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What would you say are your top three?
by Madmallard 3y ago
What would you say are your top three?
- huijzer 3y agoCompared to David Senra, Charlie Munger, Elon Musk, or Jeff Bezos, I haven't read so much yet. So to answer your question, for example, you can see David's recommendations at https://world.hey.com/davidsenra https://world.hey.com/davidsenra. Mine would be: - Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire. It gives a nice insight into the fact that Bill is ruthless and obsessed with winning. If you want to start a company, then this is what you're up against unless you find your niche. - Chip Wars. Gives a nice overview of the history of chips and Morris Chang. Morris Chang has said in a talk that he couldn't have written the book better himself, as reported by Asianometry. - Richer, Wiser, Happier by William Green. Buffett always said that being a businessman made him a better investor and being an investor made him a better businessman. If you want to found a company, then it's probably good to understand the basics of investing and how good investors think. Richer, Wiser, Happier, as bad as the title sounds, gives a good overview of value investors. In the end, value investing is the name of the game. A large part of it boils down to looking through thousands of opportunities and only striking if you have a massive advantage. This idea works for creating things too. If you don't want that last book, then go for Peter Thiel's book Zero to One.
- huijzer 3y agoBooks are really the way to go, by the way. It's hard to find successful people who haven't read tons of books. I just read Marshall Field's: The Store that Helped Build Chicago about the legendary Marshall Field's store in Chicago. Guess what he did: he worked through the day in the store and spend his evenings reading. This was around 1850! Therefore I suspect that the benefit of reading is timeless.