第1248期：世界上最成功的人在看什么书？

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昨天在Business Insider上看到一句话，深有感触。

“85% of rich people read two or more education, career-related, or self-improvement books per month, compared to 15% of poor.” - Business Insider

你有没有好奇过世界上最有钱、最有名的那些人平时喜欢看什么书？

今天这篇小文，我挑选了八个名人，整理了他们最喜欢的书和他们推荐的书单，仅供你参考。

Warren Buffet

据说巴菲特每天80%的时间用来读书。

“Read 500 pages…every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.” — Warren Buffet

His favorite books:

  • The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on
    Value Investing    , by Bargain Price
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie 国内译本叫《人性的弱点，也是佛老百读不厌的好书，建议读英文版。

Books he recommends:

  • Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders: 1965
    – 2014    , by Warren Buffet

更多参考：

Billionaire’s Favorite Books – https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/billionaires-favorite-books-2/

Bill Gates

盖茨一年读50多本书，不定期在他的博客(GatesNotes)上分享书单。

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books

His favorite books:

  • Making the Modern World: Materials and
    Dematerialization    , by Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil大概是盖茨最喜欢的作家之一。最新作品Numbers
Don’t Lie是盖茨重点推荐的新书。

Books he recommends:

  • Business Adventures, by John Brooks. 据他说这是巴菲特推荐给他的第一本书
  • Numbers Don’t Lie, by Vaclav Smil

Elon Musk

His favorite books:

  • Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, by W.
    Bernard Carlson
  • Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness, by Donald
    L. Barlett

如果你了解这两个人(Tesla
和Howard
Hughes)的话，马斯克就是他们的合体转世化身。

Books he recommends:

  • Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, by Walter
    Isaacson
  • Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson

Walter Issacson大概是马斯克最喜欢的作家之一

Steve Jobs

His favorite books:

  • Moby Dick, by Herman Melville 《大白鲨》是乔布斯青少年时代最爱的书
  • Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda 《一个瑜伽行者的自传》据说是乔布斯自己的ipad上保存的唯一一本书

Books he recommended:

  • 1984, by George Orwell 乔布斯最爱的书之一，向所有人推荐过。也是佛老最爱的一本书，每年读一遍，至今已读过26遍。建议读英文原版。
  • The Innovator’s Dilemma, by Clayton
    M. Christensen 据说乔布斯受这本书影响很大

参考：Steve
Job’s reading list – http://favobooks.com/enterpreneurs/47-steve-jobs.html

Jeff Bezos

His favorite books:

  • The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro《长日将尽》石黑一雄

Books he recommends:

  • Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary
    Companies,     by Jim Collins 之前佛老推荐过Jim Collins的另一本好书”Good to Great”,也是贝索斯喜欢的一本书
  • The Innovator’s Dilemma, by Clayton Christensen
  • Made in America, by Sam Walton

Larry Page

His favorite books:

  • My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, by Nikola Tesla
  • Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures
    of A Curious Character    , by Feynman, Richard Phillips

Richard P. Feynman 大概是Page最喜欢的作家。

Books he recommends：

  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a
    Business When There Are No Easy Answers    , by Ben Horowitz
  • Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson

Mark Zuckerberg

小札从2015年开始坚持每个月读两本书。

  • The Aeneid, by Virgil 小札高中时代最喜欢的书
  • Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card 小札在自己的脸书档案中唯一列出的自己最爱的书名

Books he recommends:

  • The End of Power: From Boardrooms to
    Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn’t What It Used to
    Be    , by Moises Naim

更多参考：

https://www.theceolibrary.com/books-recommended-by/mark-zuckerberg

Barack Obama

His favorite books:

  • Song of Solomon, Tony Morrison
  • Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

他最喜欢的作家是Mark
Twain

Books he recommends:

  • A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles (2016)
  • Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2005)

更多参考：https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2020/october/barack-obama-recommended-reading-list.html

阅读是很私人的事，喜欢的每天手不释卷，不喜欢的看一分钟就困。无所谓的事，你想读什么就去找来读，不要让任何人限制你的阅读自由。你不想读就不要勉强自己，不要让任何人影响你选择的自由。

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