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There are a lot of terrible business books out there. In fact, most business books aren’t even books—they are business cards for the writers or ego trips for CEOs. But the great business books? They are worth their weight in gold. They can change your life, they can pay for themselves a thousand times over. Consider that Warren Buffett believes the greatest investment he ever made to be The Intelligent Investor, written by his mentor Benjamin Graham. As Buffett put it, “of all the investments I ever made…[it] was the best.”Certainly some of the books below were (albeit slightly less profitable) some of the best investments I’ve ever made in my life with time or money. I don’t think business books are all a person should read. Many of the most helpful books I’ve read in my career were works of fiction or were ancient classics. But this is a genre that has value—no matter how much literary snobs may look down on it—and below are my favorites (in no particular order). If you’re looking for a business education, they are a lot cheaper than an MBA.Enjoy!Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by George Horace Lorimer — This book of letters is great—I wish my father had written me stuff this good. It is the fictional correspondence between Old Gorgon Graham, a self-made millionaire in Chicago, and his son who is coming of age and entering the family business. The letters date back to the 1890s but feel like they could have been written in any era. Honest. Genuine. Packed with good advice for anyone trying to make their way in the business world.Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight — Ostensibly the memoir of the founder of Nike, it’s really the story of a lost kid trying to find meaning in his life and it ends with him creating a multi-billion dollar company that changes sports forever. I’m not sure if Knight used a ghostwriter (the acknowledgements are unclear) but his personal touches are all over the book—and the book itself is deeply personal and authentic. The main thing I took from it? You actually have to love the thing you’re going into business to sell. Live and love it and breathe it.Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years by Paul B. Carroll — Most business books are about what went right. This one isn’t. It’s about painful failures. The ones that get repeated over and over and over. This book will humble future CEOs and keep them conservative—which is an important balance for any ambitious person.The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King by Rich Cohen — This book tells the incredible story of Sam Zemurray, the penniless Russian immigrant who, through pure hustle and drive, became the CEO of United Fruit, the biggest fruit company in the world. The greatness of Zemurray, as author Rich Cohen puts it, “lies in the fact that he never lost faith in his ability to salvage a situation.” For Zemurray, there was always a countermove, always a way through an obstacle, no matter how dire the situation.Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr. by Ron Chernow — I found Rockefeller to be strangely stoic, incredibly resilient, and, despite his reputation as a robber baron, humble and compassionate. Most people get worse as they get successful, many more get worse as they age. In fact, Rockefeller began tithing his money with his first job and gave more of it away as he became successful. He grew more open-minded the older he became, more generous, more pious, more dedicated to making a difference. And what made Rockefeller stand apart as a young man was his ability to remain cool-headed in adversity and grounded in success, always on an even keel, never letting excessive passion and emotion hold sway over him. Obviously the Steve Jobs bio is great too but if you could only read one giant bio of one figure, go with Rockefeller.Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office by Zack O’Malley Greenburg — This is a biography that also functions as a business book. It shows how as a young man in Brooklyn, Jay applied hustling techniques to the music business and eventually built his empire. A true hustler, he never did only one thing — from music to fashion to sports, Jay dominated each field, always operating on the same principles. As he puts it, “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!”How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men Told By Themselves by Orison Swett Marden — Written in 1901, these are uplifting business oriented biographies of men like Marshall Field, John D Rockefeller, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison and women like Helen Gould and Julia Ward Howe (creator of Battle Hymn of the Republic). I was referred this book by Maria Popova over at Brainpickings and loved it—I’ve referred to it many times since reading it.What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars by Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan — With each and every successful move that he made, Jim Paul, who made it to Governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, was convinced that he was special, different, and exempt from the rules. Once the markets turned against his trades, he lost it all — his fortune, job, and reputation. That’s what makes this book a critical part in understanding how letting arrogance and pride get to your head will ruin your business. Learn from stories like this instead of by your own trial and error. Think about that next time you believe you have it all figured out. (Tim Ferriss produced the audiobook version of this, which I recommend.)Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin — You wouldn’t tell anyone that you saw a cow. You would tell them if you saw a purple cow. Seth wrote this book many years ago but it’s a classic because it says something basic, timeless and important. Make remarkable things, do remarkable marketing. It’s the best way to grow. It’s the best way to sell. Even Jay-Z has recommended this book—to Oprah no less! As a marketer, the clearest takeaway from the book is: Represent people who stand out, it makes it easier to do what you do. Pair with his other books Permission Marketing and The Dip.22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk! by Al Ries and Jack Trout — It’s a short quick read and but I think you’ll come away with one or two key lessons that with stick with you. Personally, I found the valuable lessons were a bit front loaded (the first couple laws are the best). In short: turns out the best “marketing” decisions you’ll make come long before the paint is dried (or even applied) to the product. Forget the notion that marketing is something that is applied after the product is completed and aim to achieve Product-Market Fit. As I write in Growth Hacker Marketing, the single worst marketing decision you can make is to work on a product that nobody wants. Quick note: I have heard better things about the old version of this book so consider that before getting the “updated” one.The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau— This book is my favorite of Chris’s and a must read. You don’t have to have a lot of money to start a company, and not every idea has to be some massive world changing thing. Start small. Be smart. Be creative. Chris has been in the trenches and knows what he is talking about.Monster Loyalty: How Lady Gaga Turns Fans into Fanatics by Jackie Huba — I picked up this book almost by accident but it has some good stuff in—and I say this as someone who is not a Lady Gaga fan. How does a pop artist manage their sudden fame? How does one consciously craft a career so that one might still be filling stadiums decades from now? (As Gaga has said, her career model is Iron Maiden not other singers.) How does one reward and excite their most loyal fans? Anyway, solid book that has stood up surprisingly well.Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown — My friend Noah Kagan told me this was the best book he’d read that year. This is a book that focuses you, that makes you question many of the projects and commitments and assumptions you’ve said yes to over the years. Though the book is about applying design-style thinking to your life, I really think it is just a solid book of philosophy, stories and anecdotes that make you reconsider your priorities. That’s all you can hope for from a book and it more than delivers.Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy — Very old but good. Unfortunately, the title overstates a bit as Ogilvy doesn’t exactly confess to anything. He just shares his wisdom. Surprisingly, most of the best lessons in this book are not about advertising but about leadership, client management and presentation. Follow this with The Unpublished David Ogilvy.Choose Yourself! by James Altucher — The message of the book is this: the record label, the Fortune 500 company, the college, the book publisher—these institutions are decayed and broken. They are not coming to sign/discover/hire/choose you. It’s just not fucking happening. You have one option: choose yourself. Make your own way. Especially if you want to run your own business. The idea that some investor or mentor is going to spot you? A myth.Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out by Marc Ecko — One of the best business memoirs and books on branding I have ever read. I’d recommend it if I hadn’t worked on it or consider Marc my friend. Marc left pharmacy school and hustled to build from scratch Marc Ecko Entreprises, what is now a billion-dollar empire and later founded Complex Media, which now boasts over 90 million unique views per month. Marc knows how to create compelling spectacles (tagging Air Force One), knows how to use celebrity, knows how to design products people like and is an expert on what they call convergence culture. This is an underrated book—but only because it’s relatively new and not enough people have discovered it.Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne — The best law in the 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing is “invent your own category.” Well, Blue Ocean Strategy is entirely about that. It’s about competing where there is the least amount of competition. It teaches you how successful businesses focus on being different, about carving out a new space for themselves. This book will help with marketing and every other part of business life.The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building A Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz — Ben Horowitz wrote a fantastic book. If it was the only thing he’d ever done, I’d consider him a master. But it’s not. Building billion-dollar companies, slogging through the depths of multiple recessions, mentoring hundreds of entrepreneurs—these are the things Ben does for his day job. Writing for him is just a side project distilling that hard won experience into lessons we can use. This book is inspiring, it’s honest, it’s practical and it’s actually real. There’s a reason Horowitz’s essays have taken hold online second only to those of Paul Graham. There’s been a backlash about this book, but it’s one of the best business books I have read in a very long time. Also, what a title, right?The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss — Tim often likes to joke about how his book titles sound like infomercials—which is a blessing and a curse—but this book continues to sell in and out every day for a reason. Tim forces you to think hard about what you really want out of life, how to think about the way you want to run your business and where to focus your efforts.Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel — People think business is about competition. Really it’s about avoiding competition and creating something new. If most business books stretch an idea that could be contained in a chapter—or ideally not written at all—Peter’s book takes the opposite approach. Each chapter is deeply unconventional, contrarian and profound coming from one of the most successful investors and thinkers of our time. Thiel puts into question many of today’s business best practices and offers lessons that I think back to almost daily.The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb — Nassim Taleb is in the same category as Peter Thiel—a deep, thoughtful, well read writer and thinker whose work breaks new ground. This book is required reading for any executive trying to think about risk but it is really for anyone who wants to make better decisions and not fall prey to our common cognitive fallacies. Pair this one with his Fooled by Randomness and the aphorisms in The Bed of Procrustes.Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport — In most fields today, if you can’t cultivate the ability to have quiet, insightful, deeply focused periods of productive work, you’re going to be mediocre at best. This is a book that explains how to cultivate and protect the most important creative and leadership skill—the ability to do deep work. I strongly urge you to begin this practice now—if you want to get anything done or perform your best. His other book So Good They Can’t Ignore You is also essential career advice.The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike / Personal History by Katharine Graham — This book is also one of Warren Buffett’s favorite books. Instead of focusing on celebrity business figures who were good at self-promotion, it studies the heads of companies like the Washington Post, Berkshire Hathaway, General Dynamics, Capital Cities Broadcasting, TCI, and Teledyne who created billions of dollars of wealth through a series of unorthodox business and leadership strategies we can all learn from. I discovered the book after reading Katharine Graham’s epic autobiography in my efforts to read more books by and about women. She really was an exceptional leader and CEO.Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t by Jim Collins — There is a little pseudo-science to Collins’ research but I don’t care about that. This is a great book and a timeless classic for good reason. He creates a framework for how to think about building a great company. You get the right people on the bus, you spend time and energy winding up the flywheel and if you’re lucky you break through. It’s not a complicated formula but the examples in this book are helpful. Even if you don’t read it, the title is helpful. You don’t want to be good, you want to be great.Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days by Jessica Livingston — This book is basically like reading 20 short books about a bunch of different startups from the early web to Web 2.0 era. It comes from Jessica Livingston, one of the founding partners of Y Combinator, which has invested in everyone from Airbnb to Dropbox to reddit. The book is a collection of interviews with prominent Silicon Valley technologists and while some of the companies might sound almost irrelevant now, as the book was originally published over a decade ago, the fundamentals in business and in starting companies haven’t changed.The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business by Josh Kaufman — As I said, if you are looking for a business education, books are a lot cheaper than an MBA. And this one provides the most important concepts covering everything from marketing to sales to finance. If you’re a business veteran looking to brush up on old concepts that you’ve studied years ago or simply want to have a well-rounded understanding of business, this book is for you.***Be skeptical of most business books—because most of them don’t last (they aren’t, as I say, perennial). But the ones that have lasted that have helped people for years? You would be foolish not to pick them up.Of course there are many other books that belong on this list (sorry to any friends I forgot). If you want some more related book recommendations, here is a list of great marketing books, essential strategy books, biographies and you can get books recommended each month by signing up here.Like to read?I’ve created a list of 15 books you’ve never heard of that will alter your worldview and help you excel at your career.Get the secret book list here!

What are the best marketing/sales/business strategy books?

Before I answer this, let me first say that there are way too many terrible business books out there. Most business books aren’t even books—they are business cards for the writers or ego trips for CEOs. But the great business books? They are worth their weight in gold. They can change your life, they can pay for themselves a thousand times over. Consider that Warren Buffett believes the greatest investment he ever made to be The Intelligent Investor, written by his mentor Benjamin Graham. As Buffett put it, “of all the investments I ever made…[it] was the best.”Certainly some of the books below were (albeit slightly less profitable) some of the best investments I’ve ever made in my life with time or money. I don’t think business books are all a person should read. Many of the most helpful books I’ve read in my career were works of fiction or were ancient classics. But this is a genre that has value—no matter how much literary snobs may look down on it—and below are my favorites (in no particular order). If you’re looking for a business education, they are a lot cheaper than an MBA.Oh, you might also enjoy my monthly reading list email. I send great book suggestions once a month to over 80,000 fellow readers.Enjoy!***Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by George Horace Lorimer — This book of letters is great—I wish my father had written me stuff this good. It is the fictional correspondence between Old Gorgon Graham, a self-made millionaire in Chicago, and his son who is coming of age and entering the family business. The letters date back to the 1890s but feel like they could have been written in any era. Honest. Genuine. Packed with good advice for anyone trying to make their way in the business world.Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight — Ostensibly the memoir of the founder of Nike, it’s really the story of a lost kid trying to find meaning in his life and it ends with him creating a multi-billion dollar company that changes sports forever. I’m not sure if Knight used a ghostwriter (the acknowledgements are unclear) but his personal touches are all over the book—and the book itself is deeply personal and authentic. The main thing I took from it? You actually have to love the thing you’re going into business to sell. Live and love it and breathe it.Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years by Paul B. Carroll — Most business books are about what went right. This one isn’t. It’s about painful failures. The ones that get repeated over and over and over. This book will humble future CEOs and keep them conservative—which is an important balance for any ambitious person.The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King by Rich Cohen — This book tells the incredible story of Sam Zemurray, the penniless Russian immigrant who, through pure hustle and drive, became the CEO of United Fruit, the biggest fruit company in the world. The greatness of Zemurray, as author Rich Cohen puts it, “lies in the fact that he never lost faith in his ability to salvage a situation.” For Zemurray, there was always a countermove, always a way through an obstacle, no matter how dire the situation.Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr. by Ron Chernow — I found Rockefeller to be strangely stoic, incredibly resilient, and, despite his reputation as a robber baron, humble and compassionate. Most people get worse as they get successful, many more get worse as they age. In fact, Rockefeller began tithing his money with his first job and gave more of it away as he became successful. He grew more open-minded the older he became, more generous, more pious, more dedicated to making a difference. And what made Rockefeller stand apart as a young man was his ability to remain cool-headed in adversity and grounded in success, always on an even keel, never letting excessive passion and emotion hold sway over him. Obviously the Steve Jobs bio is great too but if you could only read one giant bio of one figure, go with Rockefeller.Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office by Zack O’Malley Greenburg — This is a biography that also functions as a business book. It shows how as a young man in Brooklyn, Jay applied hustling techniques to the music business and eventually built his empire. A true hustler, he never did only one thing — from music to fashion to sports, Jay dominated each field, always operating on the same principles. As he puts it, “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!” And related to that, I also recommend The 50th Law, which tells the stories of many such individuals and will stick with you just as long. I also liked Zack’s follow up: Michael Jackson, Inc.: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of a Billion Dollar EmpireHow They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men Told By Themselves by Orison Swett Marden — Written in 1901 these are uplifting business oriented biographies of men like Marshall Field, John D Rockefeller, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison and women like Helen Gould and Julia Ward Howe (creator of Battle Hymn of the Republic). I was referred this book by Maria Popova over at Brainpickings and loved it—I’ve referred to it many times since reading it.What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars by Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan — With each and every successful move that he made, Jim Paul, who made it to Governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, was convinced that he was special, different, and exempt from the rules. Once the markets turned against his trades, he lost it all — his fortune, job, and reputation. That’s what makes this book a critical part in understanding how letting arrogance and pride get to your head will ruin your business. Learn from stories like this instead of by your own trial and error. Think about that next time you believe you have it all figured out. (Tim Ferriss produced the audiobook version of this, which I recommend.)Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin — You wouldn’t tell anyone that you saw a cow. You would tell them if you saw a purple cow. Seth wrote this book many years ago but it’s a classic because it says something basic, timeless and important. Make remarkable things, do remarkable marketing. It’s the best way to grow. It’s the best way to sell. Even Jay-Z has recommended this book—to Oprah no less! As a marketer, the clearest takeaway from the book is: Represent people who stand out, it makes it easier to do what you do. Pair with his other books Permission Marketing and The Dip.22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk! by Al Ries and Jack Trout — It’s a short quick read and but I think you’ll come away with one or two key lessons that with stick with you. Personally, I found the valuable lessons were a bit front loaded (the first couple laws are the best). In short: turns out the best “marketing” decisions you’ll make come long before the paint is dried (or even applied) to the product. Forget the notion that marketing is something that is applied after the product is completed and aim to achieve Product-Market Fit. As I write in Growth Hacker Marketing, the single worst marketing decision you can make is to work on a product that nobody wants. Quick note: I have heard better things about the old version of this book so consider that before getting the “updated” one.The $100 Startup: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Chris Guillebeau — This book is my favorite of Chris’s and a must read. You don’t have to have a lot of money to start a company, and not every idea has to be some massive world changing thing. Start small. Be smart. Be creative. Chris has been in the trenches and knows what he is talking about.Monster Loyalty: How Lady Gaga Turns Fans into Fanatics by Jackie Huba — I picked up this book almost by accident but it has some good stuff in—and I say this as someone who is not a Lady Gaga fan. How does a pop artist manage their sudden fame? How does one consciously craft a career so that one might still be filling stadiums decades from now? (As Gaga has said, her career model is Iron Maiden not other singers.) How does one reward and excite their most loyal fans? Anyway, solid book that has stood up surprisingly well.Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown — My friend Noah Kagan told me this was the best book he’d read that year. This is a book that focuses you, that makes you question many of the projects and commitments and assumptions you’ve said yes to over the years. Though the book is about applying design-style thinking to your life, I really think it is just a solid book of philosophy, stories and anecdotes that make you reconsider your priorities. That’s all you can hope for from a book and it more than delivers.Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy — Very old but good. Unfortunately, the title overstates a bit as Ogilvy doesn’t exactly confess to anything. He just shares his wisdom. Surprisingly, most of the best lessons in this book are not about advertising but about leadership, client management and presentation. Follow this with The Unpublished David Ogilvy.Choose Yourself! by James Altucher — The message of the book is this: the record label, the Fortune 500 company, the college, the book publisher—these institutions are decayed and broken. They are not coming to sign/discover/hire/choose you. It’s just not fucking happening. You have one option: choose yourself. Make your own way. Especially if you want to run your own business. The idea that some investor or mentor is going to spot you? A myth.Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out by Marc Ecko — One of the best business memoirs and books on branding I have ever read. I’d recommend it if I hadn’t worked on it or consider Marc my friend. Marc left pharmacy school and hustled to build from scratch Marc Ecko Entreprises, what is now a billion-dollar empire and later founded Complex Media, which now boasts over 90 million unique views per month. Marc knows how to create compelling spectacles (tagging Air Force One), knows how to use celebrity, knows how to design products people like and is an expert on what they call convergence culture. This is an underrated book—but only because it’s relatively new and not enough people have discovered it.Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne — The best law in the 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing is “invent your own category.” Well, Blue Ocean Strategy is entirely about that. It’s about competing where there is the least amount of competition. It teaches you how successful businesses focus on being different, about carving out a new space for themselves. This book will help with marketing and every other part of business life. The sequel, Blue Ocean Shift, is now out and is great.The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building A Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz — Ben Horowitz wrote a fantastic book. If it was the only thing he’d ever done, I’d consider him a master. But it’s not. Building billion-dollar companies, slogging through the depths of multiple recessions, mentoring hundreds of entrepreneurs—these are the things Ben does for his day job. Writing for him is just a side project distilling that hard won experience into lessons we can use. This book is inspiring, it’s honest, it’s practical and it’s actually real. There’s a reason Horowitz’s essays have taken hold online second only to those of Paul Graham. There’s been a backlash about this book, but it’s one of the best business books I have read in a very long time. Also, what a title right?The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss — Tim often likes to joke about how his book titles sound like infomercials—which is a blessing and a curse—but this book continues to sell in and out every day for a reason. Tim forces you to think hard about what do you really want out of life, how to think about the way you want to run your business and where to focus your efforts.Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel — People think business is about competition. Really it’s about avoiding competition and creating something new. If most business books stretch an idea that could be contained in a chapter—or ideally not written at all—Peter’s book takes the opposite approach. Each chapter is deeply unconventional, contrarian and profound coming from one of the most successful investors and thinkers of our time. Thiel puts into question many of today’s business best practices and offers lessons that I think back to almost daily.The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb — Nassim Taleb is in the same category as Peter Thiel—a deep, thoughtful, well read writer and thinker whose work breaks new ground. This book is a required reading for any executive trying to think about risk but it is really for anyone who wants to make better decisions and not fall prey to our common cognitive fallacies. Pair this one with his Fooled by Randomness and the aphorisms in The Bed of Procrustes.Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport — In most fields today, if you can’t cultivate the ability to have quiet, insightful, deeply focused periods of productive work, you’re going to be mediocre at best. This is a book that explains how to cultivate and protect the most important creative and leadership skill—the ability to do deep work. I strongly urge you to begin this practice now—if you want to get anything done or perform your best. His other book So Good They Can’t Ignore You is also essential career advice.The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike / Personal History by Katharine Graham — This book is also one of Warren Buffett’s favorite books. Instead of focusing on celebrity business figures who were good at self-promotion, it studies the heads of companies like the Washington Post, Berkshire Hathaway, General Dynamics, Capital Cities Broadcasting, TCI, and Teledyne who created billions of dollars of wealth through a series of unorthodox business and leadership strategies we can all learn from. I discovered the book after reading Katharine Graham’s epic autobiography in my efforts to read more books by and about women. She really was an exceptional leader and CEO.Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t by Jim Collins — There is a little pseudo-science to Collin’s research but I don’t care about that. This is a great book and a timeless classic for reason. He creates a framework for how to think about building a great company. You get the right people on the bus, you spend time and energy winding up the flywheel and if you’re lucky you break through. It’s not a complicated formula but the examples in this book are helpful. Even if you don’t read it, the title is helpful. You don’t want to be good, you want to be great.Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days by Jessica Livingston — This book is basically like reading 20 short books about a bunch of different startups from the early web to Web 2.0 era. It comes from Jessica Livingston, one of the founding partners of Y Combinator, which has invested in everyone from Airbnb to Dropbox to reddit. The book is a collection of interviews with prominent Silicon Valley technologists and while some of the companies might sound almost irrelevant now, as the book was originally published a decade ago, the fundamentals in business and in starting companies haven’t changed.The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business by Josh Kaufman — As I said, if you are looking for a business education, books are a lot cheaper than an MBA. And this one provides the most important concepts covering everything from marketing to sales to finance. If you’re a business veteran looking to brush up on old concepts that you’ve studied years ago or simply want to have a well-rounded understanding of business, this book is for you.48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene / 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene — Of course, I am biased because I trained under Robert. But if I had not, these books still would have given me a priceless education (as they have for millions of other people) in how to acquire and build influence. Robert is a crack researcher and storyteller – he has a profound ability to explain timeless truths through story and example. I promise you will leave not just with actionable lessons but an indelible sense of what to do to make your work seen, respected, and authoritative. It might seem weird that books about power and war could do this—but they are campaigns like any other. Robert explains how the historical greats have found patrons, captivated the public, commanded fear or deference and ultimately succeeded at what they set out to do. Related to these books is another favorite of mine: Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky. It’s great for anyone marketing a cause or building a movement. Alinsky was also a die hard pragmatist, a man who had ideals but also a sense for working with and through the system to get what he needed. In fact, his best examples in the book is actually how to use the system against itself to get what he needed.Contagious: How to Build Word of Mouth in the Digital Age by Jonah Berger — I am a big Jonah Berger fan. In terms of business books, this is one you can trust because he is legit. I based more than a little of Trust Me I’m Lying on the research he has done on what does and doesn’t spread, which I read early when they were published as academic papers. The book is more accessible than those pages and unless you’re already a high level marketer, this book has real practical lessons you’ll want to learn. Some critics of the book have pointed out that it doesn’t tell how some recent things went viral like Gangnam Style or Harlem Shake. Well…welcome to book publishing. The book was wrapped before those things happened—but as a mark of its value, it correctly predicts how and why they would have. Consider this your requisite business/marketing book for the year.Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear by Frank Luntz — Frank Luntz is an expert in influencing and leading public perception through image and words. It actually matters whether we’re talking about illegal immigrants or undocumented workers, or whether we describe the problem as climate change or global warming. A lot of people hate this guy but that doesn’t mean he isn’t very smart and very good at what he does. Marketers need to understand the power of language and framing–it doesn’t matter how right you are, if you lose this battle it can be impossible to rally people to your cause. A related (and more political book on framing) is Don’t Think of an Elephant. Read them both.The Obstacle Is The Way and Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday — Both books are inspired by the practical philosophy of Stoicism, and teach you how to deal with both external obstacles, as well as our worst enemy—our own ego. Both books feature inspiring stories and timeless lessons from business magnates and tycoons, including Rockefeller, Sam Zemurray, Howard Hughes, John DeLorean, Katharine Graham, and many others. They will teach you how to avoid the worst mistakes many of them have made, as well as how they solved the challenges and obstacles they faced in their careers.The Brass Check by Upton Sinclair — Let me end this with a work of fiction, and one I named my own company after. You probably don’t know this, but in 1920 Upton Sinclair self-published arguably the first ever structural expose of how the media industry works. Not only did he self-publish it—at the height of his fame no less—but he refused to copyright it, hoping to pass through the complete media blacklist a book like this faced. Sinclair deeply understood the economic incentives of early 20th century journalism and thus could predict and analyze the manipulative effect it had on The Truth. Today, those incentives and pressures are different but they warp our information in a similar way. In almost every substantial charge he leveled against the yellow press, you could, today, sub in blogs and the cable news cycle and be even more correct. That’s why you need to read this book.And if you’re reading this Quora answer, you probably want to learn more about strategy. My new book Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, which the New York Times raved about, is out now. Not only is the book an epic page turner, it’s designed to be a deep meditation on strategy and power inspired by the decade-long conspiracy engineered by the billionaire Peter Thiel to take down Gawker. Order your copy now.

How do I become rich socially and financially?

If you can do what Google is doing, you can become rich both socially and financially. I have used Google's example as an analogy. Hope you will find it interesting to learn this way! :)Be GenerousGoogle is the platform that truly fits to generosity definition. Google treats everybody equally. No matter a poor guy is using it (like me) or a rich girl (like you), it’s always there to treat everyone with respect and care. Plus, it’s free for everyone. I think that going free is the best option in the world to thrive.Going free for now has more chances to get more customers than by going premium at the start.Keep Your closed ones interest before your own.When we enter a search query into Google, it tries to bring the best matched result as soon as possible. It’s totally against all the common business practices. Others would want us to register, to remain at their platform as much as possible. But Google goes against the wind, and slips us away as soon as possible. Still, we need need it. Still, we are loyal because we believe only this guy has our solution – or he can send us to the best guy in the world.If you are a blogger, learn from Google and don’t hesitate mentioning other people in your posts. If you are real-world businessman, don’t hesitate in making your customer clear that there are other people you know who can help them best.For your own credibility’s sake.Invest in people.Google has the best team in the world. Be it software developers, creative artists, HR Managers, you will find nothing less than the best.If you want a sustainable business, you will have to invest in people who will then pull your business up. Without a team of talented, committed and dedicated people, you can’t establish a good business.If you want to have a happier and well-supported life, then this would mean to invest in friends and relatives.Friends are the best assets and your true friends will be there to support you whenever you will need them. Similarly, having good and friendly ties with relatives is also of equal importance. Relatives are the first people who always come to you in hour of grief. During normal life, try to reach out your relatives, don’t let jealousy, communication gap lose your best assets.If you want to see your family going successful, then this would mean that you should go for raising kids who can really compete the future competition. Love your wife, your children, your parents and engulf them into unity.Make some best ethics rules and adhere to them.There is a reason that everyone wants to come at the first page of Google Search. And the reason is this: Everybody believes that if they adhered toGoogle’s best practices, chances are that they will be positioned at first page of google. Google has maintained its integrity by limiting itself to these rules as well.If you are doing a business, have some best rules of doing it. Once in place, once announced, don’t change them. Reward your people according to their best abidance. Also, try your level best to follow your own rules. This will bring credibility, profitability and transparency in.In a family’s context, make some rules and make it clear to everybody that you hold these rules very dear to yourself. Prove your intentions with your own example. Be good, be genuine, be sacrificing, be there for your family. This is how you are going to have a proud family.Forget About Money!Money is what we all need. But the problem of our mind is that it can only fit one thing in it. Either you can think about how to earn money fast or you can go and think how can I help people solve them problems. These two things are quite different.When your ultimate goal is to earn money, your natural inclination would be towards ways, shortcuts and tricks from which you can make instant money. Sadly, the success you get by following these tricks is short living. You earn some and then lose all. All the money, all the respect and all the reputation.And when your mentality will be to not care for money, but for art, for helping people, you will be totally a different person. This thinking will open long-routes towards success . Thinking about others, finding solutions of complex problems is a very tough road. That’s why it’s less traveled. Choose this, if you really want to have ultimate success.These 5 things will make you Super Rich.I can guarantee you this. Living life under these 5 rules won’t let you starve. Google is the living proof that these things only make your prosper, credible and invincible. But yes, adherence to these 5 point guaranteed success formula demands a lot of hard work, a lot of patience and a lot of commitment.And I think, you can do this. Go!

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