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Joseph Pulitzer: The Inventor of Mass Media
- ▶ 0:07 David Senra In the 19th century, when America became an industrial nation and Carnegie provided the steel, Rockefeller the oil, Morgan the money, and Vanderbilt the railroads, Joseph Pulitzer was the midwife to the birth of the modern mass media.
Tortured Into Greatness: The Life of Andre Agassi
- ▶ 13:12 David Senra Andrew Carnegie would repeat this mantra time and time again. 4 times in the scene
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder
- ▶ 30:18 David Senra That is a very old and powerful idea that goes all the way back to Andrew Carnegie and you and I see it over and over and over again in these biographies.
How Larry Ellison Thinks
- ▶ 8:23 David Senra Andrew Carnegie made cost control an obsession. 2 times in the scene
The Stubborn Genius of James Dyson
- ▶ 30:25 David Senra That is a very old and powerful idea that goes all the way back to Andrew Carney, and it's an idea that you and I see over and over and over again in these biographies.
How Elon Works
- ▶ 16:07 David Senra This is something that he has in common with all of history's greatest entrepreneurs from Elon today, all the way to Carnegie and Rockefeller and everyone in between.
- ▶ 16:42 David Senra One of my favorite ways to illustrate this and why it's so important is actually from a biography of Andrew Carnegie, who keep in mind, when Carnegie sold his company to JP Morgan, Carnegie had the world's largest liquid fortune. 6 times in the scene
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 14:45 David Senra It goes all the way back to Andrew Carnegie, and you and I have seen it over and over and over again in these biographies.
This Orphan Built a $116 Billion Empire Without You Noticing
- ▶ 0:18 David Senra They all had the same obsession that founders like Andrew Carnegie had that John D. 2 times in the scene
How Tamara Mellon Built Jimmy Choo
- ▶ 1:01 David Senra This is something that Andrew Carnegie actually warned against. 6 times in the scene
The Greatest Moneymaker of All Time: Jim Simons
- ▶ 42:17 David Senra It's about this bitter partnership between Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick. 4 times in the scene
The Life Story of Michael Dell
- ▶ 20:46 David Senra It comes from Andrew Carnegie's autobiography, you know, a 152 hundred years ago.
Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
- ▶ 18:07 David Senra If you go back and read Andrew Carnegie's autobiography, he was doing the same thing he was doing in the 1800 and he was doing it to the steel industry. 4 times in the scene
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood: Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 0:46 David Senra In fact, Andrew Carnegie has this great mantra that he would repeat over and over again. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:01 David Senra Andrew Carnegie, Winston Churchill, Nathan Rothschild. 2 times in the scene
Dinner With Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 11:54 David Senra And, you know, he read the Carnegie and the Rockefeller and all these people. 2 times in the scene
The Last Oil Baron: Leon Hess
- ▶ 0:44 David Senra And in fact, Andrew Carnegie would repeat this mantra time and time again, he would say profits and prices were cyclical subject to any number of transient forces of the marketplace.
- ▶ 1:41 David Senra Cost control is a very important line in Andrew Carnegie's biography, where it says cost control became nearly an obsession.
The Richest Woman In America: Hetty Green
- ▶ 0:12 David Senra And yet she made it a point to learn from people like Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, Rockefeller, JP Morgan, and Jay Gold.
- ▶ 6:08 David Senra So Hedy was born in the same decade as Andrew Carnegie, John D.
Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars
- ▶ 23:04 David Senra Go read Andrew Carnegie's biography. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:50 David Senra Uh, I remember reading Andrew Carnegie's autobiography, uh, you know, many years ago, I don't know, maybe four years ago. 2 times in the scene
James J. Hill: The Empire Builder
- ▶ 11:22 David Senra And he says, Jim Senegal is a fabulous business operator, like a Carnegie Rockefeller or James J.
- ▶ 18:16 David Senra He's up there with a Carnegie.
- ▶ 21:47 David Senra This is very reminiscent of Andrew Carnegie. 2 times in the scene
Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
- ▶ 42:02 David Senra Sam Walton did not make his money through diversifying his holdings, nor did Bill Gates, Andrew Carnegie, or John D.
Nick & Zak’s Excellent Adventure: How Nick Sleep & Qais Zakaria Built Their Partnership
- ▶ 38:32 David Senra It happened to Carnegie too.
Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett
- ▶ 58:26 David Senra It happened to Andrew Carnegie.
How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty
- ▶ 25:28 David Senra In fact, if you read Andrew Carnegie's autobiography, it was probably published 80 years before this book came out. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:08 David Senra He talks about Andrew Carnegie.
- ▶ 1:00:25 David Senra Cause not only in this book on how to be rich, but also in his autobiography, he's constantly referencing, you heard him say it, Rockefeller, Conrad Hilton, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, Andrew Mellon.
The Financial Genius Behind A Century of Wall Street Scandals: Ivar Kreuger
- ▶ 8:13 David Senra Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and he essentially did what you 2 times in the scene
The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
- ▶ 43:53 David Senra How did Andrew Carnegie know what to focus on?
Michael Jordan And Kobe Bryant
- ▶ 1:20:13 David Senra It's like, okay, tell me all the important things I need to know about Andrew Carnegie's career, or tell me what are the most important ideas Edwin Land had, or what are the similarities between Kobe and Michael as an example.
How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: The Life Story of Samuel Insull
- ▶ 2:22 David Senra So you can think of what Rockefeller was to oil, what Henry Ford was to the automobile, uh, what JP Morgan was to finance and what Carnegie was to steal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:56 David Senra Just like Carnegie before him and Rockefeller, we see this over and over again. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:15 David Senra And so I mentioned earlier, I really think of Insel and a lot of the, like Carnegie and, and Rockefeller and, uh, and Ford.
How To Make A Few Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs
- ▶ 28:04 David Senra Uh, I remember reading Andrew Carnegie's autobiography, uh, you know, many years ago, I don't know, maybe four years ago. 2 times in the scene
Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)
- ▶ 1:00:06 David Senra Carnegie, Andrew Carnegie, same thing. 3 times in the scene
Tom Murphy (Warren Buffett's Favorite Manager)
- ▶ 23:25 David Senra That is a quote from Andrew Carnegie. 3 times in the scene
John D Rockefeller: 38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son
- ▶ 15:49 David Senra Andrew Carnegie is in this book.
- ▶ 1:28:20 David Senra And so then he has a letter about a visit from Mr. 8 times in the scene
Arnold Schwarzenegger (Before He Was Successful)
- ▶ 28:04 David Senra There's another quote, uh, that I thought of from, actually it comes from Andrew Carnegie's autobiography when I got to this part, and he says that a sunny disposition is worth more than a fortune. 3 times in the scene
The Biography of The Founder of Glock
- ▶ 29:09 David Senra And then what happens next could have been predicted by Andrew Carnegie when he says cut the prices, scoop the market, watch the cost,
The World's Great Family Dynasties: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Morgan, & Toyada
- ▶ 32:51 David Senra He bought a bunch of businesses, but he winds up the main thing was buying Carnegie steel, Andrew Carnegie's company. 10 times in the scene
Bernard Arnault (The Richest Man in the World)
- ▶ 10:32 David Senra So he's working in his dad's company, and he does something that, this is, if you listen to the episode, uh, episode two 95, titled I Had Dinner with Charlie Munger, something I got to talk personally with Charlie Munger about was this…
- ▶ 32:47 David Senra Relationships, relationships, relationships, and he's doing exactly what Ben Franklin, Andrew Carnegie, and Charlie Munger all did.
I had dinner with Charlie Munger
- ▶ 7:29 David Senra And Charlie and I talked about Ben Franklin, what Ben Franklin, Andrew Carnegie, and what we're going to see Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger had in common.
- ▶ 9:50 David Senra And while we're having this discussion, Charlie mentioned the fact that Andrew Carnegie did this as well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:54 David Senra Even if Sam Walton, Estee Lauder, Steve Jobs, Andrew Carnegie, even if they never made an investment outside of their company,
- ▶ 37:56 David Senra Sam Walton, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Rockefeller, Edwin Land, Coco Chanel, Andrew Carnegie, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Larry Ellison, Ray Kroc, John Malone, Henry Ford, George Lucas, the Wright brothers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:33 David Senra So let's go back to this idea that Charlie mentioned, the fact that this is what Ben Franklin did, this is what Andrew Carnegie did, this is what, uh, him and Warren Buffett did, that you've got to try to build this seamless web of trust…
The Biography of Napoleon
- ▶ 3:35 David Senra Anywhere from Henry Clay Frick, to Edison, to Larry Ellison, to Julio Lobo, which is the last billionaire, uh, in Cuba before Castro took over, to Aristotle Onassis, to Bill Gates, to Andrew Carnegie.
The Biography of Ralph Lauren
- ▶ 50:34 David Senra I think it's Andrew Carnegie that, that said that the importance of paying attention to the expense side of your business, where most people just focus on the sales side, which is crazy to me, is the most common theme in the history of…
Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 56:01 David Senra So in the past few episodes, and really, I mean, this is a main theme throughout Founders, but it has been especially pronounced in, actually, uh, it's episode two, uh, two 83 of Andrew Carnegie and two 84 of Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay… 2 times in the scene
How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune
- ▶ 0:55 David Senra Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie are not the focus of this book because they made their money in industry, not in finance. 2 times in the scene
Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick's Bitter Partnership
- ▶ 0:01 David Senra One of America's wealthiest men, his holdings valued at more than a hundred billion dollars in today's dollars, sat up in his sickbed in his Manhattan home and called to one of his caregivers for a pen and paper, Andrew Carnegie. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:31 David Senra That was an excerpt from the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which is Meet You in Hell, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership that Transformed America, and it was written by Les Staniford. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:11 David Senra By at the end of the book, we'll go over Andrew Carnegie selling his steel company to JP Morgan. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:48 David Senra So before the author introduces us to Henry Clay Frick, he gives an overview of Andrew Carnegie's life. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:01 David Senra So at this point in Andrew's career, he's got his hands on a bunch of different things. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:35 David Senra Carnegie continued his quest to cut cost, focusing now on the raw materials demanded by the steelmaking process. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:14 David Senra So Carnegie's brother had actually died of pneumonia. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:49 David Senra And so the background is freaking Carnegie.
- ▶ 49:08 David Senra The beginning of the end for the Frick Carnegie partnership.
- ▶ 50:04 David Senra In one case, Carnegie wants to buy one of Frick's former competitors, uh, this, this company that produces Coke. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:51 David Senra And so this is where Carnegie goes too far. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:11 David Senra Starts analyzing Carnegie's business is like, oh, I do not want to compete with that. 14 times in the scene
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
- ▶ 0:33 David Senra That is an excerpt from the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which is written over a hundred years ago, which is the autobiography of Andrew Carnegie. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:09 David Senra Ok, so Carnegie starts the book talking about his parents and childhood, but then he, the first thing he says, one of the first things he says is like why he decided to write an autobiography 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:00 David Senra and so the reason I'm glad that Carnegie put that at the beginning of the book, because this book is only 330 pages. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:21 David Senra And so I want to jump right into the life circumstances that motivated Carnegie to build wealth. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:58 David Senra Even at a young age, I meant, I mentioned, uh, Carnegie's obsession with cost. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:37 David Senra My father was then 43, my mother 33, I was 13, and my brother was five. 21 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:30 David Senra This is another theme in Andrew Carnegie's life. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:45 David Senra One of the greatest philanthropic gifts that Andrew Carnegie gave to the world is the fact that he built all these libraries. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:16 David Senra Okay, so he's working inside of a telegraph office at this point. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:49 David Senra Later on, Andrew Carnegie considers, he says that Thomas Scott was a genius. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:10 David Senra I'm going to interrupt that, um, that paragraph, something that's a main theme of Carnegie. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:00 David Senra Andrew is famous for his dedication to the idea that put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:12 David Senra And so they have the idea that Carnegie and his partners have the idea. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:52 David Senra He was supposed to continue writing 3 times in the scene
Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 25:40 David Senra The maxim that I always think of, I can't remember if it was, uh, either Andrew Carnegie or his partner, Henry Clay Frick.
The Biography of Jimi Hendrix
- ▶ 48:33 David Senra And I told you last week that I've been re, uh, reading a lot of my highlights from Andrew Carnegie. 5 times in the scene
What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett
- ▶ 38:09 David Senra I've been rereading a lot of my highlights from the two or three books that I read on Andrew Carnegie, and I'm pretty sure I'm getting ready to reread his autobiography because it's just been top of my mind so much. 2 times in the scene
Paul Graham's Essays
- ▶ 45:03 David Senra I immediately think of Andrew Carnegie and Henry K. 3 times in the scene
The Biography of John Malone (Cable Cowboy)
- ▶ 5:47 David Senra He had skated very close to security law violations, and like industrial powers, Andrew Carnegie or JP Morgan before him,
The Biography of Thomas Edison
- ▶ 19:53 David Senra A few steady young operators rose from the ranks to become industrial magnets like Andrew Carnegie, because that's what one of the first jobs Carnegie had, and I think he was around 12 at the time, too. 2 times in the scene