An article in the New York Times references a working paper that shows that good looking men enjoy a premium in the job market whereas women don’t: Job applicants in Europe and in Israel increasingly imbed a headshot of themselves in the top corner of their CVs. We sent 5,312 CVs in pairs to 2,656 [...]
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For what it’s worth: Do good looking people make more money?
Posted in Musings, tagged economics, freakonomics, Strategy, Success Factors on November 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Warren Buffett on Reading
Posted in Musings, tagged books, reading, warren buffett on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“I don’t think I have any original ideas. Certainly I talk about reading Graham. I’ve read Phil Fisher. So I’ve gotten a lot of ideas myself from reading. You can learn a lot from other people. In fact, I think if you learn basically from other people, you don’t have to get too many new [...]