Founders

“I thought of Peter Tale's book Zero to one, which again, if you could summarize it, essentially differentiation is the whole game”

“There's this great book on Steve Jobs called Insanely Simple. There's a great line from Insanely Simple that I thought of when I read this”

“there's this great book called Working Backwards. It's on The uh the way Basically how Jeff Bezos works”

“There's this guy. that worked with him for forty years and he wrote this book called My Forty Years with Ford”

“Which is Destiny of the Republic, A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President. And it was written by Candace Millard”

“Uh she wrote This book called A River of Doubt, which I covered all the way back on episode one seventy five, it's about Theodore Roosevelt”

“It's called Hero of the Empire and that is episode three nineteen”

“One of my all time favorite quotes is from the book Zero to One. In that book, Peter Thiel writes”

“The Tycoons, How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J. Gold, and JP Morgan invented the American super economy, and this book was written by Charles R Morris”

“There's this great uh biography of h uh the partnership that he had with Henry McClay Frick. That's called Me in Hell. I've done an episode on that”

“I read this book, I think it's like a Like a six hundred, seven hundred page of the Morgan family. I think it's called the House of Morgan, if I remember correctly”

“One of my all time favorite quotes is from the book Zero to One. In that book, Peter Thiel writes, he says the single most powerful pattern I have noticed Is that successful people find value in unexpected places”

“And it's called Roll the Calls, a memoir written by Ari Emmanuel”

“the book Zero to One. In that book, Peter Teal writes”

“One of my all time favorite quotes is from the book Zero to One. In that book, Peter Thiel writes”

“It's one of my favorite paragraphs in the book I'm going to talk to you about today, which is Sam Walton. The Inside Story of America's Richest Man, and it was written by Vance Trimble”

“It was actually written before Sam's famous autobiography made in America”

“One of my all-time favorite quotes is from the book Zero to One. In that book, Peter Thiel writes, he says, the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places”

“This is a great line in this book of Jeff Bezos that I read. It's in the Everything store where it says that, you know, if you're good, Jeff will jump on your back and kind of ride you”

“The first time this really clicked for me is when I read Andrew Carnegie's autobiography, I don't know, like seven years ago. And it's invest in technology, the savings compound”

“So that is from the beginning of the book that I'm going to talk about today, which is the autobiography of Michael Bloomberg. It is called Bloomberg by Bloomberg”

“One of my all-time favorite quotes is from the book Zero to One. In that book, Peter Thiel writes, he says, the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places”

“It's called The Mind of Napoleon. The subtitle is a selection from his written and spoken words, edited and translated by J. Christopher Herald”

“quotes is from the book Zero to One”

“That book is The Outsiders, written by William Thorndike”

“And then The other book is called Distant Force, a memoir of the Tell Downity Corporation and the Man Who Created It, and that was written by George Roberts”

“There's this fantastic biography of him called The Fish That Ate the Whale”

“Right in the preface. of his autobiography, which is called My Life and I Advertising”

“a book that he wrote maybe four decades before he wrote his autobiography, which is called Scientific Advertising”

“What was the biography of Claude Channel? A mind at play”

“And Estee Lauder's autobiography, I think I've read three or four times”

“That was an excerpt from the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which is Chronicles Volume One, and is written by Bob Dylan”

“in the biography that he worked on with Walter Isaacson before he was dying”

“reads Woody Guthrie's autobiography Bound for Glory”

“Like in Machiavelli's The Prince, there was written the spirit of the hustler”

“I did An episode in the book called The Hour of Fate, which was the rivalry, then the partnership, and then the back to the rivalry between uh Theodore Rezero and JP Morgan”

“The novelist Herman Melville's work went largely unnoticed after Moby Dick”

“The book that I'm gonna talk to you about today is a Mind at Play, How Claude Shanid Invented the Information Age, and it was written by Jimmy Sony and Rob Goodman”

“There is a great book on this that I will eventually do an episode on. It's called Idea Factory”

“I'm gonna read a quote uh paragraph from there, uh from that book in one second too. But I just want to give you an overview of why he's doing this. Again, it just it was just another puzzle. Shin's interest in money resembled his other passions. He was not out to accrue wealth for wealth's sake, nor did he have any burning desire to own the finer things in life, but money created markets and math puzzles for Problems that could be analyzed. And interpreted. and played out. So then let”

“It's called A Man for All Markets. If you want to learn more about Thorpe”

“So that was from the introduction from the book I'm gonna talk about today, which is A Small Difference, and it was written by Raymond Plank”

“from the the biography of his is called The Fish Ate the Whale”

“the Nolan Variations, the movies, mysteries, and marvel of Christopher Nolan, and it's written by Tom Schone”

“That is an excerpt from the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which is The Merchant Bankers. It's written by Joseph Weshburg”

“There there's a great line about this in uh Ben Franklin's uh autobiography, actually. He says, I took care not only to be in reality industrious and frugal, but to avoid all appearances to the contrary”

“on episode three forty eight I covered the biography, which is called The Match King. Evar Kruger. uh the financial genius behind a century of wall street scandals”

“Zero to One Notes on Startups are How to Build the Future, and it's written by Peter Thiel and Blake Master”

“Why why'd you read James Dyson's first autobiography five times”

“I just read this uh book of Elon. That my friend Eric Jorgensen wrote”

“Elon was reading the Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy and he said something that he read in that book stuck out to him”

“Tolstoy opens Anna Karinina by observing. All happy families are alike. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”

“I I think it's episode like two oh eight or something like that”

“there's this great book that I've told you about m multiple times called The Return to the Little Kingdom, and the updated version is written by Michael Moore”

“there's this great book that I've told you about m multiple times called The Return to the Little Kingdom, and the updated version is written by Michael Moore”

“And so the book that I want to talk to you about today was written in nineteen seventy five. And it's called Honda the Man and His Machines. And it was written by Sol Sanders”

“I thought of this quote from James Dyson's first autobiography, where James Dyson writes, Anyone can become an expert in anything in six months”

“One of my all time favorite quotes is from the book Zero to One. In that book, Peter Teal writes, he says the single most powerful pattern I have noticed Is that successful people find value in unexpected places”

“I'm gonna read you read you this from Steve Jobs biography. Steve Jobs again had this very similar idea. with the Apple Two that we see that Honda had with the Super Cub”

“the one I'm going to talk about today, which is Pulitzer, Life in Politics, Print and Power. And it was written by James McGrath Morris”

“Charlie Munger Listed him. in the book Poor Charlie Zomanac as one of his what he thought was one of the best business operators of all time”

“There's a brand new book. Called Steve Jobs in Exile, The Untold Story of Next and the Remaking of an American Visionary. And it was written by Jeffrey Kane”

“This book is called The Return. To the Little Kingdom. That book was primarily about the first few years of the history of Apple, but there's an updated version where the author, Michael Moritz, writes this”

“it's called uh Creative Selection. It's written by this guy named Coscienda”

“Daniel Lewin pointing to a passage in Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun also Rises. That capture what everyone was witnessing”