5 new business books you need to read to create your best year in business
Last year you worked twice as hard for half the results. But with a few smart moves, 2025 could be your best year ever. I know this for sure. The difference between you right now and the most successful and happy version of you is the people you meet and the books you read. So meet people. Take to reading books.
These 5 recently published business books will change your mindset, motivation, and game when it comes to business. They will make you dream big, redefine success and understand the building blocks of an empire.
For a logical and inspiring way to make 2025 the year of change, start from the top and read them in order.
The best business books for ambitious founders in 2025
What is your dream?: Find your passion. Love your job. Build a richer life. Simon Squibb, The Penguin
If you haven’t started your business, you need a plan. If you are already running one, you must avoid the pitfalls that turn hope into failure. Simon Squibb, an entrepreneur who started his first business while homeless at the age of fifteen and later sold his agency to PwC for more money than he would ever need, has seen it all when it comes to building large blocks and to overcome. Squibb sees many entrepreneurs, “trapped by aspirations that aren’t real dreams, falling prey to popular myths that keep us from achieving our goals, giving in to fears that keep us from taking action,” and he wants to stop it.
As the founder of HelpBank, Squibb is on a mission to help ten million people start their own businesses and, with over ten million followers on social media, he’s well on his way there. Stop following the old rules because they don’t apply. What’s Your Dream is a step-by-step guide to turning your dream venture into reality.
The book covers assessing risk, building a community of super fans, knowing when to give up and pivot, and of course, dreaming big about what you can achieve. Your rich life begins today.
Seven Money Myths: And The Truth About Finding Financial Freedom. Rob Dix, penguin
Your knowledge of money is not serving you. Your beliefs about money are not either. Many people go around believing that money doesn’t grow on trees, money is hard to find, and money is for people who aren’t like them. It’s just not true. Rob Dix, now bestselling author of The Price of Money, debunks seven money myths you need to ditch now.
Dix believes that, “over the past decade, the world of money has transformed – but mainstream financial advice has not.” Taking outdated money advice will only take you further from your financial goals because the real path to wealth is dramatically different than what you’ve been told. There’s a new game, so learn the new rules.
New way of thinking? Savings is a lie, retirement is a trap, renting beats buying, risk isn’t all bad, and diversification can get you playing a little. Keep an open mind. Rework your beliefs about money to serve your richer self.
The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Designing Your Dream Life. Sahil Bloom, Ballantine Books
But it’s not just about the money. To live your best life, consider the 5 types of wealth and work to have them all. Sahil Bloom’s debut book, whose social insights and newsletter are read by millions, wants to help you break free from the mundane, discover true fulfillment, and build a life of infinite wealth.
What are those five types? Time wealth, social wealth, mental wealth, physical wealth and financial wealth. Fill your days only with tasks that give you energy. Having more free time. Creating deep connections and a powerful network. Engage your purpose to drive continuous growth, maximize your health, and achieve financial independence based on your version of enough.
Building a business while sacrificing every other area of your life will leave you unfulfilled and burned out. Don’t get rich with regrets. Become a whole and complete human being when you have a more holistic view of your life and work.
The Theory of Allowance: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions Can’t Stop Talking About. Mel Robbins, Hay House
Now that you’re dreaming big and have your plan, you’ve shattered your money beliefs and you’re optimizing for the five types of wealth, make sure you’re on top of your game. How? Let other people do their thing while you do yours. Mel Robbins, a respected expert on motivation, confidence and mindset, argues that “if you’ve ever felt stuck, overwhelmed or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn’t you. The problem is the power you give other people.”
Stop giving away your power. Don’t waste your energy on what you can’t control. Don’t let other people take your time. Let them go. In this book, Robbins teaches how you can break free from fear and self-doubt, build resilience to everyday stressors and distractions, stop comparing yourself to other people, and chart your own path to success.
You do you, whether they want to or not. Find out how much power you really have, then start using it. Your new chapter begins when you free yourself from the need to consider other people as much as you do. The Let Them Theory will show you how.
Superagency: What could go right with our AI future. Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato, Authors Equity
If AI hasn’t changed your business yet, it will this year. Technology is advancing, processes are being rewritten, and it’s another way the rules are evolving for entrepreneurs. Don’t miss this change. Reid Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn before selling it to Microsoft. He was executive vice president and a founding board member at PayPal, and now focuses on building products that can reach hundreds of millions of participants and businesses that have network effects.
If anyone can spot profitable trends, it’s this guy. And he believes that HE is not all bad. The super agency provides a roadmap for using AI comprehensively and adaptively to improve our lives and create positive change. Disinformation and disruption are small prices to pay for the possibility of AI, including enhancing individual agency and creating better outcomes for society as a whole.
Hoffman and Beato see a world of AI teachers who personalize education for each child, researchers who rapidly discover cures for diseases like Alzheimer’s and cancer, and AI advisors who empower people to navigate complex systems and achieve their goals. Read this book to help create it.
New business books to make 2025 your best year yet
Your best year in business is starting now, and these five books will keep you on track and grow you every day. Dream big about what you can create, change the money myths that don’t serve you, and consider the five different types of wealth. Let other people do their thing as you do yours, and don’t ignore the inevitable role that AI will play. Read, act, let’s go.
