My top 10 highlights from the book: Listen to the Founders episode on this book 1. There are several "Going Out of Business" advertisements from competitors's stores framed and hanging on the wall. 2. What is your favorite thing to do on a nice evening? Drive around to check the competition and plan my next attack. 3. The woman who nev...

My top 10 highlights from the book: Listen to the Founders episode on this book. 1. All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything. 2. He knows that men have alway...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. I may lose once but I never lose twice. 2. He had such an appetite for victory and such a capacity for work that he was bound to succeed. 3. Arnault is an iron fist in an iron glove. 4. He did not stray from his path. Relentlessly he pursued his ascent and seized every passing opportunity. 5. It i...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Munger is a deeply perceptive observer of human nature. 2. In business we often find that the winning system goes almost ridiculously far in maximizing and or minimizing one or a few variables—like the discount warehouses of Costco. 3. The one thing that all of Berkshire's businesses have in commo...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Henry Royce had known poverty and hardship all his life.The only university he had graduated from was the one of hard knocks. 2. Henry Royce ruled the lives of the people around him, claimed their body and soul, even when they were asleep. 3. Many times our position was so precarious that it seeme...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Wisdom is prevention. 2. The fundamental algorithm of life: repeat what works. 3. Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again. 4. The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful pe...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Neither ever chose to be anything other than himself. 2. What the two had in common above all was unity of purpose and unyielding determination. They had set themselves on a mission. 3. A man who works for the immediate present and its immediate rewards is nothing but a fool. 4. Wilbur was little ...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Even back then I thought I was the best. 2. I would practice from the time I woke in the morning until I went to sleep. 3. I'm not gonna say that I thought I could get rich from rap, but I could clearly see that it was gonna get bigger before it went away. Way bigger. 4. I believe you can speak th...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. He was an individualist who did not spare himself any sacrifice to attain his objectives. 2. I will not whine, he once said, business is not a kissing game. 3. There are times when chasing the things money can buy, one loses sight of the things which money can't buy and are usually free. 4. Lobo's...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. We worked as a small expedition unit, in teams of three, four, or five, but we moved with the power of 10 bulls and the heart of a hundred men. 2. Walking out on my career felt risky, but I was prepared to gamble everything for my ambition. 3. From an early age, I believed in the power of positive...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Steve had an almost permanent intensity about him, like he was always in top gear. 2. Steve once told me that the gestation of great products takes much longer than it appears. What seems to emerge from nowhere belies a long process of development, trials, and missteps. 3. Once Steve decided what ...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. We were serious operators who were in it for the long haul. We had a disciplined financial philosophy and we had growth on our minds. 2. You can make a lot of different mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you’re too ...

My top 15 highlights from the book: 1. Payne walked into Musk's bedroom. The room was literally filled with books—biographies about business luminaries and how they succeeded. It kind of clicked to me that Elon was prepping himself and studying to be a famous entrepreneur. 2. "I think you may misread me a little. My mind is always on X...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. No trait of Alexander's was more firmly held or enduring than his admiration for genuine excellence and brilliant achievement. 2. Stand firm, for it is toil and danger that lead to glorious achievements. 3. True men need no reward for their labors aside from those labors themselves, as long as the...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Find solutions under any circumstances. 2. There's nothing in the world you can do to solve the problems of a liar. 3. Adversity is a great teacher. 4. One of the best lessons I ever learned from my dad is what he didn’'t do properly. Sometimes the best lessons you learn in life are from what you ...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. People with happy childhoods never overdo; they don't strive or exert themselves. They're moderate, pleasant, well liked, and good citizens. Society needs them. But the tremendous drive and dedication necessary to succeed in any field-not only show business-often seems to be rooted in a disturbed ...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. I regard myself as guardian of the company’s soul. 2. Reducing business matters to their essence, whittling away that which obscures or is unnecessary, has served me well. I admire greatly those who practice the art. 3. I loved building a business. What could be better? The products were wonderful...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. On a daily basis, the effects of our actions are imperceptible; cumulatively, though, their consequences are enormous. 2. We play offense while others scramble for survival. 3. Games are won by players who focus on the playing field—not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard. 4. Forming m...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. He read everything of value he could get his hands on, and forgot nothing he read. 2. He thirsted for office, power, and the chance to make history. 3. It is not easy to classify Churchill. 4. Never flinch, never weary, never despair. 5. Churchill was never content to be silent or inactive when th...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Never give up. Only death is permanent. Everything else can be fixed. 2. I couldn't take such talk about not coming out alive. I didn't want to hear it. Whenever my mind told me I was not going to survive, the Almighty told me to keep going. So I stayed away from the others. 3. Because I could out...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner. 2. I had a considerable passion to get rich. Not because I wanted Ferraris—I wanted the independence. I desperately wanted it. 3. He wouldn't accept anything on face value....

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. If there was one essential quality about the man it was his ironbound tenacity, his fierce devotion to the single cause of winning automobile races with cars bearing his name. For nearly sixty years, hardly a day passed when this thought was not foremost in his mind. Win or lose, he unfailingly an...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. He demanded excellence, and he never settled for shit. He just wanted the show to be the greatest thing ever, all the time. 2. It was his life's work, and he never slacked. 3. He gave me really good advice: "Stay public. You gotta promote, promote, promote, or it all dies. You just gotta be out th...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. I'm not capable of doing something at a low level. 2. It doesn't work without full commitment. 3. I'm definitely cunning. I'm always on the lookout for the best advantage. 4. Winning was the consequence of the process that we had concentrated on. 5. A setback is probably a sign that you need to ma...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Risk taking is the cornerstone of empires. No one ever became a success without taking chances. 2. I was single-minded in the pursuit of my dream. 3. I sometimes wonder if I had set my heart on selling tassels, cars, furniture, or anything else but beauty, would I have risen to the top of a profes...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. The way we deal with hardship is our legacy. You can accept defeat, or you can overcome it. 2. Quitting Randy's had probably been the biggest stroke of luck in my life. Opportunity is a strange beast. 3. Whenever a situation went sideways and things looked dire, I always called up my one superpowe...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. It is clear that nothing short of a full-speed, all-out attempt would be worthwhile. 2. Once Leslie Groves accepted his new assignment, he embraced it completely. From his appointment in September 1942 until the end of the war, he worked at full speed, often fourteen hours a day or more. His remar...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. 2. He refused to accept automatically received truths, and he wanted to examine everything himself. 3. Picasso had a saying—‘good artists copy, great artists steal’—and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. The book reveals a thorough, rigorous, methodical person in search of life, knowledge, financial security, and, not least of all, fun. 2. I learned at an early age to teach myself. This paid off later on because there weren’t any courses in how to beat blackjack, build a computer for roulette, or ...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Players who practice hard when no one is paying attention play well when everyone is watching. 2. It's hard, but it's fair. I live by those words. 3. To this day, I don't enjoy working. I enjoy playing, and figuring out how to connect playing with business. To me, that's my niche. People talk abou...