Dad no idea how any of that worked and the main concept that
he came up with in this book is automating your finances.
So instead of let's say you make $3,000 a month instead of
saying that you make $3,000 to yourself you say hey, I make
$2,500 a month and then you automatically save the 500 and
only work within that $2,500 a month.
That was the big thing that I got from roommate and I still
save money using the automated systems that he set up in
that book.
These are the top 10 must read business books for entrepreneurs.
These are the books that have had the most impact on my life.
And if I was going to start over from scratch, I would read
these books in this order.
That's what we're going to talk about today.
I've thought a lot about this and I organized this list of
ten books in the order.
You should read it in if you're a new entrepreneur and you
want to take your business to the next level.
Who am I?
I'm Alex Berman, we've generated over 10 million dollars
in sales across multiple companies currently I am serial entrepreneur
and I run a marketing agency a digital Product Company a
software business real estate and some more companies like
that. So here we go the top 10 must read business books for
entrepreneurs first.
Let's talk about how this list is organized.
I wanted this list to cover the entire entrepreneur experience.
So we have books that are extremely strategic and tactical
and we have books that are more of the soft mindset stuff.
That is very necessary.
This list is also broken up into two halves the first five
are more basic entrepreneurship getting you out there starting
your business teaching you the core framework of what a business
actually is.
And then the second five are way more strategic higher level
content that will help you once you've already started and
you may be made your first dollar and want to continue.
So here we go.
First one is I will teach you to be rich by ramit Sethi this
book covers step-by-step how to automate your finances.
So that you can start actually saving money.
You can set a budget this book is actually what got me to
start saving money in college.
I had no idea how any of that worked and the main concept
that he came up with in this book is automating your finances.
So instead of let's say you make $3,000 a month instead of
saying that you make $3,000 to yourself you say.
Hey, I make $2,500 a month and then you automatically save
the 500 and only work within that $2,500 a month.
That was the the big thing that I got from ramit and I still
save money using the automated systems that he set up in
that book.
So that is very important because if you don't have any money
you're going to run into issues when it comes to starting
your business, you need to have at least a little bit of
savings and the best way to do that is with I'll teach you
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two is how to talk to anyone about anything by Leil lowndes
a lot of business book lists will recommend How to win friends
and influence people that one didn't resonate with me as
much as how to talk to anyone and what this book covers is
90 plus little tips and tricks on how to get people to talk
more how to become more friendly basically everything that's
in How to Win Friends and Influence People in a more tactical
step-by-step Manner and I still think about this book.
I still use the tactics in this book and I read this maybe
eight years ago.
So that is number two number one will teach you how to have
a cushion of money so that you can take more risks number
two teachers.
To talk to people now number three is for opening up your
eyes. This is 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss.
This book coined a few terms that we still use in the entrepreneurship
circles. Timothy Ferriss was the first person I ever heard talk
about a virtual assistant hiring somebody overseas to do
your day-to-day menial tasks.
He has a framework in 4-Hour workweek that covers how to
come up with business Concepts and he has a lot of the mindset
stuff from books that are recommended on other both lists
the old-school Think and Grow Rich type of books are all
covered in the first part of 4-Hour Work week.
That's why I recommend this one 4-Hour workweek also opened
me up to the concept of what a business was when I was first
starting an entrepreneurship.
I had no idea what a business was.
I had no idea even what a job was I just saw like office
space and those guys are working at a desk, but I didn't
know what they were doing actually and 4-Hour workweek helped
because it shows how to come up with a product idea.
What the Today actually looks like he talks about his crew
that he has on phone calls doing support calls for his customers.
How often he's checking email things like that.
And the reason why this is the third book is the earlier
you read four hour work week in your life.
The easier your life is going to be I'm glad that I got the
paradigm shift in college rather than when I was 30 or 40
or 50 years old, but it's never too late number four is another
mindset book its Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki this
Book goes over Robert T. kiyosaki's to Dad's which yeah, they
may or may not be actually real dad's.
It doesn't matter.
Don't worry about Robert T. Kiyosaki as a person.
Just look at this book in the book Robert T. Kiyosaki has two
dads one is the Poor Dad and the other is the rich dad.
And the main thing that this book covers is let's say you
wanted to buy a new iPhone the Poor Dad would say I can't
afford that and the rich dad would say instead.
How can I afford that and then the rich dad would go out
and figure out a business.
Is that he could do and sell and actually go and buy the
iPhone versus the poor Dad who would just say I can't afford
that or maybe go into debt to buy that phone.
That's the biggest difference between Rich Dad Poor Dad.
There's a lot of very interesting mindset stuff here.
That should help you break out of the invisible scripts that
we all run and that's very important as an entrepreneur.
We live outside of society and a good entrepreneur is not
going to take the life that Everyone is saying as the truth,
we know that our reality is just as real as anybody else's
reality. So if we take the mindset of how can I afford this
instead of I can't afford this we know that there's so much
more to be gained and that's the kind of thing that's covered
in Rich Dad Poor Dad.
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Number five is Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J Stanley.
This books also a real eye-opener because after reading 4-Hour
Work Week where he's selling pills and medicines and talking
about e-commerce and info products and then Rich Dad Poor
Dad where he's talking about cash loans and buying real estate.
It's very refreshing to read a book like Millionaire Next
Door where they're talking about.
What?
Have actual millionaires done to make money and the answer
was surprising.
It was things like Plumbing selling Lumber selling things
that people buy every day and just doing it a little better
or finding their Corner within those markets that already
exists and that's what I really love about Millionaire Next
Door. It shows you that the millionaire lifestyle is super
achievable and it doesn't require you to be a tech entrepreneur
that comes up with the next billion-dollar idea.
You can become a millionaire.
Maybe not even better than the next.
Guy just selling Lumber or being a plumber or something like
that. And that's what I really love about Millionaire Next
Door. It's interesting, but it's still a cow.
Meaning you go for a cow.
You want a cow, but the one you're more likely to buy is
the cow that is just a little bit different a little bit
more special than the others and that's how you win in business.