#2 Shark Tales

Barbara Corcoran with Bruce Littlefield, 2011

Inspirational Quote: "The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this: I borrowed $1,000 from a friend." - Barbara Corcoran

The Shark Tales narrates the inspiring true story of Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran; and her best advice for anyone starting a business. After failing in 22 jobs, at the age of 23, she borrowed $1000 from her boyfriend and started a tiny real estate office in New York city. Combining lessons learned from her childhood in New Jersey among nine brothers and sisters with lessons from her homemaker mom, she gradually built it into a $6 billion dollar business.

Now Barbara is famous for the no-nonsense wisdom she offers to entrepreneurs on Shark Tank, ABC's hit reality TV show.

#1 The Martha Rules

Martha Stewart, 2005

Inspirational Quote: "Build your business success around something that you love -- something that is inherently and endlessly interesting to you." - Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart, is known to be one of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs where she turned her personal passion into Martha Stewart Living Ominmedia, a billion dollar business. In her book, Martha shares about the ten rules and a roadmap for entrepreneurs to create their own successful businesses. The book started as a project to help fellow inmates during her incarceration in a federal prison in 2004. The Martha Rules examine the importance of passion, quality, growth and taking risks.

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