Best Sales Books
Topic List98 books curated232 recommendations totalThe sales books that quota-carriers and founders actually recommend — prospecting, negotiation and pricing. Ranked by how many people recommended each title, not by publisher marketing.
Where to start: Sales Books recommended most often
Recommended books, ranked by how many of the 136 people behind this list recommended each one.
- 1How to Win Friends and Influence People43 recommendations · recommended by Derek Sivers, Ankur Warikoo and Nat Eliason
- 2Mindset30 recommendations · recommended by Derek Sivers, Tom Bilyeu and Tony Robbins
- 3Think and Grow Rich25 recommendations · recommended by Ankur Warikoo, Tom Bilyeu and Daymond John
- 4Crossing the Chasm22 recommendations · recommended by David Cancel, Ev Williams and Seth Godin
- 5Deep Work19 recommendations · recommended by Derek Sivers, Nat Eliason and Fola Aina
Recommended by Derek Sivers, Ankur Warikoo, Nat Eliason and 29 others
Do you feel stuck in life, not knowing how to make it more successful? Do you wish to become more popular? Are you craving to earn more? Do you wish to expand your horizon, earn new clients and win people over with your ideas?
The New Psychology of Success
Recommended by Derek Sivers, Tom Bilyeu, Tony Robbins and 21 others
Carol Dweck unpacks the distinction between fixed and growth mindsets, illustrating how beliefs about ability can shape learning, resilience, and achievement. The core idea is instantly applicable—shifting from 'I'm not good at this' to 'I'm not good at this yet'—and Dweck supports it with vivid schoolroom, sports, and boardroom stories. That same accessibility also becomes the book's friction point: the concept gets padded with repetitive case studies, and some readers will chafe at its relentless optimism and reliance on anecdotal evidence.
Recommended by Ankur Warikoo, Tom Bilyeu, Daymond John and 19 others
EXTREMELY USEFULL! IN EVERY chapter of this book, mention has been made of the money-making secret which has made fortunes for more than five hundred exceedingly wealthy men whom I have carefully analyzed over a long period of years.
Marketing and Selling HighTech Products to Mainstream Customers
Recommended by David Cancel, Ev Williams, Seth Godin and 12 others
A practical guide to marketing disruptive technology products, built around the idea that many innovations stall between early adopters and the mainstream. Moore offers a clear playbook for identifying a beachhead segment and dominating it before expanding. The advice is direct and actionable, but the case studies—mostly from enterprise hardware and software of the 1990s—can feel distant. Still, the underlying segmentation logic remains useful for anyone navigating the messy middle of tech adoption.
Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Recommended by Derek Sivers, Nat Eliason, Fola Aina and 15 others
Newport argues that sustained, distraction-free concentration is the competitive edge of the modern economy, then lays out rules for cultivating it. The book reads like a manifesto with tactical advice, but its first half is a lengthy justification that may feel redundant if you already value focus. The main limitation: the advice assumes a level of professional autonomy many readers lack—if your job requires constant responsiveness, the prescriptions can seem impractical or guilt-inducing.
How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Recommended by Tony Robbins, Tom Bilyeu, Alfred Lin and 11 others
The inspiring, life-changing bestseller by the author of LEADERS EAT LAST and TOGETHER IS BETTER In 2009, Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work, and in turn inspire their colleagues and customers.

Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Recommended by Derek Sivers, Ankur Warikoo, Nick Huber and 12 others
Chris Voss delivers a blunt, story-driven playbook drawn from years as an FBI hostage negotiator. You'll learn field-tested techniques like mirroring, labeling, and calibrated questions, all illustrated through kidnappings and standoffs. The value is raw, psychological leverage you can apply immediately to business or personal disputes. The limitation: Voss's world is adversarial, and his advice can feel manipulative or out of place in everyday relationships. Without an interest in his crime stories, the book may also feel repetitive.

The Psychology of Persuasion
Recommended by Noah Kagan, Ramit Sethi, Alexis Ohanian and 5 others
This is a book that pulls apart the psychological shortcuts we use to make decisions, then shows how to deploy them in business contexts. The writing is clear and heavy on real-world examples from sales and marketing, which makes the principles stick but can leave you feeling like you’ve just taken a master class in manipulation. Its useful part is giving a language for the invisible forces that shape everyday choices. The main limitation: it can feel overly tactical, as if relationships are just a series of triggers to be pulled, offering little on building genuine influence through trust.
Using Data, Technology,, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million
Recommended by Noah Kagan, Andrew Gazdecki, Nat Eliason and 3 others
This book is about the metricsdriven, scientific approach that Mark Roberge used to scale sales at a software company, HubSpot, from $0 to $100 Million in annualized revenue.
Recommended by Nick Huber, Brendon Burchard and Matthew McConaughey
"The most instrumental piece of literature and motivation I’ve ever read for me in my life." - Matthew McConaughey

And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
Recommended by The Barefoot Investor, Ramit Sethi and Simon Sinek
Do you want to get ahead in life Climb the ladder to personal success The secret, master networker Keith Ferrazzi claims, is in reaching out to other people.

How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World
Recommended by Daymond John and Chase Jarvis
The New York Times bestselling author and social media expert returns with hardwon advice on how to connect with customers and beat the competition by mastering social media marketingWhen managers and marketers outline their social media strategies, they often plan for the…

The Only Difference Between Success and Failure
Recommended by David Cancel, Ran Segall and James Clear
Grant Cardone's The 10X Rule is an aggressive, short book that urges readers to multiply goals and commit to 'massive action' instead of cautious planning. Its useful contribution is a vivid push to scale ambition and break timid, incremental habits through relentless focus on output. The book's limits are its one-note tone, frequent repetition of the same mantra, and modest attention to pacing or sustainable systems; readers wanting careful, measured argument or step-by-step operational guidance may feel shortchanged.

Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies
Recommended by Derek Sivers, Noah Kagan and Jackie Vullinghs
Chet Holmes helps his clients blow away both the competition and their own expectations. And his advice starts with one simple concept: focus!

The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
Recommended by Andrew Gazdecki and Jeffrey Shaw
The Playbook for Building a HighVelocity Sales Machine
Recommended by Sam Altman and Justin Kan
Stay ahead of the sales evolution with a more efficient approach to everythingHacking Sales helps you transform your sales process using the next generation of tools, tactics and strategies.
A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea (GoGiver, Book 1
Recommended by Dave Ramsey and Josh Elledge
Whether presenting a product or principle, service or idea, we all engage in sales. Zig Ziglar presents winning techniques for getting a positive response and establishing dynamic relationships.
Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com
Recommended by Andrew Gazdecki
Called "The Sales Bible of Silicon Valley"...discover the sales specialization system and outbound sales process that, in just a few years, helped add $100 million in recurring revenue to Salesforce.com, almost doubling their enterprise growth...with zero cold calls.
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Creating Buyers in Difficult Selling Markets
Recommended by Sam Altman
``Solution Selling is the most comprehensive sales and sales management process available today. Mike Bosworth has the best understanding of sales process in corporate America.''Jeffrey M. Fisher, Vice President, Symix Computer Systems.
The Proven System of Sales Ideas, Methods, and Techniques Used by Top Salespeople Everywhere
Recommended by Brian Tracy
The Greatest Salesman in the World is a bestseller by Og Mandino. His books have sold over 50 million copies. Published in '68, reissued in '83 by Bantam, it's a guide to a philosophy of salesmanship, telling the story of Hafid, a poor camel boy who achieves a life of abundance.
The Ultimate Guide to Opening Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email, Text, and Cold Calling
Recommended by Michael Batko

True or false In selling highvalue products or services: closing increases your chance of success; it is essential to describe the benefits of your product or service to the customer; objection handling is an important skill; and open questions are more effective than closed…
Taking Control of the Customer Conversation
Recommended by Andrew Gazdecki
What's the secret to sales success If you're like most business leaders, you'd say it's fundamentally about relationshipsand you'd be wrong. The best salespeople don't just build relationships with customers. They challenge them.
Powerful Strategies That Move Customers to Make Fast, Favorable Decisions
Salespeople today face a fastpaced and increasingly crowded marketplace where meaningful product differentiation has all but disappeared. To compete successfully, sellers must set themselves apart in the eyes of buyers.

A Tactical Playbook for Managers and Executives
Sales training doesn't develop sales champions. Managers do.The secret to developing a team of high performers isn't more training but better coaching.

The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale
"No longer is being 'a good closer' the basis of sustainable success. Instead intakes the kind of strategic thinking Rick Page outlines inHope Is Not a Strategy."Geoffrey Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm and Inside the TornadoMaster of the complex sale, Rick Page is the…

Surprising Research on What Sales Winners Do Differently
Standard solution sales methods aren't working like they used to. Indeed, several prominent sources have pronounced that the era of solution sales has ended.
12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness
Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly If salespeople are worried about how to sell, Gitomer (The Sales Bible) believes they are missing out on the more important aspect of sales: why people buy.
How to Compete and Win When the Stakes are High!
Praise for Mastering the Complex Sale "Jeff Thull's process plays a key role in helping companies and their customers cross the chasm with disruptive innovations and succeed with gamechanging initiatives." Geoffrey A.
Struggling to Get Your Foot in the Door of Big CompaniesSetting up meetings with corporate decision makers has never been harder. It's almost impossible to get them to pick up the phone. They never return your calls.
Eliminate the Fear, Failure, and Rejection from Cold Calling
Master coldcalling and eliminate rejection foreverIn the newest edition of Smart Calling: Eliminate the Fear, Failure, and Rejection from Cold Calling, celebrated author and sales trainer, Art Sobczak packs even more powerful insight into what many people fear: prospecting by…

Speed Up Sales and Win More Business with Today's Frazzled Customers
Selling is tougher than ever before. Potential customers are under extreme pressure to do more with less money, less time, and fewer resources, and they're wary of anyone who tries to get them to buy or change anything.

The Unique Sales System Proven Successful by the World's Best Companies
The Book That Sparked A Selling Revolution In 1985 one book changed sales and marketing forever. Rejecting manipulative tactics and emphasizing "process," Strategic Selling presented the idea of selling as a joint venture and introduced the decade's most influential concept,…
Surprisingly Simple Strategies for Today's CrazyBusy Sellers
I felt like time was taunting me: 'Behind again You'll never get it all done.' I worked harder....

A Simpler, Easier, And Faster Way To Sell Anything To Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere
If you want to know, step by step, how to quickly, easily, and smoothly walk anyone from being a skeptical prospect to a happy customer that refers you friends, family, and colleagues...then you want to read this book.

What Every Executive Wants You to Know About Successfully Selling to the Top
It's the goal of every salesperson: getting access to senior client executivesthe CLevel decision makers responsible for approving topdollar deals.

Get Up to Speed Quickly in Today's EverChanging Sales World
Being an agile seller virtually guarantees a prosperous careerWhen salespeople are promoted, switch jobs, or face new business conditions, they need to learn lots of new information and skills quickly.
Written by two millennials who have actually sold something this decade.
How to Radically Increase Your B2B Sales Pipeline
The proven system for rapid B2B sales growth from the coauthor of Predictable Revenue, the breakout bestseller hailed as a "sales bible" (Inc.)If your organization's success is driven by B2B sales, you need to be an expert prospector to successfully target, qualify, and close…
A Master Framework to Engage, Equip, and Empower A WorldClass Sales Force
Put buyer experience and selling resources frontandcenter to boost revenueSales Enablement is the essential guide to boosting revenue through smarter selling.

Scaling Up Your Sales and Marketing Machine for the Digital Buyer
A concrete framework for engaging today's buyer and building relationships Social Selling Mastery provides a key resource for sales and marketing professionals seeking a better way to connect with today's customer.
The Untapped Selling Power of Contact Marketing
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The Secret To Closing Sales The Best Selling Practices & Techniques For Closing The Deal
If you want to discover how to close sales using the absolute best practice (one that's nonpushy, flexible, natural & easy to learn) then read this book.Author James Muir shares unique insights on how 'closing the sale' can be done with a natural, nonpushy sales strategy that…

Debunk the Myths. Apply Powerful Principles. Win More New Sales.
A blunt wakeup call to salespeople and sales leaders that debunks the myths of the latest miracle solutions and refocuses your sales strategy on a proven approach that will drive the results you want.Can you handle the truth Can succeeding in sales be as simple as hooking up the…

Getting the Customer to Yes
Gap Selling is a fast, opinion-forward sales manual that centers on diagnosing the buyer's measurable gap between current state and desired outcome, then structuring the sale around that gap rather than features or charm. Chapters are short and declarative, so the main method lands early. It’s useful for shifting reps toward tougher discovery and dollarizing problems; limiting if you expect sourced evidence, subtle persuasion tactics, or a book full of reproducible practice drills.
The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development
Packed with examples and anecdotes, New Sales. Simplified. offers a proven formula for prospecting, developing, and closing deals. No matter how much repeat business you get from loyal customers, the lifeblood of your business is a constant flow of new accounts.
The Straight Truth About Getting Exceptional Results from Your Sales Team

Lessons From Sales' Front Lines
Finally! The definitive guide to the toughest, most challenging, and most rewarding job in sales. Front Line Sales Managers have to do it all often without anyone showing them the ropes.
The Seven Levels of Communication
Can you imagine receiving a referral each and every day Neither could real estate agent Rick Masters.(7L) The Seven Levels of Communication tells the entertaining and educational story of Rick Masters, who is suffering from a down economy when he meets a mortgage professional…
How to Design, Build and Scale a CustomerCentric Sales Organization (Sales Blueprints)
An updated version of the musthave book for SaaS sales teams, which The SaaS Sales Method defines to include Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success. Because of their very nature, SaaS companies live and die on revenue growth.
How Ultra High Performers Leverage SalesSpecific Emotional Intelligence to Close the Complex Deal
Sales EQ arms salespeople and sales leaders with the tools to identify their most important emotional intelligence developmental and learning needs and strategies for developing their Sales EQ.
How to Sell More, Earn More, and Become the Ultimate Sales Machine
This national bestseller is a lively and practical guide on how to sell anything and achieve longterm success in business. Ryan Serhant was a shy, jobless hand model when he entered the real estate business in 2008 at a time the country was on the verge of economic collapse.

What Every Executive Wants You to Know About Successfully Selling to the Top
THE CLASSIC GUIDE TO HIGHLEVEL SELLING.Updated with new insights from global executives. How do the best salespeople become trusted advisors to top executives How do they prepare the right message and get in front of the right influencers and decisionmakers How do they close…
Winning the Ten Commitments That Drive Sales
"Always be closing!" Glengarry Glen Ross, 1992 "Never Be Closing!" a sales book title, 2014 " " salespeople everywhere, 2017For decades, sales managers, coaches, and authors talked about closing as the most essential, most difficult phase of selling.
How Unexpected Honesty and Understanding the Buying Brain Can Transform Your Results
The future of sales is radically transparent. Are you ready for it Buyers today have knowledge at their fingertips and most of their information gathering will routinely happen before you even walk through the door or get them on the phone.

for professional sellers
Make every sales call count and be the ONE seller buyers want to talk to! With DISCOVER Questions? , you will be able to differentiate yourself from the pack, create value for your buyers and connect is ways you never knew were possible.

In a world inundated with sales books on getting to yes, this book recommends just the opposite, focusing on how increasing your failure rate can greatly accelerate your movement toward ultimate success. Go for No!
19 Powerful Strategies to Win More Deals at the Prices You Want
"If we don't drop our price, we will lose the deal." That's the desperate cry from salespeople as they try to win deals in competitive marketplaces.

How to Get Your Way in Business and in Life
The ability to sell others is as critical to your success as food, water and oxygen is to life. While you may think that an exaggeration, every person on this planet is required to sell others on their ideas to advance themselves and their goals.

The Key to Making More Money Faster in the World of Professional Selling
"Let me think it over."Early in his sales career, worldrenowned sales expert Brian Tracy couldn't find a way to overcome that simple fiveword objection and close the sale. Then he discovered a technique that worked. Business boomed.
The USA Today bestseller by the star sales speaker and author of The Sales Blog that reveals how all salespeople can attain huge sales success through strategies backed by extensive research and experience.

Build Repeatable Pipeline and Accelerate Growth with Inside Sales
Raise your hand if your company needs more new customers. I suspect your hand is (figuratively) up. This book is about not just growth, but highgrowth, explosivegrowth, the kind of growth that weather satellites can see from space.

Sandler Training?s 7Step System for Successful Selling
The timeless guide to sales success has been revised to help you supercharge personal and team performance in a new economy"People make buying decisions emotionally and justify them logically."That shrewd insight from the first edition of this bestselling book has become a…
The Powerful OneTwo Punch That Fills Your Pipeline and Wins Sales
The Secrets to Measuring and Managing Sales Performance
Boost sales results by zeroing in on the metrics that matter most"Sales may be an art, but sales management is a science. Cracking the Sales Management Code reveals that science and gives practical steps to identify the metrics you must measure to manage toward success."Arthur…
Winning Customers Away from Your Competition
The first ever playbook for B2B salespeople on how to win clients and customers who are already being serviced by your competition, from the author of The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need and The Lost Art of Closing.Like it or not, sales is often a zerosum game: Your win is…
An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal
About the Book:When it comes to delivering a pitch, Oren Klaff has unparalleled credentials. Over the past 13 years, he has used his oneofa kind method to raise more than $400 millionand now, for the first time, he describes his formula to help you deliver a winning pitch in any…

How the Most Powerful Tool in Business Can Double Your Sales Results
"After I sent my team to the Question Based Selling program, not only was the feedback from the training outstanding, but we experienced an immediate positive impact in results."Jim Cusick, vice president of sales, SAP America, Inc."Following the program, even our most…

What Every Successful Sales Professional Needs to Know
Here in a short, compact and concise format is the basics of how to persuade more people more effectively, more ethically, and more often.
An internationallyknown authority on highlevel performance, Zig Ziglar has the answers to becoming the ultimate sales professional in a competitive world. Here is a comprehensive approach to selling, from closing the sale to maintaining family relationships while on the road.
How to Close Transactional Sales with Confidence and Consistency
In Addicted to the Process, top sales leader Scott Leese injects you with a powerful shot of adrenaline and teaches you how to Drill habits that build your confidence as a salesperson Use the addiction model to close deals like an allstar Stick to a proven process to blow up…
Collaborate with Buyers and Make Every Conversation Count
Connect with Customers and Get Results
Powerful Strategies to Find the Best Leads and Drive Breakthrough Sales Results

Winning More Business by Leveraging Digital Influence and Creating Human Connection
Imperative Actions You Need to Take and Master to Dominate Your Competition and Win for Yourself...For the Next Decade
Rejection Proof is Jia Jiang's entertaining and inspiring account of conquering his fear of rejection, offering a completely new perspective on how to turn a no into a yes.Jia Jiang came to the United States with the dream of being the next Bill Gates.
How to Make Extraordinary Sales Happen
Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, and Outnegotiate Your Competition (Collins Business Essentials)
This straightfromthehip handbook by bestselling author and selfmade millionaire Harvey Mackay spells out the path to success for readers everywhere.

The Ultimate Sales Resource
The Sales Bible softbound NEW EDITION WITH SOCIAL MEDIA ANSWERS Global sales authority Jeffrey Gitomer's bestselling classic, The Sales Bible, has been updated and appended in this new edition, offering you the ultimate sales methods and strategies that really work every day, in…
Proven Strategies to Make Your Pitch, Influence Decisions, and Close the Deal
The Revolutionary Sales Approach Scientifically Proven to Dramatically Improve Your Sales and Business SuccessBlending cuttingedge research in social psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics, The Science of Selling shows you how to align the way you sell with how our…

The Science of Selling Through Emotional Connection and the Power of Story
Build better relationships and Sell More Effectively With a Powerful SALES STORY"Throughout our careers, we have been trained to ask diagnostic questions, deliver value props, and conduct ROI studies.
Recommended Sales Books by Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers recommends 5 books on this list. See all book recommendations by Derek Sivers
Recommended Sales Books by Andrew Gazdecki
Andrew Gazdecki recommends 4 books on this list. See all book recommendations by Andrew Gazdecki
Recommended Sales Books by Ankur Warikoo
Ankur Warikoo recommends 4 books on this list. See all book recommendations by Ankur Warikoo
Sales Books: common questions
- What are the most recommended sales books?
- How to Win Friends and Influence People, Mindset and Think and Grow Rich are the most recommended sales books on BookMentions, ranked by how many people recommended them.
- Who recommends sales books?
- Derek Sivers, Andrew Gazdecki, Ankur Warikoo and Noah Kagan are among the people who recommend books on this list. Each name links to their full set of book recommendations.
- Which of these sales books should I read first?
- How to Win Friends and Influence People is the most recommended here with 43 recommendations, which makes it the safest place to start.
Built from recommendation data, category signals, and source-backed book records. Use this list as a starting point; open any book to see proof, context, and Amazon options where available.
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About this list
This list aggregates books that appear in public recommendation sources, reader-interest signals, and category data. Books are ranked by their position from the source list; recommendation counts and ratings are shown where available. Open any book to see source-backed recommendation proof, editorial context, and Amazon options — the per-book detail page is where the trust signals live.
Recommended books by person: who recommends sales books
Books recommended by the people below. Open a profile to see everything they recommend, with the source behind each pick.
- Derek SiversBooks recommended by Derek: 5

- Andrew GazdeckiBooks recommended by Andrew: 4
- Ankur WarikooBooks recommended by Ankur: 4
- Noah KaganBooks recommended by Noah: 4
- David CancelBooks recommended by David: 3
- Daymond JohnBooks recommended by Daymond: 3

- Nat EliasonBooks recommended by Nat: 3
- Nick HuberBooks recommended by Nick: 3
- Sam AltmanBooks recommended by Sam: 3

- Tom BilyeuBooks recommended by Tom: 3
- Tony RobbinsBooks recommended by Tony: 3

- Alex and BooksBooks recommended by Alex: 2



