Here is a list I found of some books written by billionaires.
Title | Author | Company |
Sharing the Wealth | Alex Spanos | A. G. Spanos Companies (investor) |
Threshold Resistance: The Extraordinary Career of a Luxury Retailing Pioneer | Alfred Taubman | (investor) |
The Gospel of Wealth | Andrew Carnegie | United States Steel Corporation |
The Little Book of Market Myths: How to Profit | Avoiding the Investing Mistakes Everyone Else Makes | Ken Fisher |
Built from Scratch | Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank | Home Depot |
Bailout Riches!: How Everyday Investors Can Make a Fortune Buying Bad Loans for Pennies on the Dollar | Bill Bartmann | CFS2 (consumer debt recovery) |
Business @ the Speed of Thought | Bill Gates | Microsoft |
The Road Ahead | Bill Gates | Microsoft |
Making It Big | Binod Chaudhary | Chaudhary Group (investor) |
Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World’s Most Successful Companies | Charles G. Koch | Koch Industries (chemicals) |
The Science of Success | Charles G. Koch | Koch Industries (chemicals) |
Charles Schwab’s Guide To Financial Independence | Charles Schwab | Schwab |
You’re Fifty, Now What? | Charles Schwab | Schwab |
How to be Your Own Stockbroker | Charles Schwab | Schwab |
Reinventing the Market | Charles Schwab | Schwab |
Poor Charlie’s Almanack | Charlie Munger | Berkshire Hathaway |
Run Your Business, Don’t Let It Run You: Learning and Living Professional Management | Clay Mathile | Iams (pet food) |
Dream No Little Dreams | Clay Mathile | Iams (pet food) |
Fooling Some of the People All of the Time | David Einhorn | Greenlight Capital (hedge fund) |
A Passion to Build: a Memoir of David M. Consunji | David M. Consunji | DMCI Holdings (developer) |
How to Lead: Wisdom from the World’s Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers | David M. Rubenstein | The Carlyle Group (investor) |
The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians | David M. Rubenstein | The Carlyle Group (investor) |
The Art Of the Deal | Donald Trump | Trump |
Think Like A Champion | Donald Trump | Trump |
The America We Deserve | Donald Trump | Trump |
Trump: The Way to the Top: The Best Business Advice I Ever Received | Donald Trump | Trump |
Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again | Donald Trump | Trump |
Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich-And Why Most Don’t | Donald Trump & Robert Kiyosaki | Trump |
Why We Want You to Be Rich: Two Men, One Message | Donald Trump & Robert Kiyosaki | Trump |
Trump 101: The Way to Success | Donald Trump (2006) | Trump |
Trump University Wealth Building 101: Your First 90 Days on the Path to Prosperity | Donald Trump (2007) | Trump |
Trump Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges Into Success | Donald Trump (2007) | Trump |
Think BIG and Kick Ass in Business and Life | Donald Trump (2007) | Trump |
The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking | Eli Broad | Insurance (investor) |
How Google Works and The New Digital Age | Eric Schmidt | Alphabet |
Ernest and Julio: Our Story | Ernest and Julio Gallo | E & J Gallo Winery |
Start Small Finish Big: Fifteen Key Lessons to Start – and Run – Your Own Successful Business | Fred Deluca | Subway |
Soros on Soros | George Soros | Quantum Fund |
From Red Tape To Red Carpet And Then Some | Gina Rinehart | Hancock Prospecting |
Ross Perot: My Life | H. Ross Perot | Electronic Data Systems |
A Business Handbook: Advice I Gave My Son | H. Ross Perot | Electronic Data Systems |
United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country | H. Ross Perot | Electronic Data Systems |
Not for Sale At Any Price: How We Can Save America for Our Children | H. Ross Perot | Electronic Data Systems |
Save Your Job, Save Our Country | H. Ross Perot | Electronic Data Systems |
The Dollar Crisis | H. Ross Perot | Electronic Data Systems |
Intensive Care | H. Ross Perot | Electronic Data Systems |
Ross Perot Speaks Out: Straight Talking Answers to Today’s Tough Questions | H. Ross Perot | Electronic Data Systems |
My Life & the Principles for Success | H. Ross Perot | Electronic Data Systems |
My Life and Work | Henry Ford | Ford |
Today and Tomorrow | Henry Ford | Ford |
The International Jew | Henry Ford | Ford |
Edison As I Know Him | Henry Ford | Ford |
Onward | Howard Schultz | Starbucks |
Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built A Company One Cup At a Time | Howard Schultz | Starbucks |
Leading Design: The Ikea Story | Ingvar Kamprad | IKEA |
How To Be Rich | J. Paul Getty | Getty Oil Company |
How to be a Successful Executive | J. Paul Getty | Getty Oil Company |
As I See It: The Autobiography | J. Paul Getty | Getty Oil Company |
My Life and Fortunes, the Autobiography of One of the World’s Wealthiest Men | J. Paul Getty | Getty Oil Company |
The Joys of Collecting | J. Paul Getty | Getty Oil Company |
A History of Great Inventions | James Dyson | Dyson |
Design | James Dyson | Dyson |
Against All Odds: An Autobiography | James Dyson | Dyson |
Scale: Seven Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back | Jeff Hoffman | Priceline.com |
The Wanda Way: The Managerial Philosophy and Values of One of China’s Largest Companies | Jianlin Wang | Dalian Wanda Group (real estate – China) |
Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up That Took On Microsoft | Jim Clark | Silicon Graphics/Netscape |
Jimmy: An Autobiography | Jim Pattison | Jim Pattison Group (investor) |
Random Reminiscences of Men and Events | John D. Rockefeller | Standary Oil |
John D. Rockefeller: The Autobiography of an Oil Titan and Philanthropist | John D. Rockefeller | Standary Oil |
Quotations | John D. Rockefeller | Standary Oil |
Attack and Win in Business | John D. Rockefeller | Standary Oil |
The Colorado Industrial Plan | John D. Rockefeller | Standary Oil |
John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth | John D. Rockefeller | Standary Oil |
Dear Father, Dear Son: Correspondence of John D. Rockefeller and Jr. | John D. Rockefeller | Standary Oil |
Measure What Matters | John Doerr | Kleiner Perkins (investor) |
PAPA: The Story of Papa John’s Pizza | John H. Schnatter | Papa John’s Pizza |
Winners Never Cheat | Jon Huntsman | Huntsman Plastics |
Barefoot to Billionaire: Reflections on a Life’s Work and a Promise to Cure Cancer | Jon Huntsman | Huntsman Plastics |
Powerhouse Principles: The Ultimate Blueprint for Real Estate Success in an Ever-Changing Market | Jorge Perez | The Related Group (real estate) |
How to Smell a Rat: The Five Signs of Financial Fraud | Ken Fisher | Fisher Investments (advisory) |
Plan Your Prosperity: The Only Retirement Guide You’ll Ever Need, Starting Now–Whether You’re 22, 52 or 82 | Ken Fisher | Fisher Investments (advisory) |
Debunkery: Learn It, Do It, and Profit from It — Seeing Through Wall Street’s Money-Killing Myths | Ken Fisher | Fisher Investments (advisory) |
Markets Never Forget (But People Do): How Your Memory Is Costing You Money—and Why This Time Isn’t Different | Ken Fisher | Fisher Investments (advisory) |
The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!) | Ken Fisher | Fisher Investments (advisory) |
Battle for Investment Survival | Ken Fisher | Fisher Investments (advisory) |
100 Minds That Made the Market | Ken Fisher | Fisher Investments (advisory) |
The Only Three Questions That Count: Investing – Knowing What Others Don’t | Ken Fisher | Fisher Investments (advisory) |
I Love Capitalism!: An American Story | Ken Langone | (investor) |
Whatever the Odds The Incredible Story Behind DLF | Kushal Pal Singh | DLF Limited (real estate) |
Lim Goh Tong: My Life Story | Lim Goh Tong | (investor) |
Lui Che-woo: Creating Value: The Journey of a Self-Made Billionaire: The Authorized Biography | Lui Che woo | Lui Che-woo (Net worth of $15 Billion according to Forbes) |
The Business of Changing the World: Twenty Great Leaders on Strategic Corporate Philanthropy (2006) | Marc Benioff | Salesforce |
Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry | Marc Benioff | Salesforce |
Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change | Marc Benioff | Salesforce |
Compassionate Capitalism: How Corporations Can Make Doing Good an Integral Part of Doing Well (2004) | Marc Benioff | Salesforce |
How To Win At The Sport of Business | Mark Cuban | Mark Cuban Companies |
Customers Come First: From One Small Shop to a Worldwide Network of Stores | Masatoshi Ito | Ito-Yokado (retail) |
The Heart Of Doing Business: Memoirs Of An Entrepreneur | Masatoshi Ito | Ito-Yokado (retail) |
Bloomberg | Michael Bloomberg | Bloomberg |
Direct from Dell | Michael Dell | Dell Computers |
Driven from Within | Michael Jordan | Michael Jordan |
For the Love of the Game: My Story | Michael Jordan | Michael Jordan |
I Can’t Accept Not Trying: Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence | Michael Jordan | Michael Jordan |
I’m Back!: More Rare Air | Michael Jordan | Michael Jordan |
Mochtar Riady: My Life Story | Mochtar Riady | Lippo Group (investor) |
Better India: A Better World | Narayana Murthy | Infosys |
What I Know For Sure | Oprah Winfrey | The Oprah Winfrey Show |
The Education of an American Dreamer: How a Son of Greek Immigrants Learned His Way from a Nebraska Diner to Washington, Wall Street, and Beyond | Peter G. Peterson | The Blackstone Group (investor) |
Finding America’s Voice: A Strategy for Reinvigorating U.S. Public Diplomacy (2010) | Peter G. Peterson | The Blackstone Group (investor) |
Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It (2005) | Peter G. Peterson | The Blackstone Group (investor) |
Gray Dawn: How the Coming Age Wave Will Transform America–and the World (2000) | Peter G. Peterson | The Blackstone Group (investor) |
Will America Grow up Before it Grows Old: How the Coming Social Security Crisis Threatens You, Your Family and Your Country (1996) | Peter G. Peterson | The Blackstone Group (investor) |
Facing Up: How to Rescue the Economy From Crushing Debt & Restore the American Dream (1993) | Peter G. Peterson | The Blackstone Group (investor) |
Steering Clear | Peter G. Peterson | The Blackstone Group (investor) |
In for a Penny: A Business Adventure | Peter Hargreaves | Subway |
Zero To One | Peter Thiel | (investor) |
Shoe Dog: A Memoir | Phil Knight | Nike |
Out Where the West Begins: Profiles, Visions, and Strategies of Early Western Business Leaders | Philip Anschutz | (investor) |
Out Where the West Begins, Volume 2: Creating and Civilizing the American West | Philip Anschutz | (investor) |
Ralph Lauren | Ralph Lauren | Ralph Lauren |
Principles: Life and Work | Ray Dalio | Bridgewater |
Big Debt Crises | Ray Dalio | Bridgewater |
Grinding it Out | Ray Kroc | McDonald’s |
Red Zone: Cars, Cows, and Coaches | Red McCombs | Red McCombs Automotive Group |
Big Red: Memoirs of a Texas Entrepreneur and Philanthropist | Red McCombs | Red McCombs Automotive Group |
The Startup of You | Reid Hoffman | |
Dave Says Well Done!: The Common Guy’s Guide to Everyday Success | Rex David “Dave” Thomas | Wendy’s |
Simply Rich | Rich Devos | Amway |
Ten Powerful Phrases for Positive People | Rich DeVos | Amway |
Believe! | Rich DeVos | Amway |
Compassionate Capitalism | Rich DeVos | Amway |
Hope From My Heart | Rich DeVos | Amway |
The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership | Richard Branson | Virgin |
Screw It Let’s Do It: Lessons In Life, Like A Virgin | Richard Branson | Virgin |
Losing My Virginity | Richard Branson | Virgin |
Screw Business As Usual | Richard Branson | Virgin |
Reach for the Skies | Richard Branson | Virgin |
Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won’t Teach You at Business School | Richard Branson | Virgin |
Finding My Virginity | Richard Branson | Virgin |
Business Stripped Bare | Richard Branson | Virgin |
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe | Roger McNamee | Elevation Partners (investor) |
The New Normal: Great Opportunities in a Time of Great Risk | Roger McNamee | Elevation Partners (investor) |
Always Fresh | Ronald Joyce | Tim Hortons |
Peace is Possible: Conversations with Arab and Israeli Leaders from 1988 to the Present | S. Daniel Abraham | Thompson Medical |
Everything is Possible: Life and Business Lessons from a Self-Made Billionaire and the Founder of Slim-Fast | S. Daniel Abraham | Thompson Medical |
Eat More Chikin | S. Truett Cathy | Chick-fil-A |
Wealth: Is It Worth It? | S. Truett Cathy | Chick-fil-A |
How did you do it, Truett? | S. Truett Cathy | Chick-fil-A |
It’s Better to Build Boys than Mend Men | S. Truett Cathy | Chick-fil-A |
It’s Easier to Succeed Than to Fail | S. Truett Cathy | Chick-fil-A |
The Generosity Factor: Discover the Joy of Giving Your Time, Talent, and Treasure | S. Truett Cathy | Chick-fil-A |
Made in America | Sam Walton | Walmart |
Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel | Sam Zell | Equity Group Investments (investor) |
Margin of Safety | Seth Klarman | Baupost Group (investor) |
Get Smarter: Life and Business Lessons | Seymour Schulich | (mining) |
Birth: When the Spiritual and the Material Come Together | Shari Arison | Arison Investments (investor) |
Activate Your Goodness: Transforming the World Through Doing Good | Shari Arison | Arison Investments (investor) |
The Doing Good Model: Activate Your Goodness in Business | Shari Arison | Arison Investments (investor) |
The Link: How Doing Good Connects Us to Ourselves, Each Other…and Everything! | Shari Arison | Arison Investments (investor) |
Lean In For Graduates | Sheryl Sandberg | |
Lean In: Work, Women and The Will to Lead | Sheryl Sandberg | |
Lean In for Grads | Sheryl Sandberg | |
Habit of Labor: Lessons from a Life of Struggle and Success | Stef Wertheimer | ISCAR (industrial tools) |
Man at a Machine | Stef Wertheimer | ISCAR (industrial tools) |
What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence | Stephen A. Schwarzman | The Blackstone Group (investor) |
The Z Factor: My Journey as the Wrong Man at the Right Time | Subhash Chandra | Essel Group (media) |
A Passion to Win | Sumner Redstone | CBS/Viacom |
The First Billion Is The Hardest | T. Boone Pickens | BP Capital Management |
Boone | T. Boone Pickens | BP Capital Management |
The Business of Happiness | Ted Leonsis | Monumental Sports & Entertainment (investor) |
Call Me Ted | Ted Turner | CNN |
Beat the Crowd: How You Can Out-Invest the Herd | Thinking Differently | Ken Fisher |
Pizza Tiger | Thomas Monaghan | Domino’s |
Billions to Bust and Back: How I Made, Lost and Rebuilt a Fortune | Thor Bjorgolfsson | Straumur-Burðarás (investor) |
Oil of Russia: Past, Present & Future | Vagit Alekperov | Lukoil |
Vertically Integrated Oil Companies of Russia: Formation Methodology and Realization | Vagit Alekperov | Lukoil |
The Essays of Warren Buffett | Warren Buffett | Berkshire Hathaway |
The Entrepreneur: 25 Golden Rules for the Global Business Manager | William Heinecke | Minor International PCL (investor) |
The Responsible Company: What We’ve Learned From Patagonia’s First 40 Years | Yvon Chouinard | Patagonia |
Simple Fly Fishing: Techniques for Tenkara and Rod and Reel | Yvon Chouinard | Patagonia |
180° South: Conquerors of the Useless | Yvon Chouinard | Patagonia |
Climbing Ice | Yvon Chouinard | Patagonia |
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman | Yvon Chouinard | Patagonia |