Read by Warren Buffett, Alex Hormozi, Chip Wilson and 11 others
What books does Leila Hormozi recommend?
An operating manual behind a nine-figure portfolio, the book recommendations of Leila Hormozi filter every title through one question. As CEO of Acquisition.com and a scaling expert who co-founded GymLaunch, Prestige Labs, and ALAN, she asks whether a book helps operators build autonomous teams. This collection gathers 10 titles she has cited across her YouTube channel, interviews, and official curated lists, with subjects clustering around business and strategy, self-improvement, and leadership and management. The emphasis is on infrastructure and human capital rather than tactics. Her most personal pick is Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, a book she says gave her two takeaways that "drastically changed" how she runs her teams: leading with "curiosity over judgment," and the compounding value of encouragement. Alongside it sit Viktor Frankl, Peter Drucker, and Claire Hughes Johnson's Scaling People, which she calls "the new modern day High Output Management."
Last updated February 2026 · Every recommendation cited to its original source.
byDale Carnegie
1936291 Pages“There's two takeaways that I had from that book that have drastically changed and kind of altered and even built the philosophy of how I run my teams. The first piece is that you always want to be asking people questions... curiosity over judgment. The second takeaway is that encouragement is always going to work better than criticism.”
— Leila Hormozi
Source: YouTube: 5 Books That Changed My Life | Ep 12
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Man's Search for Meaning
An Introduction to Logotherapy
byViktor E. Frankl
2006165 Pages“There are two things I really got from this book: our circumstances do not dictate how we feel about ourselves; our thoughts about our circumstances and the meaning we give them are what dictate the outcomes. Winners and losers have no different circumstances, they just have different meanings they ascribe to those circumstances.”
— Leila Hormozi
Source: YouTube: 5 Books That Changed My Life | Ep 12
byPeter Drucker
200872 Pages“This book was so good because it taught me one fundamental principle: building a business and having success is not about how well you do with the circumstance or with others, but it starts with yourself. You can't manage yourself if you don't know yourself.”
— Leila Hormozi
Source: YouTube: 5 Books That Changed My Life | Ep 12
Read by Donald Trump, Chip Wilson, Leila Hormozi and 5 others
Rich Dad Poor Dad
What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
byRobert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter
2017336 Pages“It taught me that I didn't need to have a high income to be wealthy, I needed to have high net worth... It also taught me that you have to confront that fear [of losing money] and learn to be okay with it.”
— Leila Hormozi
Source: YouTube: 5 Books That Changed My Life | Ep 12
Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too
How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too
byGary Vaynerchuk
2018288 Pages“I started reading this book and it taught me that social media was where everything was going... The second thing the book taught me is documenting, not creating. Look at what you're doing every day; that is what you should be talking about.”
— Leila Hormozi
Source: YouTube: 5 Books That Changed My Life | Ep 12
Scaling People
Tactics for Management and Company Building
byClaire Hughes Johnson
2023480 Pages“There's this book I've been pushing right now, Scaling People from the Stripe COO. That's like the new modern day High Output Management.”
— Leila Hormozi
Source: YouTube: Books Are a Waste of Time (Interview with Eric Siu)
Buy Back Your Time
Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire
byDan Martell
2023272 Pages“Dan distills a career of building and scaling companies into a masterclass of simple, actionable steps that will help you regain control of your life.”
— Leila Hormozi
Source: Official Book Blurb / Endorsement
Read by Leila Hormozi
The Motive
Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities
byPatrick Lencioni
2020192 PagesSource: Accelerator University (Skool) Reading List
$100M Offers
How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No
byAlex Hormozi
2021164 PagesSource: Acquisition.com Official Curated List
Read by Leila Hormozi
$100M Leads
How to Get Strangers To Want To Buy Your Stuff
byAlex Hormozi
2023278 PagesSource: Acquisition.com Official Curated List
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Frequently asked questions
What books does Leila Hormozi recommend?
Across 10 recommendations, Leila Hormozi highlights How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, Peter Drucker's Managing Oneself, Rich Dad Poor Dad, and Claire Hughes Johnson's Scaling People, spanning leadership, finance, and self-management.
What is Leila Hormozi's favorite book?
She points to How to Win Friends and Influence People as foundational, saying it built "the philosophy of how I run my teams." Her two takeaways were to always ask people questions, choosing "curiosity over judgment," and that encouragement is a leadership constant.
Where do Leila Hormozi's book recommendations come from?
They are drawn from her YouTube episodes such as "5 Books That Changed My Life," an interview with Eric Siu, the Accelerator University reading list, and Acquisition.com's official curated list, which includes Alex Hormozi's $100M Offers and $100M Leads.
What genres does Leila Hormozi read most?
Her list leans heavily toward business and strategy, self-improvement, and leadership and management, with a recurring interest in psychology and human behavior and economics and finance, reflecting her focus on scaling companies through people and systems.
What did Leila Hormozi learn from Rich Dad Poor Dad?
She says it taught her that she "didn't need to have a high income to be wealthy," only high net worth, and that building wealth meant learning to confront and sit with the fear of losing money rather than avoiding it.
All 10 Books Leila Hormozi Has Recommended
- How to Win Friends and Influence People · Dale Carnegie
- Man's Search for Meaning · Viktor E. Frankl
- Managing Oneself · Peter Drucker
- Rich Dad Poor Dad · Robert T. Kiyosaki
- Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too · Gary Vaynerchuk
- Scaling People · Claire Hughes Johnson
- Buy Back Your Time · Dan Martell
- The Motive · Patrick Lencioni
- $100M Offers · Alex Hormozi
- $100M Leads · Alex Hormozi