Episodes

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#422
Joseph Pulitzer
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power
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#421
Jony Ive
Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products · Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary · Talent Is the Best Asset Class
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#420
Steve Jobs In Exile
Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs, the Creation of Apple, and How It Changed the World · Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary
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#413
How To Run Down A Dream
Chronicles: Volume One · Invest Like the Best · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters · Runnin' Down a Dream: How to Thrive in a Career You Actually Love · Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love · Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
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#365
Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters to Partners
Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters to Partners · Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life
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#364
Nick & Zak's Excellent Adventure: How Nick Sleep and Qais Zaharia Built Their Investment Partnership
Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life · Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man · Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
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#363
Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett
All I Want to Know Is Where I'm Going to Die So I'll Never Go There: Buffett & Munger – A Study in Simplicity and Uncommon, Common Sense · Charlie Munger on What's Different About Li Lu · Li Lu's 2006 Columbia Business School lecture · Li Lu's reflections-on-turning-50 post
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#362
Li Lu
Moving the Mountain: My Life in China from the Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square
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#361
Estée Lauder
Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters · Money Masters of Our Time · Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love · Estée: A Success Story
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#360
Robert Kierlin: Founder of Fastenal
How to Make a Few Billion Dollars · The Power of Fastenal People
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#359
The Russian Rockefellers: The Nobel Family Dynasty
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · The Russian Rockefellers: The Saga of the Nobel Family and the Russian Oil Industry
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#358
I had dinner with John Mackey, Founder of Whole Foods
How to Do Great Work · John D.: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers · Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike · Team of Rivals · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. · The Whole Story, Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism
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#357
Haruki Murakami
Ernest Hemingway on Writing · Hear the Wind Sing · How to Do Great Work · The Lombardi Rules · Ogilvy on Advertising · Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love · What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir · A Wild Sheep Chase
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#356
How The Sun Rose On Silicon Valley: Bob Noyce (Founder of Intel)
Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age · How to Do Great Work · The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce, How the Sun Rose on the Silicon Valley
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#355
Rare Bernard Arnault Interview
The House of Arnault · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · The Taste of Luxury: Bernard Arnault and the Moët Hennessy-Louis Vuitton Story
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#354
Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man
Confessions of an Advertising Man · Driven: An Autobiography · Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire · In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World · Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX · Pieces of the Action · Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man · Sam Walton: Made in America · Sol Price: Retail Revolutionary and Social Innovator · The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
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#353
How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie · How to Be Rich · As I See It: The Autobiography of J. Paul Getty · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Les Schwab Pride in Performance: Keep It Going · Sam Walton: Made in America · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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#352
J. Paul Getty: The Richest Private Citizen in America
As I See It: The Autobiography of J. Paul Getty · Confessions of an Advertising Man · Driven: An Autobiography · The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World · Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX · Pieces of the Action · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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#351
The Founder of Rolex: Hans Wilsdorf
The Luxury Strategy · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Rolex Jubilee
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#350
How To Sell Like Steve Jobs
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs · Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success · The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig · Ogilvy on Advertising · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience · Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike · Steve Jobs's Stanford Commencement Address
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#349
How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs · Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success
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#348
The Financial Genius Behind A Century of Wall Street Scandals: Ivar Kreuger
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · A Man for All Markets · The Match King: Ivar Krueger, the financial genius behind a century of Wall Street scandals · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Today and Tomorrow
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#347
How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland
Against the Odds: An Autobiography · Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World · Disneyland / Walt Disney Presents / The Wonderful World of Walt Disney · Sam Walton: Made in America · Toy Story
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#346
How Walt Disney Built Himself
Against the Odds: An Autobiography · Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs · The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness · The Lessons of History · Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
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#345
George Lucas
Confessions of an Advertising Man · Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs · Driven: An Autobiography · The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley · George Lucas: A Life · In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World · Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX · Pieces of the Action · Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business · Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#344
Quentin Tarantino
Cinema Speculation
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#343
The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness: David Ogilvy
Against the Odds: An Autobiography · The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness · How to Do Great Work · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#342
The Lessons of History (Will & Ariel Durant)
The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America · Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II · The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer—The Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters · The Lessons of History
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#341
Cornelius Vanderbilt (Tycoon's War)
The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
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#340
Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs · Driven from Within · Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable · Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness
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#339
Joseph Duveen: Robber Baron Art Dealer
The 48 Laws of Power · The Days of Duveen: A Legendary Art Dealer and His Clients · How to Make a Few Billion Dollars · Invest Like the Best #342: A Primer on Multi-Strategy Hedge Funds · Napoleon's Strategies and Maxims · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#338
Monty Moncrief Texas Oil Billionaire
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes · Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Rainmakers Podcast · Wildcatters: A Story of Texans, Oil, and Money
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#337
Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy
Confessions of an Advertising Man · A Man for All Markets · A Few Lessons for Investors and Managers from Warren E. Buffett · Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters · The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection from His Written and Spoken Words · Napoleon and Modern War · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Roots of Strategy: The Five Greatest Military Classics of All Time in One Volume · Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth, with Commentary by David Clark
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#336
How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: Samuel Insull
The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley · Insull: The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Utility Tycoon · The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection from His Written and Spoken Words · Self-Help · Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
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#335
How To Make A Few Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · How to Make a Few Billion Dollars · Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos · Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
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#334
Oprah
Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It · How to Do Great Work · Josh Kushner episode on Invest Like the Best
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#333
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz
Christian Dior's autobiography · General Patton's speech to the Third Army · John Collison–Charlie Munger conversation on Invest Like the Best · Invest Like the Best episode on the founding of Rolex · The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
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#332
Jesus
Jesus: A Biography from a Believer
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#331
Christian Dior
The Dream of Solomeo, My Life and the Idea of Humanistic Capitalism · Christian Dior's autobiography · Confessions of an Advertising Man · Creators · Driven: An Autobiography · George Lucas: A Life · How to Do Great Work · In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World · Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX · Pieces of the Action · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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#330
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
Confessions of an Advertising Man · Driven: An Autobiography · Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's · In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World · Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX · Pieces of the Action · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Les Schwab Pride in Performance: Keep It Going · Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#329
Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Business Breakdowns episode on Coca-Cola · Confessions of an Advertising Man · Driven: An Autobiography · In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World · John Collison–Charlie Munger conversation on Invest Like the Best · Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX · A Man for All Markets · Pieces of the Action · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · The Psychology of Human Misjudgment · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#328
Tom Murphy (Buffett's favorite manager)
All I Want to Know Is Where I'm Going to Die So I'll Never Go There: Buffett & Munger – A Study in Simplicity and Uncommon, Common Sense · Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success · Call Me Ted
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#327
Ted Turner
Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business · Call Me Ted · Confessions of an Advertising Man · Driven: An Autobiography · The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Dealmaker in Capitalist History · In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World · Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX · Pieces of the Action · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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#326
Anna Wintour
Anna: The Biography · Anna Wintour: I just have to make sure things are being done right · Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs · The September Issue
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#325
Larry Gagosian (Billionaire Art Dealer)
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · How Larry Gagosian Reshaped the Art World · The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#324
John D. Rockefeller (38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son)
The 38 Letters from John D. Rockefeller to His Son · John D.: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers · The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection from His Written and Spoken Words · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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#323
Jimmy Buffett
Against the Odds: An Autobiography · Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way · Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#322
Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines)
Herb's Heroes · Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success
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#321
Working with Jeff Bezos
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters · The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos · Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#320
The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill · Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill
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#319
The Making of Winston Churchill Part 1
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill · The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection from His Written and Spoken Words · The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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#318
Alistair Urquhart (Listen to this when you’re stressed)
The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East · Franklin and Washington: The Founding Partnership · The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
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#317
Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar)
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader · Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration · How to Do Great Work · Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos · The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
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#316
Bugatti
Against the Odds: An Autobiography · The Bugatti Story · Confessions of an Advertising Man · Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine · Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans · How to Do Great Work · Instant: The Story of Polaroid
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#315
Balenciaga
Creators
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#314
Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work)
Against the Odds: An Autobiography · How to Do Great Work · How to Work Hard · Life Is Short
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#313
Christopher Nolan
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan
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#312
Mark Twain
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes · Blood and Thunder · The Lessons of History · Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain · Steve Jobs's Stanford Commencement Address
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#311
James Cameron
The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron · The Return of James Cameron: Box Office King
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#310
Walt Disney and Picasso
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · Creators · Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle · Working
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#309
Arnold Schwarzenegger (Before He Was Successful)
Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak · Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder · The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
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#308
The Founder of Glock
Glock: The Rise of America's Gun
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#307
The World's Great Family Dynasties: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Morgan, & Toyada
Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses · The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism · Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#306
David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)
Confessions of an Advertising Man · The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection from His Written and Spoken Words · Ogilvy on Advertising
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#305
Robert Caro on power, poverty, ruthlessness, & obsession
Paul Graham's Essays · The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York · Working
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#304
Sol Price (The Founder Who Taught Jim Sinegal, Sam Walton, Jeff Bezos, Bernie Marcus)
Built From Scratch: How A Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion · Sam Walton: Made in America · Sol Price: Retail Revolutionary and Social Innovator
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#303
Rose Blumkin (Warren Buffett's Favorite Founder)
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist · The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising · The Women of Berkshire Hathaway: Lessons from Warren Buffett's Female CEOs and Directors
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#302
Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon)
All I Want to Know Is Where I'm Going to Die So I'll Never Go There: Buffett & Munger – A Study in Simplicity and Uncommon, Common Sense · The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection from His Written and Spoken Words · Napoleon: A Concise Biography · Steve Jobs
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#301
Tiger Woods
The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership · Tiger Woods · Working
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#300
James Dyson (Against the Odds)
Against the Odds: An Autobiography
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#299
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration · The Defiant Ones · In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World · Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos · Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in His Own Words · The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley · Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs, the Creation of Apple, and How It Changed the World · Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview · Steve Jobs's Stanford Commencement Address
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#298
I had lunch with Sam Zell
Am I Being Too Subtle: Straight Talk from a Business Rebel · The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy · Tim Ferriss Podcast episode featuring Sam Zell interviewed by Peter Attia · Zeckendorf: The Autobiography of the Man Who Played a Real Life Game of Monopoly and Won the Largest Real Estate Empire in History
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#297
Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia)
The Beak of the Finch · Fearless Flyer · In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World · Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman · Patagonia Catalogs · Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview
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#296
Bernard Arnault (The Richest Man in the World)
Acquired: LVMH · Business Breakdowns: LVMH: The Wolf in Cashmere's Conglomerate · The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection from His Written and Spoken Words · The Taste of Luxury: Bernard Arnault and the Moët Hennessy-Louis Vuitton Story
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#295
I had dinner with Charlie Munger
Born of This Land: My Life Story · The Defiant Ones · Franklin and Washington: The Founding Partnership · From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 · Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire · Invest Like the Best · Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products · Leading by Design: The IKEA Story · Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive · Sam Walton: Made in America · Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth, with Commentary by David Clark
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#294
Napoleon
Churchill · Driven: An Autobiography · Franklin and Washington: The Founding Partnership · General Patton's speech to the Third Army · Ghosts of the Ostfront · Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle · John D.: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers · A Man for All Markets · Napoleon: A Concise Biography
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#293
Ray Kroc (The Making of McDonald's)
Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's · The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig · Steve Jobs's Stanford Commencement Address
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#292
Daniel Ludwig (The Invisible Billionaire)
The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig
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#291
David Packard (Founder of HP)
The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company · Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters · Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#290
Bill Gates
The Dream of Solomeo, My Life and the Idea of Humanistic Capitalism · Driven from Within · Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire · Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft · Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos · Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace
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#289
Brunello Cucinelli
The Dream of Solomeo, My Life and the Idea of Humanistic Capitalism · Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life · Invention: A Life · Invest Like the Best · It's a Wonderful Life · The Marketing Imagination · Brunello Cucinelli · Passion and Pain
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#288
Ralph Lauren
Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys · The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters · Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony · The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood · Ralph Lauren: The Man Behind the Mystique · Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike · Talent Is the Best Asset Class · Very Ralph
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#287
The Founder of Rolls-Royce
Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life · Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age · Paul Graham's Essays · Rolls-Royce: The Magic of a Name: The First 40 Years of Britain's Most Prestigious Company, 1904-1944
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#286
Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger
All I Want to Know Is Where I'm Going to Die So I'll Never Go There: Buffett & Munger – A Study in Simplicity and Uncommon, Common Sense · The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It · The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America · Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters · Paul Graham's Essays · Sol Price: Retail Revolutionary and Social Innovator
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#285
Jay Gould (How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune)
All I Want to Know Is Where I'm Going to Die So I'll Never Go There: Buffett & Munger – A Study in Simplicity and Uncommon, Common Sense · The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune · Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue · Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons · James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest · Ogilvy on Advertising · Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
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#284
Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie · Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World · Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters · Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America · Rolls-Royce: The Magic of a Name: The First 40 Years of Britain's Most Prestigious Company, 1904-1944
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#283
Andrew Carnegie
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie · Benjamin Franklin: An American Life · Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life · The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance · Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America · Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love
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#282
Jeff Bezos Shareholder Letters
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters · Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony · My Life and Work · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Sam Walton: Made in America · What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Developing a Highly Successful Company · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#281
Working with Steve Jobs
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader · Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs · Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age · Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success
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#280
Jimi Hendrix
Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography · Chronicles: Volume One · Decoded · Enzo Ferrari: Power, Politics, and the Making of an Automotive Empire · Invention: A Life · Jimi Hendrix, Starting at Zero, His Own Story · Paul Graham's Essays · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#279
What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie · Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Big Brown: The Untold Story of UPS · Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business · Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic Who Turned a Bright Idea into One of America's Best Companies · Do Things That Don't Scale · First a Dream · The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley · The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM · Relentlessly Resourceful · What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Developing a Highly Successful Company · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#278
Peter Thiel
Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue · Explore/Create: My Life in Pursuit of New Frontiers, Hidden Worlds, and the Creative Spark · The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley · In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World · In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-the-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the Rules · Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive · Paul Graham's Essays · Random Reminiscences of Men and Events · Schlep Blindness · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#277
Paul Graham's Essays Part 3
Beating the Averages · Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans · Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age · How to Make Wealth · In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World · Mind the Gap · The Other Road Ahead · Taste for Makers · Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
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#276
Paul Graham’s Essays Part 2
Aliens, Jedi, and Cults: A Mental Model for Potential · The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire · Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger · The Defiant Ones · Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age · How to Do What You Love · How to Think for Yourself · How to Work Hard · Paul Graham's Essays · Schlep Blindness · What I've Learned from Users
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#275
Paul Graham
Against the Odds: An Autobiography · The Anatomy of Determination · De Gaulle · Do Things That Don't Scale · Driven from Within · How Not to Die · How to Do What You Love · How to Make Wealth · Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America · Paul Graham's Essays · Relentlessly Resourceful · What Doesn't Seem Like Work · What Startups Are Really Like · Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy · A Word to the Resourceful · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#274
Jim Clark (Silicon Graphics, Netscape)
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · The Engineers and the Price System · In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World · The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
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#273
Kobe Bryant (Mamba Mentality)
Driven from Within · The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · The Mamba Mentality: How I Play · Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys
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#272
Kobe Bryant (The Life)
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire · Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader · Driven from Within · Invest Like the Best · Michael Jordan: The Life · Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike · Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant
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#271
Vannevar Bush (Engineer of the American Century)
As We May Think · Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader · Confessions of an Advertising Man · Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century · The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer—The Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb · Pieces of the Action · The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age · The Unpublished David Ogilvy
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#270
Vannevar Bush (Pieces of the Action)
As We May Think · Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader · Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century · The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution · Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos · Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive · P.T. Barnum: An American Life · Pieces of the Action · Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
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#269
Sam Zell
Against the Odds: An Autobiography · Am I Being Too Subtle: Straight Talk from a Business Rebel · Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West · The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig · Johnny Carson · Swimming Across: A Memoir · Zeckendorf: The Autobiography of the Man Who Played a Real Life Game of Monopoly and Won the Largest Real Estate Empire in History
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#268
John Malone (Cable Cowboy)
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business · Driven from Within · The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life · Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive · Steve Jobs's Stanford Commencement Address · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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#267
Thomas Edison
Bill Gurley (Benchmark): Runnin' Down a Dream · Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs · Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons · Edison · Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World · Experimental Researches in Electricity · The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet · Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love · The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip · The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
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#266
Henry Ford's Autobiography
George Lucas: A Life · Invest Like the Best · My Life and Work · Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
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#265
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader · Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs · Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration · The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire · Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony · Michael Jordan: The Life · Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing · Steve Jobs's Stanford Commencement Address · To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History
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#264
The Story of Edwin Land and Polaroid
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader · How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story · Instant: The Story of Polaroid · Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony · My Life in Advertising · Scientific Advertising · Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth, with Commentary by David Clark
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#263
Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It
Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition, Volume 1 · Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World · Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land · The Instant Image: Edwin Land and the Polaroid Experience · Instant: The Story of Polaroid · Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It · Overnight Success: Federal Express and Frederick Smith, Its Renegade Creator · A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War · Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
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#262
Herbie Cohen (World's Greatest Negotiator)
The Adventures of Herbie Cohen, World's Greatest Negotiator · The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life
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#261
Dee Hock's Autobiography of a Restless Mind Volume One and Two
Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition, Volume 1
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#260
One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition, Volume 1 · Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary · Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman · One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
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#259
Bob Dylan
Bound for Glory · Chronicles: Volume One · Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love · On War
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#258
Jay Gould (Dark Genius of Wall Street)
Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys · Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons · The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations · Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life · John D.: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers
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#257
Richard Garriott (Video Games and Space Exploration)
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage · Explore/Create: My Life in Pursuit of New Frontiers, Hidden Worlds, and the Creative Spark · Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent · The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land · Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture · A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War
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#256
Edward L. Bernays (Public Relations, Advertising, & Persuasion)
The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World · The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations · The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · The Man Who Sold America: The Amazing but True Story of Albert Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century · Ogilvy on Advertising · Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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#255
Sam Zemurray (Banana King)
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. · Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
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#254
John D. Rockefeller: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos · John D.: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers · Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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#253
Henry Goldman (Goldman Sachs)
Confessions of an Advertising Man · Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time · Goldman Sachs: Fortune Favors the Old · The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798–1848 · Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World · Michael Jordan: The Life · Risk Game: Self-Portrait of an Entrepreneur · Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. · The Uses of Adversity · When Money Was in Fashion: Henry Goldman, Goldman Sachs, and the Founding of Wall Street
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#252
Socrates
Alexander the Great: The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History's Greatest Conqueror, as Told by His Original Biographers · Churchill · Mozart: A Life · Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business · Socrates: A Man for Our Times · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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#251
Ben Franklin and George Washington: The Founding Partnership
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · Benjamin Franklin: An American Life · Franklin and Washington: The Founding Partnership · Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle · Poor Richard's Almanack
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#250
Jacob Fugger (The Richest Man Who Ever Lived)
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time · The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798–1848 · Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean · The Lessons of History · The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger · The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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#249
Steve Jobs In His Own Words
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader · Churchill · Enzo Ferrari: Power, Politics, and the Making of an Automotive Empire · In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World · Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land · The Instant Image: Edwin Land and the Polaroid Experience · Instant: The Story of Polaroid · I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words · Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products · Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It · Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony · Mark Leonard's Shareholder Letters · A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age · Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs, the Creation of Apple, and How It Changed the World · Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing · The Tim Ferriss Show #596: Edward O. Thorp, A Man for All Markets · A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War
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#248
John D. Rockefeller (Titan)
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue · Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic Who Turned a Bright Idea into One of America's Best Companies · Enzo Ferrari: Power, Politics, and the Making of an Automotive Empire · The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance · Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power · Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth, with Commentary by David Clark · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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#247
Henry Flagler (Rockefeller's partner)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · Benjamin Franklin: An American Life · Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean · Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America · Ogilvy on Advertising · Random Reminiscences of Men and Events · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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#246
Mark Leonard's Shareholder Letters
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic Who Turned a Bright Idea into One of America's Best Companies · Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It · The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America · The Evolution of Cooperation · The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters · Mark Leonard's Shareholder Letters · The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success · Thinking, Fast and Slow
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#245
Rick Rubin (In the Studio)
Against the Odds: An Autobiography · Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger · Decoded · Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire · Invention: A Life · Mozart: A Life · Rick Rubin: In the Studio
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#244
Harry Snyder (In-N-Out Burger)
Aliens, Jedi, and Cults: A Mental Model for Potential · Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys · Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Confessions of an Advertising Man · Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue · The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · Fearless Flyer · In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-the-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the Rules · Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success · Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success · Ogilvy on Advertising · Les Schwab Pride in Performance: Keep It Going · Sol Price: Retail Revolutionary and Social Innovator · The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#243
Francis Greenburger (Real Estate Billionaire)
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future · The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age · Risk Game: Self-Portrait of an Entrepreneur · Time to Make the Donuts: The Founder of Dunkin Donuts Shares an American Journey · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. · Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
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#242
Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life
The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley · Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life · George Lucas: A Life · jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy · Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power · Steven Spielberg: A Biography · There's No Speed Limit
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#241
The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies
Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies · Churchill · I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford · Michael Jordan: The Life · My Life in Advertising · The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey · Scientific Advertising · The Wright Brothers
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#240
Mozart: A Life
Churchill · Decoded · The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · Inside Steve's Brain · Leading by Design: The IKEA Story · Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive · Mozart: A Life · My Turn: A Life of Total Football
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#239
The Wright Brothers
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire · Animal Locomotion, or Walking, Swimming, and Flying, with a Dissertation on Aeronautics · Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger · Driven from Within · The Empire of the Air · Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire · My Life in Advertising · On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft · Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace · Relentlessly Resourceful · The Wright Brothers
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#238
Jay Z: Decoded
Against the Odds: An Autobiography · The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition, Volume 1 · The Bed of Procrustes · Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune · Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography · Decoded · The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley · jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy · Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products · Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive · Michael Jordan: The Life · Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love · Sam Walton: Made in America · Steve Jobs
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#237
Julio Lobo (Cuba's Last Sugar Tycoon)
Alfred Nobel: A Biography · The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Beyond Possible: One Man, Fourteen Peaks, and the Mountaineering Achievement of a Lifetime · The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams · The History of Cuba in 50 Events · The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon
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#236
Nims Purja (Mountain Climber)
100 Rules to Live By · 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible · Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder · Beyond Possible: One Man, Fourteen Peaks, and the Mountaineering Achievement of a Lifetime · The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley · Sam Walton: Made in America · The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life · Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
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#235
Steve Jobs (The Pixar Story)
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader · The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the America's Cup, Twice · Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration · Driven from Within · The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley · George Lucas: A Life · Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony · Mind Your Own Business: A Maverick's Guide to Business, Leadership and Life · Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing · To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History · Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
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#234
Sam Walton: Made In America
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie · Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It · Driven from Within · The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley · Foxes and Hedgehogs · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man · Sol Price: Retail Revolutionary and Social Innovator · Estée: A Success Story · There's No Speed Limit
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#233
Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin (PayPal)
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life · Confessions of an Advertising Man · Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration · Do Things That Don't Scale · Driven from Within · Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future · Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent · The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley · The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success · Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX · A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age · My Life and Work · The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering · Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs, the Creation of Apple, and How It Changed the World · Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview · There's No Speed Limit
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#232
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great: The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History's Greatest Conqueror, as Told by His Original Biographers · Churchill · George Lucas: A Life · Hardcore History Addendum, Episode 9: Glimpses of Olympias · Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle · Mind Your Own Business: A Maverick's Guide to Business, Leadership and Life · The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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#231
William Rosenberg (Founder of Dunkin Donuts)
Confessions of an Advertising Man · Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic Who Turned a Bright Idea into One of America's Best Companies · The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley · Johnny Carson · Love, Lucy · A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age · My Life in Advertising · Ogilvy on Advertising · Les Schwab Pride in Performance: Keep It Going · Scientific Advertising · Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business · Time to Make the Donuts: The Founder of Dunkin Donuts Shares an American Journey · Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
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#230
Lucille Ball (TV's biggest star)
Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder · Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire · Hollywood Rajah: The Life and Times of Louis B. Mayer · Love, Lucy · Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace · Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
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#229
Sidney Harman (Founder of Harman Kardon)
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the America's Cup, Twice · Bloomberg by Bloomberg · Foxes and Hedgehogs · In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World · Mind Your Own Business: A Maverick's Guide to Business, Leadership and Life · The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story · Poor Richard's Almanack · Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike · Tao Te Ching · Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys
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#228
Michael Bloomberg
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie · Bloomberg by Bloomberg · The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer—The Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters · Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman · Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony · Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games · The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood · Steve Jobs's Stanford Commencement Address · Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#227
The Essays of Warren Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the America's Cup, Twice · Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration · Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It · The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America · Henry Clay Frick: The Life of the Perfect Capitalist · Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle · Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos · James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest · Leading by Design: The IKEA Story · A Man for All Markets · Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive · Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America · The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success · Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II · Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend
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#226
Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle
Against the Odds: An Autobiography · The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · Churchill · De Gaulle · The Edge of the Sword · Hardcore History Addendum, Episode 9: Glimpses of Olympias · Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle · In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World · Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos · Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love · The Second World War · Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike · The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz · Team of Rivals
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#225
Winston Churchill
Churchill · Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic Who Turned a Bright Idea into One of America's Best Companies · How to Get Rich · Personal History · Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life and Business · The Second World War · Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike · The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz · Estée: A Success Story · The World Crisis
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#224
Charles de Gaulle
14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible · Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs · Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger · De Gaulle · Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It · The Edge of the Sword · Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage · General Patton's speech to the Third Army · Ghosts of the Ostfront · Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans · In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World · The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz · Towards a Professional Army
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#223
Unstoppable: Siggi Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend
Do Things That Don't Scale · A Man for All Markets · Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend
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#222
Ed Thorp (My personal blueprint)
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · Beat the Dealer · Beat the Market: A Scientific Stock Market System · Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Fortune's Formula · A Man for All Markets · A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age · On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft · Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
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#221
Charlie Munger
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life · Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor · Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger · Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World · Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love · The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life · Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth, with Commentary by David Clark
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#220
Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Carroll Shelby: The Authorized Biography · Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine · Enzo Ferrari: Power, Politics, and the Making of an Automotive Empire · Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II · The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer—The Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb · George Lucas: A Life · Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans · Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West · Isambard Kingdom Brunel: A Biography · My Terrible Joys: The Enzo Ferrari Memoirs
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#219
Tony Bourdain: The Definitive Biography
Bone in the Throat · Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography · A Cook's Tour · Gone Bamboo · The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers · Kitchen Confidential · A Man for All Markets · My Turn: A Life of Total Football · Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success · Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, the Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class · Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
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#218
Johan Cruyff (A Life of Total Football)
Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder · Driven from Within · The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer—The Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb · Invention: A Life · The Man Who Sold America: The Amazing but True Story of Albert Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century · My Turn: A Life of Total Football · Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love · The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership · Steve Jobs
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#217
Estée Lauder
How to Do What You Love · The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig · My Life in Advertising · Relentlessly Resourceful · Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love · Scientific Advertising · Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business · Estée: A Success Story · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#216
Paul Van Doren (Founder of Vans)
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · Authentic: A Memoir by the Founder of Vans · The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · The Man Who Sold America: The Amazing but True Story of Albert Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century · Steve Jobs · Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys
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#215
J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves (The General and the Genius)
The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer—The Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb · Hardcore History Episode 59: The Destroyer of Worlds · Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft
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#214
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
The Big Score: Robert Friedland, Inco, and the Voisey's Bay Hustle · The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the America's Cup, Twice · Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration · Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent · The Lessons of History · The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York · Steve Jobs · Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing · Steve Jobs's Stanford Commencement Address · Swimming Across: A Memoir · Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth, with Commentary by David Clark · Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
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#213
Michael Jordan: Driven From Within
Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue · Driven from Within · The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism · My Life and Work · The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey · The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership · Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#212
Michael Jordan: The Life
Against the Odds: An Autobiography · The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World · Michael Jordan: The Life · On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft · Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable · Samuel Bronfman: The Life and Times of Seagram's Mr. Sam · The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership · Steve Jobs
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#211
Aristotle Onassis: An Extravagant Life
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig · On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft · Onassis: An Extravagant Life · Relentlessly Resourceful · Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love · Swimming Across: A Memoir · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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#210
Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodore Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination · Leading by Design: The IKEA Story · On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft · There's No Speed Limit
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#209
Steven Spielberg: A Biography
George Lucas: A Life · Leading by Design: The IKEA Story · Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman · Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games · Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love · Steven Spielberg: A Biography
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#208
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Andy Grove, Bill Hewlett
Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent · Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire · In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World · Inside Steve's Brain · Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony · The Man Who Sold America: The Amazing but True Story of Albert Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century · My Years with General Motors · Overnight Success: Federal Express and Frederick Smith, Its Renegade Creator · The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership · Swimming Across: A Memoir
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#207
Claude Hopkins (Scientific Advertising)
Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games · My Life in Advertising · Scientific Advertising
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#206
Albert D. Lasker (the creation of the advertising industry)
The Defiant Ones · The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance · Invention: A Life · The Man Who Sold America: The Amazing but True Story of Albert Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century · My Life in Advertising · Ogilvy on Advertising · Scientific Advertising · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#205
James Dyson (Invention: A Life)
Against the Odds: An Autobiography · A History of Great Inventions · Inside Steve's Brain · Invention: A Life · Isambard Kingdom Brunel: A Biography · Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony · The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
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#204
Steve Jobs (Inside Steve's Brain)
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire · Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader · Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs · Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West · The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution · Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success · Inside Steve's Brain · Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony · The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time · Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs, the Creation of Apple, and How It Changed the World · Steve Jobs · Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing · Swimming Across: A Memoir · Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys
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#203
Georges Doriot (Birth of Venture Capital)
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes · Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic Who Turned a Bright Idea into One of America's Best Companies · Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital · Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration · The Defiant Ones · The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798–1848 · How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story · Les Schwab Pride in Performance: Keep It Going · Sol Price: Retail Revolutionary and Social Innovator · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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#202
A Few Lessons From Warren Buffett
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire · Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader · Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist · Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It · Fearless Flyer · A Few Lessons for Investors and Managers from Warren E. Buffett · Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive · Ogilvy on Advertising · Steve Jobs · This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly · Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#201
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (James Dyson's Hero)
Against the Odds: An Autobiography · Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire · Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos · Isambard Kingdom Brunel: A Biography · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
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#200
James Dyson (Against the Odds)
Against the Odds: An Autobiography · The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · Benjamin Franklin: An American Life · Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage · A History of Great Inventions · How to Get Rich · Leonardo da Vinci · Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony · Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive · The Wright Brothers · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#199
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life · The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising
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#198
Nathan Rothschild (Rothschild Family Dynasty)
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes · The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798–1848 · The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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#197
Founder of the Rothschild Family Dynasty
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue · Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time · The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Les Schwab Pride in Performance: Keep It Going · Prophets of Doom · Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love · Samuel Bronfman: The Life and Times of Seagram's Mr. Sam · Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#196
Winston Churchill (Leadership during WW2)
The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the America's Cup, Twice · Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage · Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II · Ghosts of the Ostfront · Onassis · The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz · Yeager: An Autobiography
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#195
Sid Meier (Computer game designer)
Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent · Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony · Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture · Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games · My Life in Advertising · Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys · Wait But Why
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#194
Ernest Hemingway (Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy)
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · For Whom the Bell Tolls · Ghosts of the Ostfront · The Guns of August · The Old Man and the Sea · Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, the Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class · The Sun Also Rises · Swimming Across: A Memoir · Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935–1961
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#193
Arnold Schwarzenegger (Arnold's first autobiography)
Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder · Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire · Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story · The War of Art
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#192
Jim Casey (Founder of UPS)
Big Brown: The Untold Story of UPS · Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic Who Turned a Bright Idea into One of America's Best Companies · Driven: An Autobiography · Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future · Overnight Success: Federal Express and Frederick Smith, Its Renegade Creator · Les Schwab Pride in Performance: Keep It Going · Samuel Bronfman: The Life and Times of Seagram's Mr. Sam · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#191
Naval Ravikant (A Guide to Wealth and Happiness)
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · Benjamin Franklin: An American Life · Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist · How to Do What You Love · Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos · Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary · A Man for All Markets · One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Poor Richard's Almanack · Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, the Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class · Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike · The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life · A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War · Wait But Why · The War of Art · Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
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#190
Henry Ford and Thomas Edison
Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic Who Turned a Bright Idea into One of America's Best Companies · My Forty Years with Ford · Schlep Blindness · The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip · The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#189
David Ogilvy (The book I've given as a gift the most)
The Theory and Practice of Selling the Aga Cooker · Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Confessions of an Advertising Man · The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising · My Life in Advertising · Ogilvy on Advertising · Professional Amateur: The Biography of Charles Franklin Kettering · Scientific Advertising · Tested Advertising Methods · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. · The Unpublished David Ogilvy
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#188
Joe Coulombe (Founder of Trader Joes)
Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys · Confessions of an Advertising Man · Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic Who Turned a Bright Idea into One of America's Best Companies · Fearless Flyer · The Guns of August · Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman · The Mamba Mentality: How I Play · My Life in Advertising · Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, the Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class · Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business · Sol Price: Retail Revolutionary and Social Innovator · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#187
Albert Einstein
Einstein: His Life and Universe · Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II · The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer—The Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb · Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman · The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success · Sam Walton: Made in America · Steve Jobs · Wait But Why · Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
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#186
Phil Knight (Nike)
Against the Odds: An Autobiography · Born of This Land: My Life Story · Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Co-founder · Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage · The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony · Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, the Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class · Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike · Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma and the Family Feud That Forever Changed the Business of Sports · Sol Price: Retail Revolutionary and Social Innovator · Steve Jobs's Stanford Commencement Address
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#185
César Ritz and Auguste Escoffier (The Hotelier and The Chef)
The English Hotel Nuisance · Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire · Le Guide Culinaire: Aide-mémoire de cuisine pratique · Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, the Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class · The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership · The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
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#184
Isadore Sharp (Four Seasons)
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist · Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic Who Turned a Bright Idea into One of America's Best Companies · Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World · Four Seasons: The Story of a Business Philosophy · The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig · Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, the Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. · Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
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#183
Johnny Carson
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire · Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist · Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic Who Turned a Bright Idea into One of America's Best Companies · Johnny Carson
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#182
Warren Buffett (The Making of an American Capitalist)
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist · The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire · One Thousand Ways to Make $1000 · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Poor Richard's Almanack · Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love · Security Analysis · The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
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#181
Paul Orfalea (Kinkos)
Against the Odds: An Autobiography · The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie · Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic Who Turned a Bright Idea into One of America's Best Companies · The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos · Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman · Les Schwab Pride in Performance: Keep It Going · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#180
Jeff Bezos (Invention of a Global Empire)
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire · Blue Origin welcome letter / founding memo · The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America · The Innovator's Dilemma · Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters · Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony · Topgrading · Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
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#179
Jeff Bezos
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire · The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable · Creation: Life and How to Make It · The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · The Goal · Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West · How Buildings Learn · Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products · Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony · The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Sam Walton: Made in America · The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos · Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell · Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
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#178
Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Confessions of an Advertising Man · Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win · The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters · Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products · Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman · Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Steve Jobs · Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
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#177
Robert Campeau (Junk Bonds and Retail Bankruptcy)
The Big Short · First a Dream · Going for Broke: How Robert Campeau Bankrupted the Retail Industry, Jolted the Junk Bond Market, and Brought the Booming 80s to a Crashing Halt
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#176
Linus Torvalds (Creator of Linux)
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary · Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture · Operating Systems: Design and Implementation · Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace · Overnight Success: Federal Express and Frederick Smith, Its Renegade Creator
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#175
Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes · The Big Score: Robert Friedland, Inco, and the Voisey's Bay Hustle · The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World · Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage · The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism · The Incas: New Perspectives · Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX · Long Walk to Freedom · Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt · The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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#174
Bill Gates (Overdrive)
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader · Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire · Leonardo da Vinci · Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX · The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story · Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace · Who Is Michael Ovitz? · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#173
Louis B. Mayer (MGM Studios)
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · Hollywood Rajah: The Life and Times of Louis B. Mayer · Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success · The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood · The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life · Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
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#172
Elon Musk (Early Days of SpaceX)
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire · Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX · Les Schwab Pride in Performance: Keep It Going · Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs, the Creation of Apple, and How It Changed the World · The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos · There's No Speed Limit
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#171
Chuck Feeney (The Billionaire who gave all of his money away)
The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune · Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II · Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos · Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt · My Life in Advertising · My Years with General Motors
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#170
Claude Hopkins (A Life in Advertising)
Against the Odds: An Autobiography · Driven: An Autobiography · Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II · How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story · My Life in Advertising · Purple Cow · Scientific Advertising · Estée: A Success Story
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#169
David Ogilvy (The King of Madison Avenue)
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Blood, Brains, and Beer · Confessions of an Advertising Man · Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II · The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism · The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance · The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising · My Life in Advertising · Ogilvy on Advertising · The Road · Scientific Advertising · The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership · Tested Advertising Methods · The Theory and Practice of Selling the Aga Cooker · The Unpublished David Ogilvy
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#168
Larry Miller (Driven: An Autobiography)
Born of This Land: My Life Story · The Dodge Brothers: The Men, The Motor Cars, and The Legacy · Driven: An Autobiography · Leading by Design: The IKEA Story · Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt · Samuel Bronfman: The Life and Times of Seagram's Mr. Sam · The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership · The Wright Brothers
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#167
Jackie Cochran (Aviation)
Born of This Land: My Life Story · Jackie Cochran: The Autobiography of the Greatest Woman Pilot in Aviation History · Yeager: An Autobiography
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#166
Robert Noyce (Intel)
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration · Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It · Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire · The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers · The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley · Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive · Swimming Across: A Memoir
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#165
William Shockley (Creator of the Electronic Age)
Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age · The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution · The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success · Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
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#164
Robert Goddard (Rocket Man)
Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive · Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell · Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age · The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos · Wait But Why
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#163
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel: A Biography · Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World · A History of Great Inventions · A Man for All Markets · Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
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#162
Chuck Yeager
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · Jackie Cochran: The Autobiography of the Greatest Woman Pilot in Aviation History · Swimming Across: A Memoir · Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story · Yeager: An Autobiography
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#161
Dr. Seuss
Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodore Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination · Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader · Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · George Lucas: A Life · The Lessons of History · Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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#160
Peter Cundill
Routines and Orgies: The Life of Peter Cundill, Financial Genius, Philosopher and Philanthropist · Security Analysis
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#159
Andy Grove (Intel)
Blueprint for Armageddon · High Output Management · The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution · Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World · Swimming Across: A Memoir · Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
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#158
Walt Disney (Disneyland)
Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World · I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford · Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
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#157
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life · Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration · Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire · The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution · The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos · Leonardo da Vinci · A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age · Steve Jobs · Swimming Across: A Memoir · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#156
Theodore Roosevelt
Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee · The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism · The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance · Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos · Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt · On Asthma: Its Pathology and Treatment · Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power · Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell · The Wright Brothers
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#155
Jeff Bezos (Shareholder Letters and Speeches)
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters · Leonardo da Vinci · Steve Jobs
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#154
Charles Schulz (Charlie Brown)
Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It · The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters · My Life with Charlie Brown · The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership · The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
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#153
Bill Bowerman (Nike)
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Co-founder · Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike · Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma and the Family Feud That Forever Changed the Business of Sports
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#152
Katherine Graham (Washington Post)
Personal History · The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
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#151
Frederick Smith (FedEx)
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future · Overnight Success: Federal Express and Frederick Smith, Its Renegade Creator
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#150
Sam Walton (America's Richest Man)
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire · Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man · Sam Walton: Made in America · Sol Price: Retail Revolutionary and Social Innovator
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#149
The Big Rich (Oil Billionaires)
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
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#148
John D. Rockefeller (Autobiography)
Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue · Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire · Random Reminiscences of Men and Events · Sam Walton: Made in America · Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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#147
Sam Colt
Billy, Alfred, and General Motors: The Story of Two Unique Men, a Legendary Company, and a Remarkable Time in American History · How to Get Rich · My Years with General Motors · Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America
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#146
Milton Hershey (Chocolate)
Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams · My Forty Years with Ford · Sam Walton: Made in America
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#145
William Randolph Hearst
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst · The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy · The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life · Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing
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#144
Ernest Shackleton
The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the America's Cup, Twice · Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage · The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
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#143
Alfred Lee Loomis (the most interesting man you've never heard of)
Einstein: His Life and Universe · A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age · Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
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#142
Teddy Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World · Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans · The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism · The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance · James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest · Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
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#141
Arnold Schwarzenegger (My Unbelievably True Life Story)
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story · Wait But Why
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#140
Bill Gates (the Making of the Microsoft Empire)
Confessions of an Advertising Man · Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire · Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft · Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive · Ogilvy on Advertising · Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs, the Creation of Apple, and How It Changed the World
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#139
J.P. Morgan
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
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#138
Alexander Graham Bell
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration · My Forty Years with Ford · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell
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#137
P.T. Barnum
P.T. Barnum: An American Life
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#136
Estée Lauder
Estée: A Success Story
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#135
Joseph Pulitzer (Politics & Media)
Born of This Land: My Life Story · Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World · Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power
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#134
Edwin Land (Polaroid vs Kodak)
Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony · A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War
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#133
Edwin Land (Polaroid and The Man Who Invented It)
Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land · Instant: The Story of Polaroid · The Instant Image: Edwin Land and the Polaroid Experience · Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It · The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York · Steve Jobs
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#132
Edwin Land (Steve Jobs's Hero)
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · The Cook and the Chef: Elon Musk's Secret Sauce · Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land · The Instant Image: Edwin Land and the Polaroid Experience · Instant: The Story of Polaroid · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters · Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony · Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love · A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War
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#131
Robert Friedland (Billionaire Miner)
The Big Score: Robert Friedland, Inco, and the Voisey's Bay Hustle · Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs, the Creation of Apple, and How It Changed the World
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#130
Walter Chrysler
How to Get Rich · Life of an American Workman · Master of Precision
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#129
Felix Dennis (How to Get Rich)
How to Get Rich · Letters to My Brother
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#128
Henry Leland (Cadillac)
The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the America's Cup, Twice · Master of Precision · My Forty Years with Ford
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#127
Larry Ellison (Oracle)
The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the America's Cup, Twice · The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: Inside Oracle Corporation · The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
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#126
Larry Ellison (The Billionaire and the Mechanic)
The Age of Napoleon · The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the America's Cup, Twice · The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: Inside Oracle Corporation · Lone Survivor · Steve Jobs · West by West: My Charmed, Tormented Life
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#125
Charles Kettering (inventor, engineer, founder)
My Forty Years with Ford · Professional Amateur: The Biography of Charles Franklin Kettering
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#124
Larry Ellison and Oracle
The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM · Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable · Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle
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#123
Albert Champion (Record-Setting Racer to Dashing Tycoon)
The Fast Times of Albert Champion: From Record-Setting Racer to Dashing Tycoon, An Untold Story of Speed, Success, and Betrayal
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#122
Alfred Sloan (General Motors)
Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It · My Years with General Motors · Ogilvy on Advertising · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
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#121
Billy Durant and Alfred Sloan (General Motors)
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Billy, Alfred, and General Motors: The Story of Two Unique Men, a Legendary Company, and a Remarkable Time in American History · Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration · Leading by Design: The IKEA Story · My Years with General Motors · Ogilvy on Advertising · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
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#120
Billy Durant (Creator of General Motors)
Billy Durant: Creator of General Motors · The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World · The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time
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#119
The Dodge Brothers
The Dodge Brothers: The Men, The Motor Cars, and The Legacy · My Forty Years with Ford
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#118
Forty Years With Henry Ford
Against the Odds: An Autobiography · Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs · Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America · My Forty Years with Ford
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#117
Chung Ju-yung founder of Hyundai (the most inspiring autobiography I've read)
Born of This Land: My Life Story · Onassis · Samuel Bronfman: The Life and Times of Seagram's Mr. Sam
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#116
Sam Bronfman (Seagram's and the Bronfman family dynasty)
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · From Little Acorns: The Story of Distillers Corporation Seagram's Limited · Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman · Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World · Samuel Bronfman: The Life and Times of Seagram's Mr. Sam · Who Is Michael Ovitz?
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#115
Ben Franklin: An American Life
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · Benjamin Franklin: An American Life · Leonardo da Vinci · Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Poor Richard's Almanack
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#114
The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time
I'm All In: High Stakes, Big Business, and the Birth of the World Poker Tour · The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time · The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos · Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future
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#113
A.G. Gaston (Black Titan and the Making of a Black American Millionaire)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
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#112
Frank Lloyd Wright
A Man for All Markets · Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
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#111
David Geffen
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win · Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent · Onassis · The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood · Rolls-Royce: The Magic of a Name: The First 40 Years of Britain's Most Prestigious Company, 1904-1944 · Wait But Why
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#110
Henry Singleton (Teledyne)
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration · Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It · The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · My Years with General Motors · The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · There's No Speed Limit
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#109
Adi Dassler (Adidas)
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike · Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma and the Family Feud That Forever Changed the Business of Sports
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#108
Jim Simons (Money Printer)
Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent · A Man for All Markets · The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
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#107
Sol Price (Costco)
The Incas: New Perspectives · Sol Price: Retail Revolutionary and Social Innovator
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#106
Bill Walsh (The Score Takes Care of Itself)
The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
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#105
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · First a Dream · Leading by Design: The IKEA Story · Les Schwab Pride in Performance: Keep It Going · Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love · Sam Walton: Made in America · Steve Jobs
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#104
Ingvar Kamprad (IKEA)
Leading by Design: The IKEA Story
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#103
Hetty Green (The Richest Woman in America)
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age · The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
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#102
Akio Morita (Sony)
Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony · Relentlessly Resourceful · Steve Jobs
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#101
Warren Buffett (The Tao of Warren Buffett)
The Bed of Procrustes · Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Enzo Ferrari: Power, Politics, and the Making of an Automotive Empire · The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life · Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth, with Commentary by David Clark · The Tao of Warren Buffett: Warren Buffett's Words of Wisdom: Quotations and Interpretations to Help Guide You to Billionaire Wealth and Enlightened Business Management
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#100
Warren Buffett (The Snowball)
First a Dream · Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West · How to Win Friends and Influence People · A Man for All Markets · The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
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#99
Carroll Shelby (My name is Carroll Shelby and performance is my business)
Carroll Shelby: The Authorized Biography · Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It · Purple Cow
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#98
Enzo Ferrari (the making of an automobile empire)
Enzo Ferrari: Power, Politics, and the Making of an Automotive Empire · Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans
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#97
Enzo Ferrari (Ferrari vs Ford)
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Enzo Ferrari: Power, Politics, and the Making of an Automotive Empire · Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans
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#96
James J. Hill (Empire Builder of the Northwest)
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
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#95
Claude Shannon
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Fortune's Formula · A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
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#94
Henry Singleton (The Outsiders)
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Fortune's Formula · A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age · My Life and Work · The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success · Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future
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#93
Ed Thorp (A Man for All Markets)
Beat the Dealer · Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Fortune's Formula · A Man for All Markets
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#92
Ed Thorp and Claude Shannon
Beat the Dealer · Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World · Fortune's Formula · A Man for All Markets · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
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#91
Jim Clayton (Sold to Warren Buffett)
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · First a Dream · Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
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#90
Charlie Munger (Poor Charlie's Almanack)
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Confessions of an Advertising Man · The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · First a Dream · Fortune's Formula · Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion · James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest · The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Poor Richard's Almanack · The Tipping Point
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#89
David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Confessions of an Advertising Man · Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent · First a Dream · Ogilvy on Advertising · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love
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#88
Warren Buffett's Shareholder Letters— All of them!
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · The Big Short · The Defiant Ones · First a Dream · The Intelligent Investor · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
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#87
Thomas Watson (IBM)
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World · The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM
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#86
Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber (A Genius and a Doomed Tycoon)
The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler · Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future
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#85
Walter and Olive Ann Beech (Aviation Legends)
The Barnstormer and the Lady: Aviation Legends Walter and Olive Ann Beech · The Defiant Ones · Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World · The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Dealmaker in Capitalist History · The Republic of Tea: The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its Founders · Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth, with Commentary by David Clark · Wild Company: The Untold Story of Banana Republic
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#84
Aristotle Onassis
The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig · Onassis · Relentlessly Resourceful
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#83
Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World · Experimental Researches in Electricity · The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company · The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story · The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
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#82
David Ogilvy (Ogilvy on Advertising)
Confessions of an Advertising Man · Kitchen Confidential · Ogilvy on Advertising · Scientific Advertising · Wild Company: The Untold Story of Banana Republic
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#81
Henry Royce (Founder of Rolls-Royce)
Rolls-Royce: The Magic of a Name: The First 40 Years of Britain's Most Prestigious Company, 1904-1944 · Wait But Why
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#80
Henry Ford (Today and Tomorrow)
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World · My Life and Work · Today and Tomorrow
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#79
Charlie Munger (The Complete Investor)
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist · Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor · Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life · Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion · Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs, the Creation of Apple, and How It Changed the World · Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing · Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth, with Commentary by David Clark
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#78
Charlie Munger (the Tao of Charlie Munger)
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie · Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos · The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East · Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land · Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth, with Commentary by David Clark
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#77
Steve Jobs (The NeXT Years)
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader · Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs · Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs, the Creation of Apple, and How It Changed the World · Steve Jobs · Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing · A Truck Full of Money: Coding, Mania, Love, Genius: The Life of an American Entrepreneur
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#76
Steve Jobs: The Early Years of Apple
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader · Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs, the Creation of Apple, and How It Changed the World · Steve Jobs
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#75
Henry Clay Frick: Andrew Carnegie's Partner
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie · Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders · Henry Clay Frick: The Life of the Perfect Capitalist · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters · Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America · Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love · The Wright Brothers
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#74
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie · Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life · Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West
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#73
Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick: The Bitter Partnership That Changed America
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie · The Big Short · The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World · The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters · Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
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#72
Stan Lee: Founder of Marvel
The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World · Do Things That Don't Scale · Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee · Kitchen Confidential
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#71
Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World · Do Things That Don't Scale · The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
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#70
Mark Spitznagel: The Dao of Capital
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder · The Big Short · The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable · The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World · Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life · Thinking, Fast and Slow
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#69
Charles Goodyear: An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly
The Goodyear Story: An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly · Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future · The Wright Brothers
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#68
Daniel Ludwig: The Invisible Billionaire
The Big Short · The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig
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#67
Conrad Hilton: Hilton Hotel Dynasty
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West · The Hiltons: The True Story of an American Dynasty · The Mamba Mentality: How I Play · Optimism
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#66
Henry Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West
Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West · Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos, and Letters: The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire · Running Down a Dream, How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love
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#65
Kirk Kerkorian: Penniless Dropout became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History
The Big Short · The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Dealmaker in Capitalist History · Who Is Michael Ovitz?
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#64
Coco Chanel: Her Life and Secrets
Coco Chanel: Her Life and Secrets
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#63
The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich · Wait But Why
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#62
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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#61
Malcom McLean: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger · Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft
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#60
Yvon Chouinard: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years
The Innovator's Dilemma · Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman · Patagonia Catalogs · The Responsible Company: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years · Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future
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#59
Howard Hughes: The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire
Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos, and Letters: The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire · Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land · Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future
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#58
John Bogle: Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable · Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs · Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life · From Little Acorns: The Story of Distillers Corporation Seagram's Limited · Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution · Who Is Michael Ovitz?
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#57
John Bogle: Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution
The Big Short · Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs · Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution · This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
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#56
The Biography of Herb Kelleher
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs · The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success
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#55
Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt · Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success · Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
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#54
The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt · The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
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#53
Who Is Michael Ovitz?
The Art of War · The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · Principles: Life and Work · The Republic of Tea: The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its Founders · There's No Speed Limit · Who Is Michael Ovitz?
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#52
The Republic of Tea: The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its Founders
Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent · The Republic of Tea: The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its Founders · The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos · Wild Company: The Untold Story of Banana Republic
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#51
Wild Company: The Untold Story of Banana Republic
Built From Scratch: How A Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion · The Republic of Tea: The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its Founders · Wild Company: The Untold Story of Banana Republic
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#50
Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable · The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers · The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive · The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
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#49
Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life by Richard Branson
Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way · Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life and Business
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#48
Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography by Richard Branson
The Big Short · Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography · Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft · Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way · The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
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#47
Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft · Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land · Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
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#46
I Love Capitalism: An American Story
Built From Scratch: How A Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion · I Love Capitalism: An American Story · Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft
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#45
Built From Scratch: How A Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader · Built From Scratch: How A Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion · Steve Jobs's Stanford Commencement Address
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#44
A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft
Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft · Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business · The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
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#43
Ray Dalio: Principles: Life and Work
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · My Life and Work · Principles: Life and Work · Steve Jobs's Stanford Commencement Address · Wait But Why
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#42
One From Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
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#41
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers · The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
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#40
Insisting On The Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land and Instant: The Story of Polaroid
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader · Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land · Instant: The Story of Polaroid · The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos · Steve Jobs · A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War · Walt Disney: An American Original
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#39
Walt Disney: An American Original
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos · Walt Disney: An American Original
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#38
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future · The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King · Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters · The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos · The Wright Brothers
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#37
The Fish That Ate The Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
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#36
Finding The Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration · Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent · The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company
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#35
George Lucas: A Life
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration · George Lucas: A Life
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#34
Creativity Inc: The Autobiography of the founder of Pixar
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader · Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration · The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
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#33
Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World
Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World · Team of Rivals · This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly · The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
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#32
Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
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#31
Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue and Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#30
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future · Wait But Why · Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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#29
The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
The Big Short · The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company · Steve Jobs
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#28
The Wright Brothers
The Empire of the Air · Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike · The Wright Brothers
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#27
A Truck Full of Money: Coding, Mania, Love, Genius: The Life of an American Entrepreneur
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder · The Bed of Procrustes · The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable · Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life · Kitchen Confidential · Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture · The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story · Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. · A Truck Full of Money: Coding, Mania, Love, Genius: The Life of an American Entrepreneur
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#26
My Life and Work: The Autobiography of Henry Ford
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win · I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford · My Life and Work
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#25
Against the Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson
Against the Odds: An Autobiography
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#24
No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet
How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story · The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story · No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet
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#23
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
The Big Short · The Engineers and the Price System · The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
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#22
How To Turn Down A Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story
How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story · Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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#21
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal · The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman · Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
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#20
Danny Meyer (The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business)
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader · Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
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#19
Becoming Steve Jobs
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader · Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration · Steve Jobs · Steve Jobs's Stanford Commencement Address
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#18
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win · Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman · Wait But Why
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#17
Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering · Sam Walton: Made in America
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#16
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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#15
Leonardo da Vinci: The Biography
Leonardo da Vinci
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#14
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal
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#13
Elon Musk and Why SpaceX Will Colonize Mars
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future · How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars
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#12
Elon Musk & How Tesla Will Change The World
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future · How Tesla Will Change the World · I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford
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#11
The Cook & The Chef: Elon Musk's Secret Sauce
The Cook and the Chef: Elon Musk's Secret Sauce
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#10
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford · Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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#9
I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford
I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford · Wait But Why
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#8
The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company
The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · Steve Jobs
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#7
Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's · The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · Sam Walton: Made in America
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#6
Sam Walton
Sam Walton: Made in America
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#5
Steve Jobs
High Output Management · The Innovator's Dilemma · Steve Jobs
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#4
The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
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#3
The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Edison Invented the Modern World
The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
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#2
Walt Disney
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
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#1
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, & the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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Joseph Pulitzer

Jony Ive

Steve Jobs In Exile

How To Run Down A Dream

Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters to Partners

Nick & Zak's Excellent Adventure: How Nick Sleep and Qais Zaharia Built Their Investment Partnership

Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett

Li Lu

Estée Lauder

Robert Kierlin: Founder of Fastenal

The Russian Rockefellers: The Nobel Family Dynasty

I had dinner with John Mackey, Founder of Whole Foods

Haruki Murakami

How The Sun Rose On Silicon Valley: Bob Noyce (Founder of Intel)

Rare Bernard Arnault Interview

Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man

How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty

J. Paul Getty: The Richest Private Citizen in America

The Founder of Rolex: Hans Wilsdorf

How To Sell Like Steve Jobs

How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple

The Financial Genius Behind A Century of Wall Street Scandals: Ivar Kreuger

How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland

How Walt Disney Built Himself

George Lucas

Quentin Tarantino

The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness: David Ogilvy

The Lessons of History (Will & Ariel Durant)

Cornelius Vanderbilt (Tycoon's War)

Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant

Joseph Duveen: Robber Baron Art Dealer

Monty Moncrief Texas Oil Billionaire

Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy

How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: Samuel Insull

How To Make A Few Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs

Oprah

Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz

Jesus

Christian Dior

Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)

Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)

Tom Murphy (Buffett's favorite manager)

Ted Turner

Anna Wintour

Larry Gagosian (Billionaire Art Dealer)

John D. Rockefeller (38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son)

Jimmy Buffett

Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines)

Working with Jeff Bezos

The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2

The Making of Winston Churchill Part 1

Alistair Urquhart (Listen to this when you’re stressed)

Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar)

Bugatti

Balenciaga

Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work)

Christopher Nolan

Mark Twain

James Cameron

Walt Disney and Picasso

Arnold Schwarzenegger (Before He Was Successful)

The Founder of Glock

The World's Great Family Dynasties: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Morgan, & Toyada

David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)

Robert Caro on power, poverty, ruthlessness, & obsession

Sol Price (The Founder Who Taught Jim Sinegal, Sam Walton, Jeff Bezos, Bernie Marcus)

Rose Blumkin (Warren Buffett's Favorite Founder)

Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon)

Tiger Woods

James Dyson (Against the Odds)

Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)

I had lunch with Sam Zell

Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia)

Bernard Arnault (The Richest Man in the World)

I had dinner with Charlie Munger

Napoleon

Ray Kroc (The Making of McDonald's)

Daniel Ludwig (The Invisible Billionaire)

David Packard (Founder of HP)