Books like The ultimate entrepreneur by Glenn Rifkin

Think and Grow Rich is Napoleon Hill’s seminal guide to business success, outlining practical principles for wealth creation, personal development, and financial prosperity.

The Lean Startup presents a systematic, scientific approach for creating and managing successful startups in uncertain environments, emphasizing rapid experimentation, customer feedback, and iterative product development.

A groundbreaking study by Jim Collins on how good companies become truly great, revealing the key leadership traits, cultural mindset, and technological accelerators that make the difference between mediocre and exceptional performance.

Chris Guillebeau explains how to turn a modest investment into a $50,000-plus business, using real-world case studies to show how passion can become profit—no MBA or large staff needed.

Michael E. Gerber challenges common myths about starting a business, guiding readers through the stages of entrepreneurial growth and the essential difference between working on and in their business.

Simon Sinek’s Start with Why explores how leaders and organizations that answer the fundamental question of purpose drive lasting success.

Gary Vaynerchuk explains why a strong personal brand and mastery of social media are essential for entrepreneurial success, offering updated principles, platform‑specific tactics, and inspirational stories from diverse entrepreneurs.

How do large corporations encourage their senior managers to become more entrepreneurial? This is a key question which is seldom addressed in mainstream entrepreneurship studies. Professor Sathe has written a pioneering book based on hundreds of hours of interviews with senior managers to help understand why some organizations and some top managers are better than others in fostering entrepreneurship leading to successful new business growth. Corporate Entrepreneurship explores the real world of top managers in a systematic and comprehensive way, examining business realities, the management culture, the corporate philosophy, the organizational politics, the personalities and the personal agendas of the people at the top. The book offers both a theory of corporate entrepreneurship and practical advice on how to manage it better. An original and valuable contribution to the literature on strategic management, this is a book that will appeal to graduate students, researchers and reflective practitioners.

In her diary, Mary Boykin Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate general and aid to president Jefferson Davis, James Chestnut, Jr., presents an eyewitness account of the Civil War.

Kevin Maney chronicles Thomas J. Watson’s rise from cash‑register salesman to the visionary founder of IBM, revealing the man who forged modern corporate culture and propelled the United States into the Information Age.

The "business bible" has now been completely revised and updated to reflect the state of the business world today. This reference guide offers readers a portable M.B.A. between two covers without the expense of tuition, the trouble of entrance exams, or the struggle of making it to classes on time. As business is arguably the most potent force in society today -- CEOs wield more power and influence than political leaders, trade of goods and services spreads cultural values around the globe, even the rules of commerce increasingly govern the administration of our educational, nonprofit, and social institutions -- it is more important than ever that professionals from all walks of life understand its language and its theories. The book captures the state of the art in business today, and the extensive revisions and additions make this second edition the reference for anyone in the field. The additional material includes 30 new articles from authors such as Michael E. Gerber, Howard Rheingold, and Francis Fukuyama; the management library is 40 percent new with 39 articles. Everything else -- from the actionlists to the dictionary -- is fully updated to reflect the latest in business knowledge. This book provides insight and information for executives and managers, entrepreneurs, administrators, educators, and students alike.

Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg explain how social entrepreneurs disrupt societal equilibria, offering a four‑stage model—understanding, envisioning, modeling, scaling—to drive lasting change for business, policy, and civil society.