Below is our recommended reading list of essential books for entrepreneurs. We feel these books, many of which are classics, should be required reading for every business owner.
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey
- Art of the Start: The Time-tested, Battle-hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything, Guy Kawasaki
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
- Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance, Michael E Porter
- Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors, Michael E. Porter
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Daniel H. Pink
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Business Don’t Work and What to Do about It, Michael E. Gerber
- The Effective Executive, Peter Drucker
- Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – A Leadership Fable, Patrick Leoncini
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t, Jim Collins
- Guerilla Marketing (1984), Jay Conrad Levinson
- How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling, Frank Bettger
- How to Sell Anything to Anybody, Joe Girard
- How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), Dale Carnegie
- Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm Paperback, Verne Harnish
- The One Minute Manager (1982), Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
- Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the Rest Don’t (Rockefeller Habits 2.0), Verne Harnish
- Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill