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How Henry Singleton Worked
- ▶ 18:39 David Senra He was a student, an observer of the history of manufacturing, of the progress and growth of corporations from the days of Henry Ford, the growth of General Motors, and the manner of successful corporations and growing by acquisitions.
How to Make Ads That Sell: Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins
- ▶ 25:53 David Senra Another thing he says over and over again, I'm going to quote Henry Ford, one of my favorite maxims from history of entrepreneurship money comes naturally as a result of service.
How Raymond Plank Made a Fortune in Big Oil's Scraps
- ▶ 30:27 David Senra And it's like Henry Ford came down to Florida. 4 times in the scene
The Practical Genius of Honda
- ▶ 42:18 David Senra That reminds me of what Henry Ford wrote in one of his books. 3 times in the scene
Excellent Advice For Living: 79 Maxims from a Wise Old Man
- ▶ 14:38 David Senra Henry Ford had a metaphor for this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:05 David Senra This next one reminds me of Henry Ford's great aphorism that money comes naturally as a result of service.
- ▶ 33:34 David Senra My favorite example from history of this is a young Henry Ford meeting his idol, an older Thomas Edison. 4 times in the scene
The Creative Genius of Rick Rubin
- ▶ 42:35 David Senra Lines from the history of entrepreneurship comes from Henry Ford, where he says money comes naturally as a result of service. 2 times in the scene
How Bill Gates Works
- ▶ 12:31 David Senra And he named some in the book, like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Douglas MacArthur, Napoleon, Henry Ford, et cetera.
How Elon Works
- ▶ 24:28 David Senra In the early days of the industry, Henry Ford and other pioneer carmakers did most of the work in house. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:46 David Senra And the way I did that is I read a lot of biographies and he starts naming off the biographies, Ben Franklin, Henry Ford, Nikola Tesla, et cetera.
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 34:35 David Senra Went back and looked at how Alexander Graham Bell invented and marketed the telephone, and he talks about Henry Ford as well.
The Greatest Marketer of All Time and The Cofounder of the Michelin Family Dynasty Andre Michel
- ▶ 41:41 David Senra And so obviously Henry Ford's ability to mass produce 3 times in the scene
Michele Ferrero's $40 Billion Privately Owned Chocolate Empire
- ▶ 33:04 David Senra It's a very interesting idea because that sounds almost exactly what Henry Ford said, which is one of my favorite maxims from the history of entrepreneurship, that money comes naturally as a result of service.
Lessons from Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 42:47 David Senra And what I realized, like, oh, this is like Henry Ford. 4 times in the scene
The Life Story of Michael Dell
- ▶ 58:15 David Senra When I, when I read this, I thought of a young Henry Ford. 7 times in the scene
Todd Graves and His $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream
- ▶ 54:42 David Senra It really reminds me of Henry Ford. 5 times in the scene
Dinner With Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 12:20 David Senra Cause you know, he had read about the Vanderbilts and the Rockefellers and the Carnegie's and the Ford, but he thought it was an edge to introduce people to other incredible founders that very few people have heard of
400 Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 55:53 David Senra If you go back and you actually think about the American automobile industry, I would argue the two most important founders in the history of this industry that, that, you know, changed our geography for God's sake, uh, was Henry Ford and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:09 David Senra And he's talking about the fact that, oh, this, this guy that absolutely love this young, this young fellow, uh, Henry Ford came to visit today. 2 times in the scene
Amancio Ortega: The Genius Behind The Inditex Group
- ▶ 0:10 David Senra The fact that Ortega is the Henry Ford of fashion. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:40 David Senra I think of Ortega as the Henry Ford of fashion, and I'll explain why.
- ▶ 12:33 David Senra So this is the beginning of why I think that I would call Ortega the Henry Ford of fashion.
- ▶ 12:38 David Senra And what I would share, what I think Henry Ford and Ortega share is that they really built their career on one idea. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:02 David Senra Just like Henry Ford said, I'm going to figure out a way to make a simple, affordable car that the average worker could buy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:54 David Senra This is another thing that he had in common with Henry Ford. 3 times in the scene
The Founder of IKEA: Ingvar Kamprad
- ▶ 5:36 David Senra So when I read that paragraph, the first person that came to mind was actually Henry Ford. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:58 David Senra Again, this is what I meant about Henry Ford, the similarity to Henry Ford. 2 times in the scene
Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX
- ▶ 20:22 David Senra This is something that Elon has in common with Henry Ford. 5 times in the scene
Rockefeller's Autobiography
- ▶ 50:10 David Senra The first maxim comes from Henry Ford. 3 times in the scene
Nick & Zak’s Excellent Adventure: How Nick Sleep & Qais Zakaria Built Their Partnership
- ▶ 30:23 David Senra Henry Ford. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:52 David Senra Jeff Bezos was following in the hallowed footsteps of Henry Ford, Sam Walton,
The Simple Genius of Haruki Murakami
- ▶ 32:28 David Senra What did, what did Henry Ford tell us?
- ▶ 44:00 David Senra There's a paragraph in Henry Ford's autobiography that's written a hundred years ago that talks about the same problem that is constant in human nature. 2 times in the scene
The Inside Story of America's Richest Man: Sam Walton
- ▶ 41:12 David Senra And he's more than a bit Henry Ford, a business genius who sees how all parts of the economic puzzle relate to his business.
How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty
- ▶ 47:09 David Senra He talks about Henry Ford.
- ▶ 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.
J. Paul Getty: The Richest Private Citizen in America
- ▶ 12:15 David Senra I think of Henry Ford, who idolized Thomas Edison at the time they meet Henry Ford's unknown. 6 times in the scene
The Financial Genius Behind A Century of Wall Street Scandals: Ivar Kreuger
- ▶ 1:08:38 David Senra I don't even know how many, but the first thing it pulls up, it's Henry Ford in this book today and tomorrow. 2 times in the scene
How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland
- ▶ 14:48 David Senra Although the term still lay in the future, Walt Disney was visiting a theme park and one of Walt Disney's heroes was Henry Ford.
- ▶ 15:02 David Senra So Henry Ford at this point is the richest American, and he was building this thing called Greenville, Greenfield Village. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:09 David Senra Now, what is remarkable is one of other Disney's heroes, in addition to Henry Ford, was this guy named Charlie Chaplin.
The Biography of Walt Disney
- ▶ 1:17:09 David Senra And what was fascinating is one of Walt Disney's heroes was for Henry Ford and Walt Disney shortly before Henry Ford dies. 6 times in the scene
The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
- ▶ 7:27 David Senra Jeff Bezos, Henry Ford, and Steve Jobs.
Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy
- ▶ 55:18 David Senra So it pulls things from like Aristotle Onassis, Henry Ford, Mozart, Bernard Arnault, David Ogilvie, Elon Musk, Billy Durant, the founder of General Motors, Larry Ellison, and of course, Alexander the Great.
How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: The Life Story of Samuel Insull
- ▶ 0:54 David Senra That he practiced and popularized mass production and selling at the lowest possible cost long before these ideas were attributed to Henry Ford. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:23 David Senra He's the, he's the, you know, the, the elder statesman, uh, he's going on these road trips with Henry Ford.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 53:48 David Senra A phrase that his publishers shortened to mass production long before historians mistakenly ascribed that term to Henry Ford.
- ▶ 56:56 David Senra This is exactly what Henry Ford did later on in his career when the Model T was up running, up and running. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:40 David Senra He took an idea from Henry Ford, and he says, following Henry Ford's advice to his dealers that he should solicit by personal visitation, I started by soliciting advertisers who did not employ an agency at all. 2 times in the scene
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
- ▶ 51:05 David Senra So I just thought about another like investor, founder, partner conflict, Henry Ford. 2 times in the scene
Tom Murphy (Warren Buffett's Favorite Manager)
- ▶ 24:08 David Senra That is Ford.
The Autobiography of Ted Turner
- ▶ 41:50 David Senra Henry Ford didn't need focus groups to tell him that people would prefer inexpensive, dependable automobiles over horses.
John D Rockefeller: 38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son
- ▶ 1:16:24 David Senra And so in this letter, Rockefeller's in his nineties and he's telling his son about Henry Ford coming to visit him. 10 times in the scene
The Biography of Jimmy Buffett
- ▶ 36:17 David Senra It happened to Henry Ford in the 19 nineties and it will happen to people today.
The Biography of Bugatti
- ▶ 4:50 David Senra So that is Henry Ford's grandson who was running Ford Motor Company in like the 19 fifties when this is happening.
- ▶ 8:04 David Senra And Bugatti, like Henry Ford, just stumbled upon the fact that they had a gifted mind for mechanics and engineering.
Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work)
- ▶ 40:59 David Senra The example I use over and over again is the fact that Henry Ford is sitting in Detroit in 1900, working on an internal combustion engine in his fucking kitchen, and everybody around him saying, what are you doing? 5 times in the scene
The Biography of The Founder of Glock
- ▶ 7:41 David Senra This is going to be very reminiscent of like the early days of, uh, Henry, when Henry Ford was building his car, of Herb Keller of Southwest Airlines.
David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)
- ▶ 28:16 David Senra Following Henry Ford's advice to his dealers that they should solicit by personal visitation, I started by soliciting advertisers who did not employ an agency at all.
Sol Price: The Founder Who Taught Jim Sinegal, Sam Walton, Jeff Bezos, and Bernie Marcus
- ▶ 11:02 David Senra Reminded me of one of my favorite quotes by Henry Ford, that true education is gained through the discipline of life.
James Dyson (Against the Odds)
- ▶ 6:32 David Senra It reminds me of what Henry Ford said, one of my favorite quotes from the history of entrepreneurship, money comes naturally as a result of service.
- ▶ 22:49 David Senra Fuller was an ardent admirer of Henry Ford, who also had no formal technical training. 2 times in the scene
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 32:29 David Senra Went back and looked at how Alexander Graham Bell invented and marketed the telephone, and he talks about Henry Ford as well.
What I learned from having lunch with Sam Zell
- ▶ 1:09:14 David Senra To me, the best path to wealth is what Henry Ford said.
I had dinner with Charlie Munger
- ▶ 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.
The Biography of Brunello Cucinelli
- ▶ 13:50 David Senra I think back to the best example of this in the history of entrepreneurship is the fact that a young Henry Ford, I think he was like, 30 years old, 5 times in the scene
Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 36:49 David Senra The best example of this is like, uh, I always say, you know, Henry Ford's one of the, the, his, Henry Ford's one of the entrepreneurs I most admire professionally, not personally, and, um, I, I really like his philosophy of company… 3 times in the scene
How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune
- ▶ 10:21 David Senra If you haven't listened to episode two 66, which is the on the second time I read Henry Ford's autobiography, Henry Ford, a young Henry Ford hated the drudgery of farming, and he thought that machinery and mechanics was his way out. 2 times in the scene
Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick's Bitter Partnership
- ▶ 20:48 David Senra Henry Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Frick, they all do this.
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
- ▶ 3:01 David Senra Rockefeller, Carnegie, Frick, uh, Henry Ford, the managers of all the Berkshire businesses, they are obsessed with keeping their costs low.
- ▶ 10:22 David Senra Think about what, uh, what we learned with Henry Ford. 2 times in the scene
Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 33:24 David Senra I think reading the paragraph first and telling you why I thought of Henry Ford. 4 times in the scene
What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett
- ▶ 43:01 David Senra Henry Ford did not invent the automobile, nor did Kinko's invent copying.
Paul Graham's Essays Part III
- ▶ 33:16 David Senra If you let Henry Ford get rich, he'll make you a tractor to replace your horse.
Paul Graham's Essays
- ▶ 45:35 David Senra Henry Ford bought out all of his investors. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of John Malone (Cable Cowboy)
- ▶ 45:16 David Senra I think Henry Ford's maximum service at minimum cost is actually a better framework to use. 3 times in the scene
The Biography of Thomas Edison
- ▶ 1:38 David Senra So it starts back on two 63 and two 64 with Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid, then two 65, Steve Jobs and two 66, Henry Ford. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:48 David Senra And then I read, ah, the book Vagabonds, which is about the relationship between Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:45 David Senra This is where, again, I think the focus of a Ford, a Lan, and a Jobs is going to yield superior economic results in your lifetime for sure. 2 times in the scene
Henry Ford's Autobiography
- ▶ 1:34 David Senra That is an excerpt from the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which was published a hundred years ago, and it's My Life and Work, the Autobiography of Henry Ford.
- ▶ 2:08 David Senra And it's, like, people like Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford is, is, uh, one of the people, which is, uh, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:19 David Senra I think that's how Henry Ford thought about this book as well. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:01 David Senra A lot of, so, uh, Henry Ford, Edwin Land, Steve Jobs, they share a lot of heroes, which is interesting. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:22 David Senra In addition to his main theme of service, Henry Ford detests lazy people, and he's going to bring this up over and over again. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:38 David Senra I'll try to change it into product, but in case I don't, if you hear Henry Ford say, the article produced, he's not talking about writing something, he's talking about his product, the Model T. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:18 David Senra And so I wrote, like, okay, how can I distill what I, is my understanding of Henry Ford's philosophy. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:09 David Senra Another main idea from Henry Ford's philosophy, he wants to make simple products, and he wants to make them at scale. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:27 David Senra Like the great thing about this book is just, he's very straightforward. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:58 David Senra The entire time that Henry Ford was having success, Billy Durant, and then really Alfred Sloan, because Billy Durant lost control of his company, and Alfred Sloan was the one that brought GM's, Billy, essentially Alfred Sloan was the one… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:16 David Senra And now he gets into, okay, why the hell are you building a car in 1893 anyways? 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:21 David Senra He's very suspicious of experts and he feels that if you could actually fill up your competitors company with experts that you're that like, it's a nefarious way to get an unfair advantage. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:35 David Senra During all this time, I kept my position with the electric company and gradually advanced to chief engineer. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:40 David Senra So his first car company fails. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:06 David Senra He's going to say right here, the most surprising feature of business as it was conducted in then. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:04 David Senra And so anything that Henry Ford sets his mind to, he's going to be really good at. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:31 David Senra Why does he talk about the need for control? 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:38 David Senra And so now we get to his, like, Henry Ford's iPhone. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:56 David Senra Then we go back to this idea because he repeats it over and over again. 10 times in the scene
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