Recommended Resources
“Warren Buffett reads four hours a day. If I go out on a street corner right now and ask people, ‘Hey do you like to read books.’ Most people would be like, ‘I don't have time to read, I don't like to read, I don't want to read.’ But here's the old man, the third richest guy in the world says, ‘Hey, I read four hours a day.’ (Reading) Might be something people want to do if they haven't given up in their financial security.” - Grant Cardone on Vlad TV Interview
"“I would continuously search for new ideas. I read every book and magazine I could. Heck, 3 bucks for a magazine, 20 bucks for a book. One good idea that led to a customer or solution and it paid for itself many times over.... Everything I read was public. Anyone could buy the same books and magazines. The same information was available to anyone who wanted it. Turns out most people didn’t want it. Most people won’t put in the time to get a knowledge advantage.” - Mark Cuban
“Read 500 pages…every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.” - Warren Buffett on the key to success
“I read books.” - Elon Musk when asked how he learned to build rockets
“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” - Harry Truman
Articles & Video:
- Strategic Rollups: Overhauling the Multi-Merger Machine - Paul F. Kocourek, Steven Y. Chung, and Matthew G. McKenna
- How CEOs-In-Waiting Buy the Companies They Want To Run - Edmund Andrews
- Forget Startups – Just Buy A Small Business From A Retiring Entrepreneur - Krista Stein
- Baby Boomers: Incredible Numbers are Buying and Selling Businesses - California Association of Business Brokers
- Warren Buffett's Letters to Berkshire Shareholders
- Charlie Munger's Letters to Wesco Shareholders
- The Grave Dancer - Samuel Zell
- The Capable Deal Maker: How private equity firms can unlock the M&A capabilities premium to win in a cutthroat market - Akshat Dubey, Alastair Rimmer
- Roll Up for a Ride Rich in Risk and Reward Making a Series of Horizontal Acquisitions in a Fragmented Industry Can be Lucrative - Luke Johnson
- Start, Scale, and Exit with Acquisition Entrepreneurship - Walker Deibel
- The Psychology of Human Misjudgment (1995 Harvard Lecture) - Charlie Munger
- Financing Your Dreams - Dan Pena
- 1993 QLA Seminar Lessons 1 - 8 - Dan Pena
- 2012 QLA Castle Seminar Parts 1 - 5 - Dan Pena
- Competition is for Losers - Peter Thiel
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