Books are the backbone through which many entrepreneurs and businessmen succeed. Bill Gates is said to read 50 books per year, and Elon Musk said he learned how to build space rockets by reading books. Business books for entrepreneurs open your mind to new ways of thinking and infuse you with ideas for business success. If you must succeed in 2020 and beyond, then you must read books written by great businessmen for other businessmen. Here are some of them:
1. The $100 Startup
The $100 Startup is written by Chris Guillebeau. The book analyzes how to “reinvent the way you make a living, do what you love, and create a new future”. This book examines 50 entrepreneurs who built successful businesses from a small investment of $100 or less. These are people who monetized their passions.
2. Mastery
Mastery is written by Robert Green, the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power.
Mastery covers how businessmen can become a thorough master by understanding the secrets in their areas of business, learning the intrigues of their trade, and maximizing apprenticeship. The book also Xrays how nine great masters became great at their crafts in the light of their behaviors.
3. The Lean Startup
Written by Eric Ries, The Lean Startup deals with how entrepreneurs can create radically successful businesses through continuous innovations.
The book shows how businessmen can start small and gain traction while keeping expenses low for maximal profits. It also teaches entrepreneurs how to take constant action while adapting skills to further tests for better results.
4. The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
Written by Al Ries and Jack Trout, this book outlines 22 immutable laws of marketing that must never be violated if a serious entrepreneur must succeed at what he does. The authors of the book cited various case studies to illustrate each of the laws and demonstrate that businessmen must adhere to the laws to succeed in their marketing efforts.
5. Rework
This book is written by Jason Fried and David Hansson to enable entrepreneurs to learn the art of studying, writing business plans, and pitching to investors among other things. The book shows that businessmen do not need an office to succeed in certain instances and that they don’t need many employees or even investors to make it as successful men in business.
6. Crushing It
Crushing It is written by Gary Vaynerchuk and treats how great entrepreneurs build their businesses and influence people and things.
It showcases Vaynerchuk’s personal experiences and techniques at building businesses as well as how readers can get richer building their own business with the aid of social media.
7. How To Win Friends And Influence People
Written by Dale Carnegie nearly 80 years ago, this book remains relevant today for all classes of businessmen and ordinary people.
It examines the psychology of winning friends and influencing people for positive gain. It teaches the etiquette for social life and how to be an expert at entrepreneurship by leveraging relationships with the right people.
8. The Psychology Of Selling
The Psychology of Selling was written by international bestseller Brian Tracy. With audio series available for instant download, the book teaches how to increase sales faster and easier than ever thought possible. Tracy teaches the psychology of selling yourself and your idea first before endeavoring to sell your products and services. You must know how to make people fall in love with you before they can fall in love with your products.
9. Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Written by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter, the book entails what the rich teach their kids about money but which the poor and middle class do not teach their kids. Rich Dad, Poor Dad is a personal finance book of all time which deals with the futility of 9-5 jobs – the rat-race and teaches that financial education is not taught in schools nor is getting a good grade an assurance for success in life.
10. Founders at Work
Founders at Work is written by Jessica Livingston and features the true stories of how big organizations of today started out in their early days decades ago. Containing interviews with the founders of major international organizations such as Apple, Adobe, 37Signal, Lotus, Hotmail, Blogger, Craigslist, Firefox, Flickr, PayPal, Trip Advisor, and Yahoo among many others, this book contains all the personal insights into how major organizations started out and how they overcame all obstacles to become what they are today.