I made a list of the best books for startup founders by compiling upvotes from Product Hunt, reviews from Amazon and GoodReads. Then i read all of the books, craft 20-minute summaries and saved quotes i liked. There is 19 quotes from Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Geoffrey A. Moore, Tony Hsieh, Jim Collins, Ryan Holiday, Nir Eyal, Robert Cialdini, Jeff Walker, Seth Godin, Jason Fried, Sean Ellis, Chris Guillebeau, Jeff Bezos, Ben Horowitz, Eric Ries, Gabriel Weinberg and Peter Thiel. The main goal is to share with you an instrument for bite-sized learning.

1. 19 quotes
from the best books
for startup founders
Curated by compiling upvotes from Product Hunt,
rating from Amazon and GoodReads.

2. Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3. — The three most harmful
addictions are heroin,
carbohydrates, and a monthly
salary.

4. Crossing The Chasm
Geoffrey A. Moore

5. — Entering the mainstream
market is an act of burglary, of
breaking and entering, of
deception, often even of stealth.

6. Delivering Happiness
Tony Hsieh

7. — Money alone isn’t enough to
bring happiness… happiness is
when you’re actually truly okay
with losing everything you have.

8. Good To Great
Jim Collins

9. — By definition, it is not possible
to everyone to be above the
average.

10. Growth Hacker Marketing
Ryan Holiday

11. — When intelligent people read,
they ask themselves a simple
question: What do I plan to do
with this information?

12. Hooked
Nir Eyal

13. — Why not live now instead of
someday?

14. Influence
Robert Cialdini

15. — Our best evidence of what
people truly feel and believe
comes less from their words than
from their deeds.

16. Launch
Jeff Walker

17. — The world has changed, and
the only true security is your
ability to create value and get
paid for that value.

18. Permission Marketing
Seth Godin

19. — Your website should be 100%
focused on signing up strangers
to give you permission to market
to them.

20. ReWork
Jason Fried, DHH

21. — When you don’t know what
you believe, everything becomes
an argument. Everything is
debatable. But when you stand
for something, decisions are
obvious.

22. Startup Growth Engines
Sean Ellis

23. — Growth is not just a concern of
sales and marketing, but of
product, engineering and support
too. It is this organization-wide
commitment to growth that
ultimately sets these companies
apart.

24. Purple Cow
Seth Godin

25. — In a crowded marketplace,
fitting in is a failure. In a busy
marketplace, not standing out is
the same as being invisible.

26. The $100 Startup
Chris Guillebeau

27. — Plans are only good intensions
unless they immediately
degenerates into hard work.

28. The Everything Store
Jeff Bezos

29. — It’s easier to invent the future
than to predict it.

30. The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz

31. — The only thing that prepares
you to run a company is running a
company.

32. The Lean Startup
Eric Ries

33. — The only way to win is to learn
faster than anyone else.

34. The Obstacle Is The Way
Ryan Holiday

35. — There is no good or bad
without us, there is only
perception. There is the event
itself and the story we tell
ourselves about what it means.

36. Traction
Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares

37. — Almost every failed startup has
a product. What failed startups
don’t have are enough customers.

38. Zero To One
Peter Thiel

39. — Brilliant thinking is rare, but
courage is in even shorter supply
than genius.

40. Read books as summaries,
broken down into 5-minute
daily emails
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