--- title: '5 Books That Made Me a Millionaire at 20' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=g0DPZOvFP-M' video_id: 'g0DPZOvFP-M' date: 2026-08-05 duration_sec: 408 --- # 5 Books That Made Me a Millionaire at 20 > Source: [5 Books That Made Me a Millionaire at 20](https://youtube.com/watch?v=g0DPZOvFP-M) ## Summary In this video, a 20-year-old entrepreneur shares the five books that most influenced his path to success, emphasizing that less than 10% of the business literature he read was worthwhile. He presents each book as a key to overcoming specific challenges like laziness, fear, lack of discipline, and small thinking, and explains how he applied their principles to build his online business and achieve financial independence. ### Key Points - **Introduction: The 5 Most Influential Books** [00:02] — The speaker, at 20 years old, has read a vast amount of business literature but found less than 10% worthwhile. He will highlight the five books that had the most impact on his current success, the ones he would read first if starting from scratch. - **Book 1: 'No Excuses!' by Brian Tracy** [00:14] — This is his favorite book by Brian Tracy. It emphasizes taking action over visualization or talking about information. It helped him overcome laziness, procrastination, and lack of discipline, and he recommends it to anyone struggling with these issues. - **Book 2: 'Samurai Without a Sword'** [01:07] — This book about Japanese samurai teaches that the main obstacle between us and our goals is fear, not laziness. It provides insights on how to get rid of fears and work with them correctly, and emphasizes inner balance and self-control when things don't go as planned. - **Book 3: 'The 5 AM Club' (implied)** [02:26] — This book became a guide at the start of his online business journey in 2019. It introduced him to waking up at 5 AM, which became a sacred time for focused work on his channels, free from distractions. This habit laid the foundation for his current success. - **Book 4: 'The 10X Rule' by Grant Cardone** [04:02] — This book changed his thinking by removing mental boundaries. The key message: if your goals don't scare you, they're too small. It teaches to aim for 10 times your goal, making failure impossible, and distinguishes successful people who achieve one business after another. - **Book 5: '100 Million Dollar Offers' by Alex Hormozi** [05:05] — This book is about creating offers that clients cannot refuse. It covers customer pain points, why they buy, and how sales work. He considers it the ABCs of sales and client interaction, and applies its principles everywhere in his business. - **Conclusion: Reading Recommendations** [05:56] — He advises reading literature relevant to your current needs, e.g., books about money if you want to earn more, or time management if you lack time. He also mentions a video tutorial in the description for those wanting to learn his specific field. ### Conclusion The speaker's success is attributed to applying the principles from these five books, which collectively address fear, discipline, ambition, and sales. He encourages viewers to select books based on their immediate needs and to take action, as he did. ## Transcript forget, and there are those that leave a mark for the rest of your life. And it happened to me too. I am 20 years old. I have read a huge amount of business literature. But among this entire mass of books, there were less than 10% that were worthwhile. [music] And today I want to highlight the five books that have had the most influence on where I am today. progress taken away from me and was told to start from scratch, these are the books I would read first . Well then, let's go. The first book is Brian Tracy. There are no excuses. This is last ten books I read were his. This is probably my favorite of all the books I've read by him, because I relate achieving goals, when you don't make things up, don't visualize, don't talk about information, but just take it and do it. And it was precisely at a certain stage of my life that this book helped me the most and highlighted the necessary things. And I’m reread some of the meanings and take something back into account. For anyone who struggles with laziness, procrastination, and lack of discipline, I highly recommend this book, MT Have. That's what helped me the most [music] book instilled in me the idea that everything we want is already within walking separates us from our goals are our fears, some excuses, objections rule, it’s not laziness, but fear. Fear of making a mistake, fear that it won’t work out, fear that something will go wrong. And this very book teaches us to get rid of these fears and work with them correctly. And after this book, the most yourself is: "If not now, then when will I do it?" And get down to that very long time. That's why this is the first book. The next book I want to mention is Samurai Without a Sword. I wanted to read this book for a very long time and underestimated it a little, and in vain, actually. This is a book about the wars that took place in Japan several centuries ago and about the samurai who specific person who was able to reach the pinnacle of power not through connections, not through family affiliation, but simply because he decided to do so. And not by force of weapons or katana, but by force of mind. And throughout the book, the most important insights he received during various battles, fights, and epiphanies how this can be applied in business and in life. And this book taught me do [music] is just pause and do nothing. And if inner balance and self-control are important to you when things don't go according to plan, then this is what I recommend you read. Something that helped me a lot and dedicated me to different things. The next book, to my hometown, and I think I gave it to say that this book became a guide at the very beginning of my journey, as soon as I started making money online and as soon as I started running my own business. It was 2019, YouTube channels without a face. And then I had a ton of stuff going on: football, school, and a whole bunch of other things to distract me. And it was while reading at 5:00 [music] in the morning. Besides this, I work on self-development, create some morning rituals, like visualization, affirmations, and so on, and a bunch of other things. So, essentially, this book introduced me to the cult of I needed it most. I remember with a huge smile the times when I would simply wake up at 5:00 in the morning, it was pitch dark outside, winter, just bedding and go to work on content for my channels. There was absolutely no money. My family had no idea what I was doing in my room. But that's what laid the foundation for everything I have now. And now, when I gave my mother a car at the age of 20, I think she already understands why I did all this back then loved ones thought that I had already joined some kind of sect, but in fact, I was simply applying the advice from this book. So what is the essence of the book? That there are no to achieve great success in life, then you need to get up at 5:00 in the morning. This time has become the time when I am at home, no one can distract me, no completely clear, and I can focus on the most important things. And in many years of my life. And when I have a lot of tasks, a lot of work, I can 5:00 a.m. wake-up mode for a certain period and by the time most people wake up, I’ve already completed all my feeling of being a winner. If you have never tried this, I highly recommend you give it a try. And the next, fourth book is The 10X Rule by Grant Cordon. At some point, she didn’t just change my thinking, she simply removed all the boundaries that were in my head. The key message of this book is that if your goals don't scare you, they're too small. And the moment I read this book, I realized that I was playing too small a game, my goals [music] were too small, and I deserved much more and could do much more. And this book teaches not how to earn $1,000, but how to earn $100,000. And the most key mindset that I interpreted for myself achieve some goal, figure out in your head how to exceed it 10 times, and scenario in which it doesn’t work out is impossible. It's like aiming for the moon and hitting the stars. It's not easy, it's far from visualization, affirmations and everything else, but this is what distinguishes people who succeed in one business after another. And with that, let's move on to the last book. This book is "100 Million Dollar Offers" by Alex Armosi. I bought it in English to read from the first source. This is a book by an American author and blogger who is very knowledgeable about sales and how to make a business proposal. And what I took from this book and apply everywhere is creating an offer, creating an offer that the client cannot refuse. After all, you city, but you can have the fewest clients. But if you take and implement an refuse, your business [music] will inevitably grow. And throughout explains how to create an offer that the client will be ashamed to refuse in absolutely any case. Here everything is about customers' pain points, why they buy, and how sales and purchases work. And this book is, one might say, the ABCs of sales and interaction with clients. I highly recommend it. extremely spontaneous. And the books that subjective [music] opinion, purely what helped me. And what I would recommend to you is to read literature that is as relevant as possible to the request. earn more, read books about money, or, for example, you have problems with time management, you don't have enough time for everything , read books about this. And what select books according to your needs. But I've been asked too often: "What do you you?" This is exactly why this video came into being. And if I wanted to start from scratch, these are the books I would read. But if you wanted to learn the field that I work in, unfortunately, I haven’t published my book yet, [music] This is a specific video tutorial in which I filmed, and how I arrived at my results, as well as how each of you can repeat it. I will leave a link to it as the first line in the description and upon I'm sure it will be extremely helpful. Enjoy watching.