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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Napoleon comes up
How Elon Thinks
- ▶ 15:14 David Senra To use an extreme example, if you can shoot lasers from space to any spot on the ground by just pointing at it, it wouldn't have mattered if you're fighting Julius Caesar or Napoleon.
The Creative Genius of Rick Rubin
- ▶ 1:56 David Senra and quote Napoleon, because when Rick Rubin just said this sentence, one of my favorite sentence of this entire section, just one habit at the top of any field can be enough to give an edge over the competition. 3 times in the scene
How Jensen Works
- ▶ 30:25 David Senra Napoleon was the exact same way. 3 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.
This Orphan Built a $116 Billion Empire Without You Noticing
- ▶ 11:20 David Senra This is very fascinating because Napoleon said the exact same thing. 2 times in the scene
The Life Story of Michael Dell
- ▶ 57:37 David Senra It's from Napoleon. 2 times in the scene
James J. Hill: The Empire Builder
- ▶ 3:02 David Senra Like so many other nineteenth-century youths, young Jim Hill fell under the spell of Napoleon.
Rockefeller's Autobiography
- ▶ 18:25 David Senra That is, that's Rockefeller, that is Buffett, that is Napoleon. 3 times in the scene
J. Paul Getty: The Richest Private Citizen in America
- ▶ 20:37 David Senra Remember, he's reading Napoleon when he's like, 12 years old.
The Autobiography of Quentin Tarantino
- ▶ 35:03 David Senra The, the, the people I mentioned earlier, in addition to Napoleon, was Charlie Munger, Sam Zell, and Kobe.
How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
- ▶ 57:57 David Senra And the deeper I go into this, I realize how right Napoleon was when he kept saying that, hey, experience must be supplemented by study.
The Robber Baron's Art Dealer: Joseph Duveen
- ▶ 33:05 David Senra and I have talked about multiple times, uh, with the most recent on the, uh, two weeks ago on the episode of Napoleon's, uh, strategies and maxims.
- ▶ 50:55 David Senra And so a few weeks ago when Napoleon told you and I that it is profitable to study the campaigns of the great masters, I think Gagosian would agree, obviously Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett would agree, and most of the people that you… 3 times in the scene
Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy
- ▶ 49:57 David Senra I'd buy, I'd keep the Maximus of Napoleon, like I said, on your desk, just along with like the Tower of Charlie Munger. 17 times in the scene
How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: The Life Story of Samuel Insull
- ▶ 18:40 David Senra If you heard my episode on the mind of Napoleon, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:59 David Senra Uh, two from Napoleon.
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz
- ▶ 1:01:16 David Senra Napoleon.
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.
- ▶ 23:32 David Senra That is Cyrus McCormick on luck is going to sound a lot like Napoleon. 6 times in the scene
The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2
- ▶ 10:02 David Senra John Churchill, they said, you know, was one of the greatest generals up there with Napoleon. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:23 David Senra So this guy says, uh, when he was told one day that Winston was caught up in reading yet another book on Napoleon, he shook his head in disappointment and said that Winston would do better to study the drab heroes of life. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:48 David Senra He was following in the steps of giants who had defeated the Spanish Armada in the 16th century and Napoleon's Navy in the 19th.
The World's Great Family Dynasties: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Morgan, & Toyada
- ▶ 15:37 David Senra Nathan's biggest coup was lending the British government the money it needed to finance Wellington's campaign against Napoleon.
Robert Caro on Power, Poverty, Ruthlessness, Obsession & Running.
- ▶ 43:08 David Senra Ina said, why can't you do, why can't you do a biography of Napoleon?
Bernard Arnault (The Richest Man in the World)
- ▶ 4:39 David Senra This ancestor was a colonel in the Napoleonic Guard, and had served in all the Emperor's campaigns. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:12 David Senra His success was founded on what could almost be called a Napoleonic strategy.
The Biography of Napoleon
- ▶ 41:49 David Senra And eventually, Napoleon is forcibly removed from power, and we see by his actions that if you love what you do, the only exit strategy is death. 8 times in the scene
The Biography of Bill Gates
- ▶ 8:33 David Senra With the same kind of commitment he had made to computers, he consumed a number of biographies, Franklin Roosevelt's and Napoleon's among others, to understand how the great figures of history thought.
The Biography of Thomas Edison
- ▶ 1:09:33 David Senra Napoleon's, replied Edison without hesitation.