Biography & Autobiography - Business

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Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner ...

Bill McDermott

A leadership and career manifesto told through the narrative of one of today's most inspiring, admired, and successful global leaders.In Winners Dream, Bill McDermott—the co-CEO of the world's largest business software company, SAPâ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2014

The Turnaround Kid: What I Learned Re...

Steve Miller

In this frank memoir, Steve Miller, who has spent the majority of his career salvaging American companies on the verge of ruin, reveals a rarely seen side of American management. This is a blunt and unsparing look at Miller's own educ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2008

The New Confessions of an Economic Hi...

John Perkins

Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than 1.25 million copies, and has been translated into 32 languages.New Revelations: Featu...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2016

Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of...

Brent Schlender

There have been many books—on a large and small scale—about Steve Jobs, one of the most famous CEOs in history. But this book is different from all the others. Becoming Steve Jobstakes on and breaks down the existing myth and ster...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2015

Hetty: The Genius and Madness of Amer...

Charles Slack

Challenges popular misconceptions about the nineteenth-century female tycoon's character to explore her considerable accomplishments in the world of finance at a time before women were legally able to vote, discussing Green's clashes ...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2004

Trump: The Art of the Deal

Donald J. Trump

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump lays out his professional and personal worldview in this classic work—a firsthand account of the rise of America's foremost deal-maker. "I like thinking big. I always...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2016

The Chief: The Life of William Randol...

David Nasaw

Named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Business Week, and GQ, THE CHIEF: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM RANDLOPH HEARST is 'an absorbing and ingeniously organized biography . . ...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2001

Confessions of a Street Addict

James J. Cramer

Everyone on Wall Street knows Jim Cramer, and Cramer knows Wall Street better than anyone. In the most candid and outrageous look at Wall Street since Liar's Poker, Cramer, co-founder of TheStreet.com, radio and television commentator...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2003

The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, Joh...

Charles R. Morris

"Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary."—The Christian Science MonitorThe modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Roc...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2006

iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How...

Steve Wozniak

The mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time.Before cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strang...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2007

Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fal...

Erin Arvedlund

Erin Arvedlund, the financial reporter who questioned the amazing returns of Bernie Madoff's hedge funds way back in 2001, traces the life of the infamous swindler and addresses the tough questions surrounding the collapse of his Ponz...

Paperback
Published: May 2010

A Full Cup: Sir Thomas Lipton's Extra...

Michael D'Antonio

The remarkable story of the ambitious and innovative man who made his name synonymous with tea. Raised in desperate poverty, Sir Thomas Lipton built a global empire of markets, factories and stockyards with a prodigious talent for bu...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2011

Inside Coca-Cola: A CEO's Life Story ...

Neville Isdell

DIVThe first book by a Coca-Cola CEO tells the remarkable story of the company's revivalRBRNeville Isdell was a key player at Coca-Cola for more than 30 years, retiring in 2009 as CEO after regilding the tarnished brand image of the w...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2012

Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy Leag...

Ben Mezrich

After conquering the hallowed halls of Harvard Business School, an Italian-American kid from the streets of Brooklyn decides to take on the testosterone-fueled Merc Exchange in lower Manhattan—where billions of dollars in oil money...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2008

Elon Musk

Ashlee Vance

In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs—a real-life Tony Starkâ€...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2016

Roasting in Hell's Kitchen: Temper Ta...

Gordon Ramsay

Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell. Now, for the first time, the world's most famous—and infamous—chef tells the inside story of his life: his difficult...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2007

Trump: Think Like a Billionaire: Ever...

Donald J. Trump

IIt's not good enough to want it. You've got to know how to get it. Real estate titan, bestselling author, and TV star Donald J. Trump is the man to teach you the billionaire mind-set–how to think about money, career skills, and lif...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2005

The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fa...

Julia Flynn Siler

An epic, scandal-plagued story of the immigrant family that built-and then spectacularly lost-a global wine empire Set in California's lush Napa Valley and spanning four generations of a talented and visionary family, The House of Mo...

Paperback
Published: May 2008

Running Scared: The Life and Treacher...

John L. Smith

Steve Wynn is the former owner of the Bellagio — Las Vegas's latest monument to conspicuous consumption whose hotel and casino contain over $300 million in fine art and $1.5 billion in Wall Street money. He's a mogul whose empire at...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2001

Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and...

Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to prov...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2003

Mellon: An American Life

David Cannadine

This monumental biography of the businessman and philanthropist Andrew Mellon recounts his early youth in Pittsburgh, and his relationship with his banker father, as well as his rise to the top through canny investments. Mellon was a...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2006

Sweet and Low: A Family Story

Rich Cohen

Sweet and Low is the bittersweet, hilarious story of Ben Eisenstadt, who invented sugar packets and Sweet'N Low, and amassed the great fortune that would later destroy his family. It is a story of immigrants, Jewish gangsters, and Bro...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2007

Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of H...

Jacob Tomsky

In the tradition of Kitchen Confidential and Waiter Rant, a rollicking, eye-opening, fantastically indiscreet memoir of a life spent (and misspent) in the hotel industry.Jacob Tomsky never intended to go into the hotel business. As a ...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2013

Trump: The Art of the Deal

Donald J. Trump

Presidential candidate and former host of The Apprentice Donald J. Trump reveals the business secrets that have made him America's foremost deal maker! "I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: If you're going...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2004

The Richest Woman in America: Hetty G...

Janet Wallach

No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green, America's first female tycoon. A strong woman who forged her own path, she was worth at least $100 million by the end of her life in 1916—equal to about $2.5 billion toda...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2013

From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave Y...

Jerry Della Femina

Vividly reminiscent of the goings-on at Sterling Cooper—the late nights, the three-martini lunches, the sex on couches, and, of course, the actual work of plugging products—this is the story of what Madison Avenue was really like ...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2010

The Cereal Tycoon: Henry Parsons Crow...

Joe Musser

Do you ever think big things for God? Born into a wealthy family and endowed with a large inheritance after the death of his father, Henry Parsons Crowell had many opportunities to try his hand at business, a passion that suited him w...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2002

The Trump Factor: Unlocking the Secre...

Brad Thomas

The Trump Factor is a must-read for any American interested in what Donald Trump has truly accomplished over five decades. The sheer magnitude of the portfolio is compelling. Trump is constantly faced with the complexities of multiple...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2017

Confessions of a Bookseller

One cozy, funny, year with a Scottish used bookseller as he stays afloat while managing staff, customers, and life in the village of Wigtown. This endearing world is the next best thing to visiting your favorite bookstore (shop cat no...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2022

The Lords of Creation: The History of...

Frederick Lewis Allen

A look at America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the capitalists who changed the world—setting the stage for the most devastating global financial collapse in history—from "a diligent and perceptive...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2017
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