Top 10 Bestselling Business Books of All Time

Think and Grow Rich (1937) by Napoleon Hill

All fortunes begin in the mind

“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”

70 million copies

Rich Dad, Poor Dad (2000) by Robert Kiyosaki

The rich and the middle classes have a completely different way of seeing money, work and wealth

“Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets.”

44 million copies

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989) by Stephen R Covey

Real effectiveness comes from clarity about your values and vision

"People can't live with change unless there's a changeless core inside them."

40 million copies

How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) by Dale Carnegie

Put yourself into others' minds, and you have a chance of influencing them

"Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves... than they are in you."

36 million copies

Who Moved My Cheese? (1998) by Spencer Johnson

The ability to not only accept change but create it is the mark of the successful person

“What would you do if you weren't afraid?”

30 million copies

Freakonomics (2005) by Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner

We want a world based on morality. We have a world based on incentives

"Morality represents the way people would like the world to work... economics represents how it actually does work."

7 million copies

Atomic Habits (2018) by James Clear

Who we become across a lifetime is the result of small, everyday actions that are easy to change

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”

5 million copies

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (1984) by Robert Cialdini

Know the techniques of psychological influence to avoid becoming their victim

“Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.”

3 million copies

The E-Myth Revisited (1986) by Michael Gerber

The key to prosperity in business is to work on your enterprise, not in it 

“If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job... it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!”

5 million

The Goal (1984) by Eliyahu M Goldratt

The success of a company is down to its weakest link. To succeed, first identify and remove the bottlenecks and constraints

“What is the real goal? Nobody here has even asked anything that basic.”

5 million copies