I research a lot to find out the best entrepreneur books for beginners. I enlist the books with their one Line, Key points and reason for reading.
Table of Contents
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz:
One-Liner:
The book explains the challenges and decisions of leaders that lessons about building a great institution with outstanding leadership.
Why read it:
The book explains the CEOs’ struggles and ways to make the CEO’s job easier. Ben Horowitz is one of the experienced silicon valley entrepreneurs. He explains the essential ways to run a company even in hard times. The author teaches about coping with the upcoming challenge by shifting your leadership style.
Key points:
Stay honest and face the bad news when a crisis occurs. Try to solve instead of hiding.
Strategic CEOs follow the vision to give the path. The Practical CEO is applying and directing the team.
Get used to losing your comfort zone and be comfortable with uncomfortable.
The Richest Man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason:
One-Liner:
The book teaches you ancient lessons and stories about ancient Babylon through evergreen financial advice applicable for everyone.
Why read it:
It’s a classic entrepreneurial book that gives you accomplishments for desire and getting out of the financial crisis. It teaches ancient as well as scientific ways to build your wealth. The book shares you the difference between making money and having wealth. It teaches the mindset to attract your luck and improve the right things.
Key points:
Get your spending less than your earnings and invest your saving for the long term.
Attract luck by working hard to take advantage of the opportunity.
Never buy things that you can’t afford by taking debt.
Zero to One by Blake Masters and Peter Thiel:
One-Liner:
It explains Peter Thiel’s experience lessons about creating Paypal and investing in Facebook to be a billionaire.
Why read it:
The book teaches several strategies to become unique and survivable in your business. It values your ability to focus on enormous profits. The book supports innovative ideas that suit the future.
It teaches you the right way to succeed in your startup. The authors give the right way to monetize your unique idea in the market.
Key points:
The vertical leap yields the biggest progress than a then horizontal one. It’s about creating your Genuine idea.
Monopolies are good for societies and businesses. The one company do best other have no space.
The Proper vision (no matter if Weirdo) bring your company from zero to one.
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell:
One-Liner:
The book explains the essential elements to work on ideas that make them viral with no limit.
Why read it:
Malcolm Gladwell explains that ideas influence the spreading of disease. It explains the role of influencers, social connectors and salespeople in yielding profit through Ideas. The book explains the personalities that carry ideas. The tripping point comes through the fashion trends, specific product popularity and social behaviour transformation. Read about Malcolm Gladwell’s leadership.
Key points:
The point comes when your idea transforms from few to everyone, reaching the triple point.
Social connectors, Salesmen and influential personalities make the idea viral.
Your idea should be rememberable enough to take action make it viral.
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries:
One-Liner:
The book teaches about starting a business applying the real-world approach for creating and running a profitable business model.
Why read it:
The book teaches that startup requirement is different from an established company. It encourages consistent evaluation of your expectations and Real statistics. Develop learning and measuring loop to get success again. The book teaches about the core values that run the company compared to trendy appropriations. It’s one of the entrepreneur books that gives beginners a realistic business model to start it.
Key points:
Validate your business idea by getting clients in the early stage.
Learn the customer’s wants and need as you progress through separating unwanted needs.
Never put yourself in irrelevant or excessive pride of achievement.
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel:
One-Liner:
The book teaches rational abilities to overcome prejudices and emotions about money through better decision abilities.
Why read it:
The book teaches the Right behaviour towards managing your money. It shares various mathematical ways to be rational instead of emotional about money. It shares Various stories about strange beliefs about money. The author explains about happiness or progressive mentality to achieve financed associated goals.
Key points:
Never observe your money in terms of greed, be humble about it.
Understand your emotional factors involved in money for financial independence.
The early financial experiences develop our next financial moves.
The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss:
One-Liner:
It’s a guide about transforming your day job into a business that offers you a dream lifestyle.
Why read it:
It teaches you about developing a business system that offers less and quality work. The book shares to carry a long career with directional work. Tim Ferriss teaches that you can identify the meaning after eliminating the office atmosphere. It values improving skill for inevitable performance than average more work.
Key points:
Do few but with effectiveness yield enormous progress.
Validate your idea by making sure people are willing to give money.
Develop premium quality that offers fewer clients and more free time.
Rework by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried:
One-Liner:
The book explains that starting business requirements is less than our thoughts, never plan harmfully, Productivity is not working long, external investing is essential.
Why read it:
It teaches you about the ways to launch your business. You can be small but act like a big company. You can develop the right environment that suits your business. The decisive action gives planning direction instead of thinking.
Key points:
Choose the path that you believe is worth taking and compete for it.
Be honest, humble and personal about your work instead of acting like big corporate.
The long hour’s work never yields Productivity.
Good to Great by Jim Collins:
One-Liner:
It shares the 28 Companies’ study of 30Years to be great and stand out from competitors.
Why read it:
The survey-based book teaches lessons to build last and become great from average. It explains ways to handle your company and shift its path for greatness. Jim Collins teach leadership, competitive strategies, discipline levels and strategic marketing actions.
Key points:
Identify your strategy that covers your best version, passion and economic values.
Adopt new technology that levels up your growth.
Work on the faith that makes you comfortable about the uncomfortable truth.
