Cameron Priest

Starting to collate and score books that I've recently read and enjoyed on business history, business biographies, industry etc.,.

Bold means it's a favourite/re-read.

5/5 Storeulv: En uautorisert biografi om John Fredriksen (translated from Norweigian),
4/5 Net Worth: John Risley, Clearwater, and the Building of a Billion-Dollar Empire
4/5 Wallenberg - The Family that Shaped Sweden's Economy - book on the Wallenberg family that controlled 1/3rd of Swedish economy in 90s
4/5 Born of this Land - My Life Story Chung Ju-yung on founder of Hyundai
5/5 Effectuation - Saras D. Sarasvathy - amazing research on entrepreneurship, this paper, what makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial is a good intro
4/5 The House of Collins - The Story of a Scottish Family of Publishers from 1789 to the Present Day
3/5 Tobacco Tycoon - John K. Winkler on James B. Duke
3/5 Invest First, Investigate Later - John K Winkler on George Soros - decent intro to his thinking
4/5 Lucien Lelong - invented luxury pret-a-porter and trained the best; Christian Dior, Pierre Balmain
4/5 The History of Thyssen
5/5 The Memoirs of Samuel Insull : An Autobiography
3/5 Schroders: Merchants & Bankers
3/5 John Kluge - Stories
5/5 Certain to Win - The Strategy of John Boyd, Applied to Business
4/5 Citizen Bouygues - Elisabeth Campagnac
5/5 My Forty Years with Ford
4/5 From the Bronx to Wall Street - Leon Cooperman
4/5 Who is Michael Ovitz
5/5 Henry J. Kaiser - Builder in the Modern American West

5/5 King Icahn - Biography of a Renegade Capitalist
4/5 Railroader - The Unfiltered Genius and Controversy of Four-Time CEO Hunter Harrison
4/5 Banking on America - How TD Bank Rose to the Top and Took on the USA
3/5 Kerry Stokes - Self-Made Man
4/5 Antoine Bernheim - Pierre de Gasquet

5/5 Invention - James Dyson
4/5 Best Served Cold - The Rise, Fall and Rise again of Malcolm Walker - CEO of Iceland Foods
4/5 Crash Landing - An Inside Account of the Fall of GPA
3/5 Packer's Lunch - Neil Chenoweth
3/5 The New Kings of New York
5/5 The Taste of Luxury - Bernard Arnault and the Moet-Hennessy Louis Vuitton Story
5/5 Lazard Freres, banquiers des Deux Mondes -
4/5 Credit Lyonnais - The Investigation - Thierry Jean-Pierre
4/5 L'Argent Sale - Francois D' Aubert
5/5 Der Augstieg der Quandts
5/5 Mr. Capri-Sun - Die Autobiographie, Hans-Peter Wild
4/5 Legend - From Electric Fences to Global Success - The Sir William Gallagher Story
4/5 Quest for Prosperity - The Life of a Japanese Industrialist - Konosuke Matsushita
4/5 Corning - A Story of Discovery and Reinvention
3/5 The Legend of Litton Industries
4/5 Barefoot to Billionaire - Reflections on a Life's Work and a Promise to Cure Cancer
4/5 Journey Through My Years - James M. Cox (Cox Media)
4/5 Can't Take it With You - The Art of Making and Giving Money, Lewis B. Cullman
4/5 The Big Score - Robert Friedland and the Voisey's Bay Hustle
4/5 The Mattis Way of War: An Examination of Operational Art in Task Force 58 and 1st Marine Division
5/5 The Operator - David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood
5/5 Onassis - William Frischauer
5/5 Against the Odds - An Autobiography, James Dyson

4/5 How to lose 100,000,000 and other valuable advice - Royal Little - effectively invented the modern conglomerate
5/5 The Invisible Billionaire - Daniel Ludwig
4/5 Fly me, I'm Freddie!
4/5 Fred Meijer, in His Own Words
5/5 Les Schwab Pride in Performance: Keep It Going
4/5 Someone has to make it happen - The inside story of Tex Thornton, the man who built Litton Industries
4/5 Julian Robertson - A Tiger in the Land of Bears and Bull
5/5 Money from Thin Air - The Story of Craig McCaw
5/5 When Money is King - How Revlon's Ron Perlman Mastered the World of Finance...
5/5 The King of Cash - The Inside Story of Laurence Tisch

5/5 Sol Price - Retail Revolutionary - Robert E. Price
3/5 Takeaway - The Sale of the Government Printing Office
5/5 Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived
5/5 Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
5/5 Dealings: A Political and Financial Life - Felix G. Rohatyn
5/5 L'Ange exterminateur - Airy Routier (The Exterminating Angel - Bernard Arnault)
3/5 Patrick Drahi - L'ogre de Networks
The Timeless Way of Building
5/5 The Bugatti Story - L'Ebé Bugatti
5/5 All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There: Buffett & Munger - A Study in Simplicity and Uncommon, Common Sense
4/5 A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
5/5 Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

2/5 Martini Wonderland: My Strange Adventures Inside the Grey Goose Goldmine
4/5 Albert Frère - The Nail Merchants Son (Le Fils du marchand de clous)
*5/5 After I Was Sixty : A Chapter of Autobiography - Thomson, Roy H
3/5 Ian Cheng: Emissaries Guide to Worlding
4/5 Memo from David O. Selznick
3/5 Creation: Life and How to Make It
4/5 Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong
3/5 Breaking Out Of Beerport: A memoir
4/5 A growing concern: An autobiography - Nigel Broakes
4/5 Rising To Power: Paul Desmarais & Power Corporation
5/5 7 Powers
5/5 From Predators to Icons: Exposing the Myth of the Business Hero
3/5 MCI:Failure Is Not an Option, How MCI Invented Competition in Telecommunications
4/5 Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
3/5 Charlie Munger For All Seasons
5/5 Capital Cities / ABC, The Early Years, 1954-1986: How the Minnow Came to Swallow the Whale
4/5 St Michael: A History of Marks and Spencer
4/5 Nuts!: Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success
American Express: The Unofficial History of the People Who Built the Great Financial Empire
5/5 Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger,
5/5 Pebbles of Perception: How a Few Good Choices make All the Difference
Inside Intuit: How the Makers of Quicken Beat Microsoft and Revolutionized an Entire Industry
Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up That Took on Microsoft