Top 5: Favorite Books for Business, Wealth, and Success

what's up you guys it's granya so I get asked all the time what are the favorite books that I had what both so I recommend you guys read if you're interested in making money or growing your wealth so these are my top 5 books that I love and would highly recommend you guys read if you're interested so the first book I recommend is called your money or your life now this book is interesting because it breaks down the relationship that you have between your money and your time and the way it does this is pretty interesting so let's say right now you're making $20 an hour and you go it's a night you spend $40 on dinner this boat breaks it down that that dinner just cost you two hours of your life because you make $20 an hour you spent $40 on dinner so therefore that inter-basin cost you two hours and it's a pretty interesting way to start to look at things that everything you buy cost you time so let's say that $100 pair of shoes that cost you five hours of your life at a job to own those shoes they shouldn't necessarily view everything in your life in terms of how many hours it's going to cost you if you have to be enjoying what you're spending your money on but at the same time it's super important to be vigilant about what you're spending your money on and in reality how much that's really costing you in terms of your time now I'm excused proponent on this because I really enjoy saving and investing money that you are in and it's so important too because you can look back at all the years you've spent working and look at what you have to show for it it's so unfortunate and so many people are making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year but at the end of the year they have absolutely nothing to show for they have no savings they own nothing to have no assets and instead all the money's blown so essentially all the time they'd spent working and growing their business and spending their lives making money is at the end somewhat worthless because you really have nothing to show for it now again I totally don't recommend you just be a hermit crab spending no money but at the same time it's important just to be aware of what you spend and how much that really ends up costing you in terms of your life I totally recommend this book it will definitely open your eyes and maybe change your relationship you have with money so the second book for me was definitely a game changer this is a book I picked up when I was 15 years old I read it cover-to-cover in about a week and it blew my mind I'm not even joking that is Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill this is like one of these mega compilations of the book but basically any thinking Grow Rich books is pretty much the same fine a boolean else you might even be able to YouTube that Think and Grow Rich and get a full audio book for completely free I would recommend paying attention to this one or listening to it all the way through on YouTube this is one of these books to definitely do my mind when I read it and has made such a significant impact to me today a little bit in line with a book called the secret which is basically you think your own thoughts and you can manifest everything around you through your thoughts now I definitely agree with this to a certain degree and that I believe you can manifest your own reality starting with your thoughts but I don't believe your thoughts are enough so for instance if you want a million dollars I don't believe that you could just wish your way to a million dollars but I do believe starting with your thoughts and believing you can make that and believing that to be a reality for you can therefore lead you to other things that you would do to make that money but I do believe it also a toast in your mind and that's the first step to really realizing something that you want to achieve now thinking where rich is done really well and that it breaks down everything so specifically about what a lot of successful people have in common it they first believe they can do it they go out they have a definite goal they make that goal a reality you're so tunnel visioned into what they want and a lot of the principles mentioned in this book I've seen through a lot of the successful people I've met and worked with they all had very similar things in common and they all had tunnel vision when it comes to what they want and what they want to achieve so definitely think & Grow Rich is a hundred percent a book I would recommend everybody read or everyone listening to on YouTube for free just type it in Think and Grow Rich audiobook I'm sure you'll be able to find something now the third book I recommend I don't have on me right now but it's called The Millionaire Next Door and this is another book that I read when I was really young I think it was about 12 or 13 years old I found this on my mom's bookshelf one day and I yeah I saw a millionaire on the cover and I'm like oh I kind of want to read this book and I read it and this is one of these books - that really shatters all your preconceived notions about what it means to actually be a millionaire where it says a lot of the millionaires out there are not very flashy they don't wear gold Rolexes they don't drive brand-new Mercedes they don't live in Kew mansions a lot of the million is that you see just our average shows it happened to have saved a lot of money and so what live under the radar even me for example even though I Drive like a Lotus Exige on the weekends every now and then most the time I'm driving a Toyota Prius and I don't do anything too flashy it's something from going out where I'm like head-to-toe in Gucci or like Louis Vuitton and all that sort of somebody definitely appreciate the quality a lot of these things but at the same time I'm bigger and it's saving and investing rather than trying to do things that other people might see is flashy or doing things that would try to impress other people with how much money I have and this is also one of these comments that would get a lot on YouTube like oh if you actually have a million dollars why aren't you going and like why are you driving a Ferrari why don't you have a Lamborghini why are you only in the Lotus and it's one of these stupid misconceptions but just because you have money you should be spending it on wasteful things and I totally like I said I totally appreciate a Lamborghini but at the same time I also more appreciate saving and investing that money and growing it into something bigger than just buying a Lamborghini because I can't and that is such an important aspect of becoming wealthy it's not doing something just because you can just because I could spend ten thousand dollars a month in rent the leaves are really cool home in the Hollywood Hills just because I could do that doesn't mean it's a smart move financially and just because it could wear it head-to-toe in Gucci doesn't mean that's a smart move financially so the folks that a Millionaire Next Door really breaks it down and shows you that most of the millionaires 80% of them are first generation wealthy most of them are business owners most of them don't work at anything flashy most of them are actors or like tech moguls or anything like that most are totally average and it just has very good spending and saving and investing habits that is one of these books that I totally recommend you read because it really shows you what it's like to actually be a millionaire so the fourth book I recommend isn't so much about the millionaire mindset as it is about practical ways for you to think about to generate some passive income and to do things that don't require a lot of your time with that said the 4-hour workweek by Timothy Ferriss is definitely one of my favorites for this exact reason some of the spokes might on be a little bit dated even though it's a somewhat recent book compared to like thinking Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill this book is really good at getting you to think about other ways you can start making money outside of your normal day job and this is why this book is so important because Tennessee Ferris goes into ways that you can do online marketing or sell products online do drop shipping and do things that don't require a hundred percent of your time that you can make some passive income on the side with this in my opinion this isn't so much for like a how-to guide as it is a book just to start getting you to think about other ways you can start earning money so the fifth book I recommend isn't so much about financial literacy as it is about mindset to be open to something like that and that book is awaken the giant within by Tony Robbins now regardless of what you think about Tony Robbins I'm a huge fan I have read most of his books I have listened to almost everything he has on YouTube and I would really enjoy it now this is another book I think I started reading it when I was like 15 or 16 years old and it's made a huge difference and where it's made a difference is in your limiting beliefs and again regardless of what you think about Tony Robbins I do personally believe that many people have these own barriers that they created in their head and a lot of the things that people do they just self-sabotage in one way or another and in this book it's about realizing what your limiting beliefs are and overcoming those to achieve something much greater than what you're used to it was the same way for me for instance I mean I definitely hit an income plateau and I was like 19 20 21 years old that I couldn't quite break and part of that was in my head where I believed that like a 20 or 21 year old shouldn't be earning X amount of money and in some way or another I was somewhat capping myself at how much I was making because I've hit that I didn't think I you know it's I shouldn't be making this much money this isn't right it's for a 21 year old this isn't like it's not okay I don't have permission to make a certain amount of money and in a sense I would just somewhat get lazy once I hit that amount I think like oh turn or you did good enough for myself because I've already made this much I don't need to make any more because any more than that just would be that would just be absurd so I'm going to stop there and it's about realizing what that limiting belief is overcoming that and then growing to something even better from there Tony Robbins in that book goes into ways that you can realize these were living beliefs and then shatter them and not only that but Tony Robbins with someone who came from pretty much nothing and grew a huge empire on his own and everything he has to say I really enjoy it so with that said these are my top five books between growing wealth business and mindset that I would highly recommend you look into now my opinion these books are all a great foundation these are less about how to's and more about just creating a solid foundation for you to go and build something up from there so with that said I'd highly recommend you look into these books a lot of them by the way are completely free on YouTube I've been awaken the giant within audiobook chances are you will find it for free on YouTube same thing with Think and Grow Rich type that in YouTube you'll probably be able to find a lot of these books completely for free you don't even have to buy them just listen to the medium when you're driving or working just have them on playing listen to it that's what I do it works really well for me so then after this video I'll make a second video talking about my favorite books I recommend in terms of real estate and investing and a lot of those are more practical than these books are recommended as a good foundation so with that said thank you so much for watching I really appreciate all the support you guys have given me thank you again by the way I know we just hit 50,000 subscribers so thank you so much for real that is still mind-blowing to me it's a number that doesn't even seem real to 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Channel: Graham Stephan

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Length: 10min 55sec (655 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 23 2017