Some of My Favorite Books
- Dustin Heath
- Jul 12, 2022
- 7 min read
Updated: Oct 26, 2023
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
What I loved about this book:
The groundbreaking research of Daniel Kahneman has revolutionized cognitive psychology and given rise to the new disciplines of behavioral economics and happiness studies.
Where you can purchase it:
Amazon (also includes Audible and Kindle)
If You're Not First, You're Last: Sales Strategies to Dominate Your Market and Beat Your Competition by Grant Cardone
One thing that this list will tell you is that I am a big fan of Grant Cardone and Simon Sinek.
What I loved about this book:
Selling your goods, keeping your clientele, and expanding your market share all become much more challenging during economic downturns. For all those who are unable to make the adjustment, failure becomes a genuine possibility and mistakes become more expensive.
Where you can purchase it:
Amazon (also includes Audible and Kindle)
How to Get and Stay Motivated by Grant Cardone
What I loved about this book:
Motivation! Motivation! Motivation! This audio-book provides nearly two hours of motivating advice divided into short, memorable 1-4 minute chunks that are sure to turn your life around. You'll receive about 100 motivational pearls from Grant Cardone as he encourages you to aim for the extraordinary and never give up.
Where you can purchase it:
Amazon (also includes Audible and Kindle)
Be Obsessed or Be Average by Grant Cardone
What I loved about this book:
You must be obsessed and understand how to use that power to soar to the top if you want to achieve real success. This book will provide you with the motivation and resources you need to escape your cocoon of complacency and realize your wildest aspirations.
Where you can purchase it:
Amazon (also includes Audible and Kindle)
The 10K Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure by Grant Cardone
What I loved about this book:
You cannot conduct yourself in the same manner as everyone else and accept mediocrity if you want to reach extraordinary success. To ensure huge success in your organization, you must eliminate luck and chance from the equation.
Where you can purchase it:
Amazon (also includes Audible and Kindle)
The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
What I loved about this book:
Football and chess are examples of finite games that have known players, set rules, and a clear goal. It's simple to tell who won and lost. Players come and go in endless games—games with no end—like business, politics, and life itself. While infinite games have no clearly defined endpoint, their rules are flexible. There are just ahead and behind; there are no victors or losers.
Where you can purchase it:
Amazon (also includes Audible and Kindle)
Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
What I loved about this book:
Start with Why poses (and responds to) the following queries: Why are some individuals and groups more creative, influential, and successful than others? Why do some people garner more support from both clients and staff? Why are there so few people who can consistently replicate their achievement, even among the successful?
Where you can purchase it:
Amazon (also includes Audible and Kindle)
Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team by Simon Sinek, David Mead, and Peter Docker
What I loved about this book:
Follow up from Start With Why also by Simon Sinek describes what I consider happiness to be a right, not a privilege. Each of us has the right to a fulfilling day at home after leaving work feeling safe and motivated to do our best work. Understanding exactly WHY we do what we do is the first step toward achieving that fulfillment.
Where you can purchase it:
Amazon (also includes Audible and Kindle)
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't by Simon Sinek
What I loved about this book:
Cynicism, paranoia, and self-interest are too often the driving forces in the workplace. The finest teams, however, encourage trust and cooperation because their leaders create what Simon Sinek refers to as a "Circle of Safety" that divides the issues within the team from those outside of it.
Where you can purchase it:
Amazon (also includes Audible and Kindle)
The Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary Keller, Dave Jenks, and Jay Papasan
What I loved about this book:
The Millionaire Real Estate Investor is your guide to real estate, a tried-and-true method of developing financial riches that rewards persistence and patience and is accessible to everyone.
Where you can purchase it:
Amazon (also includes Audible and Kindle)
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau
What I loved about this book:
Chris selected to concentrate on the 50 most compelling case studies from a group of 1,500 people who had developed enterprises earning $50,000 or more from a small investment—in many cases, $100 or less—in order to produce this book. They were able to restructure their life in ways that allowed them more freedom and fulfillment almost always after discovering components of their particular passions that could be made money.
Where you can purchase it:
Amazon (also includes Audible and Kindle)
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money - That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki
What I loved about this book:
The book Rich Dad Poor Dad tells Robert's tale of growing up with two father figures: his biological father and his best friend's wealthy father, and how each of them influenced Robert's views on money and investing. The book debunks the fallacy that having a large salary is a prerequisite for wealth and outlines the distinction between working for money and having your money work for you.
Where you can purchase it:
Amazon (also includes Audible and Kindle)
Click Millionaires: Work Less, Live More with an Internet Business You Love by Scott Fox
What I loved about this book:
E-commerce specialist Scott Fox, who founded the website MasterMindsForum.com, offers advice on how to launch a successful online business to a global community of aspiring business owners. Now, Scott tells tales of dozens of "ordinary guys" who have transformed themselves as click millionaires in this enlightening and helpful new audio-book to teach listeners how to stop daydreaming of a better life and start living it.
Click Millionaires equips jaded corporate warriors and ambitious entrepreneurs to leave the dreaded 9 to 5 employment for lucrative online enterprises by providing insights on how to combine outsourcing, software, and automated web marketing to produce recurring profits while working less.
Where you can purchase it:
Amazon (also includes Audible and Kindle)
The 4 Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
What I loved about this book:
Forget about retirement and deferred life plans as you know them. Waiting is unnecessary, and there are many good reasons not to, particularly in these uncertain economic times. This book is the guide to working less and living more.
Where you can purchase it:
Amazon (also includes Audible and Kindle)
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
What I loved about this book:
A brilliant entrepreneur whose desire for excellence and ruthless drive changed six industries—personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing—has a captivating life story told by Walter Isaacson.
Where you can purchase it:
Amazon (also includes Audible and Kindle)
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike Phil Knight
What I loved about this book:
For the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight tells the inner story of the company's beginnings as an adventurous start-up and how it developed into one of the most recognizable, game-changing, and successful brands in the world in this candid and compelling biography.
Where you can purchase it:
Amazon (also includes Audible and Kindle)
Crush It! Why Now is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk
What I loved about this book:
You can leverage the power of the Internet to transform your genuine hobbies into viable enterprises by following Gary Vaynerchuk's advice. Gary spent years transforming his family's firm from a small neighborhood wine shop into a dominant force in the sector. Then, one day, he turned on a video camera, and by utilizing the strategies discussed here, he completely changed his life and his ability to generate money.
Where you can purchase it:
Amazon (also includes Audible and Kindle)
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
What I loved about this book:
Theranos, the once multi-billion dollar biotech start-up founded by Elizabeth Holmes, is the subject of the HBO documentary The Inventor. The full inside story of Theranos' breathtaking rise and shocking collapse is told by the award-winning journalist who first broke the story and followed it to its conclusion.
Where you can purchase it:
Amazon (also includes Audible and Kindle)
The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life - Before 8AM by Hal Elrod
What I loved about this book:
Hal Elrod teaches us in this book how to plan our mornings in a way that will increase our life energy. Because the evenings are not the best time to do all of these tasks (due to fatigue, obligations to friends and family, or a lack of willpower), our well-planned morning routine may be the only viable option. Affirmations, visualizations, exercise, reading, writing, and time for stillness are just a few of the six components Hal Elrod suggested you should incorporate into your morning routines.
Where you can purchase it:
Amazon (also includes Audible and Kindle)
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