Money can buy you a lot of things, but nothing can make you feel as rich in knowledge as a great book. Self-made successful businessmen are generally well-read people.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, who died in 2011, is one of the most important American minds of our time. He was influenced by many books, but Be Here Now by Ram Dass was one of the greatest. Jobs reportedly said of the book, "It changed me and many of my friends for a better life."
Jeff Bezos
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says he learns more from The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. "If you read The Remains of the Day, which is one of my favorite books, you can't help but think. I learned something about life and about regret," Bezos told Newsweek.
Mark Zuckerberg
This self-made successful businessman sees Henry Kissinger's World Order as most helpful in how he deals with business, life, and even parenting. "It's about foreign relations and how we can build peaceful relationships throughout the world," Zuckerberg wrote for his book club, A Year of Books, on Facebook. "This is important for creating the world we all want for our children, and that's what I'm thinking about these days."
Bill Gates
Not only is Factfulness by Hans Rosling one of Bill Gates' favorite books, but he also says it's one of the most important he has ever read. "It explains more clearly than almost anything else I've read why it's so difficult for people to understand progress," Gates said in an interview with Time.
