Bell & Ross
Summer Breeze: What Watch CEOs are Reading
Bell & Ross
Summer Breeze: What Watch CEOs are Reading
Jacob Arabo
CEO of Jacob & Co.
“I’m currently reading The Outsider by Stephen King. I love how Stephen King writes. He is always so current and up to the minute in terms of social references. And this book is not horror, it’s a mystery/thriller. I am loving it, I just wish I had more time to read. I like mysteries, because I like trying to figure out what’s happening. It’s always unexpected, which I love about the genre.
The book that had the biggest impact on me was definitely The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. I read this when I was a teenager and I loved it, because of the action and the mystery and the adventure. I dreamed of travelling the world and having these kinds of adventures. Just talking about it makes me want to read it again.”
Pierre Jacques
CEO of De Bethune
“Right now, I’m reading 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari. Throughout the book, Harari essentially takes the pulse of society today and worldwide. Politics, social issues, technology, the environment and even religion — the book invites us to question our predispositions on these topics and their prominence in our daily lives in a world that has an increasingly uncertain future.
Carlos Rosillo
CEO of Bell & Ross
“The book I have here is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig. This is a book that has inspired me since I was a student. When I was studying, I started to read this book because the theme is, in my opinion, one of the keys to good business and, speaking more broadly, to a good life. Basically, the book delves into how to consolidate your emotional outlook and your realism and other philosophical themes. While on a journey through the United States on his motorcycle, the narrator relays stories to his son and explains how to reconcile the emotional with the rational in pursuit of a qualitative life.
Stephen Forsey
Co-founder of Greubel Forsey
“Generally, I’m more interested in non-fiction. I’ve read Bill Bryson’s Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe, who was an American living outside of America. He wrote the book in the ’70s when he did interrailing around Europe with another American and it follows his funny and unexpected adventures. I like to read comic stories, as well. I read through the James Herriot books and I loved them. The way he would tell stories about his life with animals was very funny.