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Steve Jobs was known for his high standards of design which he enforced across all products at Apple. He believed that making a product easy-to-use would make users more satisfied with their purchase because they could then use the product without reservation on almost any occasion

"He learned a lot of marketing principles because he wasn't really capable, engineering wise, you know, computer hardware [and] software," Wozniak says of Jobs. "He had to find other areas to make himself important."

But Wozniak tells CNBC Make It that his partner wasn't always a marketing and communications guru – those were skills Jobs had to develop to compensate for not being a particularly skilled computer engineer.

co-founded Apple with one of the tech world's greatest communicators and marketers of all time: Steve Jobs.

The late Jobs has long been heralded as a "genius" for the way he marketed and sold Apple products, most of which were designed and built by Wozniak in the company's early days.

Capitalism is a process - no a thing - by which essentially surplus-value is generated by labour and so part of this will constitute a profit for the Capitalist.

“Capital is not a thing, but a social relation between persons which is mediated through things” (Karl Marx, page 932). This such a illuminating passage of this book.

I love the whole structure of the book resembles Capital itself. First of all, Capital is not a thing or a set of ideas but it is a metabolic and organic process related to the social relations of society. The structure by which Marx wrote Capital is the same as this activity: he does not state clearly the arguments but he constantly repeats and comes back to them so the reader can better understand these concepts.

I like the way this book mixes up all different stories of different artists, extraordinary men and women from the Belle Époque, Paris’s one of the most flourished period of its History.

It’s a fascinating account of the history and formation of Capital. It is a fundamental column of anthropologic analysis of the Capitalism society, it’s mode production and activity. The first two chapters are the most fascinating as they describe the two main components of Capital: the commodity and money. The book is a very complicated and so I’m reading it through the lectures of professor David Harvey.

This work is a clear and simple but fascinating biography one the most emblematic figure in today’s world. This book describe Elon Musk rise to success with his astonishing companies: the financial online company PayPal, the electric auto maker Tesla and the spacecraft manufacturer SpaceX. Mush figure is incredible: he’s a physic engineer with a special gift for business and investments.

Generally it is a good description on the construction of the Jeff Bezos Amazon empire. I am reading this book as Audiobook and the reader is quite enjoyable and relaxing. However, this book tends to be boring. Business is not my area of interest but still reading about one the most important company in the world still kind of fascinating.

Excellent biography of Elon Musk. Perfect size for myself as I am not so into the top of computer science and engaging.
The only thing - a very small thing that I don't like - is that the star makes for the foot-note is so tiny to see that I have often missed reading it. Apart from this small thing, I like this book very much!

Just started this interesting overview of Elon Musk: richest man in the world, important inventor and industrialist. It seems very simple but very interesting.
Hopefully I will get more information about this contemporary figure!

Great biography written in a Perfect style: the book does not loose itself in pointless descriptions about the artist’s work -
It could something briefly describe what and how he did a painting which is totally fine for my reading. By reading a biography I’m interested to know about the artist himself and not about his artworks (I believe as an artist that artworks should be interpreted by each person)

Another masterpiece by Robert Green.
Seduction can be applied not in only amorous relationships by also in business and social relationships.
The part on Andy Warhol is amazing: it gives me a richer perspective of this fascinating artist and of his work and career.

Massive biography of my favourite Artist. I’ve read on Van Gogh but this one exceeds all. It is a
Masterpiece of biography, clear and simple but complete. The book does not loose itself in pointless descriptions of the artist’s artworks - the book sometimes refers to information of the artworks but this does not disturb the overall storytelling of the history of the artist.

What an enjoyable and readable 500 book on a fundamental and trivial issue of our contemporary society: debt.

This is what call it a great artist’s biography. The language is so smooth and enjoyable that does not degenerate in pointless descriptions of the artists artworks. I like the way this book description Van Gogh life and career - of course they talk about his works but very shortly and with ready-to-see images. So this book is perfect to understand Van Gogh work!

Washington ..... great man