# The Game with Alex Hormozi book recommendations > Every book mentioned on The Game with Alex Hormozi, most mentioned first, with the strongest quote for each. Compiled by Podshelf from episode transcripts. - Show page: https://podshelf.io/podcasts/the-game-with-alex-hormozi - Hosted by Alex Hormozi - 34 books, 53 mentions and 0 top picks across 296 episodes since 2025-01-01 ## Books - [$100M Offers](https://podshelf.io/books/9781963349016) by Alex Hormozi: 11 mentions, the host's own book > “The good news is I have an entire chapter on how to structure bonuses inside my offers book on page 117. So how do you splinter stack what you have, pull out the different components, order them in such a way that they're the most compelling as possible to each avatar. And I will say this, I think people kind of sit on this continuum of like they have no bonuses or they offer like 100 bonuses. I think the magic is actually in the middle is you want to have each bonus in and of itself be worth the same value as the overall price.” — Building a $2,300,000/yr Business for a Stranger in 57 Mins | Ep 1012 (2026-11-03) - [$100M Money Models](https://podshelf.io/books/9781963349153) by Alex Hormozi: 5 mentions, the host's own book > “It's funny because Caleb were saying earlier, like the, it's, it's the tiny little scripting lines. It's two or three sentences. And so like, I think many people do not fully appreciate the value of like the money models book because like you just ran the manuscript and it was like, oh shit, this prints. It's not just how you sell. It's when you sell.” — 8 Entrepreneurs Compete for $100,000 (2026-10-22) - [How to Win Friends and Influence People](https://podshelf.io/books/9780671027032) by Dale Carnegie: 3 mentions > “But whenever you distribute your bets, you also decrease your upside. Right? So Dale Carnegie had a famous quote, which is, put all your eggs in one basket and then watch the basket. And so that's him talking about this. Right? Bootstrapping or you're raising capital for your own business.” — The 4 Paths To Mega Money | Ep 975 (2026-06-02) - [$100M Leads](https://podshelf.io/books/9781737475767) by Alex Hormozi: 3 mentions, the host's own book > “For us, we do our, you know, we did the book launches. We did the launch for the leads book. We did the launch for the money models book. I sold the company. This was kind of my first big brand moment, if you will, of selling the company for just under 50 million bucks.” — 3 Levels of Building a Personal Brand | Ep 984 (2026-07-02) - [Man's Search for Meaning](https://podshelf.io/books/9780807014271) by Viktor E. Frankl: 2 mentions > “Victor Frankl talks about this in Man's Search for Meaning. He said there's this gap, this moment between stimulus and reaction where we have a choice.” — Build a Mind So Strong It Scares People | Ep 971 (2025-11-25) - [Finite and Infinite Games](https://podshelf.io/books/9780029059807) by James P. Carse: 1 mention > “And so this is conceptually the same idea of a finite versus an infinite game. Right now, both of those are, I guess, technically infinite games. I guess you can keep going, right? But from a finite versus infinite perspective, a finite game would be like baseball. There's known rules, known players, and then there's a degree upon outcome at the end, right?” — A Video to Watch if You're Ambitious and in Your 20s or 30s | Ep 1003 (2026-09-29) - [Outliers](https://podshelf.io/books/9780316017930) by Malcolm Gladwell: 1 mention > “I read Outliers when I was in college, which is Malcolm Gladwell's book. You talk about 10,000 hours.” — How I Lost Everything Twice and Kept Going (Rachel Hollis Interview) | Ep 880 (2025-05-06) - [Thinking, Fast and Slow](https://podshelf.io/books/9780374275631) by Daniel Kahneman: 1 mention > “I wouldn't have done it for any more or whatever. What's interesting is that Daniel Nobel's prize winner figured out that people give excessive weight to the initial information and make insufficient adjustments from that starting point. It's a psychological bias. Basically, it's like you want to anchor as high as possible.” — The Psychological Power That Wins Every Negotiation Before You Sit Down | Ep 981 (2026-06-23) - [1929](https://podshelf.io/books/9780593296967) by Andrew Ross Sorkin: 1 mention > “Andrew Ross Sorkin has got this new book called Nike. I'm in the middle of reading it. It's about the Great Depression and how it came to be.” — Define the Win or You’ll Never Hit It | Ep 998 (2026-01-29) - [Spare](https://podshelf.io/books/9780593593806) by Prince Harry: 1 mention > “Prince Harry is the one who owns that record right now with 1.4 million copies for his book called Spare.” — we made 106M in 72 hours. | Ep 987 (2026-01-06) - [Awaken the Giant Within](https://podshelf.io/books/9780671711054) by Tony Robbins: 1 mention > “He would just mop the floors listening to Awake the Giant Within.” — How To Find Meaning When Success Feels Empty with Tony Robbins | Ep 994 (2026-01-21) - [Good to Great](https://podshelf.io/books/9780694526079) by Jim Collins: 1 mention > “It was the Good to Great book before Good to Great, before Jim Collins did it.” — Do This If You Want to Build A Business You Love (Dave Ramsey Interview) | Ep 871 (2025-04-16) - [Atomic Habits](https://podshelf.io/books/9780735211292) by James Clear: 1 mention > “And I will say this cause I love this quote from James Clear, but the thing that separates winners and losers are not their goals. People's goals are the same. The difference between the people who win and lose is the actions they take as a result and the risk that they're willing to tolerate and the pain that they're willing to endure for extended periods of time with an uncertain payoff.” — Get Rich While You Are Young | Ep 1001 (2026-09-22) - [In Search of Excellence](https://podshelf.io/books/9780783881140) by Tom Peters: 1 mention > “There's an old book, In Search of Excellence. It was the Good to Great book before Good to Great, before Jim Collins did it.” — Do This If You Want to Build A Business You Love (Dave Ramsey Interview) | Ep 871 (2025-04-16) - [The 4-Hour Workweek](https://podshelf.io/books/9780786168651) by Tim Ferriss: 1 mention > “Tim Ferriss tested 'A Four Hour Work Week' for his book. And he hated the title. But it crushed all the other titles.” — Why My Books Go Viral (David Perrell Interview) | Ep 885 (2025-05-14) - [Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future](https://podshelf.io/books/9780804139298) by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters: 1 mention > “I read Peter Thiel's Zero to One. And I think I have to create a totally new category.” — How to Survive Creator Burnout and Still Scale (Karat Reshare) | Ep 888 (2025-05-19) - [Scientific Advertising](https://podshelf.io/books/9780872510043) by Claude Hopkins: 1 mention > “Old school direct response copywriting books. Claude Hopkins, David Ogilvy, Joe Sugarman, Gary Kennedy. I love reading those books.” — Define the Win or You’ll Never Hit It | Ep 998 (2026-01-29) - [Breakthrough Advertising](https://podshelf.io/books/9780998503509) by Eugene M. Schwartz, Eugene Schwartz: 1 mention > “So on the levels of awareness piece. The five levels of awareness is a framework by Eugene Schwartz where every person in a market falls into five categories. So your advertising should speak to them differently. He contends that audiences go from the bottom, which is the warmest and smallest group, to the top, which is the coldest and largest.” — How I’d Scale This Business From $1M to $3M (2026-07-21) - [The Sales Acceleration Formula](https://podshelf.io/books/9781119047070) by Mark Roberge: 1 mention > “I actually read a book that you suggest, the guy who did HubSpot sales team. Wrote that book. I did the same kind of gear.” — Define the Win or You’ll Never Hit It | Ep 998 (2026-01-29) - [Harry Potter series](https://podshelf.io/books/9781338218398) by J. K. Rowling: 1 mention > “Yeah. She just hung around. Again, it's like, does this, like, I love the sword of Gryffindor from Harry Potter. I'll say it again. But it had an enchantment on it, which was, uh, it only drinks in that which makes it stronger. And I think it's like, you're going to, you are that metal, you are that sword, and you're going to be putting yourself int…” — The One Question to Ask About Any Relationship | Ep 991 (2026-08-07) - [Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive](https://podshelf.io/books/9781416571124) by Noah J. Goldstein, Steve J. Martin, robert cialdini: 1 mention > “I remember reading a study in a book called, I think it was like 50 Scientific Ways to Get to Yes. And one of the things they talked about in the book was that one country was able to get like 80% of people to opt in to be an organ donor, whereas other countries average like 10%. And the one thing that that country did is they had people opt out of being an organ donor rather than opt into it. And so to me, that almost permanently changed how I saw upselling, which is how do I make the thing that I want someone to do appear like the default option as in they have to opt out of it.” — Building a $2,300,000/yr Business for a Stranger in 57 Mins | Ep 1012 (2026-11-03) - [What It Takes](https://podshelf.io/books/9781471189562) by Stephen Schwarzman: 1 mention > “And I think Stephen Schwartzman, his book, he's the founder of Blackstone. He said this line that I really took to heart. He said, big goals and small goals take the same amount of work. And so it's a poor investment of resources to go after small goals because...” — 3 Stages of Building a Personal Brand | Ep 993 (2026-08-27) - [money: master the game](https://podshelf.io/books/9781476757872) by Tony Robbins: 1 mention > “My actually entry into your world was Money Master the Game. That was the book that got me.” — How To Find Meaning When Success Feels Empty with Tony Robbins | Ep 994 (2026-01-21) - [Shoe Dog](https://podshelf.io/books/9781501135910) by Phil Knight: 1 mention > “Phil Knight tells the story in Shoe Dog, where he says you're not out of business when your bank account runs out.” — If You’re Ambitious But Inconsistent, Please Listen to This | Ep 978 (2025-12-16) - [Built to Sell](https://podshelf.io/books/9781591843979) by John Warrillow: 1 mention > “Read the book built to sell. So I started analyzing my company and I said, or I figured out that construction companies are not an easy asset to sell” — Solving 6 Scaling Problems | Ep 969 (2026-05-12) - [Let My People Go Surfing](https://podshelf.io/books/9781594200724) by Yvon Chouinard: 1 mention > “So I just want to talk about two brands real quick, Patagonia and Chick-fil-A. The founder of Patagonia didn't set out to be a capitalist. He just became a billionaire over time, but worked out for him. Brutal leader in the boardroom. But he would argue for work-life balance. He actually wrote a book called Let Them Go Surfing. Yeah. So I think what he is saying is that you do need some work-life balance. And he preached it to himself.” — I Offered $10,000 to Anyone Who Could Change My Mind | Ep 1013 (2026-11-05) - [Rich Dad Poor Dad](https://podshelf.io/books/9781612680194) by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Robert Kiyosaki: 1 mention > “Rich Dad Poor Dad still sells 100,000 copies a month 40 years later.” — Why My Books Go Viral (David Perrell Interview) | Ep 885 (2025-05-14) - [The Magic of Believing](https://podshelf.io/books/9781722500573) by Claude Bristol, Claude M. Bristol: 1 mention > “I remember reading this book by Claude Bristol. It's called The Magic of Believing. And I read the book and it talked about how to condition your mind.” — How To Find Meaning When Success Feels Empty with Tony Robbins | Ep 994 (2026-01-21) - [$100M Sales](https://podshelf.io/books/9781737475774) by Alex Hormozi: 1 mention, the host's own book > “which I will talk about more in depth in Acquisition Volume 4, $100 million sales.” — 100M Offers Audiobook Part 5 (2026-03-26) - [The Laws of Human Nature](https://podshelf.io/books/9781781259207) by Robert Greene: 1 mention > “One of the things that Robert Greene talks about that I loved in that book, The Laws of Human Nature, was about specialness.” — What Leila Hormozi And I Accomplished In Q1 And HOW We Did It | Ep 860 (2025-03-31) - [Ogilvy on Advertising](https://podshelf.io/books/9781853756153) by David Ogilvy: 1 mention > “Old school direct response copywriting books. Claude Hopkins, David Ogilvy. I love reading those books. They are the most tactical, but they also teach you about life.” — Define the Win or You’ll Never Hit It | Ep 998 (2026-01-29) - [Wealth: Is It Worth It?](https://podshelf.io/books/9781929619405) by S. Truett Cathy, Dick Parker: 1 mention > “led by people who preach work-life balance. So as Truett Cathy, so his book, Wealth Is It Worth It? Yeah. Good book. I wouldn't argue that taking Sunday off is work-life balance as like the preaching. I would say that he's sticking to his kind of religious stuff.” — I Offered $10,000 to Anyone Who Could Change My Mind | Ep 1013 (2026-11-05) - [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows](https://podshelf.io/books/9788498387001) by J. K. Rowling: 1 mention > “Again, it's like, does this, like, I love the sword of Gryffindor from Harry Potter. I'll say it again. But it had an enchantment on it, which was, uh, it only drinks in that which makes it stronger. And I think it's like, you're going to, you are that metal, you are that sword, and you're going to be putting yourself into a bath with this other person. But you may not only take in that which makes you stronger. You may just take in everything. And that may end up making you weaker.” — The One Question to Ask About Any Relationship | Ep 991 (2026-08-07) - [How to Make a Couple Billion](https://podshelf.io/books/9798886454666) by Brad Jacobs: 1 mention > “I just read the book, How to Make a Couple Billion by Brad Jacobs. And he talks about getting ahead of the trend.” — Business Scaling Workshop Live Q&A | Ep 827 (2025-01-17)