Remarkable

How to be remarkable #39: Pray - 7 Great prayers of all time
How to be remarkable #38: Love your parents
What Thoreau thought about Governments
How to be remarkable # 37: Know the nature of Governments
How to be remarkable #35: Know what women want
How to be remarkable #34 : Learn to explain things to people
How to be remarkable #33 : Be Prepared
How to be remarkable #32 : Drive safe
How to be remarkable #31 : Be Persistent
How to be remarkable #30 : Smile, often
How to be remarkable # 29 : Know when to worry in life  
How to be remarkable # 28 : Learn to talk to kids
How to be remarkable # 27 : Learn to defend yourself
How to be remarkable # 26 : Be Loyal 
A simple guide to building focus and flow in life
How to be remarkable # 25: Be Fearless
11 Great tips on breathing better
How to be remarkable #23: Control Your Anger
How to be remarkable #22: Make someone happy
How to be remarkable #21: Be Happy
How to be remarkable #20: Be Interesting
How to be remarkable#19: Be respected
How to be remarkable#18: Be likeable
How to be remarkable#17: Have great friendships in your life
How to be remarkable#16: Be Nice
25 essential tips on staying healthy in life and at work
How to be remarkable#15: Build Character
How to be a remarkable person: In Under 200 words
How to be remarkable #14: Have a life plan
How to be remarkable #13: Have a high Emotional Quotient (EQ)
How to be assertive in life: A collection the best advice ever given
How You can Improve Your Memory: In under 300 words
10 of the greatest quotes to help you deal with stress
How to lead a relaxed life #1: Control the loudness
How to be Remarkable #13: Be wise
How to be Remarkable #12: Do not be an asshole
How to be Remarkable #11: Understand People Better
The best advice on Positive thinking you will ever read
How to be remarkable #9: Be Kind
How to be remarkable #8: Be Grateful
How to be remarkable #7: Have a message
How to be remarkable #7: Just do it
How to Build Your Self Esteem: Best Advice in less than 500 words
How to Build Confidence: 21 Great Tips of All Time
How to be remarkable #6: Be Humble
How to discipline your life: 21 useful tips from great people
50 great tips to help you simplify your life
The Wisdom of Balthasar Gracian
50 important rules of life for young people
How to find peace in life
How to live in the present
A quick and dirty guide to the effects of human existence on earth
How to be remarkable #5: Make the world a better place
How to be a warrior
Seek the truth: 11 greatest things ever said about truth
Question Everything, Assume Nothing: Great people on why doubt is good for human progress
Peter Drucker's Rules for managing ourselves
How Shall We Manage Life?

Be Successful

75 Most Useful Acronyms for Business and Work: The Success Manual

How shy and introverted people can succeed in Business and Career
How to be an expert at anything in 4 simple steps
How To Create a Hit in Seven Easy Steps

How to do your own thing: The best man things man said about this
How to Achieve Anything: In Under 350 words
How to set goals: The best things man ever said, in under 500 words
How to win in life: The best things man ever said, in under 500 words

How to be successful #5: Have an open mind
How to be successful #4: Work at it
What 40 Great people did before they became famous
How to Be Successful #2: Seven Great Quotes
How to Be Successful #3: Great Rules of Success from Seven Remarkable People
How to Be Successful #1: Put the Hours in
 

Introduction

The Success Manual: 100 Ways to Be Remarkable

130+ Simple Rules To Really Live a Successful Life

A Roundup of 100+ Most Important Human and Work Skills We All Must Have: The Success Manual

75 Important Laws Named After People: The Success Manual
60 Important Rules of Human Behavior: The Success Manual

Success Manual Intro

Being Better Is Better.  - Kathy Sierra

3 Years The time it took us to compile The Success Manual.

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Seth Godin's Rules

'Do we need Business Schools?' Poster 
'Before they were successful' Poster: 40 famous people and where they used to be before