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The worst advice you hear being given out often? “‘Look for patterns.’ As an entrepreneur and investor, I am surrounded by people who try to categorize and generalize the factors that make a company successful. . . . Most people forget that innovation (and investing in innovation) is a business of exceptions.
Tools of Titans
Timothy Ferriss
Mrs. B still could not read or write English. Nevertheless, she signed the noncompete, which had been explained to her, with her characteristic mark. The truce made headlines. “And then I made sure she never got mad,” Buffett says. He set about flattering his new employee unctuously to make her so happy that she would never, ever quit and start the clock running on her noncompete.
The Snowball
Alice Schroeder
When two friends are fighting, loyalties are divided. And a careful sorting of feelings and facts is required. Ted and Rupert, for all their differences, were very much alike in many ways. Both men were fearless entrepreneurs who built empires from separate but similar visions of content production.
Born to Be Wired
John Malone
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