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

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Title Date published
#98 Enzo Ferrari (the making of an automobile empire) 2019-11-18
#97 Enzo Ferrari (Ferrari vs Ford) 2019-11-10
#96 James J. Hill (Empire Builder of the Northwest) 2019-11-04
#95 Claude Shannon 2019-10-27
#94 Henry Singleton (The Outsiders) 2019-10-20
#93 Ed Thorp (A Man for All Markets) 2019-10-13
#92 Ed Thorp and Claude Shannon 2019-10-07
#91 Jim Clayton (Sold to Warren Buffett) 2019-09-29
#90 Charlie Munger (Poor Charlie's Almanack) 2019-09-22
#89 David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man) 2019-09-15
#88 Warren Buffett's Shareholder Letters— All of them! 2019-09-08
#87 Thomas Watson (IBM) 2019-09-01
#86 Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber (A Genius and a Doomed Tycoon) 2019-08-25
#85 Walter and Olive Ann Beech (Aviation Legends) 2019-08-18
#84 Aristotle Onassis 2019-08-11
#83 Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World 2019-08-04
#82 David Ogilvy (Ogilvy on Advertising) 2019-07-28
#81 Henry Royce (Founder of Rolls-Royce) 2019-07-22
#80 Henry Ford (Today and Tomorrow) 2019-07-14
#79 Charlie Munger (The Complete Investor) 2019-07-07
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