List of books written by CEOs explained

A list of notable books written by CEOs, about CEOs and business.

Books

Title	Author	Company	Year
Untitled autobiography of Andrew Carnegie^[1]	Andrew Carnegie	Carnegie Steel	1920
My Life and Work	Henry Ford	Ford Motor Company	1922
Pizza Tiger		Domino's Pizza	1986
Dave's Way		Wendy's	1992
Bloomberg by Bloomberg^[2]	Michael Bloomberg	Bloomberg	1997
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company^[3]	Robert Iger	The Walt Disney Company	2019
The Education of a Value Investor^[4]		Aquamarine Fund	2014
Invent & Wander^[5]			2021
Winning^[6]			2005
Rework^[7]			2010
The Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Grow, or Manage a Business			2005
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done		General Electric, Honeywell	2002
Eat Mor Chikin: Inspire More People	S Truett Cathy	Chick-fil-A	2002
My Life & Principles for Success^[8]	Ross Perot	Electronic Data Systems	2002 (2nd ed)
Time to Make the Donuts^[9] ^[10]		Dunkin Donuts	2001
Straight from the Gut		General Electric	2001
Business @ the Speed of Thought ^[11]			1999
Direct from Dell: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry^[12]		Dell	2000
Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond		IBM	2000 (reprint)
Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time		Starbucks	1999
Work in Progress^[13]			1999
An Enterprising Life	Jay van Andel	Amway	1998
Sam Walton: Made in America		Walmart	1993
No Excuses Management			1993
^[14]	George Soros	Soros Fund Management	1995
Only The Paranoid Survive		Intel	1996
The HP Way : How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company			1996
Personal History^[15]	Katharine Graham	Washington Post	1998
My Years with General Motors			1990 (reprint)
Life as I Have Known It Has Been Finger Lickin' Good	Harland Sanders	Kentucky Fried Chicken	1974
^[16]			1984
Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's		McDonald's	1976 (reprint 1990)
J.R.D Tata: Beyond the Last Blue Mountain		Tata Group
^[17] ^[18]	Charles Koch	Koch Industries	2007
Call Me Ted^[19]	Ted Turner	CNN	2008
Behind the Cloud	Marc Benioff	salesforce.com	2009
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose			2010
The Start-up of You	Reid Hoffman	LinkedIn	2012
Confessions of an Advertising Man	David Ogilvy	Ogilvy & Mather	1963
Simply Rich	Rich de Vos	Amway	2014
How Google Works	Eric Schmidt	Google	2014
		Nike	2016
Papa: The Story of Papa John's Pizza	John Schnatter	Papa John's Pizza	2017
Hit Refresh	Satya Nadella	Microsoft	2017
Winners Dream	Bill McDermott	SAP	2014
Onward	Howard Schultz	Starbucks	2011

Notes and References

1. Web site: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie.
2. Web site: Bloomberg by Bloomberg, Revised and Updated.
3. Web site: The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company.
4. Web site: The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom and Enlightenment.
5. Web site: Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos.
6. Web site: Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book. Amazon .
7. Web site: Reworkurl=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6732019-rework.
8. Web site: My Life & the Principles for Success.
9. Book: Time to Make the Donuts. 9780867308617 . Rosenberg . William . Keener . Jessica Brilliant . 2001 .
10. Web site: William Rosenberg. Time to Make the Donuts: The Founder of Dunkin Donuts Shares an American Journey.
11. Book: Business at the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy. 9780141941882 . Gates . Bill . Hemingway . Collins . 25 May 2000 .
12. Web site: Direct From Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry . ACM Digital Library . January 30, 2024 . 1999.
13. Web site: Work in Progress: Risking Failure, Surviving Success.
14. Web site: Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve.
15. Web site: Personal History, by Katharine Graham (Alfred A. Knopf).
16. Book: Lee Iacocca. Iacocca: An Autobiography. 0553251473 .
17. Web site: Koch. Charles. The Science of Success Summary - The Investors Podcast. The Investors Podcast. May 2, 2023.
18. Web site: Koch. Charles. The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company. Abe Books. May 2, 2023.
19. News: Phil . Kloer . "Call Me Ted" — what else do you call him? . Atlanta Journal-Constitution . 10 November 2008 . 12 November 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100101064946/http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/entries/2008/11/10/ted_turners_autobiography_hits.html . 2010-01-01 . dead .