The Best 5 Business Books

More valuable than an MBA.

In the 8 years I’ve been on this self-improvement journey, I’ve read somewhere around 200 books. Most of them were good, some were terrible, and a bunch of them were excellent. At the beginning, I read a lot of business and finances books.

I’ve always been into entrepreneurship and making money, so I was naturally drawn to that topic within literature. The problem was, most of the books I came across were absolutely terrible. Personal finances and business seems to be the topic that draws the absolute worst fake gurus and scammers.

Thankfully though, I also read a lot of books that were just brilliant, and completely changed my relationship with money, helped me find a path in business, and allowed me to build a solid mindset and skillset around making money, saving money, investing, and building all kinds of businesses.

The Richest Man In Babylon - George S. Clason

The very first book that I read about wealth and making money, The Richest Man in Babylon is a sensational book: simple, easy to read and digest, short, and teaches, through the use of parables and stories, timeless lessons about saving, investing, and multiplying your wealth.

I'd recommend this book to absolutely everyone, young or old. It's always important to master the basics in any endeavor, and when it comes to making money, this book is the perfect place to start.

The Millionaire Fastlane - MJ deMarco

The title of this book makes it sound as any other worthless "Get rich quick" book, but The Millionaire Fastlane couldn't be further from that.

While the previous book is mostly about fundamental and universal principles of wealth, this one is extremely applicable and exclusively written to give you all the tools you need to start a business in the postmodern world, with tips and advice ranging from legal loopholes to scalable business ideas.

This is hands down my favorite book on the topic of wealth, and I'm sure it will be massively valuable for you as well.

Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill

This is another timeless classic, but, as opposed to The Richest Man in Babylon, Think and Grow Rich focuses not in the practical aspects of saving and investing, but rather on the mindset, thoughts, and spiritual relationship with money that any person aspiring to riches should have.

Even though it's not as practical as other books, the lessons of this book are no less important: the way we think determines the way our life looks like. If you are negative, resentful, and nihilistic about money, you will never accumulate wealth. Think and Grow Rich teaches the right mindset to have, and it should be read and digested slowly to fully grasp the relevance of the principles in it presented.

The 10 Pillars of Wealth - Alex Becker

There is no more practical and aplicable book than The 10 Pillars of Wealth. It’s a short read, but incredibly valuable. The principles are easy to understand and incredibly eye-opening. One of my personal favorites and a book you can read in one sitting.

The Art of the Start 2.0 - Guy Kawasaki

The other 4 books where about general business, moneymaking, and wealth principles. The Art of the Start takes you through a detailed step-by-step process on how to start a company from scratch.

The book goes over all kinds of useful strategies for every step of the process, from fundraising, to selling, to marketing, to anything else a man thinking about starting a business should know.

There you have it boys. These are my top 5 business books, and I guarantee that if you read those, apply the principles, work your ass off and are patient, you’ll crush it in business.

One final note of caution: it’s very easy (and tempting even), once you start going down the rabbithole of reading topic-specific books, to become hooked in reading the materials without ever taking action. This is one of the msot common self-improvement pitfalls. To always stay at the theoretical level, to consume endless amounts of content, and NEVER take action. To state the obvious: that will yield zero results.

So once you have read the previous 5 books (or even before you have read all of them), take action. Do it relentlessly. Do it consistently. Action is all there is. Everything else is mental masturbation.

God bless,

Simple Man