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: 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: 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.
- 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.
- 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.
> This book shows that the leaders who've had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way, and it's the opposite of what everyone else does.
> Simon Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.
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 >>
> Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes"―and how to apply these understandings.
> You'll learn the six universal principles, how to use them to become a skilled persuader―and how to defend yourself against them... Find out more about this book >>
The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
> YOU WANT LESS.You want fewer distractions and less on your plate. The daily barrage of e-mails, texts, tweets, messages, and meetings distract you and stress you out. The simultaneous demands of work and family are taking a toll. And what's the cost? Second-rate work, missed deadlines, smaller pay cheques, fewer promotions-and lots of stress.AND YOU WANT MORE!.... Find out more about this book >>
> In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical, and how these systems shape our judgments and decisions... Find out more about this book >>
> Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem.
> Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work-in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others? ... Find out more about this book >>
Best Marketing Books
> In this book Robert Cialdini explains how to prepare people to be receptive to a message before they experience it.
> Optimal persuasion is achieved only through optimal pre-suasion. In other words, to change “minds” a pre-suader must also change “states of mind.”Find out more about this book >>
80/20 Sales and Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More
> When you know how to walk into any situation and see the 80/20's, you can solve almost ANY marketing problem.
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk!
> There are laws of nature, so why shouldn't there be laws of marketing?
> In this book, Ries and Trout offer a compendium of twenty-two innovative rules for understanding and succeeding in the international marketplace.. Find out more about this book >>
> What makes things popular? If you said advertising, think again. People don’t listen to advertisements, they listen to their peers. But why do people talk about certain products and ideas more than others? Why are some stories and rumors more infectious? And what makes online content go viral?
Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers
> The groundbreaking concept that enables marketers to shape their message so that consumers will willingly accept it...
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
> You're either a Purple Cow or you're not. You're either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice. What do Apple, Starbucks, Dyson and Pret a Manger have in common? How do they achieve spectacular growth, leaving behind former tried-and-true brands to gasp their last? Find out more about this book >>
> Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes"―and how to apply these understandings.
> You'll learn the six universal principles, how to use them to become a skilled persuader―and how to defend yourself against them... Find out more about this book >>
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
> Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas?
> In this book, the brothers Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the "human scale principle", using the "Velcro Theory of Memory", and creating "curiosity gaps"...Find out more about this book >>
Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising
> Megabrands like Dropbox, Instagram, Snapchat, and Airbnb were barely a blip on the radar years ago, but now they're worth billions—with hardly a dime spent on traditional marketing. No press releases, no TV commercials, no billboards. Instead, they relied on growth hacking to reach users and build their businesses... Find out more about this book >>
> Positioning describes a revolutionary approach to creating a "position" in a prospective customer's mind, one that reflects a company's own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of its competitors... Find out more about this book >>
This is Marketing: You Can't be Seen Until You Learn to See
> Great marketers don't use consumers to solve their company's problem; they use marketing to solve other people's problems. They don't just make noise; they make the world better. Truly powerful marketing is grounded in empathy, generosity, and emotional labour... Find out more about this book >>
Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
> Donald Miller's StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their businesses. This method for connecting with customers provides listeners with the ultimate competitive advantage, revealing the secret for helping their customers understand the compelling benefits of using their products, ideas, or services... Find out more about this book >>
> Combining The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding and The 11 Immutable Laws of Internet Branding, this book proclaims that the only way to stand out in today's marketplace is to build your product or service into a brand - and provides the step-by-step instructions you need to do so... Find out more about this book >>
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
> Winning by not competing! This international best seller upends traditional thinking with principles and tools to make the competition irrelevant... Find out more about this book >>
Best Sales Books
Never Split the Difference: Negotiate as if Your Life Depended on It
> A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating - effective in any situation... Find out more about this book >>
To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth about Moving Others
> Whether we're employees pitching colleagues on a new idea, entrepreneurs enticing funders to invest, or parents and teachers cajoling children to study, we spend our days trying to move others. Like it or not, we're all in sales now... Find out more about this book >>
The Ultimate Sales Letter: Attract New Customers. Boost Your Sales
> In this book Dan Kennedy explains why some sales letters work and most don't. And he shows how to write copy that any business can use... Find out more about this book >>
> How do some salespeople consistently outsell their competition? Why do closing techniques work in small sales but fail in larger ones? How can salespeople dramatically increase their sales volume from major accounts?.. Find out more about this book >>
The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation
> What's the secret to sales success? If you're like most business leaders, you'd say it's fundamentally about relationships - and you'd be wrong. The best salespeople don't just build relationships with customers. They challenge them... Find out more about this book >>
> The Ultimate Sales Machine shows you how to tune up and soup up virtually every part of your business by spending just an hour per week on each impact area you want to improve?sales, marketing, management, and more... Find out more about this book >>
> A business classic endorsed by Dale Carnegie, How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling is for anyone whose job it is to sell. Whether you are selling houses or mutual funds, advertisements or ideas - or anything else - this book is for you... Find out more about this book >>
> Whether it's selling your company's product in the boardroom or selling yourself on eating healthy, everything in life can and should be treated as a sale. And as sales expert Grant Cardone explains, knowing the principles of selling is a prerequisite for success of any kind... Find out more about this book >>
The Psychology of Selling: Increase Your Sales Faster and Easier than You Ever Though Possible
> In this book, Brian Tracy teaches a series of ideas, methods, strategies, and techniques that can be used immediately to make more sales, faster and easier than ever before... Find out more about this book >>
Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale: For Anyone Who Must Get Others to Say YES!
> Doctors, housewives, ministers, parents, teachers...everyone has to "sell" their ideas and themselves to be successful. This guide by America’s #1 professional in the art of persuasion focuses on the most essential part of the sale—how to make them say "Yes, I will!"Find out more about this book >>
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 >>
Sell Like Crazy: How to Get as Many Clients, Customers and Sales as You Can Possible Handle
> Sabri Suby, (founder of King Kong, Australia's fastest growing digital agency) is finally revealing the system he's used to go from $0 to $10m+ in annual revenue... And make over $400m in sales for his clients - in 4 years flat!.. Find out more about this book >>
Best Entrepreneurship Books
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 >>
Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence - and How You Can, Too
> In his 2009 international bestseller Crush It, Gary insisted that a vibrant personal brand was crucial to entrepreneurial success, In Crushing It!, Gary explains why that’s even more true today, offering his unique perspective on what has changed and what principles remain timeless... Find out more about this book >>
- 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.
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: 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 >>
> Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1.
> The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique... Find out more about this book >>
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
> Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog.
> While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one... Find out more about this book >>
> Getting an MBA is an expensive choice-one almost impossible to justify regardless of the state of the economy. Even the elite schools like Harvard and Wharton offer outdated, assembly-line programs that teach you more about PowerPoint presentations and unnecessary financial models than what it takes to run a real business.
> You can get better results (and save hundreds of thousands of dollars) by skipping B-school altogether... Find out more about this book >>
> All entrepreneurs and business leaders face similar frustrations—personnel conflict, profit woes, and inadequate growth. Decisions never seem to get made, or, once made, fail to be properly implemented. But there is a solution
> The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate... Find out more about this book >>
The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime
- Has the "settle-for-less" financial plan become your plan for wealth? That sounds something like this:
- Graduate from college, get a good job, save 10% of your paycheck, buy a used car, cancel the movie channels, quit drinking expensive Starbucks mocha lattes, save and penny-pinch your life away, trust your life-savings to Wall Street, and one day, when you are oh, say, 65 years old, you can retire rich!!!
> Don't worry, there is a way out.. Find out more about this book >>
> From the author: “For the last two years, I’ve interviewed nearly two hundred world-class performers for my podcast,The Tim Ferriss Show. The guests range from super celebs (Jamie Foxx, Arnold Schwarzenegger, etc.) and athletes (icons of powerlifting, gymnastics, surfing, etc.) to legendary Special Operations commanders and black-market biochemists. For most of my guests, it’s the first time they’ve agreed to a two-to-three-hour interview, and the show is on the cusp of passing 100 million downloads... Find out more about this book >>
The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage
> Here, the FUBU founder and star of ABC’s Shark Tank shows that, far from being a liability, broke can actually be your greatest competitive advantage as an entrepreneur. Why? Because starting a business from broke forces you to think more creatively. It forces you to use your resources more efficiently... Find out more about this book >>
Before the Exit: Thought Experiments For Entrepreneurs
> In the entrepreneurial world, it’s rarely questioned that “exiting” is the end goal of a smartly built business and a prestigious waypoint in a successful career.
> Since building and selling a business can take years - or even decades - you can’t exactly “practice” exiting your business. The best you can do is learn from others... Find out more about this book >>
eSCAPE: The 4 Stages of Becoming A Successful Entrepreneur
> In this book, Anik Singal takes you on a journey through the mind of a true Entrepreneur; learn exactly what tools are required to succeed, and transition from employee to Entrepreneur... Find out more about this book >>
Best Leadership Books
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
> In his work with organizations around the world, Simon Sinek noticed that some teams trust each other so deeply that they would literally put their lives on the line for each other. Other teams, no matter what incentives are offered, are doomed to infighting, fragmentation and failure. Why? Find out more about this book >>
> It's human nature to seek out tribes, be they religious, ethnic, economic, political, or even musical. Now the Internet has eliminated the barriers of geography, cost, and time. Social media gives anyone who wants to make a difference the tools to do so.
> In this book, Seth Godin presents the three steps to building a tribe: the desire to change things, the ability to connect a tribe, and the willingness to lead... Find out more about this book >>
Extreme Ownership: How U.S Navy SEALs Lead and Win
> Sheryl Sandberg is chief operating officer of Facebook and coauthor of Option B with Adam Grant. In 2010, she gave an electrifying TED talk in which she described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which has been viewed more than six million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table,” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto... Find out more about this book >>
> If you’ve never read The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, you’ve been missing out on one of the best-selling leadership books of all time. If you have read the original version, then you’ll love this new expanded and updated one... Find out more about this book >>
What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
> Marshall Goldsmith's expertise is in helping global leaders overcome their unconscious annoying habits and become more successful. His one-on-one coaching comes with a six-figure price tag - but in this book you get his great advice for much less.Find out more about this book >>
> This book shows that the leaders who've had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way, and it's the opposite of what everyone else does.
> Simon Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.
- 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.
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 >>
Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization
> Focusing on Wooden’s 12 Lessons in Leadership and his acclaimed Pyramid of Success, it outlines the mental, emotional, and physical qualities essential to building a winning organization, and shows you how to develop the skill, confidence, and competitive fire to “be at your best when your best is needed”--and teach your organization to do the same.. Find out more about this book >>
> In this book, Patrick Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams even the best ones-often struggle. He outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team... Find out more about this book >>
> The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician, and it was believed to have been compiled during the late Spring and Autumn period or early Warring States period.
> The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare.
> It is commonly known to be the definitive work on military strategy and tactics of its time... Find out more about this book >>
> The measure of the executive, Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive.
> Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that mold them into results... Find out more about this book >>
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
> Christensen explains why most companies miss out on new waves of innovation. No matter the industry, he says, a successful company with established products will get pushed aside unless managers know how and when to abandon traditional business practices... Find out more about this book >>
Best Productivity Books
- Essentialism is a book which deals with situations wherein people would find themselves in the middle of an information explosion. They could also feel occupied with a lot of work, but still be unproductive.
- There are times when people follow the notion that they have to do everything, but on the contrary, they end up doing nothing. There is no specific direction to their tasks and neither to their goals.
> Essentialism as a concept narrows down this notion into doing the right things which are absolutely necessary, in a right manner and at the right time... Find out more about this book >>
The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
> YOU WANT LESS.You want fewer distractions and less on your plate. The daily barrage of e-mails, texts, tweets, messages, and meetings distract you and stress you out. The simultaneous demands of work and family are taking a toll. And what's the cost? Second-rate work, missed deadlines, smaller pay cheques, fewer promotions-and lots of stress.AND YOU WANT MORE!.... Find out more about this book >>
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.
> At the core of Smarter Faster Better are eight key productivity concepts—from motivation and goal setting to focus and decision making—that explain why some people and companies get so much done... 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 Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
> The number of hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us is not. This fundamental insight has the power to revolutionize the way you live your life. The Power of Full Engagement is a highly practical, scientifically based approach to managing your energy more skillfully both on and off the job... Find out more about this book >>
Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
> There just isn't enough time for everything on our to-do list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure those get done. They eat their frogs...Find out more about this book >>
Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less
> Many professionals work as much as 70 hours a week, leaving little time for rest, exercise, family, and friends. Work is invading their personal life.
> New York Times Bestselling author, Michael Hyatt, has created a total productivity system that's much more than endless box checking. Proven by over 25,000 professionals, this system helps overwhelmed leaders achieve what matters most so they can succeed at both work and life... Find out more about this book >>
First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently
> This book presents vital performance and career lessons for managers at every level — and best of all, shows you how to apply them to your own situation... 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
> Why do smart people make irrational decisions every day? The answers will surprise you. Predictably Irrational is an intriguing, witty and utterly original look at why we all make illogical decisions.
> And why can a 50p aspirin do what a 5p aspirin can't? If an item is "free" it must be a bargain, right? Why is everything relative, even when it shouldn't be? How do our expectations influence our actual opinions and decisions?.. Find out more about this book >>
> Research in psychology has revealed that our decisions are disrupted by an array of biases and irrationalities: We’re overconfident. We seek out information that supports us and downplay information that doesn’t. We get distracted by short-term emotions... Find out more about this book >>
> Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
> Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose... Find out more about this book >>
> Peter Bevelin begins his fascinating book with Confucius' great wisdom: "A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake."
> Seeking Wisdom is the result of Bevelin's learning about attaining wisdom. His quest for wisdom originated partly from making mistakes himself and observing those of others but also from the philosophy of super-investor and Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charles Munger... Find out more about this book >>
> Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly...
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Market
> Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Taleb–veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur, and New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan–has written a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill... Find out more about this book >>
- Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem.
- Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work-in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others? ... Find out more about this book >>
> In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical, and how these systems shape our judgments and decisions... Find out more about this book >>
> Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes"―and how to apply these understandings.
> You'll learn the six universal principles, how to use them to become a skilled persuader―and how to defend yourself against them... Find out more about this book >>
> Why do some products capture our attention, while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us?... Find out more about this book >>
Best Finance Books
> Based on extensive research and one-on-one interviews with more than 50 of the most legendary financial experts in the world—from Carl Icahn and Warren Buffett, to Ray Dalio and Steve Forbes—Tony Robbins has created a simple 7-step blueprint that anyone can use for financial freedom...
> 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 >>
- Secrets of the Millionaire Mind reveals the missing link between wanting success and achieving it!
- Have you ever wondered why some people seem to get rich easily, while others are destined for a life of financial struggle? Is the difference found in their education, intelligence, skills, timing, work habits, contacts, luck, or their choice of jobs, businesses, or investments?
- The answer is: None of the above!.. Find out more about this book >>
> I Will Teach You To Be Rich is a practical approach delivered with a non-judgemental style based on the four pillars of personal finance – banking, saving, budgeting and investing – and the wealth-building ideas of personal entrepreneurship... Find out more about this book >>
> This timeless book holds that the key to success lies in the secrets of the ancients. Based on the famous "Babylonian principles," it's been hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift and financial planning, and personal wealth... Find out more about this book >>
> Millionaire Success Habits is a book designed with one purpose in mind: to take you from where you are in life to where you want to be in life by incorporating easy-to-implement "Success Habits" into your daily routine... Find out more about this book >>
- This classic text is annotated to update Graham's timeless wisdom for today's market conditions...
- The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham, taught and inspired people worldwide.
- Graham's philosophy of "value investing" -- which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies -- has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market bible ever since its original publication in 1949... Find out more about this book >>
> "Why aren't I as wealthy as I should be?" Many people ask this question of themselves all the time. Often they are hard-working, well educated middle- to high-income people. Why, then, are so few affluent... Find out more about this book >>
The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime
- Has the "settle-for-less" financial plan become your plan for wealth? That sounds something like this:
- Graduate from college, get a good job, save 10% of your paycheck, buy a used car, cancel the movie channels, quit drinking expensive Starbucks mocha lattes, save and penny-pinch your life away, trust your life-savings to Wall Street, and one day, when you are oh, say, 65 years old, you can retire rich!!!
- Don't worry, there is a way out.. Find out more about this book >>
> 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
> In this book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?.. Find out more about this book >>
> “Business Adventures remains the best business book I’ve ever read.” —Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal
> Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time... Find out more about this book >>
> 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 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 >>
> 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: 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 >>
> From the author: “For the last two years, I’ve interviewed nearly two hundred world-class performers for my podcast,The Tim Ferriss Show. The guests range from super celebs (Jamie Foxx, Arnold Schwarzenegger, etc.) and athletes (icons of powerlifting, gymnastics, surfing, etc.) to legendary Special Operations commanders and black-market biochemists. For most of my guests, it’s the first time they’ve agreed to a two-to-three-hour interview, and the show is on the cusp of passing 100 million downloads... Find out more about this book >>