My highlights from the book: 1. The cameraman was excited and more than a little nervous. In a matter of moments he would enjoy a unique opportunity: the chance to snap the first unposed picture ever taken of the richest man in the world. The strange thing was that most Americans had never even heard of Daniel Keith Ludwig. 2. How coul...

My highlights from the book: 1. The more successful Linux and open source became the least he wanted to talk about it. The accidental revolutionary started Linux beause playing on a computer was fun. 2. Revolutionaries aren't born. Revolutions can't be planned. Revolutions can't be managed. Revolutions happen. 3. Basically it is short ...

My highlights from the book: 1. Naval has changed my life for the better, and if you approach the following pages like a friendly but highly competent sparring partner, he might just change yours. 2. Books make for great friends, because the best thinkers of the last few thousand years tell you their nuggets of wisdom. 3. If you don't ...

My highlights from the book: 1. Ford generally accepted the responsibilities of his celebrity-he'd worked diligently to cultivate it, realizing early on that his personal fame heightened demand for Model Ts. 2. Ford's Model T changed everything. Thanks in great part to Ford's innovative assembly line, Model Ts were mass-produced on a p...

My highlights from the book: 1. It dawned on me that the hordes of financial novices might be ripe for a history that would chronicle how the old Wall Street evolved into the new. A straight history would be a tedious task for readers and do small justice to the turbulent pageant of heroes and scoundrels I was unearthing. 2. So I posed...

My highlights from the book: 1. Microsoft had become the first software company to sell more than a billion dollars worth of software in a single year. 2. Gates was the undisputed mastermind of that success, a brilliant technocrat, ruthless salesman, and manipulative businessman. 3. Gates had slammed his fist into his palm and vowed to...

My highlights from the book: 1. Morgan was the most influential of these businessmen. He wasn’t the richest but that didn’t matter; he was commanding in a way none could match. 2. He was comfortable in his dominion, though never with his fame. 3. Morgan had an aristocrat’s disdain for public sentiment and the conviction that his action...

My highlights from the book: 1. Few men of Loomis’ prominence and achievement have gone to greater lengths to foil history. 2. Independently wealthy, iconoclastic, and aloof, Loomis did not conform to the conventional measure of a great scientist. He was too complex to categorize—financier, philanthropist, society figure, physicist, in...

My highlights from the book: 1. When Hearst was in college, he wrote his father that he intended to do something in publishing and politics -and he did, becoming San Francisco's, then New York's, and finally the nation's most powerful publisher. He served two terms in Congress and was, for half a century, a major force in American poli...

My highlights from the book: 1. The town of Hershey had been created first in the imagination of the chocolate industrialist Milton S. Hershey, who then made it real in a place where there had been little more than a few farmhouses and acres of corn. The chocolate factory, the school, and the town were supposed to make up a self-perpet...

My highlights from the book: 1. Brilliantly told, Revolver brings the brazenly ambitious and profoundly innovative industrialist and leader Samuel Colt to vivid life. In the space of his forty-seven years, he seemingly lived five lives: he traveled, womanized, drank prodigiously, smuggled guns to Russia, bribed politicians, and supplie...

My highlights from the book: 1. There really were poor Texas boys who discovered gushing oil wells and became overnight billionaires, patriarchs of squabbling families who owned private islands and colossal mansions and championship football teams, who slept with movie stars, and jousted with presidents, and tried to corner an internat...

My highlights from the book: 1. Sam Walton was no ordinary man. He was a genius in business with an iron mind —some say pig-headed—unwilling to compromise any of his carefully thought out policies and principles. 2. To him, making money was only a game. A test of his imagination and expertise to see how far he could drive a business co...

My highlights from the book: 1. At age thirty Fredrick Wallace Smith was in deep trouble. His dream of creating Federal Express had become too expensive and was fast fizzling out. He had exhausted his father’s Greyhound Bus millions. He was hock for 15 or 20 million more. He appeared in danger of losing his cargo jet planes and also hi...

My highlights from the book: 1. The fatigue of the climb was great but it is interesting to learn once more how much further one can go on one’s second wind. I think that is an important lesson for everyone to learn for it should also be applied to one’s mental efforts. Most people go through life without ever discovering the existence...

My highlights from the book: 1. You don’t work all of your life to do something so you don’t have to do it. 2. Beginning with the first strip published on October 2nd, 1950, until the last published on Sunday, February 13th, 2000, the day after his death, Schultz wrote, penciled, inked, and lettered by hand every single one of the dail...

My highlights from the book: 1. The whole point of moving things forward is that you run into problems, failures, things that don't work. You need to back up and try again. Each one of those times when you have a setback, you get back up and you try again. You're using resourcefulness; you're using self-reliance; you're trying to inven...

My highlights from the book: 1. I felt great admiration for men who were fearless and I had a great desire to be like them. 2. There runs a theme of the pleasure and pride in being the first to see or do something, an eagerness to set himself apart from the others, to distinguish himself, to get out ahead of them; or simply be alone, a...

My highlights from the book: 1. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. 2. She deserves respect as a person who, rising above the expectations of her background and gender and defying plagues of family demons, dedicated herself diligently to complex mathematical feats that most of us never would or could attempt. 3....

My highlights from the book: 1. I was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1936. By the time I was twenty, I had lived through a Hungarian Fascist dictatorship, German military occupation, the Nazis’ “Final Solution,” the siege of Budapest by the Soviet Red Army, a period of chaotic democracy in the years immediately after the war, a variety o...

My highlights from the book: 1. Excellence as a goal in itself had been drummed into him from early boyhood. 2. I’m convinced that to achieve real greatness a person needs above all to have passion but at the same time immense discipline, concentration, patience and an unshakeable determination to become a master of his craft. 3. There...

My highlights from the book: 1. Ted came to appreciate the considerable discipline and commitment it took to hone expertise. 2. He was an inspiration. Whatever you do, he taught me, do it to perfection. 3. You’re crazy to be a professor she told Ted. What you really want to do is draw. 4. The money he earned through his advertising wor...

My highlights from the book: 1. In nearly every case the worst pilots die by their own stupidity. 2. I sensed that he was a very strong and determined person, a poor boy who had started with nothing and would show the world what he was really made of. 3. Every muscle in my body is hammering at me. I just want to let go of this guy and ...

My highlights from the book: 1. The self-awareness that would become so characteristic of him was awakening and with it the determination to be the master of every situation. He was not going to throw himself into the world and let luck or chance lead the way. 2. When it comes to serious matters, I have adopted the rule of acting serio...

My highlights from the book: 1. There are limitless opportunities open to the man who appreciates the fact that his own mind is the sole key that unlocks them. 2. A boy of exceptional brilliance, of humble origins and poor health, who dreamed great dreams and pursued them throughout a dedicated life. He was a distinguished but absentmi...

My highlights from the book: 1. Why would a man as unquestionably brilliant as he knowingly and deliberately destroy himself? 2. The rise and fall of Bill Shockley’s company took less than a year and a half. It profoundly affected Shockley, but had even more impact on the world around him and on our lives today. In all of the history o...

My highlights from the book: 1. Bob Noyce took me under his wing,” Steve Jobs explains. “I was young, in my twenties. He was in his early fifties. He tried to give me the lay of the land, give me a perspective that I could only partially understand.” Jobs continues, “You can’t really understand what is going on now unless you understan...

My highlights from the book: 1. At the time of her death on August 9, 1980, Jacqueline Cochran held more speed, altitude, and distance records than any other pilot, male or female, in aviation history. 2. Jacqueline Cochran was a self-named, self-created phenomenon. Whatever the circumstances of her birth, she must have been born fight...

My highlights from the book: 1. The Larry H. Miller Group, which produces $3.2 billion in sales annually, ranking it among the 200 largest privately-owned companies in the United States. 2. All of this blossomed from a single car dealership with fewer than 30 employees. 3. He was an ordinary man even though he did extraordinary things....

My highlights from the book: 1. Every time we had a conversation he [Walter Chrysler] shed tears yet always what started them was thinking of the past when he was a poor young man. At first, I mistakenly supposed that he was feeling sorry for himself. Finally, I came to realize what it was that so deeply moved him when he contemplated ...