Library

Biographies — Business Figures

25 books in this section — 13 with a full summary so far

040Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist— Roger Lowenstein
Roger Lowenstein's biography traces Warren Buffett from a childhood in Omaha marked by an obsession with numbers and money-making schemes (a paper route, pinball machines, a used-golf-ball business) through to his emergence as the most successful investor of the twentieth…
Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor— Tren Griffin
Tren Griffin's book presents Charlie Munger less as a biography in the conventional narrative sense and more as an organized synthesis of Munger's investment philosophy, built around the idea that Munger's real contribution to Berkshire Hathaway's success was intellectual:…
058Damn Right! Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger— Janet Lowe
" is Janet Lowe's biography of Charles T. Munger, the famously blunt vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett's longtime intellectual partner. Written with Munger's reluctant but eventually substantial cooperation, the book traces his life from a comfortable but…
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose— Tony Hsieh
Tony Hsieh's book is part memoir and part business philosophy, tracing his path from a childhood obsessed with side-hustles, through selling LinkExchange to Microsoft for $265 million while feeling personally empty, to co-founding and running Zappos into a billion-dollar…
109How to Be Rich— J. Paul Getty
Written in 1965 by the man Fortune magazine once called the richest private citizen in the world, *How to Be Rich* is less a technical investing manual than a personal philosophy of wealth from an oilman who built one of the twentieth century's great fortunes. Getty is explicit…
145Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won't Teach You at Business School— Richard Branson
Like a Virgin is Richard Branson's attempt to distill four decades of building the Virgin Group — from a mail-order record business to an empire spanning music, airlines, mobile phones, health clubs, and space travel — into short, punchy lessons that deliberately don't read like…
219Rockefeller Gửi Con Trai (38 Lá Thư)— John D. Rockefeller (letters)
This book presents itself as a collection of 38 letters written by John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil and long considered the wealthiest American in modern history, to his son, covering business philosophy, personal discipline, and life advice distilled from…
221Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life— Richard Branson
Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life is Richard Branson's short, aphoristic memoir-as-manual, distilled from decades of building the Virgin Group from a teenage magazine and a mail-order record business into a brand spanning music, airlines, mobile phones, and eventually…
279The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers— Ben Horowitz
The Hard Thing About Hard Things grew out of Ben Horowitz's popular "Ben's Blog," and its core argument is that nearly all business writing addresses the easy things — how to write a product spec, how to run a board meeting — while almost none of it addresses the hard things:…
313The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life— Alice Schroeder
Alice Schroeder spent years with direct access to Warren Buffett and his personal archives to write what is widely considered the most intimate and comprehensive Buffett biography, organized around the metaphor in its title: life, like money, works by compounding, and a small…
317The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership— Richard Branson
The Virgin Way distills Richard Branson's leadership philosophy accumulated across four decades of building the Virgin Group's many independent companies, organized around the deliberately informal idea that there's no single correct leadership style — only principles for…
339Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell— Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle
Trillion Dollar Coach is a collective portrait of Bill Campbell, the former college football coach turned Silicon Valley executive who became the confidential coach and mentor to Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, and dozens of other top technology leaders,…
255Trump: The Art of the Deal— Donald J. Trump with Tony Schwartz
Trump: The Art of the Deal is part memoir and part business-advice book, built around Donald Trump's account of the real estate deals that built his reputation in New York and Atlantic City through the mid-1980s. It opens with a chapter following a single week of Trump's…

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