Learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs. Every week I read a biography of an entrepreneur and find ideas you can use in your work. This quote explains why: "There are thousands of years of history in which lots and lots of very smart people worked very hard and ran all types of experiments on how to create new businesses, invent new technology, new ways to manage etc. They ran these experiments throughout their entire lives. At some point, somebody put these lessons down in a book. For very little money and a few hours of time, you can learn from someone’s accumulated experience. There is so much more to learn from the past than we often realize. You could productively spend your time reading experiences of great people who have come before and you learn every time." —Marc Andreessen
413 episodes transcribedWhat I learned from reading Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses by David Landes.----Listen to Invest Like the B...
What I learned from reading Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy. ----Listen to one of my favorite podcasts: Invest Like the Best----Join...
What I learned from reading Working by Robert Caro. ----Listen to one of my favorite podcasts: Invest Like the Best: Sam Hinkie: Find Your People ----...
What I learned from reading Sol Price: Retail Revolutionary by Robert Price. ----[6:50] He believed in developing strong operating efficiencies, and h...
What I learned from reading The Women of Berkshire Hathaway: Lessons from Warren Buffett's Female CEOs and Directors by Karen Linder. ----Follow one o...
What I learned from reading The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection of His Written and Spoken Words edited by J. Christopher Herold. ----Get access to the W...
What I learned from reading Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian.----Follow one of my favorite podcasts Invest Like The Best and listen to...
What I learned from reading Against the Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson for the 4th time. You can also find the book on Book Finder. ----Follow...
What I learned from reading Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at...
What I learned from having lunch with Sam Zell and reading Zeckendorf: The Autobiography of The man Who Played a Real-Life Game of Monopoly and Won th...
What I learned from rereading Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard.----Get access to the World’s Most...
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert — of the Acquired podcast — invited me to San Francisco for a discussion on our mutual obsession: spending every wakin...
What I learned from reading The Taste of Luxury: Bernard Arnault and the Moet-Hennessy Louis Vuitton Story by Nadege Forestier and Nazanine Ravai.----...
What I learned from having dinner with Charlie Munger and rereading The Tao of Charlie Munger.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for...
What I learned from reading Napoleon: A Concise Biography by David Bell.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders...
What I learned from rereading Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's by Ray Kroc.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders...
What I learned from rereading The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig by Jerry Shields. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Foun...
What I learned from reading The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company by David Packard.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook...
What I learned from rereading Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace and Jim Erickson.----Get access to the Wo...
What I learned from reading The Dream of Solomeo: My Life and the Idea of Humanistic Capitalism by Brunello Cucinelli.----This episode is brought to y...
