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Meet Julius Caesar: Crossing the Rubicon

General, author, dictator — the sharpest study in decisiveness, and in what unchecked ambition invites.

He retook Jerusalem — and spared it. Even his enemies wrote poems about him.

Twenty-seven years in prison — and he came out to build with his jailers rather than bury them.

Asthmatic child, grieving widower, Rough Rider, trust-buster — he made vigor a philosophy of life.

Warren Buffett's partner spent a century collecting mental models — and cheerfully calling folly by its name.

History's richest man started with a ledger recording every cent — and never stopped counting.

Bobbin boy at twelve, steel king at fifty — then he spent the fortune building 2,500 libraries.

She taught computers English, taped the first bug into a logbook, and retired from the Navy at seventy-nine.

He invented the information age in one paper — then spent his celebrity building juggling robots.

Einstein kept his portrait on the wall — the quiet Scot who discovered that light is electromagnetism.