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Want to Start a Business? Read These Books First

2025-08-13 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:57 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Business and entrepreneurship · mode: Review and recommendation · tags: Lesson from a book

In a Short, Ali recommends five books for anyone thinking of starting a business: What's Your Dream?, DotCom Secrets, The Millionaire Fastlane, The Sweaty Startup and $100M Offers, adding that reading is no substitute for action.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Five books to read before starting a business

  • ★★★ For anyone thinking of starting a business someday, Ali recommends five books: What's Your Dream? by Simon Squibb, DotCom Secrets by Russell Brunson, The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco, The Sweaty Startup by Nick Huber and $100M Offers by Alex Hormozi. — 00:00:00 · The Millionaire Fastlane, Alex Hormozi
  • ★★ Ali describes Simon Squibb's What's Your Dream? as a book about figuring out which business idea to work on, based on your own passion. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali says Russell Brunson's DotCom Secrets explains the basics of how sales funnels work and gives a real firmware update on how to sell. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Despite its slightly clickbaity title, Ali calls MJ DeMarco's The Millionaire Fastlane one of the best books he has ever read on how to make money. — 00:00:00 · The Millionaire Fastlane
  • ★★ Nick Huber (quoted): The thesis of Nick Huber's new book The Sweaty Startup, subtitled How to Get Rich Doing Boring Things, is to start a business that seems boring rather than one that seems fun and interesting. — 00:00:29
  • ★★ Ali has read Alex Hormozi's $100M Offers repeatedly and rereads it every time he wants to build something new within his business. — 00:00:29 · Alex Hormozi
  • ★ Ali says reading books is no substitute for actually taking action, but these five can help people new to business along the way. — 00:00:29

Threads in this video

  • refine · How do you learn how to start and run a business? — For anyone thinking of starting a business someday, Ali recommends five books: What's Your Dream? by Simon Squibb, DotCom Secrets by Russell Brunson, The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco, The Sweaty Startup by Nick Huber and $100M Offers by Alex Hormozi. (00:00:00)
  • restate · What kind of business should you start first? — The thesis of Nick Huber's new book The Sweaty Startup, subtitled How to Get Rich Doing Boring Things, is to start a business that seems boring rather than one that seems fun and interesting. (00:00:29)

Mentioned

People: Alex Hormozi · MJ DeMarco · Nick Huber · Russell Brunson · Simon Squibb

Works: $100M Offers · DotCom Secrets · The Millionaire Fastlane · The Sweaty Startup · What's Your Dream?

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