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Best Business Books

Elevate your entrepreneurial spirit with this definitive list of best business books, curated from leading business publications and blogs based on their prominence in expert recommendations.

Recommendations from 98 articles, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Diddy and 310 others.
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
Updated For the Next Generation of Leaders
Dale Carnegie, Robert Petkoff, Donna Dale Carnegie, Simon & Schuster Audio - 1998-01-01 (first published in 1936)
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Discover the secrets to effective communication, building relationships, and achieving success in Dale Carnegie's timeless bestseller, How to Win Friends and Influence People. This updated edition, carefully restored and edited by Dale's daughter, Donna, offers readers priceless material from the original 1936 text. With practical advice and engaging storytelling, Carnegie teaches readers how to make people like them, increase their influence, and navigate any social situation. Learn from one of history's most influential motivational guides and transform your personal and professional life.
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Good To Great
Why Some Companies Make The Leap and Others Don't
Jim Collins - 2001-10-16
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Discover the secrets to taking your company from good to great through the groundbreaking research conducted by Jim Collins and his team. Delve into the distinguishing characteristics of elite companies that achieved long-term sustained performance and beat the general stock market by seven times. Uncover surprising findings on leadership, simplicity in strategy, discipline, technology, and more. This book will challenge your beliefs about what it takes to transform a company and leave you with a newfound perspective on management strategy and practice.
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The Lean Startup
How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Eric Ries - 2011-01-01
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Discover a new approach to building successful startups and launching new products in the face of extreme uncertainty. The Lean Startup helps companies of all sizes to be more capital efficient and leverage human creativity more effectively. Author Eric Ries offers a scientific approach to creating and managing startups that utilizes rapid experimentation and validated learning, rather than traditional business plans. Learn how to adapt and adjust your vision before it's too late and stay ahead of the competition in today's constantly evolving market.
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Start with Why
How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Simon Sinek - 2009-10-29
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Discover the secret to why some people and organizations are more innovative, influential, and profitable than others in this powerful and engaging exploration. Through studying influential leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Steve Jobs, Simon Sinek discovered they all had one thing in common: they started with why. With compelling real-life stories, Sinek shares his insights on what it takes to truly lead and inspire.
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The E-Myth Revisited
Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Michael E. Gerber - 1995-01-01 (first published in 1985)
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Revised and updated, this business classic explores the entrepreneurial myth that most small business owners assume they're entrepreneurs. However, Michael E. Gerber shows that understanding technical work isn't enough to run a successful business. He guides readers through the stages of a business's lifespan, teaching the key distinction between working on and in your business. Whether or not it's a franchise, Gerber shows how to apply franchising principles to any business in order to grow it productively.
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Zero to One
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel - 2014-09-16
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Discover uncharted frontiers and create new inventions - this is the main topic of Zero to One. Peter Thiel, the legendary entrepreneur and investor, believes that progress should not be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. In fact, he argues that progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. Thiel's book presents an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and provides a new way of thinking about innovation, starting with learning to ask the right questions to find value in unexpected places. If you want to build a better future, this book is a must-read.
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz - 2014-03-04
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Learn the unfiltered truth about the challenges of running a business from Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Ben Horowitz. Drawing from his own experiences founding, managing, and investing in technology companies, Horowitz offers essential advice for navigating the toughest problems business schools don't cover. Using anecdotes from his own rise to success, he covers everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, and managing your own psychology while leading a company. With humor and candidness, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is a must-read for both veteran entrepreneurs and those aspiring to start their own ventures.
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Influence
Science and Practice (5th Edition)
Robert B. Cialdini - 2006-12-26 (first published in 1984)
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Discover the science of compliance in this captivating book that uncovers the factors that influence people to say "yes" to a request. Scholarly research is combined with real-life techniques and strategies gathered from sales, fundraising, advertising, and other positions that commonly use compliance tactics. The author has organized the tactics into six categories based on psychological principles: reciprocation, consistency, social proof, liking, authority, and scarcity. Widely used in both classes and the business world, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the power of persuasion.
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Timothy Ferriss - 2007-04-24
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Revolutionize the way you work and live with The 4-Hour Workweek. This guide to luxury lifestyle design provides practical tips and case studies to help you escape the rat race, travel the world, and earn a monthly five-figure income with zero management. Learn how to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour, eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours, and trade a long-haul career for frequent mini-retirements. The newly expanded edition includes real-world templates and the latest tools and tricks for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either.
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Stephen R. Covey - 2004-11-09 (first published in 1988)
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Discover the life-changing model that became an instant sensation when released. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey is an education in living life effectively and achieving success. Learn how to implement Covey's model and understand the hidden implications in this complete and comprehensive guide. Don't miss out on the simple things you can do to navigate your life correctly and become highly effective in all areas of your life.
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Built to Last by Jim Collins
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
The ONE Thing by Gary Keller
Getting Things Done by David Allen
Rework by Jason Fried
The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Principles by Ray Dalio
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Purple Cow by Seth Godin
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
Profit First by Mike Michalowicz
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Made to Stick by Chip Heath
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Business Adventures by John Brooks
Drive by Daniel H. Pink
Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller
Traction by Gino Wickman
Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss
The Everything Store by Brad Stone
Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker
Measure What Matters by John Doerr
Traction by Gabriel Weinberg
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Tribes by Seth Godin
Radical Candor by Kim Scott
Hooked by Nir Eyal
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
Finish by Jon Acuff
This Is Marketing by Seth Godin
Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston
The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes
Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits! by Greg Crabtree
Virtual Freedom by Chris Ducker
Contagious by Jonah Berger
The Power of Broke by Daymond John
Choose Yourself! by James Altucher
Decisive by Chip Heath
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Everything Is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo
Grinding It Out by Ray Kroc
The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday
Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder
Originals by Adam Grant
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
Titan by Ron Chernow
Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferriss
What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Mindset by Carol S. Dweck
Lost and Founder by Rand Fishkin
Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook by Gary Vaynerchuk
Guerilla Marketing by Jay Conrad Levinson
Linchpin by Seth Godin
Positioning by Al Ries
Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough
Permission Marketing by Seth Godin
Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got by Jay Abraham
Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg
Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr
The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ Demarco
Option B by Sheryl Sandberg
Ignore Everybody by Hugh MacLeod
Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
The 1-Page Marketing Plan by Allan Dib
The Magic of Thinking Big by David J Schwartz
High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt