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If you are looking for some good business biographies, here is a great list to start (h/t @mastersinvest)
•Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business — John Mackey & Raj Sisodia
•Copy This! How I Turned Dyslexia, ADHD, and 100 Square Feet into a Company Called Kinko’s — Paul Orfalea
•Designed to Win: What Every Business Needs to Know to Go Truly Global — Po Chung
•The Essence of a Family Enterprise — Samuel C. Johnson
•Mission-Driven Leadership: My Journey as a Radical Capitalist — Mark Bertolini
•The Farmer from Merna (State Farm / George J. Mecherle) — Karl Schriftgiesser
•The Burger King: A Whopper of a Story on Life and Leadership — Jim McLamore
•When Business Is Love — Jan Ryde
•The Unpublished David Ogilvy — David Ogilvy
•Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect — Will Guidara
•Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business — Danny Meyer
•Four Seasons: The Story of a Business Philosophy — Isadore Sharp
•Excellence Wins: A No-Nonsense Guide to Becoming the Best in a World of Compromise — Horst Schulze
•Without Reservations: How a Family Root Beer Stand Grew into a Global Hotel Company — J.W. “Bill” Marriott Jr.
•“Thanks for the Business”: K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil — Donald J. Savoie
•The Wawa Way: How a Funny Name & 6 Core Values Revolutionized Convenience — Howard Stoeckel
•Co-Piloting: Luck, Leadership, and Learning That It’s All About Others (Our Story) — Jim Haslam
•The Warren Buffett CEO: Secrets from the Berkshire Hathaway Managers — Robert P. Miles
•Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
•How Google Works — Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg
•Elon Musk — Walter Isaacson
•Born to Be Wired — John Malone
•Who Is Michael Ovitz?: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood — Michael Ovitz
•The Toyota Way (2nd ed.) — Jeffrey K. Liker
•Master of the Game (Steve Ross) — Connie Bruck
•Celebration 150 (The Sherwin-Williams Company history)
•Fifty Years of Pleasure: The Illustrated History of Publix Super Markets, Inc. — Pat Watters
•In Search of Excellence — Thomas J. Peters & Robert H. Waterman Jr.
•McDonald’s: Behind the Arches — John F. Love
•Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. — Ron Chernow
•The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt — T. J. Stiles
•John H. Patterson: Pioneer in Industrial Welfare — Samuel Crowther
•George F. Johnson and His Industrial Democracy — William Inglis
•The Life of Elbert H. Gary: A Story of Steel — Ida M. Tarbell
•My Life and Work — Henry Ford
•Exceeding Customer Expectations — Kirk Kazanjian
•The Rise & Decline of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company — William I. Walsh
•The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America — Marc Levinson
•Fifty Years with the Golden Rule: A Spiritual Autobiography — J. C. Penney
•The Whole Story: Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism — John Mackey
•Built from Scratch — Bernie Marcus & Arthur Blank
•Sam Walton: Made in America — Sam Walton
•Let My People Go Surfing — Yvon Chouinard
•Five and Ten: The Fabulous Life of F. W. Woolworth — John K. Winkler
•Simon Marks: Retail Revolutionary — Paul Bookbinder
•Attention, Kmart Shoppers! — Ben Schultz
•Bare Essentials: The Aldi Way to Retail Success — Dieter Brandes
•Sol Price: Retail Revolutionary & Social Innovator — Robert E. Price
•The Joy of Costco: A Treasure Hunt from A to Z — David & Susan Schwartz
•Becoming Trader Joe — Joe Coulombe
•Leading by Design: The IKEA Story — Ingvar Kamprad
•The IKEA Edge — Anders Dahlvig
•Finding a Common Interest: The Story of Dick Dusseldorp and Lend Lease — Lindie Clark
•Zeckendorf — (autobiography)
•Frank Lowy: Pushing the Limits — Jill Margo
•Frank Lowy: A Second Life — Jill Margo
•The Gambler — Kirk Kerkorian; William C. Rempel
•The Billionaire Who Wasn’t — Chuck Feeney; Conor O’Clery
•Junk to Gold — Willis Johnson
•Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination — Nea[...]
If you are looking for some good business biographies, here is a great list to start (h/t @mastersinvest)
•Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business — John Mackey & Raj Sisodia
•Copy This! How I Turned Dyslexia, ADHD, and 100 Square Feet into a Company Called Kinko’s — Paul Orfalea
•Designed to Win: What Every Business Needs to Know to Go Truly Global — Po Chung
•The Essence of a Family Enterprise — Samuel C. Johnson
•Mission-Driven Leadership: My Journey as a Radical Capitalist — Mark Bertolini
•The Farmer from Merna (State Farm / George J. Mecherle) — Karl Schriftgiesser
•The Burger King: A Whopper of a Story on Life and Leadership — Jim McLamore
•When Business Is Love — Jan Ryde
•The Unpublished David Ogilvy — David Ogilvy
•Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect — Will Guidara
•Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business — Danny Meyer
•Four Seasons: The Story of a Business Philosophy — Isadore Sharp
•Excellence Wins: A No-Nonsense Guide to Becoming the Best in a World of Compromise — Horst Schulze
•Without Reservations: How a Family Root Beer Stand Grew into a Global Hotel Company — J.W. “Bill” Marriott Jr.
•“Thanks for the Business”: K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil — Donald J. Savoie
•The Wawa Way: How a Funny Name & 6 Core Values Revolutionized Convenience — Howard Stoeckel
•Co-Piloting: Luck, Leadership, and Learning That It’s All About Others (Our Story) — Jim Haslam
•The Warren Buffett CEO: Secrets from the Berkshire Hathaway Managers — Robert P. Miles
•Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
•How Google Works — Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg
•Elon Musk — Walter Isaacson
•Born to Be Wired — John Malone
•Who Is Michael Ovitz?: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood — Michael Ovitz
•The Toyota Way (2nd ed.) — Jeffrey K. Liker
•Master of the Game (Steve Ross) — Connie Bruck
•Celebration 150 (The Sherwin-Williams Company history)
•Fifty Years of Pleasure: The Illustrated History of Publix Super Markets, Inc. — Pat Watters
•In Search of Excellence — Thomas J. Peters & Robert H. Waterman Jr.
•McDonald’s: Behind the Arches — John F. Love
•Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. — Ron Chernow
•The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt — T. J. Stiles
•John H. Patterson: Pioneer in Industrial Welfare — Samuel Crowther
•George F. Johnson and His Industrial Democracy — William Inglis
•The Life of Elbert H. Gary: A Story of Steel — Ida M. Tarbell
•My Life and Work — Henry Ford
•Exceeding Customer Expectations — Kirk Kazanjian
•The Rise & Decline of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company — William I. Walsh
•The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America — Marc Levinson
•Fifty Years with the Golden Rule: A Spiritual Autobiography — J. C. Penney
•The Whole Story: Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism — John Mackey
•Built from Scratch — Bernie Marcus & Arthur Blank
•Sam Walton: Made in America — Sam Walton
•Let My People Go Surfing — Yvon Chouinard
•Five and Ten: The Fabulous Life of F. W. Woolworth — John K. Winkler
•Simon Marks: Retail Revolutionary — Paul Bookbinder
•Attention, Kmart Shoppers! — Ben Schultz
•Bare Essentials: The Aldi Way to Retail Success — Dieter Brandes
•Sol Price: Retail Revolutionary & Social Innovator — Robert E. Price
•The Joy of Costco: A Treasure Hunt from A to Z — David & Susan Schwartz
•Becoming Trader Joe — Joe Coulombe
•Leading by Design: The IKEA Story — Ingvar Kamprad
•The IKEA Edge — Anders Dahlvig
•Finding a Common Interest: The Story of Dick Dusseldorp and Lend Lease — Lindie Clark
•Zeckendorf — (autobiography)
•Frank Lowy: Pushing the Limits — Jill Margo
•Frank Lowy: A Second Life — Jill Margo
•The Gambler — Kirk Kerkorian; William C. Rempel
•The Billionaire Who Wasn’t — Chuck Feeney; Conor O’Clery
•Junk to Gold — Willis Johnson
•Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination — Nea[...]
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Clark Square Capital If you are looking for some good business biographies, here is a great list to start (h/t @mastersinvest) •Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business — John Mackey & Raj Sisodia •Copy This! How I Turned Dyslexia, ADHD…
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•Creativity, Inc. — Ed Catmull
•The Ride of a Lifetime — Robert Iger
•Exceeding Expectations: The Enterprise Rent-A-Car Story
•Overnight Success: Federal Express & Frederick Smith, Its Renegade Creator — Vance Trimble
•Changing How the World Does Business — (FedEx) Roger Frock
•FedEx Delivers — Madan Birla
•DHL: Three Letters That Shrank the World — Jane Chung
•Radical Simplicity — Ken Allen
•Ready Fire Aim: The Mainfreight Story — Keith Davies
•With Passion Anything is Possible — (Mainfreight) Keith Davies
•Big Brown: The Untold Story of UPS — Greg Niemann
•Helping the World Keep Promises — (Old Dominion Freight Line) Jeffrey L. Rodengen
•The Box — Marc Levinson
•Railroader — Hunter Harrison; Howard Green
•How We Work and Why — E. Hunter Harrison
•Rags to Riches — (Cintas)
•The Fish That Ate the Whale — Rich Cohen
•For God, Country & Coca-Cola — Mark Pendergrast
•Inside Coca-Cola — Neville Isdell
•My Life in Full — Indra Nooyi
•Onward — Howard Schultz
•Know What Matters — Ron Shaich
•Bitter Brew — William Knoedelseder
•Quench Your Own Thirst — Jim Koch
•The Emperors of Chocolate — Joe Glenn Brenner
•Shoe Dog — Phil Knight
•Shoe Maker — Joe Foster
•Authentic — Paul Van Doren
•Running with Purpose — Jim Weber
•Birkenstock: The Evolution of a Universal Purpose and Zeitgeist Brand
•It’s How We Play the Game — Ed Stack
•Michael O’Leary: Turbulent Times for the Man Who Made Ryanair — Matt Cooper
•Nuts! — (Southwest Airlines) Kevin & Jackie Freiberg
•Spark — Frank Koller
•Plain Talk — Ken Iverson
•Born of This Land: My Life Story — Chung Ju-yung
•Kiewit: An Uncommon Company — Jeffrey L. Rodengen
•The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie (with The Gospel of Wealth)
•Men and Rubber — Harvey S. Firestone
•How to Make a Few Billion Dollars — Brad Jacobs
•The John Deere Way — David Magee
•Otis: Giving Rise to the Modern City — Jason Goodwin
•The Power of Fastenal People — Robert A. Kierlin
•Strong Ties — Barclay Simpson; Katharine Ogden Michaels
•Kitchens, or Sink — Matthew Ingle
•Orkin: The Making of the World’s Best Pest Control Company
•Work Hard, Have Fun, Make Money: The Tractor Supply Story
•The Culture Warrior — Joe Scarlett
•One from Many — Dee Hock
•A Blueprint for Better Banking — (Svenska Handelsbanken) Niels Kroner
•Decentralisation—Why and How to Make it Work — Jan Wallander
•Invested — Charles Schwab
•The Snowball — Warren Buffett; Alice Schroeder
•What It Takes — Stephen A. Schwarzman
•Bloomberg by Bloomberg — Michael Bloomberg
•The Millionaires’ Factory — (Macquarie) Joyce Moullakis & Chris Wright
•A. P. Giannini: Banker of America — Felice A. Bonadio
•Biography of a Bank: The Story of Bank of America NT&SA — Marquis & Bessie James
•Breaking the Bank — Gary Hector
•The House of Morgan — Ron Chernow
•In for a Penny — Peter Hargreaves
•What Matters — Andrew Pridham
•Zero-Sum Game — Erika S. Olson
•Many Happy Returns — Henry Bloch; Thomas M. Bloch
•The Gallagher Way — Arthur J. Gallagher; Alison Kittrell
•USAA: A Tradition of Service 1922–1997 — Paul T. Ringenbach
•Grinding It Out — Ray Kroc
•The Magic of McDonald’s — Peter Ritchie
•Sell ’Em by the Sack — (White Castle) David Gerard Hogan
•In-N-Out Burger — Stacy Perman
•The Ins-N-Outs of In-N-Out Burger — Lynsi Snyder
•How Did You Do It, Truett? — S. Truett Cathy
•Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A — Steve Robinson
•Doing Business the Chick-fil-A Way — S. Truett Cathy
•Pizza Tiger — Tom Monaghan
•Making Dough — (Krispy Kreme) Kirk Kazanjian & Amy Joyner
•Out of the Dog House — Dick Portillo
•Always Fresh — (Tim Hortons) Ron Joyce
•Selling Steakburgers — (Steak ’n Shake) Robert P. Cronin
•Made from Scratch — (Texas Roadhouse) Kent Taylor
•On the Brink — Norman Brinker
•Around the Corner to Around the World — (Dunkin’ Donuts) Robert Rosenberg
•Dave’s Way — (Wendy’s) Dave Thomas
•Every Customer a Fan — Jim Penman
•La passion créative — Bernard Arnault
•The Luxury Strategy — Kapferer & Bastien
•Brunello Cucinelli: The Dream of Solomeo
•The Ta[...]
•Creativity, Inc. — Ed Catmull
•The Ride of a Lifetime — Robert Iger
•Exceeding Expectations: The Enterprise Rent-A-Car Story
•Overnight Success: Federal Express & Frederick Smith, Its Renegade Creator — Vance Trimble
•Changing How the World Does Business — (FedEx) Roger Frock
•FedEx Delivers — Madan Birla
•DHL: Three Letters That Shrank the World — Jane Chung
•Radical Simplicity — Ken Allen
•Ready Fire Aim: The Mainfreight Story — Keith Davies
•With Passion Anything is Possible — (Mainfreight) Keith Davies
•Big Brown: The Untold Story of UPS — Greg Niemann
•Helping the World Keep Promises — (Old Dominion Freight Line) Jeffrey L. Rodengen
•The Box — Marc Levinson
•Railroader — Hunter Harrison; Howard Green
•How We Work and Why — E. Hunter Harrison
•Rags to Riches — (Cintas)
•The Fish That Ate the Whale — Rich Cohen
•For God, Country & Coca-Cola — Mark Pendergrast
•Inside Coca-Cola — Neville Isdell
•My Life in Full — Indra Nooyi
•Onward — Howard Schultz
•Know What Matters — Ron Shaich
•Bitter Brew — William Knoedelseder
•Quench Your Own Thirst — Jim Koch
•The Emperors of Chocolate — Joe Glenn Brenner
•Shoe Dog — Phil Knight
•Shoe Maker — Joe Foster
•Authentic — Paul Van Doren
•Running with Purpose — Jim Weber
•Birkenstock: The Evolution of a Universal Purpose and Zeitgeist Brand
•It’s How We Play the Game — Ed Stack
•Michael O’Leary: Turbulent Times for the Man Who Made Ryanair — Matt Cooper
•Nuts! — (Southwest Airlines) Kevin & Jackie Freiberg
•Spark — Frank Koller
•Plain Talk — Ken Iverson
•Born of This Land: My Life Story — Chung Ju-yung
•Kiewit: An Uncommon Company — Jeffrey L. Rodengen
•The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie (with The Gospel of Wealth)
•Men and Rubber — Harvey S. Firestone
•How to Make a Few Billion Dollars — Brad Jacobs
•The John Deere Way — David Magee
•Otis: Giving Rise to the Modern City — Jason Goodwin
•The Power of Fastenal People — Robert A. Kierlin
•Strong Ties — Barclay Simpson; Katharine Ogden Michaels
•Kitchens, or Sink — Matthew Ingle
•Orkin: The Making of the World’s Best Pest Control Company
•Work Hard, Have Fun, Make Money: The Tractor Supply Story
•The Culture Warrior — Joe Scarlett
•One from Many — Dee Hock
•A Blueprint for Better Banking — (Svenska Handelsbanken) Niels Kroner
•Decentralisation—Why and How to Make it Work — Jan Wallander
•Invested — Charles Schwab
•The Snowball — Warren Buffett; Alice Schroeder
•What It Takes — Stephen A. Schwarzman
•Bloomberg by Bloomberg — Michael Bloomberg
•The Millionaires’ Factory — (Macquarie) Joyce Moullakis & Chris Wright
•A. P. Giannini: Banker of America — Felice A. Bonadio
•Biography of a Bank: The Story of Bank of America NT&SA — Marquis & Bessie James
•Breaking the Bank — Gary Hector
•The House of Morgan — Ron Chernow
•In for a Penny — Peter Hargreaves
•What Matters — Andrew Pridham
•Zero-Sum Game — Erika S. Olson
•Many Happy Returns — Henry Bloch; Thomas M. Bloch
•The Gallagher Way — Arthur J. Gallagher; Alison Kittrell
•USAA: A Tradition of Service 1922–1997 — Paul T. Ringenbach
•Grinding It Out — Ray Kroc
•The Magic of McDonald’s — Peter Ritchie
•Sell ’Em by the Sack — (White Castle) David Gerard Hogan
•In-N-Out Burger — Stacy Perman
•The Ins-N-Outs of In-N-Out Burger — Lynsi Snyder
•How Did You Do It, Truett? — S. Truett Cathy
•Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A — Steve Robinson
•Doing Business the Chick-fil-A Way — S. Truett Cathy
•Pizza Tiger — Tom Monaghan
•Making Dough — (Krispy Kreme) Kirk Kazanjian & Amy Joyner
•Out of the Dog House — Dick Portillo
•Always Fresh — (Tim Hortons) Ron Joyce
•Selling Steakburgers — (Steak ’n Shake) Robert P. Cronin
•Made from Scratch — (Texas Roadhouse) Kent Taylor
•On the Brink — Norman Brinker
•Around the Corner to Around the World — (Dunkin’ Donuts) Robert Rosenberg
•Dave’s Way — (Wendy’s) Dave Thomas
•Every Customer a Fan — Jim Penman
•La passion créative — Bernard Arnault
•The Luxury Strategy — Kapferer & Bastien
•Brunello Cucinelli: The Dream of Solomeo
•The Ta[...]
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l Gabler •Creativity, Inc. — Ed Catmull •The Ride of a Lifetime — Robert Iger •Exceeding Expectations: The Enterprise Rent-A-Car Story •Overnight Success: Federal Express & Frederick Smith, Its Renegade Creator — Vance Trimble •Changing How the World Does…
ste of Luxury — (Bernard Arnault / LVMH story)
•Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh: “Make It Ours” — Robin Givhan
•Dior by Dior
•The Cartiers — Francesca Cartier Brickell
•King of Diamonds — (Harry Winston) Ronald Winston & William Stadiem
•The Making of a Status Symbol: A Business History of Rolex — Pierre-Yves Donzé
•The Widow Clicquot — Tilar J. Mazzeo
•Paul Ricard — Robert Murphy
•The Company I Keep — Leonard Lauder
•Business as Unusual — Hugh De Pree
•Leadership Jazz — Max De Pree
•The Loyalty Effect — Frederick F. Reichheld
•Steel Titan: The Life of Charles M. Schwab — Robert Hessen
•Doing the Doing — Alan McKim
•Enough. — John C. Bogle
•Lessons from Century Club Companies: Managing for Long Term Success — Vicki TenHaken
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•Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh: “Make It Ours” — Robin Givhan
•Dior by Dior
•The Cartiers — Francesca Cartier Brickell
•King of Diamonds — (Harry Winston) Ronald Winston & William Stadiem
•The Making of a Status Symbol: A Business History of Rolex — Pierre-Yves Donzé
•The Widow Clicquot — Tilar J. Mazzeo
•Paul Ricard — Robert Murphy
•The Company I Keep — Leonard Lauder
•Business as Unusual — Hugh De Pree
•Leadership Jazz — Max De Pree
•The Loyalty Effect — Frederick F. Reichheld
•Steel Titan: The Life of Charles M. Schwab — Robert Hessen
•Doing the Doing — Alan McKim
•Enough. — John C. Bogle
•Lessons from Century Club Companies: Managing for Long Term Success — Vicki TenHaken
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