![]() Bill Gates’ reply? “I have recommended a book called Business Adventures that chronicles some big successes and failures - I learned a lot from that.” In a 2017 Reddit AMA, one user asked if there was any book that helped him through his career. Years later, Bill Gates is still recommending Business Adventures to anyone who asks. Related: Read an Excerpt from Business Adventures (And according to Gates’s 2014 blog post, he still has it.) Buffett responded with Business Adventures, and sent Gates his personal copy. In 1991, not long after he had become friends with Warren Buffett, Gates asked him to recommend his favorite book about business. John Brooks wrote the book Business Adventures in 1969, but it took a little more than two decades for Gates to find out about it. ![]() Gates wrote that the book was “old, hard to find, and the best business book ever.” One of those things is no longer true-after Gates publicized the book, it was put back into print and quickly became a bestseller. In 2014, Bill Gates posted a review of Business Adventures on his personal blog, GatesNotes. ![]()
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