All Books Written By Billionaires:

• My Life and Work by Henry Ford (founder of Ford Motors)

• Today and Tomorrow by Henry Ford

• The International Jew by Henry Ford

• Edison As I Know Him by Henry Ford

• Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio (net worth of $17 Billion according
to Forbes)

• Big Debt Crises by Ray Dalio

• Made in America by Sam Walton (founder of Walmart)

• Business @ the Speed of Thought by Bill Gates (founder of Microsoft)

• The Road Ahead by Bill Gates

• Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel by Sam Zell

• Random Reminiscences of Men and Events by John D. Rockefeller

• John D. Rockefeller: The Autobiography of an Oil Titan and

Philanthropist by John D. Rockefeller

• Quotations by John D. Rockefeller

• Attack and Win in Business by John D. Rockefeller

• The Colorado Industrial Plan by John D. Rockefeller

• John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on

Building and Sharing Wealth by John D. Rockefeller

• Dear Father, Dear Son: Correspondence of John D. Rockefeller and Jr. by

John D. Rockefeller

• Zero To One by Peter Thiel (tech investor)

• Lean In For Graduates by Sheryl Sandberg (female billionaire, one of the

first employees at Google and Facebook)

• Lean In: Work, Women and The Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
• Lean In for Grads by Sheryl Sandberg

• The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking by

Eli Broad (net worth of $7.3 Billion)

• Jimmy: An Autobiography by Jim Pattison (net worth of $6.9 Billion)

• Birth: When the Spiritual and the Material Come Together by Shari
Arison (female billionaire)

• Activate Your Goodness: Transforming the World Through Doing Good

by Shari Arison

• The Doing Good Model: Activate Your Goodness in Business by Shari

Arison

• The Link: How Doing Good Connects Us to Ourselves, Each Other…and

Everything! by Shari Arison

• From Red Tape To Red Carpet And Then Some by Gina Rinehart

• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by Phil Knight (founder of Nike)

• The Wanda Way: The Managerial Philosophy and Values of One of

China’s Largest Companies by Jianlin Wang (net worth of $25 Billion)

• Start Small Finish Big: Fifteen Key Lessons to Start – and Run – Your Own
Successful Business by Fred Deluca (founder of Subway, $3 Billion)

• Always Fresh by Ronald Joyce (founder of Tim Horton, a doughnut

chain, net worth of $1.39 Billion according to Forbes)

• Simply Rich by Rich Devos (founder of Amway)

• Ten Powerful Phrases for Positive People by Rich DeVos

• Believe! by Rich DeVos

• Compassionate Capitalism by Rich DeVos (this may be confusing since

another billionaire wrote a book of the same name)

• Hope From My Heart by Rich DeVos

• The Essays of Warren Buffett

• The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership by Richard Branson

• Screw It Let’s Do It: Lessons In Life, Like A Virgin by Richard Branson

• Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson

• Screw Business As Usual by Richard Branson

• Business Stripped Bare by Richard Branson | Book Summary

• Reach for the Skies by Richard Branson

• Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won’t Teach You at Business School by

Richard Branson

• Finding My Virginity by Richard Branson

• What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey – My Book Summary Of This

Book

• The Snowball (biography of Warren Buffett)

• Leading By Design: The Ikea Story by Ingvar Kamprad (Net Worth of $33
Billion according to Forbes)

• The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie

• Eat More Chikin by S. Truett Cathy (the founder of Chick-Fil-A, Net Worth
of $6.2 Billion according to Forbes.)

• Wealth: Is It Worth It? by S. Truett Cathy

• How did you do it, Truett? by S. Truett Cathy

• It’s Better to Build Boys than Mend Men by S. Truett Cathy

• It’s Easier to Succeed Than to Fail by S. Truett Cathy

• Measure What Matters by John Doerr

• The Generosity Factor: Discover the Joy of Giving Your Time, Talent, and
Treasure by Ken Blanchard (author of One Minute Manager) and S.
Truett Cathy (this is a mini-parable explaining the benefits of generosity.)

• Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up That Took On

Microsoft by Jim Clark (a.k.a. James H. Clark – net worth $1.3 billion,
founder of three billion dollar tech companies)

• Built from Scratch by Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank (Home Depot)

• How to Lead: Wisdom from the World’s Greatest CEOs, Founders, and
Game Changers by David M. Rubenstein
• The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians by David M.
Rubenstein

• Winners Never Cheat by Jon Huntsman

• Barefoot to Billionaire: Reflections on a Life’s Work and a Promise to

Cure Cancer by Jon Huntsman Sr. (Net Worth of $1 Billion according to
Forbes, after giving away $1.2 billion)

• Ralph Lauren by Ralph Lauren

• The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie

• Driven from Within by Michael Jordan

• For the Love of the Game: My Story by Michael Jordan

• I Can’t Accept Not Trying: Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence by

Michael Jordan

• I’m Back!: More Rare Air by Michael Jordan

• The Entrepreneur: 25 Golden Rules for the Global Business Manager by

William Heinecke (net worth of $1.7 Billion according for Forbes)

• The Entrepreneur: Twenty-One Golden Rules for the Global Business

Manager by William Heinecke (it seems to be an older version of the
same book)

• How To Win At The Sport of Business by Mark Cuban

• Onward by Howard Schultz (Starbucks)

• Steering Clear by Peter George Peterson (COE of Lehman Brothers, 1.6

Billion net worth)

• Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built A Company One Cup At a
Time by Howard Schultz

• Bloomberg by Michael Bloomberg (Made his money from Bloomberg

terminals)

• The Business of Happiness by Ted Leonsis

• Bailout Riches!: How Everyday Investors Can Make a Fortune Buying Bad
Loans for Pennies on the Dollar by Bill Bartmann

• Pizza Tiger by Thomas Monaghan (founder of Domino’s)

• How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty (Fortune named him the richest living
American in 1957.)

• How to be a Successful Executive by J. Paul Getty

• As I See It: The Autobiography of J. Paul Getty

• My Life and Fortunes, the Autobiography of One of the World’s

Wealthiest Men by J. Paul Getty (apparently he wrote two
autobiographies?)

• The Joys of Collecting by J. Paul Getty (this is more about his priceless art
collecting hobby)

• Ernest and Julio: Our Story

• Charles Schwab’s Guide To Financial Independence by Charles R. Schwab

(net worth of $5.3 Billion)

• You’re Fifty, Now What? by Charles Schwab

• How to be Your Own Stockbroker by Charles Schwab

• Reinventing the Market by Charles Schwab

• Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman (investor)

• Dream No Little Dreams by Clayton L. Mathile

• The Essays of Warren Buffett by Lawrence Cunningham (a curation of

Warren’s shareholder letters)

• Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charlie Munger (Warren Buffett’s partner)

• Call Me Ted by Ted Turner (media business)

• The First Billion Is The Hardest by T. Boone Pickens

• Boone by T. Boone Pickens

• Fooling Some of the People All of the Time by David Einhorn (investor)

• Soros on Soros by George Soros (probably the densest and most difficult
of them all. This guy was born with a genius mind for macro-economists
far beyond my comprehension.)

• Direct from Dell by Michael Dell

• The Startup of You by Reid Hoffman

• The Science of Success by Charles G. Koch (net worth of $42 billion. #7

richest man in the world according to Forbes.

• Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World’s
Most Successful Companies by Charles G. Koch

• Better India: A Better World by Narayana Murthy

• Compassionate Capitalism: How Corporations Can Make Doing Good an

Integral Part of Doing Well (2004) by Marc Benioff (net worth $3.9
Billion+)

• The Business of Changing the World: Twenty Great Leaders on Strategic

Corporate Philanthropy (2006) by Marc Benioff

• Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from
Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry by Marc
Benioff

• Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change

by Marc Benioff

• Habit of Labor: Lessons from a Life of Struggle and Success by Stef

Wertheimer

• Man at a Machine by Stef Wertheimer

• What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence by Stephen A.

Schwarzman

• Red Zone: Cars, Cows, and Coaches by Red McCombs

• Big Red: Memoirs of a Texas Entrepreneur and Philanthropist by Red

McCombs

• The Education of an American Dreamer: How a Son of Greek Immigrants

Learned His Way from a Nebraska Diner to Washington, Wall Street, and
Beyond by Peter G. Peterson

• Finding America’s Voice: A Strategy for Reinvigorating U.S. Public

Diplomacy (2010) by Peter G. Peterson

• Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are

Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It (2005) by
Peter G. Peterson
• Gray Dawn: How the Coming Age Wave Will Transform America–and the
World (2000) by Peter G. Peterson

• Will America Grow up Before it Grows Old: How the Coming Social
Security Crisis Threatens You, Your Family and Your Country (1996) by
Peter G. Peterson

• Facing Up: How to Rescue the Economy From Crushing Debt & Restore
the American Dream (1993) by Peter G. Peterson

• Sharing the Wealth by Alex Spanos

• I Love Capitalism!: An American Story by Ken Langone ($3.4 Billion

according to Forbes)

• How to Smell a Rat: The Five Signs of Financial Fraud by Ken Fisher

• The Only Three Questions That Count: Investing by Knowing What

Others Don’t by Ken Fisher (I highly disagree with many points in this
book; I prefer Warren Buffett’s style and Ken’s father’s book Common
Stocks and Uncommon Profits)

• The Little Book of Market Myths: How to Profit by Avoiding the Investing
Mistakes Everyone Else Makes by Ken Fisher

• Plan Your Prosperity: The Only Retirement Guide You’ll Ever Need,
Starting Now–Whether You’re 22, 52 or 82 by Ken Fisher

• Debunkery: Learn It, Do It, and Profit from It — Seeing Through Wall
Street’s Money-Killing Myths by Ken Fisher

• Markets Never Forget (But People Do): How Your Memory Is Costing You
Money—and Why This Time Isn’t Different by Ken Fisher

• The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How
You Can Too!) by Ken Fisher

• Beat the Crowd: How You Can Out-Invest the Herd by Thinking
Differently by Ken Fisher

• Battle for Investment Survival by Ken Fisher

• 100 Minds That Made the Market by Ken Fisher

• How Google Works and The New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt, Chairman
of Alphabet (formerly Google), 138th richest man in the world. (What I
find interesting about him is that he doesn’t consider himself an
 entrepreneur. He considers himself a manager that helped Larry and
Sergie create their dream of Google. You don’t have to be a CEO or
founder guys!)

• Get Smarter: Life and Business Lessons by Seymour Schulich (Net worth
of $1.5 billion according to Wikipedia)

• Grinding it Out by Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald’s)

• PAPA: The Story of Papa John’s Pizza by John H. Schnatter (Net worth of
$1 billion according to Forbes)

• The Art Of the Deal by Donald J. Trump

• Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich-And Why Most Don’t
by Donald Trump & Robert Kiyosaki

• Think Like A Champion by Donald Trump

• Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again Donald Trump

• The America We Deserve by Donald Trump

• Trump: The Way to the Top: The Best Business Advice I Ever Received by
Donald Trump

• Trump 101: The Way to Success by Donald Trump (2006)

• Trump University Wealth Building 101: Your First 90 Days on the Path to
Prosperity by Donald Trump (2007)

• Trump Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges Into Success
by Donald Trump (2007)

• Think BIG and Kick Ass in Business and Life by Donald Trump (2007)

• Why We Want You to Be Rich: Two Men, One Message by Donald Trump
& Robert Kiyosaki

• Customers Come First: From One Small Shop to a Worldwide Network of

Stores by Masatoshi Ito

• The Heart Of Doing Business: Memoirs Of An Entrepreneur by Masatoshi

Ito

• Am I Being Too Subtle?: The Adventures of a Business Maverick by Sam

Zell (Net worth of $5 Billion according to Forbes)
• Lui Che-woo: Creating Value: The Journey of a Self-Made Billionaire: The
Authorized Biography by Lui Che woo by Lui Che-woo (Net worth of $15
Billion according to Forbes)

• Against All Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson (Net worth of $4.3

Billion according to Forbes)

• A History of Great Inventions by James Dyson

• Design by James Dyson

• Whatever the Odds The Incredible Story Behind DLF by Kushal Pal Singh
(also known as K.P. Singh, Net worth of $5.3 Billion according to Forbes)

• Lim Goh Tong: My Life Story (Net worth of 4.2 billions dollar according to
Forbes when he died, richest Malaysian at the time)

• Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by

Yvon Chouinard (Net worth of $1 Billion according to Forbes, founder of
Patagonia, more of his books are in the Honorable Mention section)

• The Responsible Company: What We’ve Learned From Patagonia’s First

40 Years by Yvon Chouinard

• Billions to Bust and Back: How I Made, Lost and Rebuilt a Fortune by
Thor Bjorgolfsson

• Run Your Business, Don’t Let It Run You: Learning and Living Professional
Management by Clay Mathile

• In for a Penny: A Business Adventure by Peter Hargreaves (founder of

Subway, Net worth of $2.9 Billion)

• Powerhouse Principles: The Ultimate Blueprint for Real Estate Success in

an Ever-Changing Market by Jorge Perez ($2.8 Billion)

• Threshold Resistance: The Extraordinary Career of a Luxury Retailing

Pioneer by Alfred Taubman ($3.1 Billion)

• A Passion to Win by Sumner Redstone (chairman of Viacom, Net worth

of $5.4 Billion according to Forbes) – Read My Book Summary

• Making It Big by Binod Chaudhary (from Nepal, net worth of $1.32 Billion
according to Forbes)

• Mochtar Riady: My Life Story (from Indonesia, the founder of Lippo

Group; net worth of $1.83 Billion according to Forbes)
• Everything is Possible: Life and Business Lessons from a Self-Made
Billionaire and the Founder of Slim-Fast by S. Daniel Abraham (net worth
of $2.1 Billion according to Forbes)

• Peace is Possible: Conversations with Arab and Israeli Leaders from 1988
to the Present by S. Daniel Abraham

• The Z Factor: My Journey as the Wrong Man at the Right

Time by Subhash Chandra (net worth of $4.4 Billion according to Forbes)

• A Passion to Build: a Memoir of David M. Consunji (net worth of $3.5

Billion)

• Dave Says Well Done!: The Common Guy’s Guide to Everyday Success by
Rex David “Dave” Thomas (founder of Wendy’s)

• My Life & the Principles for Success by H. Ross Perot (net worth of $4.1
Billion)

• Ross Perot: My Life by H. Ross Perot

• A Business Handbook: Advice I Gave My Son by H. Ross Perot

• United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country by H. Ross Perot

• Not for Sale At Any Price: How We Can Save America for Our Children by
H. Ross Perot

• Save Your Job, Save Our Country by H. Ross Perot

• The Dollar Crisis by H. Ross Perot

• Intensive Care by H. Ross Perot

• Ross Perot Speaks Out: Straight Talking Answers to Today’s Tough

Questions by H. Ross Perot

• Simple Fly Fishing: Techniques for Tenkara and Rod and Reel by Yvon
Chouinard

• 180° South: Conquerors of the Useless by Yvon Chouinard

• Climbing Ice by Yvon Chouinard

• Out Where the West Begins: Profiles, Visions, and Strategies of Early
Western Business Leaders by Philip Anschutz
• Out Where the West Begins, Volume 2: Creating and Civilizing the
American West by Philip Anschutz

• Oil of Russia: Past, Present & Future by Vagit Alekperov

• Vertically Integrated Oil Companies of Russia: Formation Methodology

and Realization by Vagit Alekperov.

• O X Da Questão by Eike Batista.

• Billions to Bust and Back: How I Made, Lost and Rebuilt a Fortune by Thor
Bjorgolfsson.

• 1,000 Dollars and an Idea: Entrepreneur To Billionaire by Sam Wyly

• Texas Got It Right! By Sam Wyly

• The Immigrant Spirit: How Newcomers Enrich America By Sam Wyly

• Immigrants Enrich Us By Sam Wyly

• The Wyly Family: Coming to America By Sam Wyly

• DREAM BIG: How the Brazilian Trio behind 3G Capital – Jorge Paulo
Lemann, Marcel Telles and Beto Sicupira – acquired Anheuser-Busch,
Burger King and Heinz by Cristiane Correa

• The Billionaire Who Wasn’t: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave
Away a Fortune (not written by Chuck himself. It’s a biography)

• Getting There by Zoe Gillian Segal

• Carlos Slim: The Richest Man in the World/The Authorized Biography by

Jose Martinez

• How I Did It: Lessons From The Front Lines of Business (Pulls from
multiple columns of the Harvard Business Review and features multiple
billionaires including Kevin Plank and Eric Schmidt)

• Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life by Lisa Chaney – This one is written about
a female founder of a multi-billion dollar fashion company, Chanel. It is
put here because it is questionable whether or not she actually hit a
billion dollar net worth during her lifetime and it wasn’t written by her.
Having said that, she did create an incredible company. The book seems
to be more about her personal life than business success though.

• Life Is What You Make It by Peter Buffett (Warren Buffett’s son)

• Showing Up For Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime by Bill Gates Sr.
(father of Bill Gates)

• Elon Musk’s biography

• Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor (not by Charlie, but quoting a lot
of his best stuff)

• Laws of Success by Napoleon Hill (studied 200+ of the richest people in

the world in-person for 20+ years, including Andrew Carnegie, Henry
Ford, and more)

• Awaken the Millionaire Within You: Lessons from Carlos Wizard Martins
by Carlos Wizard Martins (Net worth of $1 billion in 2014 on Forbes but
he sold his company for $700 million and isn’t a billionaire anymore).

• Forrest Mars, Jr. (27th richest man in the world, owner of a candy
company, net worth $11+ billion) recommends these books according to
Fortune (click the link).

• The Everything Store by Brad Stone (It’s about Jeff Bezos, the founder of
Amazon.com)

• A Passion For Success by Kazuo Inamori (Net worth of $900 million

according to Forbes)

• John L. Gokongwei Jr.: The Path Of Entrepreneurship by Marites A.

Khanser (Net worth of $6.2 Billion)

• The Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success As You Start,

Build, or Manage a Business by Martha Stewart (She may have hit a
billionaire at some point. Now, it seems she’s dipped below that,
especially after giving away to charity.)

• Steve Jobs

• How To Get Rich by Felix Dennis (his net worth was estimated around
$100 million when he was alive)

• General and Industrial Management by Henri Fayol

• Elementsof Administration by Lyndall F. Urwick

• The Principles of Organization by James D. Moone

• High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove ($400 million net worth

in 2008. Likely, an inflated number)
• Life as I Have Known It Has Been Finger Lickin’ Good by Harland Sanders
(While people would love to believe that Colonel Sanders started when
he was old and became a billionaire starting KFC, he didn’t make the
mark by his death.)

• Decisions by Jim Treliving (estimated net worth of 700 million)

• Mary Kay Way by Mary Kay Ash (her company has now made her son a
billionaire but it isn’t verifiable that she made the mark during her
lifetime)

• Miracles Happen by Mary Kay Ash

• Mary Kay: You Can Have It All: Lifetime Wisdom from America’s
Foremost Woman Entrepreneur by Mary Kay Ash

• Mary Kay on People Management by Mary Kay Ash

• Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew Grove (former CEO of Intel)

• Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond by Thomas Watson Junior
(he made $346,590 in 1955, which is around $3.1 million inflation-
adjusted)

• A Business and Its Beliefs: The Ideas That Helped Build IBM by Thomas J.
Watson Jr. (This man was in charge of managing billions for IBM as his
job but that doesn’t mean he earned billions.)

• Relentless by Ted Rogers

• Billionaire: Secrets to Success by Bill Bartmann (note: he was only a

billionaire temporarily)

• Bouncing Back: The Life of Bill Bartmann

• 9 Steps to Achieve Any Goal by Bill Bartmann

• 21 Secrets to Success and Happiness by John Templeton (one of the best

investors in history)

• Golden Nuggets by John Templeton

• Templeton Plan by John Templeton