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Re:My First BillG Review (2006) by imranq on Thursday January 22, 2015 @11:45AM (#8930100)
Looks like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett share another thing in common: voracious reading habits

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000251628

Seems like 500 pages/week is the magic number

Re:My First BillG Review (2006) by alooPotato on Thursday January 22, 2015 @11:47AM (#8930110)
any ideas what point in their career they started this?
Re:My First BillG Review (2006) by imranq on Friday January 23, 2015 @06:52PM (#8938127)
hm, in the video Todd Combs mentioned listening to Buffett say to do this in 2001. Its likely you start seeing massive benefits of this within 5 years. So overall at least 20 years ago, but most likely started much earlier.

Also Elon Musk is mostly self-taught through reading: http://qr.ae/3PHgP