![]() ![]() Anyway, I figure it's worth a look at the other six stories once the new edition is out. But what do I know - unlike Gates or Warren Buffet, I'm not rich. I don't think the sad story of Piggly Wiggly's founder trying to corner the market was enough, even with Brooks' musing on The City, London's version of Wall Street, or his investigation of what went wrong with the Edsel. While I grant that these stories are very entertaining, especially the snarky essay on how "communication difficulties" caused GE to get in antitrust trouble, I have to suppose there must be something in the later-written essays to have prompted Gates' remark. ![]() He was also associated with Time, Harper’s Magazine and The New York Times Book Review. (They will soon - it's being reprinted.) One lone library has a copy of "The Fate of the Edsel," however, so without noticing that this earlier release is missing six of the twelve stories of the later one, I put in my request. John Brooks was an American writer who contributed to The New Yorker magazine for a long time, specializing in financial topics. ![]() I hop online to request it from my local library co-op and lo, nobody has it. So, Bill Gates thinks John Brooks' "Business Adventures" is the greatest business book ever written. ![]()
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