20 Best Business Books of All Time

Our goal: Find the best Business books according to the internet (not just one random person's opinion).

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Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
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(Updated 2024)

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Last Updated: Monday 1 Jan, 2024

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1
How To Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Appears in 4 articles
18recommenders
2
Influence
The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert Cialdini
Appears in 4 articles
18recommenders
3
Deep Work
Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport
Appears in 4 articles
MOST RECOMMENDED!
4
The 4-Hour Workweek
Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Tim Ferriss
Appears in 3 articles
26recommenders
5
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz
Appears in 3 articles
22recommenders
6
Start with Why
How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Simon Sinek
Appears in 3 articles
9recommenders
7
The E-Myth Revisited
Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Michael E. Gerber
Appears in 3 articles
7recommenders
8
Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill
Appears in 3 articles
7recommenders
9
Built to Last
Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins
Appears in 3 articles
5recommenders
10
Zero to One
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel
Appears in 2 articles
22recommenders
11
The Innovator's Dilemma
When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Clayton M. Christensen
Appears in 2 articles
18recommenders
12
The War of Art
Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Steven Pressfield
Appears in 2 articles
16recommenders
13
The Lean Startup
How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Eric Ries
Appears in 2 articles
15recommenders
14
Good to Great
Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
Jim Collins
Appears in 2 articles
11recommenders
15
Mindset
The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck
Appears in 2 articles
10recommenders
16
Essentialism
The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg Mckeown
Appears in 2 articles
7recommenders
17
Elon Musk
Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Ashlee Vance
Appears in 2 articles
6recommenders
18
The Effective Executive
The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
Peter F. Drucker
Appears in 2 articles
5recommenders
19
The ONE Thing
The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
Gary Keller
Appears in 2 articles
4recommenders
20
First, Break All the Rules
What the world's Greatest Managers Do Differently
Gallup Organization
Appears in 2 articles

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