The Top 10 Bestselling Entrepreneur Books
Entrepreneurship demands vision, grit and a relentless appetite for learning. That’s why we’ve curated the bestselling books for entrepreneurs to fuel your journey—whether you’re launching your first venture or scaling to new heights.
These books deliver battle-tested advice from founders who’ve been in the trenches, along with frameworks for innovation, fundraising and building companies that endure.
And don’t just take our word for it: The SUCCESS® Bestsellers list is compiled using data from print and eBook sales from various online and brick-and-mortar retailers to provide you with a reliable and comprehensive list of the bestselling books for entrepreneurs.
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The Artist's Side Hustle
BY STACIE BLOOMFIELD
You don't need to quit your day job to build a real creative business — you need five hours a week. Stacie Bloomfield built Gingiber from a side hustle into a multimillion-dollar business, and The Artist's Side Hustle maps exactly how she did it. The book outlines 13 ways to monetize your art, the mechanics of sustainable growth in the creative economy and a practical framework for building something meaningful in the margins of an already full life — without sacrificing the creative voice that makes your work worth selling. For artists who feel torn between financial reality and creative ambition, this is a guide to treating your art as a business without letting the business swallow the art.
Disciplined Entrepreneurship for Climate and Energy Ventures
BY BEN SOLTOFF, BILL AULET, TOD HYNES
A 24-step framework for building climate and energy ventures — from the minds behind MIT's Climate and Energy Ventures course. Bill Aulet and Ben Soltoff tailor the Disciplined Entrepreneurship process specifically for climate and energy startups, addressing the unique challenges of the sector: long development cycles, complex regulations, and deep-tech risk. The book proves that effective venture creation in climate and energy is about disciplined methodology, not blind intuition — giving founders a precise, step-by-step path from concept to profitable enterprise.
Attitude-E
BY FELIPE GOMEZ
What would happen if an experienced entrepreneur, business leader and great communicator would compile his experiences, insights and learnings in a framework made up of 6 simple steps? It would give you the inspiration and the tools to change your life.Felipe Gomez has done exactly that in Attitude-E. He has combined insights learned from his own experience as a serial entrepreneur and as a high level executive in multinational corporations, sharing his accomplishments and his mistakes with insights and examples from the worlds of business, sports, religion, and the arts. The result is a exquisite read book that will provide an applicable framework to become more entrepreneurial in every aspect of your life.
7-Figure Educator
BY ERICA JORDAN-THOMAS
USA Today Bestseller A step-by-step blueprint that helps educators—especially Black educators and educators of color—turn their expertise into a purpose-driven consulting business that finally pays them what they're worth. If you're a high-performing educator who's ever wondered, Is this all there is? —this book is your answer. Whether you're burned out in the classroom, ready to launch a side hustle, or dreaming of building a thriving business, 7-Figure Educator offers a proven roadmap to reclaim your time, income, and impact. Written by former teacher and principal and current 7-figure entrepreneur Dr. Erica Jordan-Thomas, this guide meets you where you are and shows you how to grow a consulting business from the ground up—no MBA required. With a focus on mindset and strategy, this book centers Black educators and educators of color while being inclusive of all educators seeking freedom and financial growth. You'll learn how to: Clarify your niche and identify your ideal client Package and price your services with confidence Build a scalable six-figure business from scratch—on your terms Shift your mindset from employee to founder Create a brand, systems, and team for sustainable growth Packed with case studies, clear steps, and inspiration, 7-Figure Educator is more than a how-to—it's a permission slip for educators to dream big, earn big, and build a business that reflects their purpose and power. If anyone deserves to be a millionaire, it's an educator.
Buy Back Your Time
BY DAN MARTELL
The biggest thing standing between you and a thriving business isn't money, strategy or competition—it's time. Dan Martell, widely recognized as one of the top coaches in the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) world, argues that the real path to scaling a company isn't grinding harder—it's strategically trading money for time. Buy Back Your Time lays out a practical framework for identifying which tasks drain you, building systems and hiring practices that free your calendar and reinvesting that reclaimed time into the work only you can do. With more than two decades as a serial entrepreneur and founder, Martell delivers concrete steps entrepreneurs can act on immediately. For founders who feel trapped inside their own companies, this book reframes growth as a design problem—not an endurance test. Whether you're just starting out or already scaling fast, Buy Back Your Time makes the case that freedom and financial success aren't in conflict. They're the same goal.
How to Make a Few Billion Dollars
BY BRAD JACOBS
Brad Jacobs has built eight companies from scratch and delivered tens of billions in shareholder value—and he's written down exactly how. Over four decades as a serial CEO, Jacobs developed a repeatable playbook for winning at scale. How to Make a Few Billion Dollars moves from the inside out—starting with what Jacobs calls "rearranging your brain" as a prerequisite for outsized ambition, then working outward into M&A strategy, talent acquisition, meeting culture and competitive dominance. The book treats a company at its best as a superorganism: aligned, fast-moving and ruthless in execution, yet led with humility and accountability. For founders, executives and ambitious operators who want more than inspiration, this is a tactical road map from someone who has actually done it—repeatedly, across industries and economic cycles.
Liftoff
BY ERIC BERGER
"A colorful page-turner." —Walter Isaacson, New York Times Book Review "As important a book on space as has ever been written." —Homer Hickam, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rocket Boys The dramatic inside story of the historic flights that launched SpaceX—and Elon Musk—from a shaky start-up into the world's leading-edge rocket company. SpaceX has enjoyed a miraculous decade. Less than 20 years after its founding, it boasts the largest constellation of commercial satellites in orbit, has pioneered reusable rockets, and in 2020 became the first private company to launch human beings into orbit, a landmark moment in the history of private spaceflight. Half a century after the space race it is private companies, led by SpaceX, standing alongside NASA, pushing forward into the cosmos, and laying the foundation for our exploration of other worlds. But before it became one of the most powerful players in the aerospace industry, SpaceX was a fledgling start-up, scrambling to develop a single workable rocket before the money ran dry. The engineering challenge was immense; numerous other private companies had failed similar attempts. And even if SpaceX succeeded, they would then have to compete for government contracts with titans such as Lockheed Martin and Boeing, who had tens of thousands of employees and tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue. SpaceX had fewer than 200 employees and the relative pittance of $100 million in the bank. In Liftoff , Eric Berger, senior space editor at Ars Technica , takes readers inside the wild early days that made SpaceX. Focusing on the company's first four launches of the Falcon 1 rocket, he charts the bumpy journey from scrappy underdog to aerospace pioneer. We travel from company headquarters in El Segundo, to the isolated Texas ranchland where they performed engine tests, to Kwajalein, the tiny atoll in the Pacific where SpaceX launched the Falcon 1. Berger has reported on SpaceX for more than a decade, enjoying unparalleled journalistic access to the company's inner workings. Liftoff is the culmination of these efforts, drawing upon exclusive interviews with dozens of former and current engineers, designers, mechanics, and executives, including Elon Musk. The enigmatic Musk, who founded the company with the dream of one day settling Mars, is the fuel that propels the book, with his daring vision for the future of space exploration. Filled with never-before-told stories of SpaceX's turbulent beginning, Liftoff is a tech startup saga of cosmic proportions. This definitive history of SpaceX's origins takes you inside the rocket factory to reveal: A Definitive Tech Biography: Go behind the scenes with Elon Musk and the core team of engineers who willed a rocket company into existence, based on dozens of exclusive interviews. High-Stakes Engineering: Witness the immense technical and logistical challenges of the first four Falcon 1 launches, from a Texas test ranch to a tiny, remote Pacific atoll. Startup Against Goliaths: Understand the incredible risks and razor-thin margins of a company with just $100 million in the bank trying to compete with aerospace titans like Boeing. The Birth of an Aerospace Giant: Discover the untold stories from the turbulent early days that laid the groundwork for SpaceX to pioneer reusable rockets and launch humans into orbit.
The Four Principles
BY ADRIAN GORE
'Demonstrates how to create enduring value' - Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock 'For leaders seeking to create outsized impact' - Ruth Porat, President and CIO of Alphabet and Google Expert advice to master your potential, from the founder and CEO of Discovery and Vitality. Adrian Gore built a company from a single, bold idea into a global financial group serving over 40 million customers across more than forty markets. He didn't just scale a business; he created a whole new shared-value business model, a system so revolutionary it's taught as a case study at Harvard Business School and has been recognized by Fortune magazine as 'changing the world'. In The Four Principles , Gore reveals the framework and guiding principles that powered this success for the first time. Moving beyond standard leadership advice, he explores the behavioural science and 'multiplier effect' that occur when these four principles intersect: Disciplined Optimism: We have a default tendency to seek out negative signals. Learn why choosing optimism is the most rational path to seizing overlooked opportunities. Focused Urgency: Why your perceived time to make an impact is shorter than you think. Recognizing this can act as your greatest motivator. Declared Goals: Psychologically, avoiding a loss feels twice as important as achieving a gain. Setting bold goals triggers this force, unlocking radical motivation and decisive action. The ' Pareto Tail ' Building on the other principles, learning to identify and target a few high-power decisions can determine your life's entire trajectory. Gore argues that our instincts, shaped for a simpler, linear world, often mislead us in today's complex, networked age. The Four Principles challenges these outdated mental models and shows you how to harness your potential for truly remarkable results - personally and professionally. 'Important reading for those aspiring to leadership or seeking to make an impact on the world' - Lord William Hague, Chancellor of the University of Oxford ' The Four Principles distils decades of leadership and insight into a practical framework that explains what matters - and why' - Sir Mark Tucker, Chairman, AIA Group
The Best Story Wins
BY MATTHEW LUHN
The best product, idea or pitch rarely wins—the best story does. Matthew Luhn spent over two decades as a story artist and animator at Pixar, helping craft some of the most emotionally resonant films of a generation. In The Best Story Wins , he translates the principles behind that creative process into a practical framework for entrepreneurs, marketers and business communicators who need to cut through noise and move people to action. Where most business storytelling advice stays surface-level, Luhn goes deep into structure, character and emotional truth—the same tools that make audiences weep over animated toys. If your ideas deserve more than a forgettable pitch, this is the methodology to study.
Believe-In-You Money
BY JESSICA NORWOOD
Offering a revolution in Black business financing, this book centers the entrepreneur and responds to the systemic failures surrounding Black wealth building. There is a huge racial wealth gap in America today. Owning a business is one of the best ways to build wealth—but entrepreneurs need capital. And investing in Black companies is obstructed by systemic racism and implicit biases that continue to create barriers to success. Merging historical information and data, along with tactical examples and explanations, this practical guide shows us what needs to be done in order to change the way we support Black companies and how we think about wealth. Norwood calls for investors to move away from extractive, individualistic, exploitative approaches to capital and entrepreneurship. She asks us to move toward transformational, restorative, regenerative, and interdependent relationships to repair the impacts of systemic racism. Investors, large and small, need to say to Black business owners, "we believe in you." With an entrepreneur-centric approach, Believe-In-You Money challenges the system failure surrounding Black companies. It's a guide on how Black entrepreneurs can be supported in sustainable ways and offers a shift in the way we think about who can be an investor, while aiming to change our personal relationships with money.