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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#185 César Ritz and Auguste Escoffier (The Hotelier and The Chef) 2021-06-10
#184 Isadore Sharp (Four Seasons) 2021-06-06
#183 Johnny Carson 2021-06-04
#182 Warren Buffett (The Making of an American Capitalist) 2021-05-29
#181 Paul Orfalea (Kinkos) 2021-05-23
#180 Jeff Bezos (Invention of a Global Empire) 2021-05-17
Jeff Bezos (Insights, Stories, and Secrets) 2021-05-13
#179 Jeff Bezos 2021-05-10
#178 Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products 2021-05-03
#177 Robert Campeau (Junk Bonds and Retail Bankruptcy) 2021-04-26
#176 Linus Torvalds (Creator of Linux) 2021-04-18
#175 Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey 2021-04-11
#174 Bill Gates (Overdrive) 2021-04-05
#173 Louis B. Mayer (MGM Studios) 2021-03-28
#172 Elon Musk (Early Days of SpaceX) 2021-03-21
#171: Chuck Feeney (The Billionaire who gave all of his money away) 2021-03-15
#170 Claude Hopkins (A Life in Advertising) 2021-03-08
#169 David Ogilvy (The King of Madison Avenue) 2021-03-01
#168 Larry Miller (Driven: An Autobiography) 2021-02-21
#167 Jackie Cochran (Aviation) 2021-02-19
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