Thought this might be interesting to the TiA community – a listicle of 50 books recommended by 50 global entrepreneurs on Entrepreneur. My personal favourites are ‘How to win friends and influence people’ by Dale Carnegie and of course, ‘Zero to One’ by Peter Thiel.
Share your favourites, TiA community!
Here’s the list:
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill — recommended by Sandile B. Magwaza
- Start by Jon Acuff — recommended by Kimberly Edwards LaComba
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries — recommended by Matt Barber
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel — recommended by Franklin McCullough
- Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki — recommended by Mannan Gupta
- The 100 Dollar Start Up by Chris Guillebeau — recommended by Nawaz Dangra
- Produced by Faith by Devon Franklin — recommended by Say Smith
- The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave LeBon — recommended by Ingo Behle
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey — recommended by Puna Snamandla Gumede
- The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner — recommended by Vrush SG
- The Day That Turns Your Life Around by Jim Rohn — recommended by Paul Kudzaishe Kuona
- Miss Jessie’s: Creating a Business From Scratch Naturally by Miko Branch
- Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing: What the Rich Invest In, That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not Do! by Robert Kiyosaki — recommended by Bek Alcantara
- The Richest Man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason — recommended by Mphezeni Thwala
- The Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss — recommended by Roxana-Mark Stahl
- Rework by David Heinemeier and Jason Fried — recommended by Shan Ru Shaman
- Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson — recommended by Marci Pascua
- Crush It by Gary Vaynerchuk — recommended by Alex Velev
- Stay Hungry by Rashmi Bansal — recommended by Shaukat Kotwal
- The Startup of You by Reid Hoffman — recommended by Bright Bruce
- Good to Great by Jim Collins — recommended by Adetona Abiodun Abdulquadri
- Entrepreneur Revolution by Daniel Priestley — recommended by Oliver Woodward
- Millionaire Fastlane by MJ Demarco — recommended by Andrew Kingsley
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie — recommended by Niall Kenny
- The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz — recommended by Marisol Acevedo
- The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley — recommended by Mark Whelan
- The Amazing Race to Entrepreneurial Freedom by Georgina Terry — recommended by Dana Malkenhorst
- The Education of Millionaires by Michael Ellsberg — recommended by Oscar Niebla Fuentes
- The E Myth by Michael E. Gerber — recommended by Matthew Deem
- Do You by Russell Simmons — recommended by Shy Set Apart
- The Alchemist by Paolo Cohelo — recommended by Nick Taylor
- The Law of Success by Napoleon Hill — recommended by Yoshua Werts-Galloway
- You Were Born Rich by Bob Proctor — recommended by Golden Gepp
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu — recommended by Terri Hayes Leary
- What the Rich Know and Desperately Want to Keep Secret by Brian Sher — recommended by Okoro Henry
- Business at the Speed of Thought by Bill Gates — recommended by Simphiwe Siflso Hlabisa
- How to License Your Million Dollar Idea by Harvey Reese — recommended by Shelly Kochevar
- Start With Why by Simon Sinek — recommended by Terry Tsang
- Creativity, Inc. Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand In the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull — recommended by Jessica Adams
- Choose Yourself by James Altucher — recommended by Tony Williams
- The Opportunity Analysis Canvas by Dr. James V. Green –recommended by Jamilah Merrick
- Do Cool Shit by Miki Agrawal — recommended by Richard Kevin Nesbitt
- Three Feet From Gold by Sharon Lechter and Craig Reid — recommended by Ash Schmidt
- The Obstacle is the Way – the Timeless Art of Turning Trials Into Triumph by Ryan Holiday — recommended by Prabhjot Maan Puar
- The Everything Store by Brad Stone — recommended by Arne Giske
- The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham — recommended by Nilo Frias
- The One Thing by Gary Keller — recommended by Caio Amaral
- The Bible — recommended S’phiwe Ngubane
- The Success Principles by Jack Canfield — recommended by Kelly Jacobson
- Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill — recommended by Kyle
Source: https://www.techinasia.com/talk/list-50-books-recommended-50-global-entrepreneurs/