The 8 best Sales books
Updated: November 15th, 2024
Books about sales.
1. The Greatest Salesman in the World
1967Pages: 118 My rating: 5Goodreads: 4.21
A story with 10 timeless life lessons focused on resilience and mindset - both to become a top 1% salesman, but also a better human-being. And a reminder to know yourself before you try to influence others.

Og Mandino

2. The Mom Test
Pages: 136 My rating: 5Goodreads: 4.4
How to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you. Here is a short summary of the perfect handbook for early stage startup founders.
Rob Fitzpatrick

3. The Transparency Sale
Pages: 175 My rating: 5Goodreads: 4.23
Sell more by using transparency and honesty to build trust and credibility with clients. 'How Unexpected Honesty and Understanding the Buying Brain Can Transform Your Results'.
Todd Caponi

4. Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
Pages: 258 My rating: 5Goodreads: 4.12
Explains the framework successful companies have used to find traction and how you can do it to.
Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares

5. Way of The Wolf
2017Pages: 240 My rating: 5Goodreads: 4.02
Everyone can become master closers with straight line selling. Follow the straight line methodology to achieve the shortest path to a closed deal. By using trivial psychology and methods such as object handling you can increase emotional and logical certainty of your prospects. Build trust in the 'three tens' - the product, the company and the seller - and you will close deals.

Jordan Belfort

6. $100M Leads
2023Pages: 278 My rating: 4Goodreads: 4.61
The playbook on how to get leads and get "strangers to buy your stuff". The frameworks Alex Hormozi uses to get 20,000+ new leads per day for his businesses that generate $200M per year.

Alex Hormozi

7. $100M Offers
Pages: 164 My rating: 4Goodreads: 4.7
This book teaches you how to craft a Grand Slam Offer in sales - an offer that is so different it will skip the explanations of why your product is different from everyone else's. Avoid being a commodity and competing on price. Enable your prospects to make value-driven purchases, charge premium prices and see vertical growth of your business.

Alex Hormozi

8. SPIN Selling
Pages: 197 My rating: 4Goodreads: 3.98
Sales are about asking the right questions. Spin Selling offers a quantative approach to larger sales, divided into the four types of questions of SPIN - Situational, Problem, Implication, and Need-payoff questions. As deal size and complexity of the sale increase, the need for a consultative and benefit-driven approach becomes critical.
Neil Rackham

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