Who recommended 40 Chances?

2 people have recommended 40 Chances in the interviews, articles and reading lists we track, including Warren Buffett. Each name links to their full reading list.

Is 40 Chances worth reading?

2 people we track recommend it. It is best for: a foundation program officer deciding whether to fund pilots or scale existing projects — useful for weighing the trade-offs of risky small bets and learning cycles before larger commitments; an NGO director running agricultural or food-security pilots in low-resource settings — helpful as a source of practical cautionary tales and decision points from on-the-ground attempts; a social entrepreneur or impact investor debating bold bets versus incremental testing — good for thinking about failure tolerance, adapting plans, and when to stop or double down. It may not suit: you'll likely put it down when the book moves into long, project-by-project anecdotes that recycle the same point about learning from failure and humility; annoying if you prefer dense, evidence-driven analysis or comparative metrics rather than first-person stories and descriptive field notes; not a how-to: lacks hands-on exercises or a step-by-step grantmaking/playbook approach, so avoid it if you wanted a practical implementation manual.

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40 Chances by Howard G. Buffett: Recommended by 2 People

Name: 40 Chances
Author: Howard G. Buffett

With a foreword by Warren Buffett, 40 Chances is an “inspiring manifesto…both an informative guidebook and a catalyst for igniting real changes” (Booklist) in the struggle against world hunger.If someone granted you $3 billion to accomplish something great in the world, what would you do In 2006, legendary investor Warren Buffett posed this challe...