Business Biography

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    • A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
    • By: Phil Knight
    • Narrated by: Norbert Leo Butz, Phil Knight - introduction
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 52,458 ratings
    • Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands....

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    • By: Edwin Lefevre
    • Narrated by: Rick Rohan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,246 ratings
    • First published in 1923, this lightly fictionalized biography of Jesse Livermore, one of the greatest market speculators ever, is widely regarded as one of best investment books of all time....

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    • The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 35 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,968 ratings
    • Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist....

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    • A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader
    • By: Michael Dell, James Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Michael Dell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 684 ratings
    • In 1984, soon-to-be college dropout Michael Dell hid signs of his fledgling PC business in the bathroom of his University of Texas dorm room. Almost 30 years later, at the pinnacle of his success as founder and leader of Dell Technologies, he found himself embroiled in a battle....

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    • The Biography of a Renegade Capitalist
    • By: Mark Stevens
    • Narrated by: Mark Stevens
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 458 ratings
    • In this dramatic, deal-by-deal portrait of legendary and, until now, secretive financier Carl Icahn, best-selling business writer Mark Stevens takes us behind the scenes....

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    • The Bankers Who Broke the World
    • By: Liaquat Ahamed
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,650 ratings
    • Offering a new understanding of the global nature of financial crises, Lords of Finance is a potent reminder of the enormous impact that the decisions of central bankers can have....

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    • How Starbucks Fought for Its Life Without Losing Its Soul
    • By: Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,836 ratings
    • Howard Schultz, the president and chairman of Starbucks, made the decision to return as CEO, eight years after he stepped down to become chairman....

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    • Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
    • By: Alice Schroeder
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 36 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,419 ratings
    • A personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as "The Oracle of Omaha"....

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    • By: John Perkins
    • Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • In this shocking exposé, former EHM John Perkins gives an insider view into the corrupt system that cheats and strong-arms countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars and ultimately causes staggering income inequality and ecological devastation....

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    • The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General into a Billion-Dollar Company
    • By: Cal Turner Jr., Rob Simbeck
    • Narrated by: Cal Turner Jr.
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 284 ratings
    • Longtime Dollar General CEO Cal Turner, Jr. shares his extraordinary life as heir to the company founded by his father Cal Turner, Sr. and his grandfather, a dirt farmer turned Depression-era entrepreneur....

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    • The Secret to Life
    • By: Diane von Furstenberg
    • Narrated by: Diane von Furstenberg
    • Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,011 ratings
    • ​Diane von Furstenberg, entrepreneur and philanthropist, presents her words to live by....

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    • How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street
    • By: Max Frumes, Sujeet Indap
    • Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 396 ratings
    • It was the most brutal corporate restructuring in Wall Street history. The 2015 bankruptcy brawl for the storied casino giant, Caesars Entertainment, pitted brilliant and ruthless private equity legends against the world's most relentless hedge fund wizards....

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    • By: Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,174 ratings
    • The book that has inspired entrepreneurs for generations, not only is My Life and Work by Henry Ford a memoir of an American icon but it also shows the spirit that built America....

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    • By: Jamaica Kincaid
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 580 ratings
    • Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies....

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    • Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams
    • By: Michael D'Antonio
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael D'Antonio gives us the real-life rags-to-riches story of Milton S. Hershey, a largely uneducated businessman whose idealistic sense of purpose created an immense financial empire, a town, and a legacy that lasts to this day....

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    • The Making of McDonald's
    • By: Ray Kroc, Robert Anderson
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,288 ratings
    • Few entrepreneurs can claim to have radically changed the way we live, and Ray Kroc is one of them. His revolutions in food-service automation, franchising, shared national training, and advertising have earned him a place beside the men and women who have founded not only businesses....

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    • The Legendary Success Story of Texas Roadhouse
    • By: Kent Taylor
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 165 ratings
    • In Made from Scratch, the late business maverick Kent Taylor tells the legendary story of Texas Roadhouse and in the process reveals its recipe for success: embracing unorthodox business practices....

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    • John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business
    • By: Mark Robichaux
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 269 ratings
    • John Malone, hailed as one of the great unsung heroes of our age by some and reviled by others as a ruthless robber baron, is revealed as a bit of both in Cable Cowboy....

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    • By: James B. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 19 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,479 ratings
    • A number one best seller from coast to coast tells, in masterfully reported detail, the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street....

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