if we encounter a man of rare intellect
we should ask him what books he reads
Ralph Waldo Emerson hi I’m Evan
Carmichael and today I’m going to share
the 7 books every entrepreneur must read
these are 7 books that have had a
tremendous impact on my life how I think
about business and I hope they have the
same impact on you now I used to have a
ton of books I used to have walls and
walls of books and when I saw something
interesting I would pick it up and buy
it somebody told me to get it I would
buy and I found I had all of these books
just sitting on the shelves collecting
dust night and I was accumulating more
books than I could read and it had great
intentions to read them but I never got
around to them and and they created
stress it created stress looking at all
these books knowing I got to read all of
these things so I decided one day I
would get rid of them all and I donated
them to a local library and I paired it
down I got to my core list of books that
I read and I reread and I’ve given me so
much value and today I wanted to share
them with you and hopefully it
transformed the way you think and
transforms your business as well ok well
that was awkward
test one two one two at number 7 is the
fred factor by Marc Sanborn and this is
a book about delighting your customers
it tells a story about a postman named
Fred who goes over and above to always
delight his customers which are the
people on his route and you think about
being a postman it could be a boring job
right even the same thing over and over
and over and over again every single day
but Fred finds a way to get to know his
customers to watch over the houses when
they when he knows are not home on
vacation to always look for ways to
delight and Surprise them and so if you
have a business where you personally are
involved in dealing with customers which
will be most people or if you have
people on your team who are responsible
for dealing with customers give them
this book it’s a short read look at that
look how thin that is it’s like not even
100 pages when I’m in pages 100 pages
just over a hundred pages super fast
read it’ll change your mindset on how to
work with customers
pick it up at number 6 is the go Giver
by Bob Berg and John David Mann this is
an awesome book another quick read it is
125 pages pretty easy to sift through it
you can probably get it through in one
sitting as well and this book is all
about giving and helps change your
mindset from being a taker and saying
here are my goals and I got to go and
take what I can to realizing that to
accomplish your goals you have to give
to other people help others do what
they’re trying to do help others
accomplish their goals and in turn
they’re going to come back and help you
and often the path to reaching your goal
is totally unexpected and it’s going to
come as a result of helping other people
so it totally changed my mindset of what
I needed to do in business and not just
go and try to reach and take my goals
but to help others along the path it’s
an inspiring story you can’t help but
feel great after reading it you can’t
help but feel changed after reading it
you want to go out and make the world a
better place it’s an uplifting positive
awesome story coming up number 6 go
check it out the go giver coming in at
number 5 is Donald Trump the art of the
deal this is one of my favorite books
because it helps you think big one of
the biggest problems with a lot of
entrepreneurs is you’re stuck in your
current bubble right the environment
that you create for yourself is holding
you back where you are how do you bust
through how do you think bigger how do
you go out and do something that’s going
to change the world where nobody in your
family has ever done that before where
none of your friends have that kind of
ambition so how do you surround yourself
with those kind of people you read books
like this now this is one of the first I
think it’s the first non-fiction book
that I ever read I was a member I was
driving to New York with my family I
don’t know how old I was at the time you
know maybe teenager driving to New York
City crossing a bridge and I was reading
Donald Trump our the deal and it just
inspired me to want to do more to think
outside my comfort zone and this is
something that you need to do as an
entrepreneur if you want to accomplish
big things you want to achieve big goals
you have to believe
you you got to believe that you can do
it so how do you get that confidence
when you’ve never done it know where
your families are nobody in your social
networks have done it you can surround
yourself with people like Donald Trump
read this book you will be inspired you
will be ready to take action you’ll be
ready to go out and conquer big dreams
they’ll give you that extra motivational
boost and you can apply it to your
business check it out number five Donald
Trump are the deal coming in at number
four is thinking Grow Rich by Napoleon
Hill this book is awesome it says at the
top this book could could be worth a
million dollars to you it’s super
helpful and and the main thought behind
this is that thoughts are things there’s
a lot of believed in this book that
whatever you have in your mind whatever
impact you want to create in the world
whatever business you want to start it’s
all possible it’s all possible if you
believe in yourself and it gives you the
steps to do it and it outlines the story
of Andrew Carnegie who was at the time
the richest person in in America and his
lessons for success from people who are
coming up how he did it himself his
advice for other people
it’ll help build your confidence it’ll
help you believe in yourself it’ll help
you make you ready to go out and do
something positive in the world that’ll
give you the confidence and courage to
start or to continue the faith the the
motivation the inspiration that keep
going when when you may be up against
the wall and not seeing any progress
it’s beautifully written great advice in
here as I was opening the book before
doing this video I had the old book
smell coming out at me and give me a
little bit of a headache so I got her I
got a brush out the book a little air it
out it’s an old book but awesome
definitely recommend reading it I don’t
want recruits who read this every year
as an annual ritual and every year they
take something new from it so definitely
go check it out coming in at number four
they can grow rich Napoleon Hill coming
in at number three keep any promise by
Kareem Ismail this is an awesome book
and it’s divided into two sections okay
now Kareem
he came from a successful business but
he was overworked it was causing
problems in his family life it was
causing problems and it’s in his health
and he totally changed around everything
that he did
Andrey planned his life and he gives you
the blueprint for how to do it
now it’s divided into two sections the
first are stories of people and how
they’ve changed their life and the
second are exercises that you can do to
start changing your business and your
life I got to be honest I’m going to be
honest is real talk coming straight from
Evan Carmichael’s what this channel is
all about the real talk is the stories
in the book I found just okay I didn’t
find that inspiring I found the problems
that they were overcoming weren’t that
huge and I felt like I wasn’t on the
same level with the people who were in
the book and I want to be inspired by
people who are doing more right looking
at Donald Trump and looking at Andrew
Carnegie people who are doing a lot more
that’s who I want to be inspired by so
the stories were just okay for me but
the exercises the exercises are
life-changing that’s why it’s coming in
at number three if you sit down and you
do the exercises and you follow them the
ones of cream of laid out it will change
your life the huge value here the show
the X’s in the book but the big value is
here in the workbook and I hope I hope
cream still offers this as part of the
deal you look here it says download the
life blueprint workbook $149 value for
free that’s the money that if you go
through that do those exercises follow
throw in them I guarantee you it’ll
change your business life it’ll change
your personal life and a massive impact
on me and that’s why I recommend it as a
number three book even if you’ve never
heard of it it’s the secret gem for
entrepreneurs so go check it out keep
any promise by cream Ismael
coming in at number two is radicals and
visionaries by Thaddeus waro and the
subtitle is entrepreneurs who
revolutionize the 20th century this is
such an awesome book what it does is
basically tell you the stories of a
whole bunch of different entrepreneurs
and each story is only what four pages
long five pages long so I can I can open
it up and so here a story of Jeff Bezos
there’s a picture there’s a quick quote
of him there’s his story there’s these
little tidbits that come out more
tidbits story and then you’re done
so in like four pages you have the
history of Jeff Bezos and how it got
started and it does it over and over and
over again for lots of famous
entrepreneurs that you would recognize
what I found that useful for is it was a
motivational boost for me one you know I
believe Mountain success you’ve seen a
lot of the videos that I do it’s all
about modeling success and that saved my
business and so this is a quick hit of
tons of different entrepreneurs that you
can model I used it as inspiration in
the mornings for me this used to be my
routine you know when you wake up and
you’re you’re by yourself and you’re
trying to challenge yourself to think
bigger and do more and stay motivated to
run your business
my daily routine used to consist of
opening up radicals and visionaries and
reading one story and I’d get an idea
from them and I’d get get inspiration
and motivated and get some energy from
them and it you can do it in a couple
minutes it’s such an easy quick read so
you’ll get lots of ideas from it you’ll
get lots of energy from it definitely
worth checking out my number two book
radicals and visionary status waro
and coming in at number one the number
one book all entrepreneurs must read
drumroll how do I do a drumroll
drum roll the 4-hour workweek by Tim
Ferriss this is my favorite book of all
time if I had to pick one book to keep
this would be yet and at the core this
book is a productivity book okay it’ll
teach you how to automate how to
delegate how to eliminate how to
outsource how to apply the 80/20 rule to
your business how to how to be more
efficient get more stuff done so that
then you can go live the life of your
dreams it teaches you a lot about
productivity and since reading this book
I’ve become a Productivity nut and have
applied a lot of strategies that Tim
suggests in this book to my life to my
business and it’s had dramatic impact
the other thing though that you learn
from it is Tim thinks way outside the
box and even now a lot of the strategies
here are still way way way way outside
the box and you don’t even realize that
some of these things are possible that
was what I was so excited and interested
in reading from him this is the this is
the extended an updated version so I got
the original and then I bought the
updated version and if he puts another
one out I’m gonna buy that one too
because it’s awesome but it challenges
you to think differently it challenges
you to step outside your comfort zone it
challenges you to look for other ways to
accomplish your goal that you may not
have ever thought possible so on top of
all the great productivity advice that
you get that I get from in taking notes
and and read through it it also makes
you think more creatively makes you look
for other options and as an entrepreneur
that’s what you’re going to have to do
to be successful because chances are
it’s not just going to be the straight
path to success it’s going to be a crazy
wild bumpy ride and you can’t just do
the things that everybody else does you
got to be creative you got to step
outside the box that’s what this book
helps you do Tim Ferriss 4-hour workweek
the number one book for all
entrepreneurs you must read it now
before signing off I got to give you my
bonus book it’s the only fiction book in
my collection and I had to share it with
you now when people look at bookshelf
you see the Steve Jobs quote of the top
makes sense you see the books I don’t
have a lot of them
and when they look at it they look at
the top and see what the heck is that
three kingdoms book what is it all about
and then they look below and you see
this statue and you’re wondering what
he’s all about
and those little characters underneath
and what they’re all about
so I have to tell you the story so three
kingdoms also known as Romance of the
Three Kingdoms is one of the most
popular books in China in all the
Chinese history hasn’t been translated
to English and it’ll teach you about
leadership it’ll teach you about
motivating people teach about having a
purpose it teaches about honesty and
trust and loyalty and it’s a story about
three warring kingdoms at the end of the
Han Dynasty who are fighting for control
of China one of them is led by man named
Cho Cho who is evil and lies and cheats
and steals and is whatever it takes to
win and the people hate him and he’s
very oppressive and has tons of rules
and and is and is a you know the
dictator and and his way has to go and
and he’s he’s evil and cruel and the
other side is run by a guy named Liu Bei
who is fair and honest and just and
treats people with respect and people
love him when they follow him and he’ll
never screw people over and these two
guys are constantly fighting and at the
start Lau Bay is losing all the time he
doesn’t have the military doesn’t have
the money he doesn’t have the team and
he’s always just retreated and running
away and eventually he builds up his
team and the people believe in him they
continue to follow him and they love
what he’s all about
and and he starts to win and so it’s all
about this this fight that continues to
happen between those two kingdoms and
another one that’s in the third that
that’s not as not as talked about but I
love this story it’s a it always gives
me ideas about strategy about loyalty
about teamwork and I like to pick it up
I like to play the video games I like to
buy the statues that decorate the stuff
I like to name my products after them
the zuga that I sell come from this book
other companies that I’ve started have
come from this book and so has a lot of
deep personal meaning to me and if
you’re looking for kind of an
off-the-wall fiction book
that challenges you that will make you
think that will be kind of outside their
the zone of usual entrepreneur how to
books then check it out three kingdoms
thank you guys so much for watching goes
to the top seven books that I recommend
every entrepreneur must read plus the
bonus book at the end let me know what
you guys think leave a comment below
tell me what your favorite books are and
if you like the channel you want to see
more you can subscribe thank you so much
for watching I’ll see you soon and
believe coming in at number four is
thinking grow which Think and Grow Rich
Think and Grow Rich coming in at number
four is thinking grow it grow which grow
which what can I say Grow Rich Grow Rich
Grow Rich okay
hmm again coming in at number four okay
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we should ask him what books he reads
Ralph Waldo Emerson hi I’m Evan
Carmichael and today I’m going to share
the 7 books every entrepreneur must read
these are 7 books that have had a
tremendous impact on my life how I think
about business and I hope they have the
same impact on you now I used to have a
ton of books I used to have walls and
walls of books and when I saw something
interesting I would pick it up and buy
it somebody told me to get it I would
buy and I found I had all of these books
just sitting on the shelves collecting
dust night and I was accumulating more
books than I could read and it had great
intentions to read them but I never got
around to them and and they created
stress it created stress looking at all
these books knowing I got to read all of
these things so I decided one day I
would get rid of them all and I donated
them to a local library and I paired it
down I got to my core list of books that
I read and I reread and I’ve given me so
much value and today I wanted to share
them with you and hopefully it
transformed the way you think and
transforms your business as well ok well
that was awkward
test one two one two at number 7 is the
fred factor by Marc Sanborn and this is
a book about delighting your customers
it tells a story about a postman named
Fred who goes over and above to always
delight his customers which are the
people on his route and you think about
being a postman it could be a boring job
right even the same thing over and over
and over and over again every single day
but Fred finds a way to get to know his
customers to watch over the houses when
they when he knows are not home on
vacation to always look for ways to
delight and Surprise them and so if you
have a business where you personally are
involved in dealing with customers which
will be most people or if you have
people on your team who are responsible
for dealing with customers give them
this book it’s a short read look at that
look how thin that is it’s like not even
100 pages when I’m in pages 100 pages
just over a hundred pages super fast
read it’ll change your mindset on how to
work with customers
pick it up at number 6 is the go Giver
by Bob Berg and John David Mann this is
an awesome book another quick read it is
125 pages pretty easy to sift through it
you can probably get it through in one
sitting as well and this book is all
about giving and helps change your
mindset from being a taker and saying
here are my goals and I got to go and
take what I can to realizing that to
accomplish your goals you have to give
to other people help others do what
they’re trying to do help others
accomplish their goals and in turn
they’re going to come back and help you
and often the path to reaching your goal
is totally unexpected and it’s going to
come as a result of helping other people
so it totally changed my mindset of what
I needed to do in business and not just
go and try to reach and take my goals
but to help others along the path it’s
an inspiring story you can’t help but
feel great after reading it you can’t
help but feel changed after reading it
you want to go out and make the world a
better place it’s an uplifting positive
awesome story coming up number 6 go
check it out the go giver coming in at
number 5 is Donald Trump the art of the
deal this is one of my favorite books
because it helps you think big one of
the biggest problems with a lot of
entrepreneurs is you’re stuck in your
current bubble right the environment
that you create for yourself is holding
you back where you are how do you bust
through how do you think bigger how do
you go out and do something that’s going
to change the world where nobody in your
family has ever done that before where
none of your friends have that kind of
ambition so how do you surround yourself
with those kind of people you read books
like this now this is one of the first I
think it’s the first non-fiction book
that I ever read I was a member I was
driving to New York with my family I
don’t know how old I was at the time you
know maybe teenager driving to New York
City crossing a bridge and I was reading
Donald Trump our the deal and it just
inspired me to want to do more to think
outside my comfort zone and this is
something that you need to do as an
entrepreneur if you want to accomplish
big things you want to achieve big goals
you have to believe
you you got to believe that you can do
it so how do you get that confidence
when you’ve never done it know where
your families are nobody in your social
networks have done it you can surround
yourself with people like Donald Trump
read this book you will be inspired you
will be ready to take action you’ll be
ready to go out and conquer big dreams
they’ll give you that extra motivational
boost and you can apply it to your
business check it out number five Donald
Trump are the deal coming in at number
four is thinking Grow Rich by Napoleon
Hill this book is awesome it says at the
top this book could could be worth a
million dollars to you it’s super
helpful and and the main thought behind
this is that thoughts are things there’s
a lot of believed in this book that
whatever you have in your mind whatever
impact you want to create in the world
whatever business you want to start it’s
all possible it’s all possible if you
believe in yourself and it gives you the
steps to do it and it outlines the story
of Andrew Carnegie who was at the time
the richest person in in America and his
lessons for success from people who are
coming up how he did it himself his
advice for other people
it’ll help build your confidence it’ll
help you believe in yourself it’ll help
you make you ready to go out and do
something positive in the world that’ll
give you the confidence and courage to
start or to continue the faith the the
motivation the inspiration that keep
going when when you may be up against
the wall and not seeing any progress
it’s beautifully written great advice in
here as I was opening the book before
doing this video I had the old book
smell coming out at me and give me a
little bit of a headache so I got her I
got a brush out the book a little air it
out it’s an old book but awesome
definitely recommend reading it I don’t
want recruits who read this every year
as an annual ritual and every year they
take something new from it so definitely
go check it out coming in at number four
they can grow rich Napoleon Hill coming
in at number three keep any promise by
Kareem Ismail this is an awesome book
and it’s divided into two sections okay
now Kareem
he came from a successful business but
he was overworked it was causing
problems in his family life it was
causing problems and it’s in his health
and he totally changed around everything
that he did
Andrey planned his life and he gives you
the blueprint for how to do it
now it’s divided into two sections the
first are stories of people and how
they’ve changed their life and the
second are exercises that you can do to
start changing your business and your
life I got to be honest I’m going to be
honest is real talk coming straight from
Evan Carmichael’s what this channel is
all about the real talk is the stories
in the book I found just okay I didn’t
find that inspiring I found the problems
that they were overcoming weren’t that
huge and I felt like I wasn’t on the
same level with the people who were in
the book and I want to be inspired by
people who are doing more right looking
at Donald Trump and looking at Andrew
Carnegie people who are doing a lot more
that’s who I want to be inspired by so
the stories were just okay for me but
the exercises the exercises are
life-changing that’s why it’s coming in
at number three if you sit down and you
do the exercises and you follow them the
ones of cream of laid out it will change
your life the huge value here the show
the X’s in the book but the big value is
here in the workbook and I hope I hope
cream still offers this as part of the
deal you look here it says download the
life blueprint workbook $149 value for
free that’s the money that if you go
through that do those exercises follow
throw in them I guarantee you it’ll
change your business life it’ll change
your personal life and a massive impact
on me and that’s why I recommend it as a
number three book even if you’ve never
heard of it it’s the secret gem for
entrepreneurs so go check it out keep
any promise by cream Ismael
coming in at number two is radicals and
visionaries by Thaddeus waro and the
subtitle is entrepreneurs who
revolutionize the 20th century this is
such an awesome book what it does is
basically tell you the stories of a
whole bunch of different entrepreneurs
and each story is only what four pages
long five pages long so I can I can open
it up and so here a story of Jeff Bezos
there’s a picture there’s a quick quote
of him there’s his story there’s these
little tidbits that come out more
tidbits story and then you’re done
so in like four pages you have the
history of Jeff Bezos and how it got
started and it does it over and over and
over again for lots of famous
entrepreneurs that you would recognize
what I found that useful for is it was a
motivational boost for me one you know I
believe Mountain success you’ve seen a
lot of the videos that I do it’s all
about modeling success and that saved my
business and so this is a quick hit of
tons of different entrepreneurs that you
can model I used it as inspiration in
the mornings for me this used to be my
routine you know when you wake up and
you’re you’re by yourself and you’re
trying to challenge yourself to think
bigger and do more and stay motivated to
run your business
my daily routine used to consist of
opening up radicals and visionaries and
reading one story and I’d get an idea
from them and I’d get get inspiration
and motivated and get some energy from
them and it you can do it in a couple
minutes it’s such an easy quick read so
you’ll get lots of ideas from it you’ll
get lots of energy from it definitely
worth checking out my number two book
radicals and visionary status waro
and coming in at number one the number
one book all entrepreneurs must read
drumroll how do I do a drumroll
drum roll the 4-hour workweek by Tim
Ferriss this is my favorite book of all
time if I had to pick one book to keep
this would be yet and at the core this
book is a productivity book okay it’ll
teach you how to automate how to
delegate how to eliminate how to
outsource how to apply the 80/20 rule to
your business how to how to be more
efficient get more stuff done so that
then you can go live the life of your
dreams it teaches you a lot about
productivity and since reading this book
I’ve become a Productivity nut and have
applied a lot of strategies that Tim
suggests in this book to my life to my
business and it’s had dramatic impact
the other thing though that you learn
from it is Tim thinks way outside the
box and even now a lot of the strategies
here are still way way way way outside
the box and you don’t even realize that
some of these things are possible that
was what I was so excited and interested
in reading from him this is the this is
the extended an updated version so I got
the original and then I bought the
updated version and if he puts another
one out I’m gonna buy that one too
because it’s awesome but it challenges
you to think differently it challenges
you to step outside your comfort zone it
challenges you to look for other ways to
accomplish your goal that you may not
have ever thought possible so on top of
all the great productivity advice that
you get that I get from in taking notes
and and read through it it also makes
you think more creatively makes you look
for other options and as an entrepreneur
that’s what you’re going to have to do
to be successful because chances are
it’s not just going to be the straight
path to success it’s going to be a crazy
wild bumpy ride and you can’t just do
the things that everybody else does you
got to be creative you got to step
outside the box that’s what this book
helps you do Tim Ferriss 4-hour workweek
the number one book for all
entrepreneurs you must read it now
before signing off I got to give you my
bonus book it’s the only fiction book in
my collection and I had to share it with
you now when people look at bookshelf
you see the Steve Jobs quote of the top
makes sense you see the books I don’t
have a lot of them
and when they look at it they look at
the top and see what the heck is that
three kingdoms book what is it all about
and then they look below and you see
this statue and you’re wondering what
he’s all about
and those little characters underneath
and what they’re all about
so I have to tell you the story so three
kingdoms also known as Romance of the
Three Kingdoms is one of the most
popular books in China in all the
Chinese history hasn’t been translated
to English and it’ll teach you about
leadership it’ll teach you about
motivating people teach about having a
purpose it teaches about honesty and
trust and loyalty and it’s a story about
three warring kingdoms at the end of the
Han Dynasty who are fighting for control
of China one of them is led by man named
Cho Cho who is evil and lies and cheats
and steals and is whatever it takes to
win and the people hate him and he’s
very oppressive and has tons of rules
and and is and is a you know the
dictator and and his way has to go and
and he’s he’s evil and cruel and the
other side is run by a guy named Liu Bei
who is fair and honest and just and
treats people with respect and people
love him when they follow him and he’ll
never screw people over and these two
guys are constantly fighting and at the
start Lau Bay is losing all the time he
doesn’t have the military doesn’t have
the money he doesn’t have the team and
he’s always just retreated and running
away and eventually he builds up his
team and the people believe in him they
continue to follow him and they love
what he’s all about
and and he starts to win and so it’s all
about this this fight that continues to
happen between those two kingdoms and
another one that’s in the third that
that’s not as not as talked about but I
love this story it’s a it always gives
me ideas about strategy about loyalty
about teamwork and I like to pick it up
I like to play the video games I like to
buy the statues that decorate the stuff
I like to name my products after them
the zuga that I sell come from this book
other companies that I’ve started have
come from this book and so has a lot of
deep personal meaning to me and if
you’re looking for kind of an
off-the-wall fiction book
that challenges you that will make you
think that will be kind of outside their
the zone of usual entrepreneur how to
books then check it out three kingdoms
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thinking grow which Think and Grow Rich
Think and Grow Rich coming in at number
four is thinking grow it grow which grow
which what can I say Grow Rich Grow Rich
Grow Rich okay
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