Reading is food for the soul, and the great managers of companies like Tesla, Microsoft or Amazon know it. Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos They have spoken on different occasions about some of the books that have helped them both personally and professionally, and that they recommend reading to those users who want to enter the world of business or broaden their knowledge. These are some of the titles that have been recommended at some time and that may also be useful to you. Some of them are also adapted to Spanish.
The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, for example, has found inspiration in novels as classic as ‘The Lord of the Rings’. Also books related to artificial intelligence or renowned scientists such as Einstein or Benjamin Franklin.
These are some of the books Elon Musk has recommended on occasion. Six of them can be purchased in their original version or in their adaptation to Spanish.
Books recommended by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX
- Zero to One: How to Invent the Futureby Peter Thiel.
- The Lord of the ringsby JRR Tolkien.
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas Adams, Eoin Colfer and Thomas Tidholm
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Lifeby Walter Isaacson.
- Einstein: His life and his universeby Walter Isaacson.
- Superintelligence: Paths, dangers, strategiesby Nick Bostrom
- Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Ageby James Rodman Barrat
Recommended reading by Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft
The Microsoft founder He is one of the tycoons who read the most books usually recommend. Many of them even highlight on their cover the reviews that the businessman usually makes in conferences or interviews.
- Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012by Carol Loomis
- A Full Life: Reflections at Ninetyby Jimmy Carter
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World. And why things are better than you think, by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund.
- The big story of it allby David Christian.
- Range: Why Generalists Succeed in a Specialized Worldby David Epstein.
- The sixth extinction: An unnatural story, by Elizabeth Kolbert.
- Entrepreneurial Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from Wall Street, by John Brooks.
- The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age, by Archie Brown.
- Making the Modern World: Materials & Dematerializationby Vaclav Smil.
- What would happen if…? Serious and scientific answers to all kinds of absurd questionsby Randall Munroe.
The books that Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, recommends reading
The Amazon founder he also recommends books on a regular basis. Many of them related to business. And it is that if the tycoon who started an empire of online commerce that was first a bookstore knows something, it is books.