Best Business Books

The best books on business, marketing, entrepreneurship, and investing to help you get your finances in order.

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In this day and age, knowing how to earn and save money is one of the most important skills if we want to achieve financial freedom and independence.

On this page, I’ve compiled what I think are the best books on entrepreneurship, sales, marketing, and investing that will help you get your finances in order.

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  1. Top 10 Books on Business and Finance
  2. Design and Marketing
  3. Entrepreneur Biographies
  4. Finding New Ideas
  5. Entrepreneurship
  6. Finance and Investing
  7. Marketing
  8. Leadership and Negotiation
  9. Management Skills
  10. Productivity
  11. The Art of Selling
  12. Success and Motivation

Best Business Books

So here’s a list of the best finance and entrepreneurship books I’ve read that help me create new projects and get my finances in order. I hope these books help you as well.

Top 10 Books on Business and Finance

Expert Secrets

Russell Brunson

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The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime

MJ DeMarco

eBook Print | Audiobook

Million Dollar Weekend

Noah Kagan

eBook Print | Audiobook

No B.S. Sales Success in the New Economy

Dan S. Kennedy

eBook Print | Audiobook

How to Write Copy That Sells

Ray Edwards

eBook Print | Audiobook

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Robert B. Cialdini

eBook Print | Audiobook

Economics: The User’s Guide

Ha-Joon Chang

eBook Print | Audiobook

Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive

Harvey B Mackay

eBook Print 

One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market

Peter Lynch

eBook Print | Audiobook

Customers for Life

Carl Sewell

eBook Print

1-Page Marketing Plan

Allan Dib

eBook Print | Audiobook

Design and Creativity

Editing by Design

Jan V. White

eBook Print 

Non-Designer’s Design Book

Robin Williams

Print 

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

Austin Kleon

eBook Print | Audiobook

Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity

Keith Sawyer

eBook Print 

And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared: TRIZ: Theory of Inventive Problem Solving

Genrikh Altshuller

eBook Print 

Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type

Kimberly Elam

eBook Print 

Storytelling with Data

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

eBook Print | Audiobook

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Entrepreneur Biographies

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

eBook Print | Audiobook

Sam Walton: Made In America Mass Market

Sam Walton

eBook Print 

Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

Howard Schultz

eBook Print | Audiobook

Losing My Virginity

Richard Branson

eBook Print | Audiobook

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

Tony Hsieh

eBook Print | Audiobook

Crushing It!

Gary Vaynerchuk

eBook Print | Audiobook

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Finding New Ideas

And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared: TRIZ: Theory of Inventive Problem Solving

Genrikh Altshuller

eBook Print 

Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques

Michael Michalko

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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

Austin Kleon

eBook Print | Audiobook

One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking

Dave Trott

eBook Print 

Six Thinking Hats

Edward de Bono

eBook Print | Audiobook

Creative Thinking: Be Creative – Now!

Steve Rawling

eBook Print 

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know

Adam Grant

eBook Print | Audiobook

Entrepreneurship

Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive

Harvey B Mackay

eBook Print 

Managing Corporate Lifecycles

Ichak Adizes

eBook Print | Audiobook

The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime

MJ DeMarco

eBook Print | Audiobook

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries

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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson

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Choose Your Enemies Wisely

Patrick Bet-David

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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel

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Will It Fly?

Pat Flynn

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Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!

Greg Crabtree

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Finance and Investing

One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market

Peter Lynch

eBook Print | Audiobook

The One-Page Financial Plan

Carl Richards

eBook Print

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

eBook Print | Audiobook

The Simple Path to Wealth

JL Collins

eBook Print | Audiobook

The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham

eBook Print | Audiobook

Marketing

Kotler on Marketing: How to Create, Win, and Dominate Markets

Philip Kotler

eBook | Print 

Blue Ocean Strategy

W. Chan Kim

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Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards

Yu-kai Chou

eBook | PrintAudiobook

1-Page Marketing Plan

by Allan Dib

eBook Print | Audiobook

Decoded: The Science Behind Why We Buy

Phil Barden

eBook | PrintAudiobook

Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

Donald Miller

eBook | PrintAudiobook

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

Jonah Berger

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Leadership and Negotiation

Management

Peter F. Drucker

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Your Next Five Moves

Patrick Bet-David

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The Toyota Way

Jeffrey Liker

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How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

eBook | PrintAudiobook

Never Eat Alone

Keith Ferrazzi

PrintAudiobook

Never Split the Difference

Chris Voss

eBook | PrintAudiobook

Everything is Negotiable

Gavin Kennedy

eBook 

The Art Of War

Sun Tzu

eBook | PrintAudiobook

The Swordless Samurai

Kitami Masao

Print 

Management Skills

The Ideal Executive

Ichak Kalderon Adizes

eBook | PrintAudiobook

How Would You Move Mount Fuji?

William Poundstone

Print 

No B.S. Ruthless Management of People and Profits

Dan Kennedy

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The Mom Test

Rob Fitzpatrick

eBook | PrintAudiobook

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Patrick Lencioni

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First, Break All the Rules

Marcus Buckingham

PrintAudiobook

Effective Leadership

John Adair

eBook | Print 

Productivity

The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy

Chris Bailey

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Do It Today: Overcome Procrastination, Improve Productivity, and Achieve More Meaningful Things

Darius Foroux

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The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months

Brian P. Moran

eBook Print | Audiobook

No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs

Dan S. Kennedy

eBook Print | Audiobook

You can find more productivity books on this page.

The Art of Selling

Expert Secrets

Russell Brunson

eBook Print | Audiobook

No B.S. Sales Success in the New Economy

Dan S. Kennedy

eBook Print | Audiobook

Superfans

Pat Flynn

eBook | PrintAudiobook

How to Write Copy That Sells

Ray Edwards

eBook Print | Audiobook

$100M Offers

Alex Hormozi

eBook | PrintAudiobook

The Ultimate Sales Machine

Chet Holmes

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Sell or Be Sold

Grant Cardone

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Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook

Gary Vaynerchuk

eBook | PrintAudiobook

How to Sell Anything to Anybody

Joe Girard

eBook | Print 

Success and Motivation

Principles

Ray Dalio

eBook | PrintAudiobook

Doing The Impossible

Patrick Bet-David

eBook | Print 

Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell

eBook | PrintAudiobook

The 10X Rule

Grant Cardone

eBook | PrintAudiobook

Trump Never Give Up

Donald J. Trump

Print | Audiobook

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

T. Harv Eker

eBook | PrintAudiobook

The One Thing

Gary Keller

eBook Print | Audiobook

The Richest Man in Babylon

George S. Clason

eBook Print | Audiobook

«There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure»

— Colin Powell

Recommendations

Here are some recommendations to help you be more productive, be happier, make more money, and learn faster.

Books

Breakthrough Rapid Reading. Peter Kump

How to Read a Book. Mortimer J. Adler

Speed Reading. Kam Knight

Articles & Posts

Speed Reading: How to Read Faster and Understand More

Maximize Productivity: 5 Powerful Time Management Principles

Useful Tools

EarthFM - High-quality nature sounds that can be turned on while you work to help increase your focus and concentration.

Pomofocus - Simple Pomodoro timer for focused work.

Book Summaries

The Productivity Project

Deep Work

In Search of Excellence

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