Rolls Royce

“This is a room that does not exist at GE or Rolls-Royce or Boeing or any other large aerospace company.”

“Rolls-Royce, who makes very good jet engines, are starting to examine what they can do for their computational fluid dynamics programs, what quantum can bring to the table. It was interesting. They got some cool results, but what I really liked about their exp…”

“So WeWork with about 600, WeWork, 600 companies around the world. Think Boeing, Bombardier, Rolls-Royce, Porsche, Revolut, helping them manage their own workplaces.”

“I mean, you're selling names like Louis Vuitton and Costco and buying names like Rolls Royce and Siemens Energy.”

“Like, the U.S. Is pretty quick at, like, seeing change happening, and then pricing in that change. In Europe, I find you know, once a company, like a company like Rolls had underperformed for so long, I guess that European mutual funds, they just kind of got i…”

“It's easy to get a company to shift its allocations away from making Windows phones to focusing on Office three 65. Then the one we took on at Rolls Royce, which was how do we engineer your engines to have a lower cost of goods than what they currently have an…”

“If you look inside of the UK, there's a bunch of aerospace and defense companies, including Rolls-Royce, that have a very tight coupling with the UK government. They have a golden vote. If you look in China, companies like ByteDance and CATL have a very tight …”

“Probably Rolls-Royce, actually because I do think defense is gonna be a big kicker in terms of demand so the air engine business and the, I mean, it's actually gone like a rocket this year anyway, that stock, I mean, it's gone like three X this year but I actu…”

“You can actually build world-class products and an amazing business without having to invent anything new. His main talent was an ability to observe, Think about and then improve on existing machines and products.”

“Inevitably, whenever you hear a brand that is known for quality, a brand that in many cases outlives the original founder, right? Whether it's a Ferrari, a Rolls-Royce, an Apple, An Estee Lauder, a Chanel. You can always tie it back to one insanely dedicated a…”

“The other vital early decision made by the new company was to concentrate on one model. And now that Royce had produced a model superior to all its rivals, Rolls Royce would devote its energies exclusively to this model. Instead of diluting his skills over thr…”

“The control of the company was vested in three widely dispersed groups. All designing was carried out in the south of France. That's where Royce is. All the directors except Royce were based in London and all the production stayed at the Derby works”

“To ensure a minimum of distraction, the office was forbidden the luxury of a telephone.”

“That's interesting that the value chain evolved this way, where basically no aircraft manufacturers to this day make their own engines. In commercial, you've got Rolls-Royce, GE, but every single one of these Lockheed planes, the engines are made by someone el…”

“The reason there's a car company called Rolls-Royce and an aircraft engine called company called Rolls-Royce is that they used to be the same company because until jets came along, it was basically the same technology that, you know, big piston engines certain…”