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What It Takes
The Blackstone co-founder on the lessons of a life at the frontier of high finance — ambition, character, and execution.
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Stephen Schwarzman
Co-founded Blackstone in 1985 with $400,000 in seed capital and built it into the world's largest alternative-asset manager. What It Takes (2019) is his hard-won field manual on capital, talent, and timing from forty years of empire-building.
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