Best Business Books

Looking for good business books to read? This is my recommended list of the best business books of all-time.


To make it easier for you to choose your next business book, I further subdivided this list into 9 sections. You can click the links below to jump to a specific category or scroll down to browse them all.

Top 10 Business Books

If you don't know where to start, these top 10 business books should be your first step 

The E-Myth Revisited Book

The E-Myth Revisited

by Michael Gerber

The E-Myth Revisited Book Review

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It 


> In this book Michael Gerber walks you through the steps in the life of a business—from entrepreneurial infancy through adolescent growing pains to the mature entrepreneurial perspective: the guiding light of all businesses that succeed—and shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether or not it is a franchise.


> Most importantly, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in your business... Find out more about this book >>


Getting Things Done Book

Getting Things Done

by David Allen

Getting Things Done Book Review

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity 


> Since it was first published almost fifteen years ago, David Allen’s Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era, and the ultimate book on personal organization.


> “GTD” is now shorthand for an entire way of approaching professional and personal tasks, and has spawned an entire culture of websites, organizational tools, seminars, and offshoots.

Find out more about this book >>


How to Win Friends and Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

- Six ways to make people like you.

- Twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking.

> Nine ways to change people without arousing resentment.

>> Simply, this book is a recipe book for relationships! Everyone needs to read it for more effective communication.

Find out more about this book >>


The 4-Hour Workweek

by Timothy Ferriss

- This book is step-by-step guide to escape your 9 to 5 job. I highly recommend this book for ambitious people.
- Tim teaches how he went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per month and 4 hours per week
> How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want
> How to travel the world without quitting their jobs


- The book also include more than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers (including families) who have doubled income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves.

Find out more about this book >>


The Lean Startup Book

The Lean Startup

by Eric Ries

The Lean Startup Book Review

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses 


> Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched... Find out more about this book >>


Best Marketing Books

Expert Secrets
Network Marketing Secrets

Best Sales Books

Double Your Sales

The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million


> This book provides a scalable, predictable approach to growing revenue and building a winning sales team... Find out more about this book >>


Best Entrepreneurship Books

The E-Myth Revisited Book

The E-Myth Revisited

by Michael Gerber

The E-Myth Revisited Book Review

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It 


> In this book Michael Gerber walks you through the steps in the life of a business—from entrepreneurial infancy through adolescent growing pains to the mature entrepreneurial perspective: the guiding light of all businesses that succeed—and shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether or not it is a franchise.


> Most importantly, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in your business... Find out more about this book >>


The 4-Hour Workweek

by Timothy Ferriss

- This book is step-by-step guide to escape your 9 to 5 job. I highly recommend this book for ambitious people.
- Tim teaches how he went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per month and 4 hours per week
> How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want
> How to travel the world without quitting their jobs


- The book also include more than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers (including families) who have doubled income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves.

Find out more about this book >>


The Lean Startup Book

The Lean Startup

by Eric Ries

The Lean Startup Book Review

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses 


> Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched... Find out more about this book >>


Good to Great Book

Good To Great

by Jim Collins

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap.. And Others Don't 


> Over five years, Jim Collins and his research team have analyzed the histories of 28 companies, discovering why some companies make the leap and others don't... Find out more about this book >>


Best Leadership Books

How to Win Friends and Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

- Six ways to make people like you.

- Twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking.

> Nine ways to change people without arousing resentment.

>> Simply, this book is a recipe book for relationships! Everyone needs to read it for more effective communication.

Find out more about this book >>


The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

by Stephen Covey

One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for 25 years. It has transformed the lives of presidents and CEOs, educators and parents. In this book Stephen Covey teaches how to master your life, your relationships and how to be more productive, and more.. I really recommend reading this book, it is a life changer!  Find out more about this book >>


Best Productivity Books

Getting Things Done Book

Getting Things Done

by David Allen

Getting Things Done Book Review

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity 


> Since it was first published almost fifteen years ago, David Allen’s Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era, and the ultimate book on personal organization.


> “GTD” is now shorthand for an entire way of approaching professional and personal tasks, and has spawned an entire culture of websites, organizational tools, seminars, and offshoots.

Find out more about this book >>


The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less


> This book shows how we can achieve much more with much less effort, time, and resources, simply by identifying and focusing our efforts on the 20 percent that really counts.Find out more about this book >>


The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management


> This book contains twenty-six selections on management in the organization, management and the individual, and management and society.

> It covers the basic principles and concerns of management and its problems, challenges, and opportunities, giving managers, executives, and professionals the tools to perform the tasks that the economy and society of tomorrow will demand of them... Find out more about this book >>

Best Decision-Making Books

Best Finance Books

Rich Dad Poor Dad

by Robert Kiyosaki

> Rich Dad Poor Dad is Robert's story of growing up with two dads — his real father and the father of his best friend, his rich dad — and the ways in which both men shaped his thoughts about money and investing. The book explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to be rich and explains the difference between working for money and having your money work for you.Find out more about this book >>


Think and Grow Rich

by Napoleon Hill

> Think and Grow Rich reveals the secrets that can bring you fortune. By suppressing negative thoughts and keeping your focus on the long term, you can find true and lasting success. Napoleon Hill details his philosophy through the following 13 principles: 


- Desire, Faith, autosuggestion, specialized knowledge, imagination, organized planning, decision, persistence, power of the master mind, the mystery of sex transmutation, the subconscious mind, the brain, and the sixth sense.. Find out more about this book >>


Best Success Books

The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

by Grant Cardone

The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

> While most people operate with only three degrees of action-no action, retreat, or normal action-if you're after big goals, you don't want to settle for the ordinary. To reach the next level, you must understand the coveted 4th degree of action. This 4th degree, also know as the 10 X Rule, is that level of action that guarantees companies and individuals realize their goals and dreams... Find out more about this book >>


The Slight Edge Book

The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

by Jeff Olson

The Slight Edge Book Review

> The Slight Edge is a way of thinking, a way of processing information that enables you to make the daily choices that will lead you to the success and happiness you desire. Learn why some people make dream after dream come true, while others just continue dreaming and spend their lives building dreams for someone else... Find out more about this book >>


Be Obsessed or Be Average Book

Be Obsessed or Be Average

by Grant Cardone

Be Obsessed or Be Average Book Review

> Before Grant Cardone built five successful companies (and counting), became a multimillionaire, and wrote bestselling books... he was broke, jobless, and drug-addicted. But he had grown up with big dreams... Find out more about this book >>


So Good They Can't Ignore You Book

So Good They Can't Ignore You

by Cal Newport

So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love 


Matching your job to a preexisting passion does not matter, Cal Newport reveals. Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before.
In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it... 
Find out more about this book >>


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