
Family memoir of a brewer undone partly by its distribution position.
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Tire-shop founder's memoir on profit sharing and dealer economics
“If you want to read one book, read the autobiography of Les Schwab... He ran tire shops in the Midwest and made a fortune” — Charlie Munger
Source: Notes from the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, by Whitney Tilson, p. 35
Recommended by: Charlie Munger
Family history rather than company analysis; gossipy in tone.
Three generations of Fords, Henry, Edsel and Henry II, and their company.
Henry Ford and his son Edsel, and how the father undermined his own successor.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Robert Wood Johnson, who put public trust before profit, and the origin of the Credo.
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