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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 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

Founders David Senra

    • Business
    • 4.5 • 4 Ratings

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

    #345 George Lucas

    #345 George Lucas

    What I learned from rereading George Lucas: A Life by Brian Jay Jones.

    • 1 hr 59 min
    Steven Spielberg

    Steven Spielberg

    What I learned from reading Steven Spielberg: A Biography by Joseph McBride.

    • 1 hr 38 min
    #344 Quentin Tarantino

    #344 Quentin Tarantino

    What I learned from reading Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino.

    • 1 hr 6 min
    #343 The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness: David Ogilvy

    #343 The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness: David Ogilvy

    What I learned from reading Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness Being Very Good Is No Good,You Have to Be Very, Very, Very, Very, Very Good by David Ogilvy and Ogivly & Mather.

    • 32 min
    #342 The Lessons of History (Will & Ariel Durant)

    #342 The Lessons of History (Will & Ariel Durant)

    What I learned from reading The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant.

    • 53 min
    #341 Cornelius Vanderbilt (Tycoon's War)

    #341 Cornelius Vanderbilt (Tycoon's War)

    What I learned from rereading Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer by Stephen Dando-Collins.

    • 1 hr 5 min

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