Assertion Contradicted
Kennedy: Hundreds remain missing in North Carolina and Tennessee disaster zone unreported
“The number of missing is, is still in the hundreds and again, not being reported.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kennedy: FEMA personnel fully booked one of the only powered local hotels
“I go to the only hotel where there's two in the town that had power, and it was completely booked up with federal FEMA personnel.”
Opinion
Tim Kennedy: Entrepreneurs and Veterans Provided Disaster Aid the Government Couldn't
“From Afghanistan to Western North Carolina, the response of the American people the generosity of the entrepreneur and veteran community to do what the government couldn't even do.”
Opinion
Kennedy: Suffering Is the Best Thing for a Young Person
“I really believe that suffering is the best thing that can happen to a young person.”
Insight
Kennedy: Inability to cause harm is uselessness, not true virtue
“Like, if you're not capable of hurting somebody and you don't hurt somebody, that doesn't mean you're good. It just means you're useless. But if I'm able to take your face off, but I choose to be kind and gracious and giving and selfless to you, now I'm good.”
Opinion
Kennedy: The industrial food complex is toxic and tries to poison consumers
“It's toxic. They're trying to poison us. They want you sick.”
Opinion
Kennedy: Traditional schools strip children of critical thinking and creativity
“We're putting, first and foremost, inside of them this intrinsic desire to accomplish, to create, to collaborate, to critically think. And those characteristics are not being taught in school. I argue that they're actually being taken from them.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kennedy: Grassroots Volunteers Bypassed Roadblocks to Deliver Hurricane Relief
“I'll take two of them rednecks in, in a Toyota Overlander that over a hundred PhDs from the federal government, and they literally would, they could get into areas that nobody could get into, and they were bringing Life-sustaining support to these people in th…”
Insight
Tim Kennedy: Military and civilian leadership, strategy, and rehearsals should be identical
“There's no difference in leadership from military leadership to civilian leadership. Leadership is leadership. And when it comes to strategy, rehearsals, and time management, civilian and military approach to that, I think should be the same.”
Assertion Contradicted
Kennedy: Studies show financial outcome mirrors peer circle within $100,000
“Studies have shown economically, financially your circle plus or minus a 100,000 dollars is where you, you're going to end up.”
Insight
Kennedy: Marital infidelity entirely disqualifies a potential partner from handling capital.
“If you're not going to be faithful to your wife, you're not going to be faithful with my money. If you're not going to be disciplined with what you're going to be doing with your time, you're not going to be disciplined with my time.”
Insight
Kennedy: True morality requires the capacity for violence paired with restraint.
“The bluff, the bottom line up front is a weak man is not a good man because he's not capable to do one or the other. A strong man that's capable of violence but chooses to be kind, chooses to be gentle, he's clearly morally a good man because he has the capabl…”
Insight
Kennedy: A founder's calendar reveals if their business is worth $1 billion.
“You can look at somebody's calendar, and I know if that is a five million dollar entrepreneur, if that is a billion dollar business owner just by your calendar.”
Disclosure
Kennedy had someone follow his future wife while deployed overseas
“And then when I was overseas, I had somebody follow her to make sure she was a good woman.”
Assertion Supported
Kennedy: Save Our Allies operates with U.S. DOD and DOS support
“If you think that I can walk into Afghanistan during the middle of the evacuation without DOD and DOS support, like, you're an, you're a crazy person. If you think that we're going to be in Djibouti or Sudan during a coup, like, you're a crazy person without t…”
Opinion
Kennedy: Only weapons manufacturers selling to both sides profit from wars
“The only people profiting are the people that make the things that kill both sides, and they sell to both sides, but there's people that need help, and I can't not do it.”
Insight
Kennedy: Greater capability in violence reduces the need to use it
“If you are intimately familiar with violence, and you are capable of violence, the less you have to prove, and the less amount of violence you have to do to ever be successful at anything.”
Opinion
Kennedy: Women Face Far More Significant Adversity Than Men
“There's definitely a difference about how you parent every single child, and especially boys and girls. But I mean, I'll argue that the amount of adversity that women have to overcome is, is far more significant than the type of adversity that I have to overco…”
Insight
Kennedy: Grit, not athletic talent, predicts success in military special operations
“There's not a predictor of, like, this guy did jiu-jitsu, or he was a wrestler, or he played water polo. Like, the best swimmers in the world go to Bud's, and they bump, they bail out just like everybody else. The freak D-one athlete that played football, like…”
Insight
Kennedy: Attention Is a More Important Resource Than Time
“Everybody says that time is this like most important resource. I argue that attention is the most important resource. I could be doing something specific with my time, but if my attention is elsewhere or a hundred percent of my attention is focused on Somethin…”
Disclosure
Kennedy always shares meals with management candidates to judge their character.
“Especially for like middle management, Or above, I always go and eat with them. I always want to share a meal with them. I want to see how they treat the staff. I want to see how long it takes them to bite, to pick what they're gonna eat.”
Disclosure
Kennedy: Every employee firing brings immediate relief within 48 hours.
“I have never let someone go in a layoff or fired somebody that I was not immediately relieved within 48 hours that that was the right thing, and I wish that I had done it months prior.”
Insight
Kennedy: Great Leaders Choose Dysfunctional Teams to Solve Collective Problems
“Really great leaders will go into a bad leadership Problem because they run towards the sound of gunfire. They turn and they face the problem and they want to address it. And they see whether it's a culture problem, a leadership problem a substance abuse probl…”
Insight
Kennedy: Founder Ego Inevitably Obstructs Necessary Operational Delegation
“What, for that transition to happen is you're gonna have to be able to build, mentor, and then ultimately delegate responsibility and authority to the people that are gonna be running that, and that is a selfless act. That is you having faith And a little bit …”
Tim Kennedy