Jamie Dimon Recommended Books

"A really interesting premise." - Jon Stewart

List of books Bill Gates read in 2011.

"[This book's] insight is true and deeply important. . . . The metaphor of a flat world, used by [the author] to describe the next phase of globalization, is ingenious." - Fareed Zakaria

"All entrepreneurs should read." - Bill Gurley

"A road map for investing that I have now been following for 57 years." - Warren Buffett

Bill Gurley recommended this book on Quora.

One of 11 Books Bill Ackman told a young man to read before hiring him.

"I obviously recommend, first and foremost, [this book]. Considered to be the 'Bible of Value Investing.'" - Warren Buffett

"The single biggest influence on how I buy and sell stocks." - DJ Vlad

"The foundation for investing." - Kevin Rose

"A phenomenal book." - Peter Mallouk

"I found it fascinating." - Bill Ackman

"[Part of] my biz book canon." - Ryan Petersen

"Terrific." - Warren Buffett

"I have read [this book]. I have thought a lot about him. There was a lot to admire in the way that he started Walmart." - Jeff Bezos

“Filled with lessons on retailing and entrepreneurship that are just as relevant today as they were around three decades ago." - Kishore Biyani

"The big lesson I took away from [this book] is that you don’t need to come up with all the ideas yourself." - Shane Parrish

Tai Lopez recommended this book on Twitter.

Gary Keller recommended this book on YouTube.

Patrick Bet-David recommended this book on his website.

"Bad title for a very interesting (if somewhat dated) book." - Patrick O'Shaughnessy

"Required reading for startup execs in this market." - Ryan Petersen

"Very meaningful to me, not only because it’s the story of the founding of the Home Depot, but also because of my start as the CEO of Home Depot." - Frank Blake

"This book is about one super-important concept. You must learn about Strategic Inflection Points, because sooner or later you are going to live through one." - Steve Jobs

"One of my favorite topics. And so that is also a very good book [I] recommend." - Marc Andreessen

Charlie Munger recommended this book in the "Poor Charlie's Almanack" book.

"A great book on strategy." - Ben Horowitz

"[This] basic theme is in the culture of Microsoft." - Bill Gates

"One of favorite books on entrepreneurship." - Vinod Khosla

"My favorite business book." - Jeff Bezos

On the "books read" section of Ev Williams' GoodReads profile.

"[Suggests] that the very best companies set an audacious, very long-term goal that shines a light towards 'an envisioned future.'" - Bill Gurley

Patrick Bet-David recommended this book on his website.

Charlie Munger recommended this book in the "Poor Charlie's Almanack" book.

"A great book, probably in my all time top 100." - Paul Graham

"Cast as a letter to his son. It’s not some deep ruminations and things. It’s about how you make your way through this world." - Walter Isaacson

"[The author] didn’t mean to write his autobiography. He wanted to write a note to his family about what he’d learned in his experiments." - Cory Booker

"One of the very first books that I read." - Brandon Stanton

"[This] is I think the most compelling of books." - Vince Vaughn

"Spectacular. He’s my favorite president." - Ryan Holiday

Mark Twain recommended this book in a letter.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recommended this book on Twitter.

"I lived in it the way that you do with truly great books; putting it down with glazed eyes and feeling disconcerted to find yourself in the 21st century." - J.K. Rowling

"I loved [this book]." - Bill Gates

Scott Belsky mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.

"Among the best historical books I've ever read (take that, Herodotus)." - Stewart Butterfield

"A terrific book!" - Sunny Hostin

"It’s very impressive [to] read about people pondering how to figure out the weight of the Earth or something in the 18th century." - Warren Buffett

"I do a read [this book] often." - Shah Rukh Khan

Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.

Amanda Palmer mentioned this book in the "Tools of Titans" book.

"Information-dense and manages to be humorous and super entertaining." - Dominic D'Agostino

"An amazing book." - Joe Rogan

"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history." - Bill Gates

Charlie Munger recommended this book in the "Poor Charlie's Almanack" book.

"Offers us a new and remarkably simple way of looking at our world." - Simon Sinek

"A brilliant Pulitzer Prize-winning book about how the modern world was formed, analyzing how societies developed differently on different continents." - Daniel Ek

"Helped rid me of the nagging incompleteness in my understood connection between the successes and failings of ancient and modern civilizations." - Jesse Williams

"Read this book, it changes everything." - Bill Gurley

"Documents the early days of [Santa Fe Institute] and explains many of the big ideas." - Michael Mauboussin

"It was written almost 20 years ago now, and it seems as if [the author's] hypothesis is getting more and more credit than Francis Fukuyama’s (The End of History) about what the world will look like." - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.

Charlie Munger recommended this book in the "Poor Charlie's Almanack" book.

"Very much worth reading." - Brad Delong

"The gold standard on how to use business as a platform for change." - Ray Dalio

"Urgent and compelling." - Richard Branson

"Explores how companies can nurture a value-based culture to become powerful platforms for change." - Susan Wojcicki

"I love this book and have already used it as the basis for several [Mad Money] segments." - Jim Cramer

"[The author] has managed to do the seemingly impossible, write a breezy, smart, funny book about trade." - Fareed Zakaria

"Does a great job making sense of complicated issues." - Casey Neistat

"This may well be the most important book of the year if not the decade." - Arianna Huffington

"Shows us how history can provide a template to help guide how we might think about what comes next." - Mark Cuban

"The fascinating thing about [this book] is there's philosophy, there's wisdom, but there's plots." - Lex Fridman

"It is my #1, #2, and #3 book recommendations of 2021." - David Friedberg

"Goes into a lot of details about how money works (or doesn't)." - Changpeng Zhao

Mark Manson recommended this book on his website.

"The saga of how one of the great founders of our time launched his company, grew it, got it back, and rejuvenated it." - Adam Grant

"Walks you through every step of his journey, from starting a company in his college dorm to pulling off the largest all-tech acquisition in history." - Bill Gates

"Tells you how to be successful and true to your values in this awe-inspiring narrative of what it takes." - Eric Schmidt

"Has insights for leaders at every stage, from entrepreneur to CEO." - Howard Schultz

"The quietest of the entrepreneurs who created the modern computer business finally tells his story.'" - Malcolm Gladwell

"An incredible window into what it’s like to be in a founder’s shoes, and the difficult work of growing a company." - Marc Andreessen