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...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. His competence was exceeded only by his confidence. 2. He worked at the game, and if he wasn't good at something, he had the motivation to be the best at it. 3. Whenever I was working out and got tired and figured I ought to stop, I'd close my eyes and see that list in the locker room without my n...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. He became one of the richest men in U.S. history ever to be arrested. 2. The epic life of Aristotle Onassis is as mysterious as a tale from ancient Greek mythology and is a study of paradoxes, altogether gripping because of their seeming inconsistencies. 3. Onassis had long since begun to formulat...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. My earliest memory is of imagining I was someone else. 2. By the time I was fourteen the nail in wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing. 3. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer w...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Whatever is there, he makes it work. 2. Spielberg once defined his approach to filmmaking by declaring, "I am the audience." 3. "He said, 'I want to be a director.' And I said, 'Well, if you want to be a director, you've gotta start at the bottom, you gotta be a gofer and work your way up.' He sai...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players. —Steve Jobs 2. There are no shortcuts around quality, and quality starts with people. —Steve Jobs 3. Usually people never think that much about what they're doing or why they do it. They just do it because that's th...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Individuals come and go, but they leave their records and ideas behind them. These become a guide to all who follow. 2. Genius is the art of taking pains. 3. The best ads ask no one to buy. That is useless. The best ads are based entirely on service. They offer wanted information. They site advant...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Advertising is a very simple thing. I can give it to you in three words: Salesmanship in print. 2. Before he arrived on the scene, advertising agencies were mostly brokers of space in newspapers and magazines. With Lasker's prodding, the industry became a creative force and began earning substanti...

My highlights from the book: 1. This is a story told through a life of creating and developing things, as well as expressing a call to arms for young people to become engineers, creating solutions to our current and future problems. 2. I have tried to seek out those young people who can make the world a better place. I have seen what m...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don't take the time to do that. 2. He remade Apple in his own image. Apple is Steve Jobs with ten thousand lives. 3. I'm looking for a fixer-upper with a solid foundatio...

My highlights from the book: 1. He was very important because he was the first one to believe there was a future in financing entrepreneurs in an organized way. 2. He brought a unique style to everything he did. 3. He called his course Manufacturing, but it was really his philosophy of life and of business. 4. At Harvard, Doriot became...

My highlights from the book: 1. He told me he had recently read Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, Buffett was Geffen's hero. 2. Geffen—with searing focus, unyielding drive, and outlandish nerve—had devised and implemented strategies to propel himself to the top of the heap of Hollywood powerbrokers. 3. I used to have phone...

My top highlights from this book: 1. Big opportunities come infrequently. When it’s raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble. 2. Speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest. 3. Now it is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it. —W. Somerset Maugham 4. "Moats" —a metap...

My top highlights from this book: 1. His career was to him a tremendous adventure. 2. I have always made it a rule, which I have found by some years experience a safe and profitable one, to have nothing to do with newspaper articles. 3. It is consoling to be thus reminded that the lunatic fringe is a hardy perennial and not a phenomeno...

Here are some of my favorite ideas from the book: Hack away at the unessential: Coco made hats that were stripped of embellishments, of the frills that she dismissed as weighing a woman down. . . Nothing makes a woman look older than obvious expensiveness, ornateness, complication, she said. Be default aggressive: Coco began to edge he...

My highlights from the book: 1. A business can only be managed well if one pays as much attention to the smaller business transactions as one does to the larger ones. 2. All banks have histories, only the Rothschilds have a mythology. 3. Ever since the second decade of the nineteenth century, there has been speculation about the origin...

My highlights from the book: 1. Riches cover a multitude of woes. 2. Only a few crumbling bricks are left today of the dark, foul-smelling alley in Frankfurt where, in the second half of the eighteenth century, a disenfranchised Jew named Meyer Rothschild founded a European banking dynasty. 3. Rothschild was a man of seemingly inexhaus...

My highlights from the book: 1. I started thinking about London and the German aerial assault of 1940-41, and wondered how on earth anyone could have endured it: fifty-seven consecutive nights of bombing, followed by an intensifying series of nighttime raids over the next six months. In particular I thought about Winston Churchill: How...

My highlights from the book: 1. Sometimes it takes a misstep to figure out where you should be headed. 2. Each game taught me something, each game was both painful and gratifying in its own way, and each game contributed to what came after it. 3. We are surrounded by decisions, and therefore games, in everything we do. 4. If my gravest...

My highlights from the book: 1. Hastily pulled together to fight the Axis, OSS was an odd creature—at once a collection of men and women from the upper crust of society on America's east coast, and a magnet for astonishingly talented and creative people from all walks of life, from Wall Street lawyers to Hollywood filmmakers, even the ...

My highlights from the book: 1. It was the summer I turned fifteen, a magical season for me because that year I'd discovered exactly what I wanted to do with my life. I knew I was going to be a bodybuilder. It wasn't simply that either. I would be the best bodybuilder in the world, the greatest. 2. I'm not exactly sure why I chose body...

My highlights from the book: 1. Casey pursued a Spartan business philosophy that emphasized military discipline, drab uniforms, and reliability over flash. 2. I had heard stories about the company's tireless founder. He was a living legend. Jim Casey started working from the age of eleven to support a family of five. 3. Casey began at ...