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What CEOs Read Before They Lead
Business leaders find refuge and resource in luxury book collections
By Dustin Lushing
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Posted Jul 22, 07 1:42 PM CDT
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Scanning the personal libraries of CEOs, tech gurus and venture geniuses reveals not only what they read but how they think, the Times reports. The well-heeled have taken to housing their exorbitant collections in luxurious, custom-built, private spaces. And if you read between the lines, the literature tends to reflect the collector.
Apple exec Steve Jobs recently sold his his original volumes of the 18th-century mystic poet and artist William Blake, a possible influence on the iPod visionary. And disgraced junk bond king Michael Milken collects biographies, plays, novels and papers on Galileo—a leader who faced arrest but was redeemed by history.