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Bill Gates wrote about his favorite business book in the Wall Street Journal this past weekend, and it’s a bit of a surprise choice.
The 1969 book, “Business Adventures” by the late John Brooks, is an out-of-print collection of New Yorker stories about the formation of the modern American corporation.
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Gates explains that back in 1991 he asked Warren Buffett what his favorite business book was, and Buffett responded by sending Gates a copy of “Business Adventures,” which is now available as an ebook and will be republished in September.
On his blog, Gates writes that one of his favorite stories in the collection is “Xerox Xerox Xerox Xerox,” an article originally published in The New Yorker in 1967. “The headline alone belongs in the Journalism Hall of Fame,” Gates says.
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