Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too  by Gary Vaynerchuk 

This book will definitely inspire you to move from an idea to your own business. In this book, Gary Waynerchuk interviews different entrepreneurs who started from scratch and made their way to the top. The true stories in this book will boost your motivation and give you a lot of new ideas. Gary Vaynerchuk builds businesses. Fresh out of college, he took his family wine business and grew it from a $3M to a $60M business in just five years. Now he runs VaynerMedia, one of the world’s hottest digital agencies.

The Nuclear Effect: The 6 Pillars of Building a 7+ Figure Online Business  by Scott Oldford 

This is the book about creating a successful online business in today’s world. It will help you diagnose your strengths and weaknesses, create an effective plan for success, and move forward with confidence. A mandatory read for all modern entrepreneurs. Scott Oldford is a mentor, investor, and advisor for successful online businesses. He’s also the creator of The Relevancy, Omnipresence, and Intimacy Marketing & Sales Method, 6 Pillar Framework, and REwired, all systems that help entrepreneurs scale their businesses and generate sustainability. After successfully developing nine companies, Scott has mentored thousands and helped many businesses reach the multimillion-dollar mark.

Pocket Mentor: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Building a Lasting Business from Scratch by Mark Nureddine 

This is really an excellent book, providing a lot of details and practical advice on starting a business from scratch. It will help you prepare yourself for unexpected situations and hurdles you will encounter during your start-up and after. The author is the owner of the huge Bull Outdoor Products company, which provides grills, islands, and grilling components to more than 900 dealers and distributors within North America, while also reaching fifteen countries and growing.

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable  by Seth Godin 

If you are an entrepreneur, then you know that the old ways of pouring a lot of money into advertisements to promote average stuff and hoping to succeed do not work anymore. To succeed today, you have to stand out and be remarkable, whatever you do. When you create something new, it has to be remarkable, it has to be the “purple cow” every time you create something new. That is not an easy task, and the author of this book explains how to be consistent and successful with every new product. Seth Godin is the author of nineteen international bestsellers that have been translated into over thirty-five languages, and have changed the way people think about marketing and work.

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to do About It  by Michael E. Gerber 

This is a book for anyone starting a small business. This book will help you understand that if you want to be successful in your business, you have to start thinking like an entrepreneur. When you learn to focus on the business as a whole, instead of only dealing with the technical part of business, your business will start to grow. Inc. Magazine called Michael E. Gerber “the World’s #1 Small Business Guru.” He started over forty-plus years ago addressing a significant need in the small business market: businesses owned primarily by people with technical skills but who possessed few business skills, and they had no place to go to get meaningful help.

The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki 

If you are planning to start your own company, this is the guide you have been looking for. This book will help you choose your business model, write a business plan, build your brand, and much more. Guy Kawasaki is a marketing specialist, author, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist. He worked with Steve Jobs and was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing their Macintosh computer line in 1984

The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results  by Gary W. Keller and Jay Papasan 

Multitasking is a myth. Our brain can work only on one thing at a time effectively. A lot of people spread themselves too thin and never reach their goals. If you have trouble setting your priorities, this book will help you with that. Gary Keller is an entrepreneur and best-selling author. He is the founder of Keller Williams, which is the largest real estate company in the world by agent count, closed sales volume, and units sold.

Principles: Life and Work  by Ray Dalio 

This book is huge. Ray Dalio, one of the most successful businesspersons in the USA, poured his life experience into this book. Take a deep breath and get a notebook before you start reading it. It will take some time to go through it, but after you go complete it, you will observe the world through different glasses. Ray Dalio is a billionaire American hedge fund manager and philanthropist who has served as co-chief investment officer of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, since 1985. He founded Bridgewater in 1975 in New York.

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World  by Cal Newport 

The book about one of the most important skills you need to be successful—the ability to focus without distraction. This book will help you become more effective in your work and be able to quickly master complicated information. Cal Newport runs the popular website Study Hacks: Decoding Patterns of Success, and he is an author and an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown University. 

Leave The Grind Behind: Rocket fuel to live life on your terms. Make more money, build your legacy, and quit your job by Justin Gesso 

If you are looking for ways to leave your day job and follow your own dream, this is the book for you. Jobs in the corporate world are becoming more and more demanding. Working more for less, no job satisfaction, and not enough time with your family makes more and more people turn to self-employment. This book will help you make your move and give you some concrete guidelines on what to do. Justin Gesso is a best-selling author, MBA, and accomplished entrepreneur. He thrives on helping others achieve their own personal freedom through the creation of simple money machines, side hustles, and small businesses.

A few more great books :

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing  by Burton G. Malkiel 

This is a very popular book on investing. If you are interested in stocks and other types of investments, you will find enough details to get going on more than 400 pages of this book. Burton G. Malkiel is the Chemical Bank Chairman’s Professor of Economics at Princeton University. His books include From Wall Street to the Great Wall, Naked Economics, The Random Walk Guide to Investing, and the mega-bestseller A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future  by Ashlee Vance 

The success of Elon Musk and the responsibility that goes with it requires incredible dedication. If you want to know the details behind Elon Musk’s success, together with his life struggles, get this book. Ashlee Vance is an award-winning feature writer for Bloomberg Businessweek magazine. Vance is also the host of the “Hello World” TV show. Previously, he worked for The New York Times and The Register.

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?  by Seth Godin 

If you want to create a successful career and to stand out no matter what you do, this is the right book for you. In this book, the author explains what you have to do and how to do it if you want to become indispensable. Seth Godin is the author of nineteen international bestsellers that have been translated into over thirty-five languages, and have changed the way people think about marketing and work.

Be Obsessed or Be Average  by Grant Cardone 

If you want to succeed as an entrepreneur, you have to work on it with all you’ve got. This book will help you adjust your mindset for success. Before Grant Cardone built five successful companies and wrote a few best-selling books, he was broke, jobless, and drug-addicted. According to Inc. Magazine, this was one of the seven best motivational books of 2016.

46 Rules of Genius: An Innovator’s Guide to Creativity  by Marty Neumeier (Amazon.com book link or Amazon.co.uk book link)

If you want to use your creativity to the fullest and develop your authentic style, this is the book for you. This book will help you activate your inner genius by teaching you how to ask yourself the right questions. If you want to learn to innovate and be original, here you will discover the way you need to think. Marty Neumeier is an author, designer, and brand adviser whose mission is to bring the principles and processes of design to business.

The Richest Man in Babylon  by George S. Clason 

This classic book from 1926 explains timeless principles related to money and personal wealth. It shares the secrets of the ancient Babylonians, who were the first to discover the universal laws of prosperity. George Samuel Clason (November 7, 1874 – April 7, 1957), also known as George S. Clason, was born in Louisiana, Missouri, and died in Napa, California. During his eighty-two years, he was a soldier, businessman, and writer. He served in the United States Army during the Spanish-American War

Think and Grow Rich  by Napoleon Hill 

One of the best-selling classics of all time, and with a reason. This book is not only about financial success, but about life values, teamwork, and personal growth. Napoleon Hill began his writing career at age thirteen as a “mountain reporter” for small-town newspapers and went on to become America’s most beloved motivational author. His work stands as a monument to individual achievement and is the cornerstone of modern motivation. Hill established the Foundation as a nonprofit educational institution whose mission is to perpetuate his philosophy of leadership, self-motivation, and individual achievement.

Prototype to Product: A Practical Guide for Getting to Market  by Alan Cohen 

This is the book to read if you are preparing yourself for a technical start-up (go to Look inside on Amazon to see the details). Here you will discover many details you do not know related to getting a product to market. After reading this 440-page book, there will not be much to ask. You will learn a lot about the equipment and materials you need, regulations and safety standards you have to comply with, analyzing the market, ways to avoid common pitfalls, and a lot more. Alan Cohen, a veteran systems and software engineering manager and lifelong technophile, specializes in leading the development of medical devices and other high-reliability products.