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How Bob Dylan Studied His Way to Greatness
- ▶ 15:43 David Senra Coming from a long line of Alexander's and Julius Caesar's,
- ▶ 20:14 unnamed speaker One of the books he read was actually about Alexander the Great. 4 times in the scene
How Roger Federer Works.
- ▶ 26:22 David Senra This kind of reminds me of, uh, I read this biography of Alexander the Great and his tutor, his one-on-one tutor when he was a young man was actually Aristotle. 4 times in the scene
Robert Kierlin: Founder of Fastenal
- ▶ 50:54 David Senra The exceptional leadership of a Thomas Jefferson or an Abraham Lincoln or Martin Luther King or Helen Keller or Alexander the Great lives on for centuries.
The Autobiography of Quentin Tarantino
- ▶ 32:22 David Senra Napoleon said, read over and over again, the campaigns of Alexander Hannibal Caesar, uh, Frederick, the great, make them your models.
How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
- ▶ 58:09 David Senra You know, you say over and over again, you need to read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Frederick the Great, make them your models.
Texas Oil Billionaire Monty Moncrief
- ▶ 54:59 David Senra The, the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, uh, Frederick the great, make them your models.
Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra Napoleon fought more battles than Alexander, Hannibal, and Julius Caesar combined.
- ▶ 16:54 David Senra And so he lists some of these people, uh, like Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and he says, they've all acted on the same principles to keep, and these are the principles, keep your forces united, be vulnerable at no point, bear down with… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:58 David Senra From Alexander and Caesar to Napoleon himself. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:02 David Senra But he says this about Alexander the Great, which is going to be, of course, Napoleon studied. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:31 David Senra Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar have all followed the same principles. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:32 David Senra He says, read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Caesar, 2 times in the scene
The Life Story of Jesus
- ▶ 3:08 David Senra I've read and made podcasts on a bunch of biographies that he's written, uh, like on Winston Churchill, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Socrates, Mozart, Picasso, Disney.
Billionaire Art Dealer Larry Gagosian
- ▶ 1:05 David Senra He's been known to observe, with the satisfaction of Alexander the Great, that the sun never sets on my gallery.
John D Rockefeller: 38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son
- ▶ 1:34 David Senra If Napoleon or Alexander the Great had been in business, they would be like this.
- ▶ 12:05 David Senra He is an Alexander the Great figure.
- ▶ 12:42 David Senra I remember reading, back on episode two 32, I read this, this biography of Alexander the Great, and something that, uh, Rockefeller had in common with Alexander the Great is they would, when they would come across a formidable enemy,… 10 times in the scene
Walt Disney and Picasso
- ▶ 3:32 David Senra He's got another great collection of essays called heroes where he wrote about Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln.
David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)
- ▶ 38:50 David Senra This is what Alexander did.
Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon)
- ▶ 8:53 David Senra Uh, in many cases, like, okay, I want this, these traits from Alexander, or I don't want this trait from Charlemagne or whatever the case is.
- ▶ 15:54 David Senra This section is about men of destiny, so he includes himself in there, George Washington, Muhammad, Jesus Christ, uh, you know, he talks about Frederick the Great, Alexander, uh, Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, just goes on and on, but…
- ▶ 20:35 David Senra This line is actually related to the next line where he's describing Alexander. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:59 David Senra Alexander the Great is one of them. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:01 David Senra Napoleon fought more battles than Alexander, Hannibal, and Julius Caesar combined.
- ▶ 42:16 David Senra Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, uh, names a bunch of other ones. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:40 David Senra We just said that other books said he did more battles than what Caesar, Hannibal, and Alexander combined.
The Biography of Napoleon
- ▶ 9:22 David Senra That was all, uh, this book called Heroes from Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle.
- ▶ 24:06 David Senra Here he was, not yet 30 years old, standing in triumph, where Alexander and Caesar had stood before him. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Bill Gates
- ▶ 41:52 David Senra They could go into more detail on the Alexander the Great episode that I did.
The Biography of Brunello Cucinelli
- ▶ 28:23 David Senra Of Alexander the Great who would stand on the beach watching the sea and dreaming of reaching the end of the world.
Paul Graham's Essays Part II
- ▶ 42:06 David Senra I thought about that when I was reading the biography of Alexander the Great for episode two 32, and I realized, oh, the combination that Alexander combined in excessive tolerance of fatigue with an intolerance of slowness, speed defined… 2 times in the scene