The Top 10 Most Recommended Books by Successful People

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"Most successful people will credit much of their success, knowledge, and skills to reading."

Once Elon Musk is asked how he learned to build rockets, his response is simple.

“I read books,” he apparently likes to say.

Reading books is essential for the success of an entrepreneur or even individual, however, what is just as important is reading the right books. Entrepreneurship is a skill. And success can be more easily reached through education.

After sifting through Many of book and Recommendation,Interviews of successfull Persons And To be Honest I havn't read all listed below but All Listed Books are recommendation from successful entrepreneurs and leaders including those of Fortune 500 and INC 500 and CEOs such as Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Larry Page, and Warren Buffet,etc. 

 I have compiled this list of the most recommended business and self-improvement books.

These books may help you dive into the minds of the world’s top entrepreneurs and learn what they learn and consider to be valuable and useful to improve your own life and business.

Here are the top 10 books most recommended books by successful entrepreneurs and leaders

1. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t by Jim Collins
2. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
3. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
4. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins

5. How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
6. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen Covey
7. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey A. Moore

8. The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter Drucker

9. The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change) by Clayton M. Christensen
10. Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck-Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins & Morten T. Hansen

1. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t by Jim Collins

 

• Over 3.1 million copies sold 
• Recommended by:
  • 35 Fortune 500 CEOs
  • 18 INC 500 CEOs
  • Jeff Bezos, Evan Williams, Pini Yakuel, Max Levchin, Rand Fishkin, John Doerr, Drew Huston, Simon Sinek, Gavin Kerr, Bogdan Iordache, Rand Fishkin

 

Good to Great is THE #1 most recommended business book by far with a total of 53 recommendations by Fortune 500 and INC 500 CEOs. Many CEOs not only recommended this book but listed it as the best business book they had ever read.

Jim Collins examined the performance of 1,435 good companies over 40 years. In Good to Great, he presents why some companies became great and why others didn’t.

Although this is a business book, it can also be seen as a personal development book. The concepts exemplified by businesses can be applied to personal life as well.

Buy this Book: Amazon

 

2. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters

 

• #1 New York Times Bestseller
• Recommended by:
  • INC 500 CEOs
  • Elon Musk, Dustin Moskovitz, Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella, Danielle Morrill, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, James Altucher, Bogdan Iordache, Deepak Chhugani

 

Zero to One is written by PayPal co-founder, Peter Thiel along with Blake Masters. This book is about starting from nothing into something and exploring the possibilities of an idea. An inspirational and thought-provoking read for entrepreneurs.

“This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.”
— Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook/

“Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.”
— Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla

Buy this Book: Amazon 

 

3. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

 

• Recommended by:
  • 4 INC 500 CEOs
  • Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Peter Thiel, Dustin Moskovitz, Michael Dell, Omer Molad, Satya Nadella, Danielle Morrill, Dennis Yang, Mark Roberge, Bogdan Iordache, Deepak Chhugani

 

In The Hard Thing About Hard Things, venture capitalist, Ben Horowitz discusses the difficulties about starting a business and how they can be dealt with. He keeps it real with the fact that there is no one way to success. There are, however, lessons we can learn from the failures and hardships of others.

“Ben’s experience and expertise make him one of the most important leaders not just in Silicon Valley but also in the global knowledge economy. For anyone interested in building, growing or leading a great company, this book is an incredibly valuable resource – and a funny and insightful read.”
— Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook

Buy this Book: Amazon 

 

4. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins

 

• Recommended by:
  • 5 Fortune 500 CEOs
  • 3 INC 500 CEOs
  • Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon, Jack Ma, Brian Tracy, Drew Huston, Sean Si, Rand Fishkin, Tim O’Reilly

 

Author of Good to Great, Jim Collins also wrote a second book on this list, Built to Last along with Jerry Porras. In this book, they showcase the crucial differences between businesses that survive and those that burn out fast. This book is for anyone who wishes not just to reach success but to make it last and stand the test of time, whether for their business or personal life.

“This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial. This is a book about visionary companies.” — excerpt from the book

Buy this Book: Amazon

 

5. How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

 

• Over 30 million copies sold
• Recommended by:
  • 7 INC 500 CEOs
  • Warren Buffett, Dave Rusenko, Kyle Lelli, John Doerr, Daymond John, John C. Maxwell, Sean Si, Will Schenk

 

This well-known classic should be a staple in everyone’s library. It’s one of the bestselling self-help books of all time ranking as Amazon’s 11th highest selling nonfiction book.

Times Magazine ranked it as the 19th most influential book of all time in 2011, and the Library of Congress has ranked it as the seventh most influential book in American history.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett claims the book changed his life. He also took a course that Dale Carnegie ran in conjunction with the book. To this day, he still has the diploma from the course hanging in his office.

Buy this Book: Amazon

 

6. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen Covey

 

• Over 25 million copies sold
• Recommended by:
  • 2 Fortune 500 CEOs
  • 5 INC 500 CEOs
  • Bill Clinton, Noah Kagan, Simon Sinek, John C. Maxwell, Sean Si, Jim Collins

 

Considered as one of the most influential books of all time, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is more than a book. It’s a refreshing way of living through 7 habits. The habits go beyond surface level success though. They involve living with integrity as well which give the book all the more power and influence.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was named the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century. Stephen Covey was recognized as one of Time magazine’s twenty-five most influential Americans.

Buy this Book: Amazon

 

7. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey A. Moore

 

• A Businessweek Bestseller
• Recommended by:
  • 2 INC 500 CEOs
  • Guy Kawasaki, Seth Godin, Andrew Chen, Ken Norton, Nir Eyal, Bogdan Iordache, Neal O’Gorman, James A. Unruh, Tom Kendra, Joe Schoendorf

 

Crossing the Chasm provides insight into the markets of technology and the adoption of technology by consumers. Many businesses fail to understand their markets. This book will help you, as an entrepreneur better understand your customers’ needs and to cater to them.

Buy this Book: Amazon

 

8. The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter Drucker

 

• Recommended by:
  • 5 Fortune 500 CEOs
  • 2 INC 500 CEOs
  • Jeff Bezos, Guy Kawasaki, Jim Collins, Tim Ferriss

 

The Effective Executive is about the ability to get the right things done, effectiveness in business. Peter Drucker identifies five practices essential to effectiveness in business. This book will teach you the skills on how to properly manage and get results in business.

Jim Collins, author of three different books on this list, considers Peter Drucker the greatest management thinker of all time.

“I think it’s much more valuable than 99% of the so-called time management books out there.”
— Tim Ferriss, Entrepreneur and Author of The 4-Hour Workweek

Buy this Book: Amazon

9. The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change) by Clayton M. Christensen

 

• Recommended by:
  • 1 INC 500 CEOs
  • Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Mark Cuban, Guy Kawasaki, Evan Williams, Andrew Grove, Andrew Chen, Bogdan Iordache, Tim O’Reilly, Garrett Moon

 

The Innovator’s Dilemma is written by Harvard Business School professor and seasoned business consultant, Clayton M. Christensen. This book interestingly explores why great companies fail even when they’re seemingly doing everything right. Christensen highlights strategies that can help businesses avoid these failures.

“This helped me make sense of why things worked and didn’t work in the technology industry.”
— Mark Cuban, Shark Tank Investor

“This was a formative read for me: it taught me why it’s so hard to come up with a second hit and why startups often have the advantage when creating curve-­jumping innovation.”
— Guy Kawasaki, Entrepreneur

Buy this Book: Amazon

 

10. Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck-Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins & Morten T. Hansen

 

• Recommended by:
  • 7 Fortune 500 CEOs
  • 2 INC 500 CEOs
  • Angela Ahrendts

 

A third book on this list by Jim Collins along with Morten T. Hansen. This approach takes a look at business in difficult, uncertain and even chaotic environments that prevail against extreme odds based on nine years of research. We can also take this approach from businesses to apply to our own lives and help us to thrive in difficult times and circumstances.

Buy this Book: Amazon

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