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A list of notable books written by CEOs, about CEOs and business.
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A list of notable books written by CEOs, about CEOs and business.
| Title | Author | Company | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Untitled autobiography of Andrew Carnegie [1] | Andrew Carnegie | Carnegie Steel | 1920 |
| My Life and Work | Henry Ford | Ford Motor Company | 1922 |
| Pizza Tiger | Monaghan, Tom | Domino's Pizza | 1986 |
| Dave's Way | Thomas, Dave | Wendy's | 1992 |
| Bloomberg by Bloomberg [2] | Michael Bloomberg | Bloomberg | 1997 |
| The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company [3] | Robert Iger | The Walt Disney Company | 2019 |
| The Education of a Value Investor [4] | Spier, Guy | Aquamarine Fund | 2014 |
| Invent & Wander [5] | Bezos, Jeff | Amazon | 2021 |
| Winning [6] | Welch, Jack | General Electric | 2005 |
| Rework [7] | Jason Fried | Basecamp | 2010 |
| The Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Grow, or Manage a Business | Stewart, Martha | 2005 | |
| Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done | Bossidy, Larry | General Electric, Honeywell | 2002 |
| Eat Mor Chikin: Inspire More People | S Truett Cathy | Chick-fil-A | 2002 |
| My Life & Principles for Success [8] | Ross Perot | Electronic Data Systems | 2002 (2nd ed) |
| Time to Make the Donuts [9] [10] | Rosenberg, William | Dunkin Donuts | 2001 |
| Straight from the Gut | Welch, Jack | General Electric | 2001 |
| Business @ the Speed of Thought [11] | Gates, Bill | Microsoft | 1999 |
| Direct from Dell: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry [12] | Dell, Michael | Dell | 2000 |
| Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond | Watson, Jr., Thomas J. | IBM | 2000 (reprint) |
| Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time | Schultz, Howard | Starbucks | 1999 |
| Work in Progress [13] | Eisner, Michael | The Walt Disney Company | 1999 |
| An Enterprising Life | Jay van Andel | Amway | 1998 |
| Sam Walton: Made in America | Walton, Sam | Walmart | 1993 |
| No Excuses Management | Rodgers, TJ | 1993 | |
| Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve [14] | George Soros | Soros Fund Management | 1995 |
| Only The Paranoid Survive | Grove, Andrew | Intel | 1996 |
| The HP Way : How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company | Packard, David | Hewlett-Packard | 1996 |
| Personal History [15] | Katharine Graham | Washington Post | 1998 |
| My Years with General Motors | Sloan, Alfred | General Motors | 1990 (reprint) |
| Life as I Have Known It Has Been Finger Lickin' Good | Harland Sanders | Kentucky Fried Chicken | 1974 |
| Iacocca: An Autobiography [16] | Iacocca, Lee | 1984 | |
| Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's | Kroc, Ray | McDonald's | 1976 (reprint 1990) |
| J.R.D Tata: Beyond the Last Blue Mountain | R. M. Lala | Tata Group | |
| The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company [17] [18] | Charles Koch | Koch Industries | 2007 |
| Call Me Ted [19] | Ted Turner | CNN | 2008 |
| Behind the Cloud | Marc Benioff | salesforce.com | 2009 |
| Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose | Tony Hsieh | Zappos | 2010 |
| The Start-up of You | Reid Hoffman | 2012 | |
| Confessions of an Advertising Man | David Ogilvy | Ogilvy & Mather | 1963 |
| Simply Rich | Rich de Vos | Amway | 2014 |
| How Google Works | Eric Schmidt | 2014 | |
| Shoe Dog | Phil Knight | Nike | 2016 |
| Papa: The Story of Papa John's Pizza | John Schnatter | Papa John's Pizza | 2017 |
| Hit Refresh | Satya Nadella | Microsoft | 2017 |
| Winners Dream | Bill McDermott | SAP | 2014 |
| Onward | Howard Schultz | Starbucks | 2011 |
Koch Industries, Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas, and is the second-largest privately held company in the United States, after Cargill. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizer, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, cloud computing, finance, raw materials trading, and investments. Koch owns Flint Hills Resources, Georgia-Pacific, Guardian Industries, Infor, Invista, KBX, Koch Ag & Energy Solutions, Koch Engineered Solutions, Koch Investments Group, Koch Minerals & Trading, and Molex. The firm employs 122,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States.
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca was an American automobile executive best known for the development of the Ford Mustang, Continental Mark III, and Ford Pinto cars while at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s, and for reviving the Chrysler Corporation as its CEO during the 1980s. He was president of Chrysler from 1978 to 1991 and chairman and CEO from 1979 until his retirement at the end of 1992. He was one of the few executives to preside over the operations of two of the United States' Big Three automakers.
Iacocca: An Autobiography is Lee Iacocca's best selling autobiography, co-authored with William Novak and originally published in 1984. Most of the book is taken up with reminiscences of Iacocca's career in the car industry, first with the Ford Motor Company, then the Chrysler Corporation. The hugely successful autobiography was the best-selling non-fiction hardcover book of 1984 and 1985.
Popular Science is a U.S. popular science website, covering science and technology topics geared toward general readers. Popular Science has won over 58 awards, including the American Society of Magazine Editors awards for its journalistic excellence in 2003, 2004, and 2019. Its print magazine, which ran from 1872 to 2020, was translated into over 30 languages and distributed to at least 45 countries. In 2021, Popular Science switched to an all-digital format and abandoned the magazine format in 2023.
Peter Lynch is an American investor, mutual fund manager, author and philanthropist. As the manager of the Magellan Fund at Fidelity Investments between 1977 and 1990, Lynch averaged a 29.2% annual return, consistently more than double the S&P 500 stock market index and making it the best-performing mutual fund in the world. During his 13-year tenure, assets under management increased from US$18 million to $14 billion.
Soros Fund Management, LLC is a privately held American investment management firm. It is currently structured as a family office, but formerly as a hedge fund. The firm was founded in 1970 by George Soros and, in 2010, was reported to be one of the most profitable firms in the hedge fund industry, averaging a 20% annual rate of return over four decades. It is headquartered at 250 West 55th Street in New York. As of 2023, Soros Fund Management, LLC had $25 billion in AUM.
William Rosenberg was an American entrepreneur who founded the Dunkin' Donuts franchise in 1950 in Quincy, Massachusetts, one of the pioneers in name-brand franchising, originally named the "Open Kettle" doughnut shop when established in 1948. At the end of 2011, there were more than 10,000 outlets of the chain in 32 countries.
William Joseph O'Neil was an American businessman, stockbroker and writer. He founded the stock brokerage firm William O'Neil & Co. Inc in 1963 and the business newspaper Investor's Business Daily in 1984. O'Neil was the author of the books How to Make Money in Stocks, 24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success and The Successful Investor among others, and is the creator of the CAN SLIM investment strategy.
Jason McCabe Calacanis is an American Internet entrepreneur, angel investor, author and podcaster.
George Soros is a Hungarian-American billionaire businessman, investor, and philanthropist. As of October 2023, he had a net worth of US$6.7 billion, having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, of which $15 billion has already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune. Forbes called Soros the "most generous giver". He is a resident of New York.
The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company is a book written by Charles Koch in which he delineates his philosophy of Market Based Management (MBM). Koch, the CEO of Koch Industries, Inc., wrote it in 2007. While many similarly-titled books by other authors exist, T. Boone Pickens argues that Koch's immense personal business success lends credibility to the book's concept.
James Altucher is an American hedge-fund manager, author, podcaster and entrepreneur who has founded or cofounded over 20 companies. He has published 20 books and is a contributor to publications including The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and The Huffington Post.
Charles de Ganahl Koch is an American billionaire businessman. As of February 2024, he was ranked as the 23rd richest man in the world on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with an estimated net worth of $64.9 billion. Koch has been co-owner, chairman, and chief executive officer of Koch Industries since 1967, while his late brother David Koch served as executive vice president. Charles and David each owned 42% of the conglomerate. The brothers inherited the business from their father, Fred C. Koch, then expanded the business. Koch Industries is the largest privately held company by revenue in the United States, according to Forbes.
Charles Shrem IV is an American entrepreneur and bitcoin advocate. He co-founded the now-defunct startup company BitInstant, and is a founding member of the Bitcoin Foundation. In 2014 he was sentenced to two years in prison for aiding and abetting the operation of an unlicensed money-transmitting business related to the Silk Road marketplace. He was released from prison in 2016. In 2017, he joined Jaxx and served as its chief operating officer, and founded cryptocurrency advisory CryptoIQ.
Marcus Anthony Lemonis is a Lebanese-born American businessman, television personality and philanthropist. He is currently the chairman and CEO of Camping World, and Good Sam Enterprises, as well as the Chairman of Beyond. Additionally, he is renowned for his role as the star of The Profit, a CNBC reality show about saving small businesses. He is also the co-owner of Marcus/Glass Entertainment, which owns Let's Make a Deal.
Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies is a 2015 book by Charles G. Koch. It was published in the United States by Crown Business, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. It was published in the United Kingdom by Piatkus.
William Novak is a Canadian–American author who has co-written or ghostwritten numerous celebrity memoirs for people including Lee Iacocca, Nancy Reagan, and Magic Johnson. He is also the editor, with Moshe Waldoks, of The Big Book of Jewish Humor. He has also written several "private" books, which he described in a 2015 essay for The New York Times.
Scott Galloway is a Clinical Professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business, public speaker, author, podcast host, and entrepreneur.
Robert M. Rosenberg is an American businessman, professor, and author. He was the chief executive officer of Dunkin' Donuts for thirty-five years from 1963 to 1998 and also served on the board of directors of Sonic Corp and Domino's Pizza. He was also an adjunct professor at Babson College's F. W. Olin Graduate School of Business.
Melvin Poh FRSA is a Malaysian entrepreneur, barrister, investor and speaker. He is known for his work as a media entrepreneur in crowdsourcing knowledge in Asia and his efforts to facilitate greater accessibility to knowledge in the region. Poh is also known to be a public proponent of the access to knowledge movement in Southeast Asia and has been advocating for the democratization of knowledge in public media as well as in his work.
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