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If you want to learn about business, the late 19th and 20th centuries offer absolute treasures.
Here are some of the best books about some of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time: 🧵
1. "The Rockefeller Biography" — The Life of John D. Rockefeller
Adjusted for inflation, Rockefeller's net worth exceeds $400 billion.

"There are 60,000 economists in the United States, many of whom are employed full-time trying to predict recessions and interest rates. If they could successfully do so twice in a row, they would have been millionaires long ago. As far as I know, most of them are still employed, which should say something."
— Peter Lynch

If you're really so smart, why are you doing a job you dislike?

"Everyone tries to become smart, but I am just trying not to be foolish."
— Charlie Munger

If you want to achieve long-term investment success, learn these 3 skills:
1. Financial literacy
2. Risk management
3. Patience and discipline
Simple, but not easy.

I want to go for a car wash. The car wash is 50 meters from my house. Should I drive or walk there?
Doubao: Walk
Yuanbao: Walk
Qwen: Walk
kimi: Walk
deepseek: Walk
ChatGPT: Walk
Grok: Walk
Claude: Walk
Gemini: Drive
— "A Cold Joke"

“When I was 17, I arrived in Montreal alone with $2,000. No backup, no connections, nothing. My father insisted I would fail and that I would be back in less than three months.”
— Elon Musk

According to the current algorithm disclosed by X, is it true that the basic traffic of a post is already determined before it is published?
Apart from the content of the post itself, constantly posting to change its feature vector seems to suggest that only when a big influencer cites the post does it have a chance to increase its view count.

The biggest alpha (competitive advantage) in a career comes from maintaining your physique and enhancing your image. Studies show that more attractive individuals tend to get promoted faster, and solely because of this trait, they ultimately gain more opportunities.