Business Biography

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    • How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion
    • By: Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Bob Andelman
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 666 ratings
    • Built from Scratch is the story of how two incredibly determined and creative people built a business from nothing to 761 stores and $30 billion in sales in a mere 20 years....

    Regular price: $17.62

    • Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, 10th Anniversary Edition
    • By: Bo Burlingham
    • Narrated by: Bo Burlingham, Sean Pratt
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 840 ratings
    • It's an axiom of business that great companies grow revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless growth....

    Regular price: $25.78

    • 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 706 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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    • Risking It All
    • By: Michael Vlismas
    • Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Journalist and author Michael Vlismas, who attended the same high school as Elon Musk, knows well the environment that shaped him and offers new insights into Musk's development, including his troubled relationship with his father....

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    • The Making of an American Capitalist
    • By: Roger Lowenstein
    • Narrated by: Graham Winton
    • Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,709 ratings
    • Journalist Roger Lowenstein draws on three years of unprecedented access to Buffett's family, friends, and colleagues to provide the first definitive inside account....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • 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 1,679 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....

    Regular price: $20.63

    • A Whopper of a Story on Life and Leadership
    • By: Jim McLamore
    • Narrated by: BJ Harrison
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • A rags-to-$9-billion-riches story. A crash course in Burger King history and fast food in America, The Burger King is McLamore's candid and conversational memoir. Written before his death in 1996, he talks of his life, the birth of the Whopper, and the rise of Burger King....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
    • By: Robert Iger
    • Narrated by: Jim Frangione, Robert Iger
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16,894 ratings
    • A memoir of leadership and success: The executive chairman of Disney, Time’s 2019 businessperson of the year, shares the ideas and values he embraced during his 15 years as CEO while reinventing one of the world’s most beloved companies....

    Regular price: $18.00

    • 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 52,953 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....

    Regular price: $22.49

    • Made in America
    • By: John Huey, Sam Walton
    • Narrated by: Henry Strozier
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,300 ratings
    • Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late 20th century, Sam never lost the common touch....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 467 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....

    Regular price: $25.78

    • 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 1,193 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....

    Regular price: $19.74

    • The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, with an Introduction by Walter Isaacson
    • By: Jeff Bezos, Walter Isaacson - introduction
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 675 ratings
    • In Jeff Bezos' own words, the core principles and philosophy that have guided him in creating, building, and leading Amazon and Blue Origin....

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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 3,296 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 9,140 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....

    Regular price: $25.76

    • 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 1,848 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....

    Regular price: $21.04

    • The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
    • By: Shane White
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
    • In Prince of Darkness, a groundbreaking and vivid account, eminent historian Shane White reveals the larger-than-life story of a man who defied every convention of his time....

    Regular price: $15.47

    • How William C. Durant Made General Motors
    • By: Axel Madsen
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 07-28-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • In The Deal Maker, Axel Madsen sheds light on a man whose tireless optimism led to the formation of the first super-corporation....

    Regular price: $21.49