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Jack Ma Recommended Books
Jack Ma has recommended 16 books. Browse the complete reading list with quotes and sources below.
Jack Ma is a Chinese business magnate, investor and philanthropist.
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Designing Brand Identity
An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team
by Alina Wheeler
Jack Ma always carries a copy of this book. (Source)
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Patrick Bet-David recommended this bookPatrick Bet-David
Patrick Bet-David recommended this book on his website.
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John Collison recommended this bookJohn Collison
John Collison recommended this book.
Patrick Collison recommended this bookPatrick Collison
"It's excellent: exceptionally data-rich and comprehensive." - Patrick Collison
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David Friedberg recommended this bookDavid Friedberg
David Friedberg recommended this book.
Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tzu
Jack Ma always carries a copy of this book. (Source)
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9 people
Rick Rubin recommended this bookRick Rubin
"Always what you need to read at that particular period of time. It’s a magic book, in that way, in that it always fits." - Rick Rubin
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Naval Ravikant recommended this bookNaval Ravikant
Naval Ravikant tweeted about this book.
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Michael Gervais recommended this bookMichael Gervais
"[The author's] depth of teachings are complicated to decode and provide foundations for wisdom." - Michael Gervais
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Josh Waitzkin recommended this bookJosh Waitzkin
"Inspired my study of softness and receptivity as a counterpoint to my mad passions." - Josh Waitzkin
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Brian MacKenzie recommended this bookBrian MacKenzie
"Once you get to a certain level, it’s like, wow." - Brian MacKenzie
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Stewart Brand recommended this bookStewart Brand
Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.
Stewart Brand's recommendation of this book +3
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- Jason Nemer
"Oftentimes before meditation, I’ll just open [this book] randomly to a page and read about something and then just have that be what I steep in as I sit." - Jason Nemer
- Soman Chainani
"I remember reading it and being like okay, this makes no sense. But you just keep reading it again and again and slowly, I started to get the point of it." - Soman Chainani
- Jack Dorsey
One of Jack Dorsey's answers to "what are the books that had a major influence on you?"
- Jason Nemer
Jin Yong (14 books)
"Jack is a keen reader, particularly of titles by [this author]." - Duncan Clark (Source)
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