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How to Make Ads That Sell: Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins
- ▶ 25:20 David Senra If you study the history of Rockefeller,
How Raymond Plank Made a Fortune in Big Oil's Scraps
- ▶ 8:08 David Senra There's a lot of my notes in the book where I'm comparing Raymond to Rockefeller, and there's, when you read biographies of Rockefeller, something that appears over and over again is the fact that Rockefeller was low-key, but he was… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:36 David Senra This is another Rockefeller quote, where Rockefeller's describing the opportunity he sees in oil. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:56 David Senra He, Raymond Plank saw a lot of waste in his industry, just like Rockefeller did, you know, a hundred years previously.
- ▶ 30:14 David Senra My two favorite examples of this is if you read Rockefeller's autobiography, which I already mentioned earlier, 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:59 David Senra And there's another thing that he has in common with Rockefeller. 5 times in the scene
Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 37:13 David Senra There's gonna be a lot of this, uh, what Peter's thinking here, and his writing here, really echoes to me, Rockefeller. 4 times in the scene
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.
Excellent Advice For Living: 79 Maxims from a Wise Old Man
- ▶ 6:23 David Senra Rockefeller had a great metaphor on this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:34 David Senra And I'm sure this is not what Kevin Kelly meant, but Rockefeller's business partner, Henry Flagler, had a sign that he kept on his desk that said, do unto others as they would do unto you and do it first.
The Genius of Christian von Koenigsegg
- ▶ 42:53 David Senra If you go back to the episode I just did, episode four or five, uh, how Rockefeller worked. 3 times in the scene
How Rockefeller Worked
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra So I have a collection of these obscure Rockefeller biographies. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:43 David Senra The first idea to Rockefeller business resembled a form of war. 37 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:15 David Senra Another trait that Rockefeller had is he actively sought out problems. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:07 David Senra In fact, the way that Rockefeller has this relentless dedication to improving every aspect of his company reminds me of my friend Kareem, who's the co-founder and CTO of RAMP. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:24 David Senra Now, another trait that Rockefeller had is this maxim that says the good ones, no more. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:30 David Senra And so one of the most important things that Rockefeller ever got good at was borrowing money. 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:17 David Senra From the very beginning, Rockefeller is obsessed with control. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:09 David Senra Another surprising attribute that he had that was essential to his success and work was the fact that he was quietly charismatic and he was able to get people to come around to his side. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:31 David Senra And number two, how could Rockefeller and Andrews, which is the company he's going to build before Standard Oil, which is going to turn into Standard Oil, surpass its competitors in Cleveland? 20 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:47 David Senra You and I have already talked about the fact that Rockefeller would not allow himself to have partners that he thought were second rate, that he thought were too satisfied already. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:50 David Senra So another idea that Rockefeller would use over and over again, he is in a highly volatile market. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:58 David Senra Jay's interests happen to temporarily align with Rockefeller. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:01 David Senra So now Rockefeller set himself up to a perfect position to take a bold and daring action. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:19 David Senra So Rockefeller would find these highly profitable, but smaller companies that would usually have, have a lot of success because they carved out a niche in the oil industry. 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:56 David Senra Now for the competent people, he understood that he could not force them to cooperate, that you have to align your interests. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:55 David Senra And one way he was the most formidable is that he knew his numbers down to the ground. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:59 David Senra It wants to expand into the refining business, which then will make it a direct competitor to Rockefeller. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:39 David Senra Another trait that he had in his entire career, he would relentlessly and remorselessly eliminate middlemen and vertically integrate. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:28 David Senra In many cases, Rockefeller would try to ignore the outside world. 19 times in the scene
How Larry Ellison Thinks
- ▶ 52:19 David Senra But when Rockefeller used his monopoly to crush his competitors, it wasn't illegal.
How Bill Gates Works
- ▶ 1:02 David Senra Someone once said Bill wants people to think that he is Thomas Edison when he is really Rockefeller.
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.
The Obsession of Enzo Ferrari
- ▶ 43:57 David Senra There is something that Ferrari has in common with John D. 8 times in the scene
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.
- ▶ 31:07 David Senra Now Delvecchio's relationships with his partners is going to remind you a lot of Rockefeller. 10 times in the scene
The Greatest Marketer of All Time and The Cofounder of the Michelin Family Dynasty Andre Michel
- ▶ 41:22 David Senra I was thinking one time, um, when I was reading Rockefeller's autobiography, you know, Rockefeller's likely the richest person on in the world at the time he retired, but he actually got richer and wealthier in retirement than he did when… 5 times in the scene
Michele Ferrero's $40 Billion Privately Owned Chocolate Empire
- ▶ 46:01 David Senra If he used the name Ferrero, the price would shoot up, so he cloaked all of his operations, just like Rockefeller, cloaked all of his operations in secrecy.
Lessons from Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 6:42 David Senra Out of everybody, you know, out of every single person I've read about who do you, who I think is the best strategist and the two names that came to mind without hesitation was Rockefeller and Bezos.
Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
- ▶ 29:13 David Senra First thing that popped to my mind when I got to that part, it's like, oh, this is like Rockefeller. 2 times in the scene
Todd Graves and His $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream
- ▶ 5:54 David Senra This biography of Rockefeller called Titan, which is the most famous biography of Rockefeller, right? 6 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
400 Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 7:20 David Senra And so Rockefeller was asked one time, like, who's the greatest businessman you know? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:50 David Senra John Rockefeller is obviously the, the first example of this. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:45 David Senra Uh, so from John D.
- ▶ 1:02:00 David Senra Um, there's a great line in Rockefeller's autobiography. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:01 David Senra If you haven't listened to it, it's obviously the biography of John D.
The Last Oil Baron: Leon Hess
- ▶ 21:50 David Senra So let's start the, the, the dawn of the 20th century when Rockefeller was at his peak, right? 2 times in the scene
The Wallenberg Family Dynasty
- ▶ 53:50 David Senra And he would say Rockefeller. 5 times in the scene
How Jensen Thinks
- ▶ 1:17:45 David Senra Think about how many different products by products that Rockefeller made from materials that were waste waste materials from the refining of kerosene that he went turning, turning into products and these massive profitable product lines… 2 times in the scene
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. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:32 David Senra So, well, you could think of this as whaling oil is going to get disrupted by Rockefeller, and here's a great description of how shrewd her father was.
Amancio Ortega: The Genius Behind The Inditex Group
- ▶ 37:16 David Senra He has something in common with Rockefeller is the, he talks about the fact that he never raises his voice.
James J. Hill: The Empire Builder
- ▶ 7:14 David Senra So when I'm sitting here reading about the work that Hill is doing for these whole shell grocers, this reminded me of a very similar experience that Rockefeller had early in his career. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:22 David Senra And he says, Jim Senegal is a fabulous business operator, like a Carnegie Rockefeller or James J.
- ▶ 18:18 David Senra He's up there with a Rockefeller.
- ▶ 41:16 David Senra That is one of the things that Hill had in common with Rockefeller.
Rockefeller's Autobiography
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra So the book that I want to talk to you about today was published all the way back in 19 oh nine when John D. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:29 David Senra He was reminiscing and talking about all the great times they had together, and the adventures, and the fun, and so when Rockefeller's writing these words, he's the richest person, arguably the richest person on the planet, and the entire… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:33 David Senra It's very obvious from this first chapter, you know, he, Rockefeller had built this seamless web of deserved trust. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:47 David Senra And so Rockefeller continues. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:55 David Senra Now I remember, because I've read everything I can get my hands on about Rockefeller, I remember Harkness. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:03 David Senra And so there's gonna be two formative experiences that help Rockefeller become a greater entrepreneur later on in life. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:42 David Senra That line that standard oil was developed step by step over a long period of time is very important to Rockefeller. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:30 David Senra And so then Rockefeller starts to go back in time, and he talks about what was occurring before he starts Standard Oil, and he actually had an oil company, a small oil company with a bunch of partners, and they weren't getting along, and… 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:27 David Senra And when I was reading Rockefeller's autobiography for the first time many years ago, at the same time I was reading this essay that came out in 2018. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:38 David Senra And so early in the book, Rockefeller makes the point that some of the people that worked at standard oil, you know, they, they would, they were fine training people, even if they didn't have experience, they just hire for enthusiasm,… 6 times in the scene
Inside the Contrarian Mind of Sam Zell
- ▶ 34:45 David Senra And when I read that quote from Zoe, I immediately thought of Rockefeller did this. 4 times in the scene
Mr Beast's Leaked Memo
- ▶ 17:46 David Senra John D. 3 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
- ▶ 38:33 David Senra It happened to Rockefeller.
Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett
- ▶ 11:25 David Senra There's this very hard to find interview that John D. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:28 David Senra It happened to John D.
The Nobel Family Dynasty
- ▶ 34:54 David Senra I need to tell you what Baku was like at the beginning and the contrast of what Ludwig's going to impose very similar to what, you know, Rockefeller did. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:41 David Senra And so the one place on the planet at which Rockefeller and Standard Oil are not dominating is in Russia, and so they have, there's a series of attacks, but this is a great description of what was happening because the Nova family is… 3 times in the scene
I had dinner with John Mackey: Founder of Whole Foods
- ▶ 22:38 David Senra Rockefeller biography. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:57 David Senra This is very similar to what the secret allies idea that John D.
- ▶ 1:23:50 David Senra So his entrepreneurial heroes are like Buffett, Elon, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Rockefeller.
How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty
- ▶ 4:08 David Senra Do not compare me to John D. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:27 David Senra And when I get to this section and when he starts talking, it's like, you know what, actually I began to envision a completely integrated and self-contained oil business, just like John D. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:40 David Senra I have an excellent story from Rockefeller's biography, Titan, which I'll, which will illustrate what he means there. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:13 David Senra He talks about John D.
- ▶ 56:49 David Senra He talks about John D.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 2:43 David Senra Vice President Nelson Rockefeller did me the honor of saying that my entrepreneurial success in the oil business put me on par with his grandfather, John D. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:37 David Senra He's like, first of all, Rockefeller, I'm a sparrow compared to his eagle.
- ▶ 39:07 David Senra Let's do a quote from Getty's hero, John D. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:12 David Senra He didn't know it at the time, because if you listen to the multiple episodes I've done on Rockefeller and his family, they constantly would hide.
The Founder of Rolex: Hans Wilsdorf
- ▶ 4:36 David Senra Like when I was reading this section, it reminded me exactly of what, like a young Rockefeller. 6 times in the scene
The Financial Genius Behind A Century of Wall Street Scandals: Ivar Kreuger
- ▶ 8:13 David Senra In fact, he studied in, in detail, John D. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:27 David Senra This is when he starts doing, and he does it on borrowed money, just like Rockefeller did at the beginning of his career. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:55 David Senra Much of that money went to the bank again, straight out of Rockefeller's playbook for different reasons. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 1:40:20 David Senra The first thing that, that, that came to mind that I found surprising is you read any biography on Rockefeller, and he had a couple ideas where he felt the optimization, you know, table stakes, that you're intelligent, and you're driven,… 4 times in the scene
How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
- ▶ 40:44 David Senra What came to mind is when I did the episode on Rockefeller's letters to his son on episode three, 24, Rockefeller said something that was very similar in that, uh, in those letters. 3 times in the scene
Michael Jordan And Kobe Bryant
- ▶ 26:53 David Senra I mean, you think about John D. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:29 David Senra This reminded me of a story from one of the Rockefeller biographies I read. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:04 David Senra There might be some stuff in there about Rockefeller and Jobs, but the main focus on Robert, uh, is on Kobe. 2 times in the scene
Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy
- ▶ 21:16 David Senra This is what John D. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:38 David Senra Reminds me of Rockefeller, uh, on episode three, 20 four, uh, an enterprise, he wrote an enterprise is like a battlefield and the purpose of strategic goals is to create the most beneficial state for oneself, right? 5 times in the scene
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