If you dream of starting your own business, you can start by enrolling in business schools. But many successful CEOs have never graduated from these schools and they are still knowledgeable in their field of business. So you can move on to a different approach, to learn everything you need to know about starting a business by reading and learning from the experiences of successful people who went before.

The following collection of great startup books can help you gain pre-start knowledge, experience and inspiration.