Reddit reviews The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison

What's the difference between God and Larry Ellison?

God doesn't think he is Larry Ellison.

https://www.amazon.com/Difference-Between-God-Larry-Ellison/dp/0060008768

A few links you might like. Warning, many of these are long:

http://www.thocp.net/index.html

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=440334862070787846

http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyJAX8F2jPg

http://www.amazon.com/The-Difference-Between-Larry-Ellison/dp/0060008768

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4hO_-TuTlo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S23yie-779k

The Only Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: God doesn't think he's Larry Elisson

Now on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Difference-Between-God-Larry-Ellison/dp/0060008768

If someone wrote 'The Game' on business, Larry would be the Oracle behind it.

There is a biography of him that is titled The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison

Here are all the books with amazon links, Alphabetical order :)

---

• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1591396190
  
• Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh et al. Link: http://amzn.com/160941280X
  
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown Link: http://amzn.com/0804137382
  
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston Link: http://amzn.com/1590597141
  
• How Google Works by Eric Schmidt et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1455582344
  
• Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World by Gary Vaynerchuk Link: http://amzn.com/006227306X
  
• Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson Link: http://amzn.com/0307720748
  
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1400064287
  
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck Link: http://amzn.com/0345472322
  
• Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi et al. Link: http://amzn.com/0385346654
  
• Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim S. Grover et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1476714207
  
• Rework by Jason Fried et al. Link: http://amzn.com/0307463745
  
• Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin Link: http://amzn.com/1591842948
  
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss Link: http://amzn.com/0307465357
  
• The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth by James Altucher Link: http://amzn.com/150100994X
  
• The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison by Mike Wilson Link: http://amzn.com/0060008768
  
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz Link: http://amzn.com/0062273205
  
• The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton M. Christensen Link: http://amzn.com/0062060244
  
• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries Link: http://amzn.com/0307887898
  
• The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime by MJ DeMarco Link: http://amzn.com/B004BDOUAI
  
• The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday Link: http://amzn.com/1591846358
  
• The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1885167776
  
• The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company by Steve Blank et al. Link: http://amzn.com/0984999302
  
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Link: http://amzn.com/0316346624
  
• Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1591848369
  
• Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out by Marc Ecko Link: http://amzn.com/1451685319
  
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel et al. Link: http://amzn.com/0804139296

Nope that's a Larry Ellison [book] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Difference-Between-Larry-Ellison/dp/0060008768) I can't accept that answer as a punchline.

Relevant: Maybe he's right!

Relevant

I'm questioning your premise, not bringing down the OP. Chill out and learn how to respond to criticism.

edit: I know for sure that some of your examples are objectively wrong. To call Warren Buffet an idea guy is absolutely laughable and completely impractical as an example for the OP. Buffet worked his ass off as an employee for years, saving up money and eventually became a part of several investment partnerships, where he basically picked stocks and invested in business.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett

My source re: Larry Ellison is this book, https://www.amazon.com/Difference-Between-God-Larry-Ellison/dp/0060008768 - which I read about a decade ago.

re: Notch, just Google him.

Spreading this kind of misinformation is downright destructive for people who consider themselves 'idea people,' because it perpetuates a myth that some of the greatest entrepreneurs didn't have hard skills. Don't forget that Notch, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates were all good to great programmers. Jobs also knew hardware. Notch had made a ton of games before Minecraft.

I just looked up Dan Peña and... he started in real estate and worked in investment banking and then as a CEO-for-hire before founding a company that forced him out a decade later. He has a book about how litigation is just a business tool. Not a great role model for OP, who wants to change the world with million-dollar ideas!

OP already has some hard skills - he can program! Don't blow smoke up his ass by telling him he can just take his brilliant ideas and get good at shopping them around.

Look, I've given a ton of advice in this thread. I'm not getting down on OP. They're obviously very enthusiastic and have a lot of energy.

But this idea that there's a class elite entrepreneurs that just shop ideas around? You can't name a single entrepreneur who actually did this! Ad agencies - really? Like Don Draper is a role model for an aspiring entrepreneur? And your other examples are about philosophers and writers. You can't even back up your own advice with hard facts about it. What you wrote sounds really inspiring, but I don't see anything in it that you can back up with data.

Giving bad advice is worse than giving none at all.