10 Best Entrepreneur Books You Should Start Reading
Knowledge is power. Yes, we have heard of that many times, but it remains truer than ever. Many successful billionaires who made it into the annual Forbes’ list are self-confessed readers and book lovers.
This includes Bill Gates, who reportedly reads 50 books each year, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who aims to read one book every 2 weeks. Investor extraordinaire Warren Buffett reads around 500 pages each day, and Elon Musk, who started SpaceX due to the heavy influence of Isaac Asimov’s books earlier in his life.
These billionaire-entrepreneurs are undoubtedly busy, but they kept up with a reading habit precisely because books have benefits – especially if you want to constantly improve as an entrepreneur and investor. Reading books can help keep your mind critical, open, and updated to new ideas, strategies and innovations.
So if you want to follow in the footsteps of these highly successful people, you have to start a reading habit! And here are 10 entrepreneur books that can help you get started towards the right mindset:
The Obstacle is The Way (Ryan Holiday)
Being an entrepreneur means that you are about to face challenges along the way – whether that be from competitors, new innovations, or financial challenges, obstacles are inevitable when it comes to business.
This book will help you understand if you are indeed ready to face and hurdle such challenges. It also provides some tips and strategies on how to survive obstacles and challenges along the way.
The 4-Hour Work Week (Timothy Ferriss)
Being your own boss is one of the main reasons why some people want to become entrepreneurs. However, what others don’t know is that entrepreneurship can sometimes take up most of your day (even more than the regular working hours of an employee).
That’s why Timothy Ferriss penned “The 4-Hour Work Week” to emphasize the concept of time freedom. This book helps entrepreneurs maximize business time without necessarily burning out.
10X Rule (Grant Cardone)
Billionaires did not become billionaires because they settled with just millions in profit – they dared to dream higher and took the risk. This is what Grant Cardone wants to emphasize in the “10X Rule,” it tells aspiring entrepreneurs to never settle for less or for the ordinary.
Tools of Titans (Tim Ferriss)
You might have heard of the saying that success is just the result of your daily habits. Well, that’s true. Tim Ferriss interviewed successful people from different walks of life for his book, “Tools of Titans,” to understand how their daily routines and habits influenced their overall success.
Screw Business as Usual (Richard Branson)
In this book, Richard Branson explains that you are not going to make it big if you simply follow conventions and the usual ways of business. In this fast-paced world, unique ideas and revolutionary ways of doing business is the only way forward!
Deep Work (Cal Newport)
Many of us fall victim to our own procrastination. It is easy to get distracted with Social Media and other mobile apps nowadays, and it separates you from your tasks and other important stuff that requires your utmost attention. In “Deep Work,” Cal Newport will teach you how to dedicate several hours of straight work – without distractions! Staying focused for long periods will help you achieve more, and increase overall productivity.
Never Get A Real Job (Scott Gerber)
In this book, Scott Gerber studied and compared different entrepreneurs who became successful and unsuccessful, and shared the reasons why others failed while the others succeeded. The book is helpful if you want to know how to build a successful business and avoid the pitfalls of entrepreneurship.
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Jim Collins)
If you are wondering why some companies last longer than others, then this book can give you insight. Exceptional companies have different principles from ordinary ones, and this book can explain how you can build a strong company too.
The $100 Startup (Chris Guillebeau)
Most of us think that creating a business would entail a huge amount of expenses, but Chris Guillebeau will show you that it is not always the case. In “The $100 Startup,” Guillebeau compiled 50 case studies of entrepreneurs who successfully started a business with just over $100 in the capital. Read this if you want to get inspired!
The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
It is a known fact that over 10% of startups in the US can survive after their 5th year. The pressures of building a company are definitely not for everyone, and that’s why Eric Ries provides a helpful guide in “The Lean Startup” so that entrepreneurs will know how to handle such pressures and extreme situations. Ries demonstrates how to build a lean startup to maximize efficiency and long-term success.
Reading books and learning the entrepreneurial game from the pros is a big factor that can help you succeed in your own business. These successful entrepreneurs don’t have to be selling the same products like yours, you only have to learn how they came up with unique ideas and how they overcame their own challenges to learn the tricks of the trade!
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