Intuit’s Sasan Goodarzi Doesn’t Read Books, But He’s Got One to Recommend

Sasan Goodarzi, the CEO of Intuit, wants you to know he doesn’t read books. Thinks they’re a waste of time. But if you put a gun to his head and made him recommend one? Angela Duckworth’s Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.

Let that settle in for a second.

The man running a $160 billion company is publicly bragging that books are beneath him, and his one exception is the most airport-bookstore, LinkedIn-influencer, TED-talk-to-paperback title of the last decade. A book whose thesis can be summarized in four words: try hard, don’t quit.

Groundbreaking stuff.