Last year you worked twice as hard for half the results. But with a few smart moves, 2025 could be your best year ever. This I know 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 get meeting people. Get reading books.
These 5 recently released business books will change your mindset, motivation and game when it comes to business. They’ll have you dreaming big, redefining success, and understanding the component parts of building an empire.
For a logical and inspiring way to make 2025 the year of change, start at the top and read them in order.
Top business books for ambitious founders in 2025
What’s Your Dream?: Find Your Passion. Love Your Work. Build a Richer Life. Simon Squibb, Penguin
If you haven’t started your business, you need a plan. If you’re already running one, you need to avoid the pitfalls that turn hope into failure. Simon Squibb, an entrepreneur who started his first business while homeless at fifteen and later sold his agency to PwC for more money than he’ll ever need, has seen it all when it comes to building big and overcoming blocks. Squibb sees too many entrepreneurs, “being trapped by aspirations that aren’t true dreams, falling prey to popular myths that stop us from achieving our goals, giving into the fear that prevents us from taking action” and wants to make it stop.
As founder of HelpBank, Squibb is on a mission to help ten million people kickstart their businesses and, with over ten million followers on social media, he’s 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 turn your dream venture into a reality.
The book covers assessing risk, creating a community of super fans, knowing when to quit and pivot, and of course, dreaming big about what you can achieve. Your rich life starts today.
Seven Myths About Money: And the Truth About Finding Financial Freedom. Rob Dix, Penguin
Your money knowledge isn’t serving you. Your money beliefs aren’t either. Too many people go around believing that money doesn’t grow on trees, money is hard to come by, and money is for people who aren’t like them. It’s just not true. Rob Dix, already bestselling author of The Price of Money, breaks down the seven myths about money that you need to let go of right now.
Dix believes that, “over the last decade, the world of money has transformed – but the mainstream financial advice hasn’t caught up.” Taking outdated money advice will only take you further from your financial goals, because the true path to wealth is dramatically different to what you’ve been told. There’s a new game, so learn the new rules.
The new way to think? Savings are a lie, retirement is a trap, renting beats buying, risk isn’t all bad, and diversification might be keeping you playing small. Keep an open mind. Rework your money beliefs to serve your richest self.
The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life. Sahil Bloom, Ballantine Books
But it’s not all about money. To live your best life, consider the 5 types of wealth and work to have all of them. The debut book of Sahil Bloom, whose social insights and newsletter are read by millions, wants to help you break free from the daily grind, discover true fulfilment, and build a life of infinite wealth.
What are those five types? Time wealth, social wealth, mental wealth, physical wealth, and financial wealth. Only filling your days with tasks that give you energy. Having more free time. Creating deep bonds and a powerful network. Engaging your purpose to spark continuous growth, maximising your health, and achieving 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 be rich with regret. Become a well-rounded, complete human being when you take a more holistic view of your life and work.
The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About. Mel Robbins, Hay House
Now you’re dreaming big and have your plan, you’ve busted your money beliefs and you’re optimising for the five types of wealth, make sure you’re focused on your own game. How? Let other people do their thing while you do yours. Mel Robbins, a well-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 to other people.”
Stop giving away your power. Stop wasting your energy on what you can’t control. Stop letting 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 against everyday stressors and distractors, stop comparing yourself to other people and define your own path to success.
You do you, whether they like it or not. Find out how much power you truly have, then start using it. Your new chapter begins when you break free of the need to consider other people as much as you do. The Let Them Theory will show you how.
Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future. Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato, Authors Equity
If AI hasn’t yet changed your business, this year it will. Technology is advancing, processes are being re-written, and it’s another way the rules are evolving for entrepreneurs. Don’t miss this shift. 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 AI isn’t all bad. Superagency offers a roadmap for using AI inclusively and adaptively to improve our lives and create positive change. Disinformation and job disruption are small prices to pay for the possibility of AI, including increasing individual agency and creating better outcomes for society as a whole.
Hoffman and Beato see a world of AI tutors personalizing education for each child, researchers rapidly discovering cures for diseases like Alzheimer’s and cancer, and AI advisors empowering people to navigate complex systems and achieve their goals. Read this book to help create it.
Brand new business books to make 2025 your best year
Your best year in business is getting started right now, and these five books will keep you on track and growing each day. Dream big about what you can create, reverse the money myths not serving 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 part that AI will play. Get reading, take action, let’s go.
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