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July 20, 2019

Starting a Business? Read These 6 Books to Become a Successful Businessman

Are you about to start a new business?

Do you have an idea but can’t find the best strategy to implement it?

Sometimes achieving a goal by turning ideas into a reality seems to be an impossible task.

In the end, most of the people end up making many mistakes. To avoid such a thing, it is very necessary to have a perfect plan. This way you can eliminate the risk and hire the best people within budget. Another best way to resolve this issue is to read business books. So, to help you out with this, here are the best masterpieces that will transform your innovative ideas into a productive business mantra.

Best 3 Books to Read Before You Start Your Own Business:

  1. Good Luck: Alex Rovira

It is one of the best books that explains to entrepreneurs that luck can never be accidental. We are the only one who make our own luck. In this book, Alex Rovira and Fernando Trias de Bes (marketing consultant) revealed the story of two people who ‘accidentally’ met in central park. After 50 years, they met again just to discover that only one of them have made this luck. So, this book is a story within a story. By reading this book, you will get a lot of inspiration and motivation to work harder and believe in your ideas. Good Luck simply denotes one message, “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” So, if you really want to become a good businessman, then you have to trust your judgment.

  1. The Lean Start-up: Eric Reis

Yes! It is a bitter truth that in today’s competitive world, simple business ideas are not enough to beat the ideas of existing enterprises. Most of the people take a risk without thinking about the consequences and move further with simple ideas. At last, they end up shutting down their business. This book is purely dedicated towards “how to achieve a dream”, by turning ideas into a reality. So, for the beginners, it is one of the best books to get started with the right path as it encourages startups to change their directions by simply modifying their general structure for achieving success.

  1. The Peter Principle – Why Things Always Go Wrong: Laurence J. Peter & Raymond Hull

This is the one of the most remarkable books that make all the businessman realize that no plan is good enough and safe to get a perfect success in life. According to this book, failure will happen if you least expect it to happen, and every entrepreneur must be aware of this fact. The Peter Principle simply says, if you want your business to stay for a long time, then you must pay much attention to your employees because they are the ones who act as a glue to stick the company together.

Most of the businessmen have this question “why can’t my business rise up to the expectation of the people?” So, this book provides an accurate answer to this question.

  1. The Psychology of Selling: Brian Tracy

Every entrepreneur is aware of the fact that, the key towards a good business is a good sales technique. Good sale doesn’t mean you have to sell your product. It simply means that you are selling your ideas. No matter, how great product you have, it’s of no use if you do not have an idea to make people influence. So, this book basically, gives an idea about how to make more sale by simply focusing on one thing. There are most of the entrepreneurs who forget the basics of selling jump right over to getting excellent results. But, if you really to want to get the desired results, then you need to know the basics first. This book focus on these points mainly.

  1. The $100 Startup: Chris Gillebeau

This is very interesting and especially for those who feel demotivated due to lack of funds. From this book, Chris turns the table around and gives the upper hand to such entrepreneurs. In his book, he has mentioned the stories of almost 50 businessmen who have started their business with only a few bucks in their account and now making more than $50,000. This is one of the best books to help you stay motivated and to make you understand how to become a successful businessman. So, just get the idea, have the passion, and the rest will follow.

  1. Founders at Work: Jessica Livingston

We have heard many success stories, but do not know the real struggle behind it. If we talk about the previous book that is “The $100 Startup”, in that book Chris has mentioned that how XYZ person has gained $50,000 with just a little investment. Jessica Livingston goes over, all those questions in her book Founders at Work by interviewing some of the biggest businessmen in the world and asking all the right questions and then further mentioning it in the book. So, if you want to know the path to become a successful businessman, then just go through this book…

Final Words…

Before, you think to start a new business, try to read such books so that you will come to know the real facts and can work on it. No doubt, starting a new business is a difficult task as it takes a lot of time and efforts. But, if you want to be successful in your life, then you must be willing to fail and try again. Just use your mistakes as an experience and one day you will build an empire.

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