Charlie Munger Recommended Books

Alex Hormozi recommended this book on Instagram.

"You need to read the source material over and over in order to soak up the available wisdom." - Shane Parrish

"This book is about one super-important concept. You must learn about Strategic Inflection Points, because sooner or later you are going to live through one." - Steve Jobs

"One of my favorite topics. And so that is also a very good book [I] recommend." - Marc Andreessen

"A great book on strategy." - Ben Horowitz

"[This] basic theme is in the culture of Microsoft." - Bill Gates

"One of favorite books on entrepreneurship." - Vinod Khosla

"We've all read Grove." - Balaji Srinivasan

"An outstanding book about CEOs who excelled at capital allocation." - Warren Buffett

"Stories about eight CEOs and how they mastered capital allocation." - Brian Armstrong

"It is, and should at the top of the reading list for CEOs and investors." - Michael Mauboussin

"Contains great lessons for investors because it highlights the importance of capital allocation." - Patrick O'Shaughnessy

"A business-y thing." - Sam Hinkie

"A good read for any business leader but especially those willing to chart their own course."- Michael Dell

"Perhaps the best display of expository scientific prose of the twentieth century." - Steven Pinker

"Extraordinary." - Jeff Bezos

"Everyone should read [this book]." - David Deutsch

"Everything by [this author] is worth reading." - Naval Ravikant

"Aims to tell a history of humanity from the perspective of genetics rather than sociology." - Mark Zuckerberg

"I think three or four of my top 20 books of all time are all [this author's]." - Nick Szabo

"A great book, probably in my all time top 100." - Paul Graham

"Cast as a letter to his son. It’s not some deep ruminations and things. It’s about how you make your way through this world." - Walter Isaacson

"[The author] didn’t mean to write his autobiography. He wanted to write a note to his family about what he’d learned in his experiments." - Cory Booker

"One of the very first books that I read." - Brandon Stanton

"[This] is I think the most compelling of books." - Vince Vaughn

"Really good." - Elon Musk

"Turned evolutionary biology on its head and was written like a great detective story." - Matt Ridley

"Famous book about how our bodies are vehicles to replicate our genes (even though we occasionally defy them)." - Brian Armstrong

On the "books read" section of Ev Williams' GoodReads profile.

"Explains more about life (including human behavior and myself) than anything else I’ve read. " - Nick Szabo

"Had a profound influence on me pretty early on." - Phil Libin

"An explanation of evolution since the beginning of life that explains things from the perspective of individual genes." - MMM

"Investors – large and small – should [read this book]." - Warren Buffett

"Read any book by [this author], the founder of Vangard." - MMM

"An amazing book." - Joe Rogan

"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history." - Bill Gates

"Offers us a new and remarkably simple way of looking at our world." - Simon Sinek

"A brilliant Pulitzer Prize-winning book about how the modern world was formed, analyzing how societies developed differently on different continents." - Daniel Ek

"Helped rid me of the nagging incompleteness in my understood connection between the successes and failings of ancient and modern civilizations." - Jesse Williams

"The main [book by this author]." - Stewart Brand

"A really important concept to grasp." - Tim Ferriss

"About principled negotiation, and I still think about and apply a lot of those concepts today." - Drew Houston

Dustin Moskovitz recommended this book on Twitter.

"[One of the books] that are recommended or required at Draper University." - Tim Draper

"I love [this book]." - Nick Ganju

"Really good." - Ann Miura-Ko

One of Naval Ravikant's answers to "what are you reading right now?"

"The most mind-bending book you can imagine, because it essentially taught you always humans are flawed and influential." - Tobi Lütke

"100 percent of effective people seem to have read [this book]. In fact, it’s one of those things that when I meet somebody and they’re operating at a pretty high level, if you mention [this book], they’ve all read it." - Scott Adams

"Fundamental and had a lot to teach." - Naval Ravikant

Adam Robinson mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.

Ramit Sethi mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.

"[Helps you] navigate the world with heightened awareness for how we're always being influenced/manipulated." - Alexis Ohanian

On the "books read" section of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook profile.

List of books Bill Gates read in 2011.

"I read [this book and "Benjamin Franklin"] and probed [Walter Isaacson] about them to try to glean what characteristics they had in common." - Ray Dalio

"Anybody who can write a book on Einstein and that an idiot like me can understand the physics [was] a miracle." - George Raveling

This book was on Sam Altman's bookshelf.

Ed Zschau mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.

On Jamie Dimon's list of favorite books.

"Very much worth reading." - Brad Delong

"Good book. Some interesting ideas. Would like to see an updated version now that CERN has basically disproven supersymmetry." - Christopher Paolini

"I found Rockefeller to be strangely stoic, incredibly resilient, and, despite his reputation as a robber baron, humble and compassionate." - Ryan Holiday

"[One of the] best books I read in 2017." - Anthony Pompliano

"The mindset required to do well in businesses when everything is in flux, competition is intense and setbacks are frequent." - Austen Allred

"Just hearing the story of the railroads and standard oil and what took place in this country, it's incredible." - David Friedberg

"I got about 500 pages in. It is detailed." - Jason Calacanis

"Fabolous." - Ray Dalio

"Makes a lot of great points." - Bill Gates

Most Recommended Books reached out to DJ Vlad directly.

Dwayne Johnson said he was reading this book in an interview with Andy Warhol.

"I really love [this book]." - James Altucher

"It's fucking great." - Joe Rogan

"I started applying [a lesson from this book] to my own life." - Shaun White

"It’s an interesting book." - Warren Buffett

"Good." - Paul Graham

"Makes a fair assessment of Gates back when he was starting out." - Carlos Slim

"A terrific history of the credit card business." - Warren Buffett

John Doerr recommended this book at the end of "Measure What Matters."

"A great biography. [...] Highly recommended." - Elon Musk

"I’ve recommended [this book] to thousands and thousands of people." - Tim Ferriss

"I read [this book and "Einstein"] and probed [Walter Isaacson] about them to try to glean what characteristics they had in common." - Ray Dalio

"[I read this book and] I am blown away and a little sad because I feel like, 'God damn, I went through all this education. No one ever taught me any of this stuff.'" - George Raveling

Scott Belsky mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.

"The [biography of Benjamin Franklin] I read." - Brandon Stanton