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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 l...
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#92 Ed Thorp and Claude Shannon
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#91 Jim Clayton (Sold to Warren Buffett)
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#90 Charlie Munger (Poor Charlie's Almanack)
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#89 David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)
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#88 Warren Buffett's Shareholder Letters— All of them!
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#87 Thomas Watson (IBM)
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#86 Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber (A Genius and a Doomed Tycoon)
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#85 Walter and Olive Ann Beech (Aviation Legends)
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#84 Aristotle Onassis
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#83 Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify...
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#82 David Ogilvy (Ogilvy on Advertising)
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#81 Henry Royce (Founder of Rolls-Royce)
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#80 Henry Ford (Today and Tomorrow)
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#79 Charlie Munger (The Complete Investor)
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#78 Charlie Munger (the Tao of Charlie Munger)
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#77 Steve Jobs (The NeXT Years)
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#76 Steve Jobs: The Early Years of Apple
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#75 Henry Clay Frick: Andrew Carnegie's Partner
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#74 The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
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#73 Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick: The Bitter Partnership That Changed Am...
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#72 Stan Lee: Founder of Marvel
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#71 Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
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#70 Mark Spitznagel: The Dao of Capital
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#69 Charles Goodyear: An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Mono...
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#68 Daniel Ludwig: The Invisible Billionaire
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#67 Conrad Hilton: Hilton Hotel Dynasty
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#66 Henry Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West
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#65 Kirk Kerkorian: Penniless Dropout became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitali...
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#64 Coco Chanel: Her Life and Secrets
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#63 The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich
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#62 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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#61 Malcom McLean: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller an...
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#60 Yvon Chouinard: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years
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#59 Howard Hughes: The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire
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#58 John Bogle: Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
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#57 John Bogle: Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution
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#56 The Biography of Herb Kelleher
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#55 Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow Americ...
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#54 The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
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#53 Who Is Michael Ovitz?
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#52 The Republic of Tea: The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Throug...
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#51 Wild Company: The Untold Story of Banana Republic
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#50 Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive
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#49 Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life by Richard Branson
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#48 Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography by Richard Branson
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#47 Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Busin...
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#46 I Love Capitalism: An American Story
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#45 Built From Scratch: How A Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from No...
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#44 A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft
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#43 Ray Dalio: Principles: Life and Work
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