On July 23, 2018 By newsroom Topic: Best Books
Read these 35+ favorite business biographies about successful business people for sheer inspiration.
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Shoe Dog A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight (2016)
Business Adventures Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks (2015)
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Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (2015)
Sam Walton Made In America by Sam Walton (2003)
The Upstarts How Uber
Dream Big How the Brazilian Trio behind 3G Capital — Jorge Paulo Lemann
Anything You Want 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers (2015)
The Power of Broke How Empty Pockets
Titan The Life of John D. Rockefeller
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The Idea Factory Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner (2013)
The Undoing Project A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis (2017)
Founders at Work Stories of Startups’ Early Days by Jessica Livingston (2009)
Hesselbein on Leadership by Frances Hesselbein (2013)
Hatching Twitter A True Story of Money
Memos from the Chairman by Alan C. Greenberg (2016)
The Innovators How a Group of Inventors
Delivering Happiness A Path to Profits
You Don’t Have to Be a Shark Creating Your Own Success by Robert Herjavec (2017)
In-N-Out Burger A Behind-the-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the Rules by Stacy Perman (2010)
In The Plex How Google Thinks
Display of Power How FUBU Changed A World Of Fashion
Onward How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul by Howard Schultz
Becoming Steve Jobs The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender
Behind the Cloud The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry by Marc Benioff
How I Lost 170 Million Dollars My Time as #30 at Facebook by Noah Kagan (2014)
Disrupted My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons (2017)
The Snowball Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder (2009)
Shark Tales How I Turned $1
Without Their Permission The Story of Reddit and a Blueprint for How to Change the World by Alexis Ohanian (2016)
Hard Drive Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace
The Mary Kay Way Timeless Principles from America’s Greatest Woman Entrepreneur by Mary Kay Ash (2008)
My Years with General Motors by Alfred Sloan (1990)
Idea Man A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft by Paul Allen (2012)
Jack Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch
The Launch Pad Inside Y Combinator by Randall Stross (2013)
Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw (2007)