What are the top 3 Books you Recommend to New Entrepreneurs?
This is one of the most important questions that we ask entrepreneurs and authors in the interviews. As entrepreneurs, it is essential that we keep learning, not only to keep information fresh in our minds but most importantly to remind ourselves that no matter how hard the journey gets – there’s always a way through.
Most Recommended Books
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body”. – Joseph Addison
100 must-read books for entrepreneurs. These are the most recommended by our interviewees. (Random Order)
- Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen R. Covey
- Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
- Purple Cow – Seth Godin
- Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
- The Art of War – Sun Tzu
- The 48 Laws of Power – Robert Greene
- Start with Why – Simon Sinek
- The 4-Hour Workweek – Timothy Ferriss
- The Millionaire Next Door – Thomas J. Stanley
- The Richest Man in Babylon – George S. Clason
- The Lean Startup – Eric Ries
- The Magic of Thinking Big – David J. Schwartz
- The E-Myth Revisited – Michael E. Gerber
- Influence – Robert B. Cialdini
- How to Win Friends & Influence People – Dale Carnegie
- Think Like a Monk – Jay Shetty
- Lean In – Sheryl Sandberg
- Crush It – Gary Vaynerchuk
- The $100 Startup – Chris Guillebeau
- Rework – Jason Fried
- The Power of Broke – Daymond John
- The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
- Rich Dad’s CASHFLOW Quadrant – Robert T. Kiyosaki
- Zero to One – Peter Thiel – Blake Masters
- The ONE Thing – Gary Keller – Jay Papasan
- The Startup Owner’s Manual – Steve Blank – Bob Dorf
- The Intelligent Investor – Benjamin Graham – Jason Zweig – Warren Buffett
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things – Ben Horowitz
- Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
- Built to Last – Jim Collins – Jerry I. Porras
- Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
- Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
- Linchpin – Seth Godin
- The Power of Your Subconscious Mind – Joseph Murphy
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson
- Tools of Titans – Timothy Ferriss
- Too Big to Fail – Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Business Adventures – John Brooks
- The Outsiders – William Thorndike
- Blue Ocean Strategy – W. Chan Kim – Renée Mauborgne
- Bad Blood – John Carreyrou
- Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
- Thrive – Arianna Huffington
- Titan – Ron Chernow
- The Smartest Guys in the Room – Bethany McLean – Peter Elkind
- Guerilla Marketing – Jay Conrad Levinson
- When Genius Failed – Roger Lowenstein
- First, Break All The Rules – Marcus Buckingham – Gallup Organization
- Traction – Gabriel Weinberg – Justin Mares
- Deep Work – Cal Newport
- So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Cal Newport
- The Answer – John Assaraf – Murray Smith
- Grinding It Out – Ray Kroc
- Getting to Yes – Roger Fisher
- Getting Past No – William Ury
- Never Split the Difference – Chris Voss – Tahl Raz
- The 10X Rule – Grant Cardone
- Dotcom Secrets – Russell Brunson
- Virtual Freedom – Chris Ducker
- The 80/20 Principle – Richard Koch
- The Start-up of you – Reid Hoffman
- How to Get Rich – Felix Dennis
- The Snowball – Alice Schroeder
- The Effective Executive – Peter F. Drucker
- Profit First – Mike Michalowicz
- What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 – Tina Seelig
- Disrupted – Dan Lyons
- The Dip – Seth Godin
- To Sell Is Human – Daniel H. Pink
- Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited – Steve Krug
- Like a Virgin – Richard Branson
- The Secret to Success – Eric Thomas
- Choose Yourself! – James Altucher
- Mindset – Carol S. Dweck
- Difficult Conversations – Douglas Stone – Bruce Patton – Sheila Heen
- It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be – Paul Arden
- Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite – Paul Arden
- Anything You Want – Derek Sivers
- The Coaching Habit – Michael Bungay Stanier
- What Got You Here Won’t Get You There – Marshall Goldsmith
- You, Inc.- Harry Beckwith – Christine Clifford
- The Goal – Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany – Steve Blank
- Tribes – Seth Godin
- The Essays of Warren Buffett – Lawrence A. Cunningham – Warren E. Buffett
- Deep Work – Cal Newport
- Atomic Habits – James Clear
- Click Millionaires – Scott Fox
- Born to Win – Zig Ziglar
- 12 Rules for Life – Jordan B. Peterson
- Mastery – Robert Greene
- The Psychology of Selling – Brian Tracy
- Founders at Work – Jessica Livingston
- The Art of Non-Conformity – Chris Guillebeau
- The Entrepreneur Mind – Kevin D. Johnson
- Business Model Generation – Alexander Osterwalder – Yves Pigneur
- My Philosophy For Successful Living – Jim Rohn
- Selling 101 – Zig Ziglar
- Laws Of Success – Les Brown
- The Greatest Salesman in the World – Og Mandino
- The Thank You Economy – Gary Vaynerchuk
- Awaken the Giant Within – Tony Robbins
- Business Lessons – Herby Fabius (Might as well 👍🏾)