Patrick Bet-David
Author, Entrepreneur, Executive, Podcaster
Patrick Bet-David is an Iranian-born American entrepreneur, author, and podcaster. He founded PHP Agency and Valuetainment Media, hosts the PBD Podcast and the Valuetainment YouTube channel, and wrote the bestseller Your Next Five Moves.
Patrick Bet-David's 80 Book Recommendations
- The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team
- Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential: “This book was a game changer for me back when I read it in 2001.”
- The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential: “A must read for 2013.”
- The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham
- The Art of SEO: Mastering Search Engine Optimization
- Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success: “everybody needs to read this book, especially the younger generation”
- How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In: “it's not a new book but you must read it”
- The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons: “I've read a lot of books, 1100 books, and this one is at the top of my list.”
- The 48 Laws of Power
- The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World: “One of my all time favorite books to read to understand history of America & basics of politics”
- The Shack: “Book recommendation of the week. #Theshack by #Williamyoung.”
- Crush It!: “your book #crushit is a must read for anyone who is a #marketer.”
- The Battle: How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future: “Just finished a book called, #TheBattle by #ArthurBrooks. Fight between #FreeEnterprise & #BigGovernment. Well written.”
- The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise: “your last book "The Road To Freedom" was excellent. I can only imagine what would happen if all high school kids read it”
- Leaving a Legacy: Inheritance, Charity, & Thousand-Year Families: “Excellent book.”
- Aggressive Girls, Clueless Boys: 7 Conversations You Must Have with Your Son: “Parents, read this book.”
- Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know: And Many Others You Will Find Interesting: “If you like statistics & predictions, get yourself a copy of this book.”
- Measure What Matters: “A must read book by @johndoerr. It was so impactful, I had to read it twice!”
- The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy: “Can't put this book down.”
- From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation: “It's a book every Iranian or those curious on the subject should read.”
- The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno, and the Network Battle for the Night: “Couldn't put this book down.”
- Talking to Strangers: “Another book recommendation. Talking to strangers by @Gladwell.”
- The Ride of a Lifetime: “Highly recommend “The Ride of a Lifetime” by @RobertIger to anyone with big aspirations.”
- Self-reliance: “Timeless book to read. Highly recommend it.”
- The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History: “One of the best audiobooks I've listened to in a long time.”
- Hitmaker: The Man and His Music: “This Book by @TommyMottola is a MUST read for every doer + entrepreneur.”
- Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story: “I've read this book multiple times and it never gets old.”
- Eleven Rings: “Highly recommend this book by @PhilJackson11. It's a great book for anyone in team building.”
- Influence: “I read this book many many many years ago it's a very very book good book”
- The Amazon Way: Amazon's 14 Leadership Principles: “one of the reasons why I love this book”
- Wooden on Leadership: “you'll see why I chose that book as a book of the month”
- Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
- Ego Is the Enemy
- The Five Temptations of a CEO: “April's book of the month is a book I really love”
- Handling Difficult People: Easy Instructions for Managing the Difficult People in Your Life
- David and Goliath
- The ONE Thing
- Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior
- Tribal Leadership
- I Love Capitalism!
- Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: “#1 obviously above everything to me in the marketing world is Blue Ocean Strategy.”
- Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind: “I think every marketer needs to study that book”
- The Tipping Point
- Marketing Management
- DotCom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online
- Trust Me, I'm Lying: “I would recommend you reading Trust Me I'm Lying.”
- Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth: “Very good book, Traction.”
- Made to Stick
- Contagious: “I highly recommend you read this book, Contagious”
- Elon Musk: “It's just a very good book to read as a source of inspiration.”
- The Obstacle Is the Way: “a great book by Ryan Holiday”
- The Snowball
- The Lean Startup
- Made In America: “the best book for you to read or study”
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- The Art of the Deal: “the number one book to read this summer the art of the deal by Donald Trump”
- Skin in the Game: “must read book”
- Principles: “it's the reason why I had every one of my sales guys in the company read it”
- Strategy: A History
- No More Mr. Nice Guy: A Proven Plan for Getting What You Want in Love, Sex, and Life: “I've probably recommended this book to a couple hundred guys”
- Onassis: An Extravagant Life: “the audio book is fantastic highly recommend”
- Atlas Shrugged: “you'll sit there and you can thank me later when you read this book”
- How to Invest: Masters on the Craft
- After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul: “you will not be able to put this book down”
- 12 Rules for Life: “Highly recommend this book.”
- Multipliers: “This one I also couldn't put down to the point where I had everybody in our company read it.”
- The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviors that Transform Ordinary People into World-Class Leaders: “another great book to read this summer is The CEO Next Door”
- Trillion Dollar Coach: “Good luck trying to put this book down.”
- Only the Paranoid Survive: “He wrote another book that I love called Only the Paranoid Survive.”
- High Output Management: “this is probably at the top of the list of these five books”
- The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (A Little) Craziness and (A Lot of) Success in America: “Go read this book. Thank me later.”
- How to Win Friends and Influence People: “It's probably one of those books you want to read once a year, or listen to the audio once a year.”
- Barbarians to Bureaucrats: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies: “I actually wanted to buy his book, meaning the rights to his book, because I was fascinated with his book.”
- Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior: “It was a book I couldn't put down.”
- Great Business Teams: Cracking the Code for Standout Performance: “It's a phenomenal book. Don't let this book cover, title, all this stuff fool you. It's an exceptional book.”
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High: “This book make it on my #7 list, Crucial Conversations, which has sold 2 million copies.”
- Mastery: “Very, very important book.”
- The E-Myth Revisited: “The E Myth is a very, very important book to read”
- The 33 Strategies Of War: “The number 10 book on my list is The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene.”
- Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook