 Entrepreneurs make a lot of decisions, everyday decisions that can either improve their businesses or destroy it. Most of the choices they make, however, are based on knowledge and experience to avoid making terrible decisions or to minimize errors while making more good decisions faster with the right approach. It is essential to read and learn from successful entrepreneurs and mentors. Reading exposes you to a lot of fact and information that has been discovered by people beyond your reach. So how best can you get the species of information when you aren't ordinarily able to reach the authors of these books? I'm sure we can all agree at this point that reading is the only way. According to Jim Rohn, an American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker, reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. Succeeding as an entrepreneur largely depends on your mindset, not your talent or resources. Your mindset, however, can be developed by consuming right contents, such as reading good books, watching certain business TV shows and the likes. So in this video, I'll share with you the best entrepreneur books you should read this year. If you're new here, consider subscribing so that you don't miss out on exciting videos like this. 1. Built to last Successful habits of visionary companies by Jim Collins and Jerry Poros Jim Collins and Jerry Poros dig from a six-year research project examining everyday practice of the most outstanding companies in this book. The book examines over a hundred real-life examples of successful brands and also provide frameworks to help entrepreneurs of all level build a prosperous organization. 2. The Founder's Dialama, Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls that Can Sink a Startup by Noam Wassaman The book, based on the author Noam Wassaman's research at Princeton, studied founders from many industries and detailing their experiences, the good, the bad and the ugly which he documented in his book. Wassaman illustrates using real-life examples why specific ways of approaching entrepreneurship are better than others. He also explains why entrepreneurs need to take proactive steps to keep them from making mistakes that can have adverse effects on their businesses in the long run. This book familiarizes new entrepreneurs with business structures and provide a better understanding of how to do things to ensure a smooth running and management of the business. In other words, the book prepares new entrepreneurs for successful management of their business. 3. The Entrepreneur's Book of Actions by Red Powers The journey of entrepreneurship can be pretty intimidating as entrepreneurs continuously try to look for ways to grow themselves and develop their businesses as well. In this book, however, Red Powers explores tactics and exercises to help entrepreneurs enjoy a much less intimidating journey. Also, this book will help you unleash your potential and experience real personal growth that will help you in developing a sound business strategy and other business-related endeavors. 4. Mindset the New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck As an entrepreneur, you need the mindset of success and Carol Dweck's book is a great place to start in developing that mindset. You see, life is about solving problems and finding solutions. As an entrepreneur, you should be a problem solver. However, if you always look at the risk and consequences of everything, you may never take chances because all you'll be interested in is playing it safe and remaining in your comfort zone. When you don't step out of your comfort zone, you won't grow and if you don't grow, you can succeed. 5. Start, Run and Grow a Successful Small Business by Toolkit Media Group This book is a good recommendation for an all-in-one guard to run in your small business. In this book, you'll learn everything about setting up a business from planning to accounting and staffing with handy checklists, case studies and model business plans to help you start and grow your business. 6. Good Luck, Creating the Conditions for Success in Life and Business by Alex Rovira Good Luck is a great motivational book for people who want to start their businesses because it offers a proper perspective for starting your business and putting your efforts into the context of your overall life plan. The author, Alex Rovira, offers inspiration and motivation for people to believe in their business ideas and trust their judgment instead of focusing on the negatives. The concept of this book is that if you can dream it, then you can do it. Building a business is tough because it requires a lot of hard work, money and time also. To succeed, you must understand that failure is inevitable, so you should be willing to learn and try again after failure, not give up and throw it all out. When you decide to learn from every mistake, you will eventually build an empire. 7. Become your own boss in 12 months, a moon by moon guide to a business that works by Melinda F. Emerson. This self-guide book outlines the task you need to carry out to get your business off the ground. The founder and CEO of Quintessence Multimedia, Melinda Emerson, spells out the step by step activities you need to do within the first year of launching your business from reaching out to venture capitalists, contacting investors and creating a one-year marketing strategy to get in the right software and investing in graphic design. Following these steps will help you build a successful business in no time. Again, as an entrepreneur, building a successful business can only be achieved when you are knowledgeable about your industry, how to budget and invest, amongst other things. There you go. Which of these books would you like to read first? Thank you very much for watching our videos. If you liked this video, watch more videos on our channel and subscribe. We love you.