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In order to become successful, you must understand why leading professionals are successful and why others fail. This book will help you to learn from mistakes of others, and more specifically, from the mistakes of its author - a leading journalist and editor of a regular column in the "New Yorker" - John Brooks. This book creates a comprehensive view of some of the most influential economic, financial and business episodes of the last century. Bill Gates himself has called the book "The Adventures of the business world", which he received as a gift from Warren Buffett, as his favorite book of all times.

John Brooks was a writer who had made long-term contributions to the New Yorker magazine, where he had worked for many years as a staff writer specializing on financial topics.

Summary language: English