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Sam Walton: Made in America
Memoir / Business
Walmart founder Sam Walton's autobiography, dictated in the final year of his life. Codifies the operating principles — frugality, a bias for action, a willingness to swipe the best ideas of competitors — that Bezos folded directly into Amazon's leadership culture. Stone's reporting in The Everything Store shows Bezos handing the book to early hires with key passages already underlined.
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Jeff Bezos
Farnam Street, citing Brad Stone's The Everything Store, documents that Bezos pressed copies of Walton's autobiography on early Amazon hires with passages on borrowing competitors' best ideas already underlined.
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Jamie Dimon
Included on Jamie Dimon's list sent to JP Morgan summer interns in 2010.