Paris, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Paris comes up
The Merchant Bankers
- ▶ 31:45 David Senra Orrard pointed out that all one had to do was get the Mexican silver treasure out of Veracruz and bring it to Paris.
Steve Jobs in Exile
- ▶ 2:18 David Senra So he spends the summer in Paris trying to figure out what the hell he's going to do next. 5 times in the scene
How Larry Ellison Thinks
- ▶ 48:46 David Senra They then send that price out to Paris, Munich, and London.
The Outsiders Who Changed F1 Forever
- ▶ 29:40 David Senra In early, 1981, after talks in Italy and Paris, they reached a compromise.
The Greatest Marketer of All Time and The Cofounder of the Michelin Family Dynasty Andre Michel
- ▶ 6:14 David Senra But he wanted to live in Paris and not the remote and isolated part of France where the factory is located.
- ▶ 14:34 David Senra The race starts in Paris. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:08 David Senra At this giant exposition in Paris in. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:45 David Senra He sees the first, the first few horseless carriages in Paris.
- ▶ 39:18 David Senra Why don't we open a tourist office in Paris? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:35 David Senra Andre found it personally offensive that the buses in my beloved Paris are still using solid rubber.
The Wallenberg Family Dynasty
- ▶ 13:45 David Senra He then goes to Brown Brothers in New York, and then Credit Lyonnais in Paris.
Amancio Ortega: The Genius Behind The Inditex Group
- ▶ 24:52 David Senra So they have people dispersed in New York nightclubs and shopping areas of Paris and trendy bars and hotspots in Spain.
- ▶ 40:59 David Senra And then the next year he opens his first store in Paris.
The Founder of IKEA: Ingvar Kamprad
- ▶ 26:28 David Senra About 63 dollars, which he considered to be a fortune at the time, so that he could purchase 500 fountain pens from Paris.
The Simple Genius of Haruki Murakami
- ▶ 0:30 David Senra Once I was lying around a hotel room in Paris reading the International Herald Tribune when I came across a special article on the marathon.
Rare Bernard Arnault Interview
- ▶ 8:13 David Senra Putting them together would reinforce them, and this interview that he granted them is taking place in Paris, and it just talks about the influence that he has on that city. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:33 David Senra What you need and what I would like to run is a craftsman's workshop in which we would recruit the very best people in the trade to reestablish in Paris, a salon for the greatest luxury and the highest standards of workmanship.
The Financial Genius Behind A Century of Wall Street Scandals: Ivar Kreuger
- ▶ 48:09 David Senra Strolling the streets of London and Paris with his wife. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:22 David Senra Shortly after he's summoned, he's got to go to this meeting with all these bankers and investors in Paris. 4 times in the scene
The Biography of Walt Disney
- ▶ 1:33:49 David Senra You know, everybody in Paris thought he was literally the best, which is surprising given like the position of the brand is now.
The Robber Baron's Art Dealer: Joseph Duveen
- ▶ 2:30 David Senra Duveen's remarks about other people's pictures sometimes resulted in lawsuits that lasted for years, cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars, and brought him into courts in New York and London and Paris.
- ▶ 10:49 David Senra So he's got galleries in New York and London and Paris telling them are telling him what customers had come in, what pictures they had looked at and for how long and what they said about those pictures.
- ▶ 20:00 David Senra He'd go rotate between Paris, New York, and London, and his entire business travels with him. 2 times in the scene
How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: The Life Story of Samuel Insull
- ▶ 1:10:22 David Senra On the morning of July, Insel entered a Paris subway, and while waiting for a train, he had a heart attack and died.
Oprah In Her Own Words
- ▶ 47:45 David Senra And she talked about the fact that in Paris at the time, most other fashion designers were men and their market is for women, right?
The Autobiography of Christian Dior
- ▶ 0:43 David Senra The profits of liquid manure allowed the Dior family to maintain a house in Paris and a young Christian Dior took full advantage of it.
- ▶ 3:31 David Senra Christian Dior is going to meet Marcel Boussac because of the relationships that he developed in the previous decade, working in the Paris fashion industry. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:14 David Senra The good, the interesting thing about, uh, the Paris fashion industry at this point in history, it's like a lot of the other, there's this, this idea of seniors that the, these a, like the highest quality people tend to cluster together in… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:51 David Senra I go into more detail about that on episode three, 15, the episode I did on Balenciaga, because it's hard to believe that they consider him the greatest of all the Paris fashion designers, given the state of the brand today.
Billionaire Art Dealer Larry Gagosian
- ▶ 37:07 David Senra Uh, he hosted the dinner in his apartment in Paris, and Gagosian was there.
- ▶ 50:56 David Senra It's an airport for private jets outside of Paris, where his clients can buy art upon landing in their private jets.
The Biography of Jimmy Buffett
- ▶ 1:04 David Senra I rented an apartment in Paris, went to Brazil for Carnival, learned to fly, went into therapy, quit doing dope, bought my first seaplane, flew all over the Caribbean, almost got a second divorce, moved to Malibu for more therapy, and got…
Herb Kelleher: Founder of Southwest Airlines
- ▶ 33:06 David Senra We don't care whether we fly to Paris.
The Biography of Bugatti
- ▶ 55:20 David Senra In 19 oh eight, our laboratory was in Paris, and there he used to visit us once a week.
The Biography of Balenciaga
- ▶ 0:23 David Senra Among the masters of Parisian fashion, Balenciaga was the greatest.
- ▶ 7:21 David Senra He has not gone to Paris yet. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:04 David Senra And so you see the same thing that's happening in the 19 thirties and 19 forties in Paris. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:31 David Senra But back to his dad, this idea where the fact, the only reason that Christian Dior could afford, like, how he got to Paris, was that his dad's liquid manure business was so profitable that he had a bunch of houses, and one of those houses… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:54 David Senra Boussac wanted to own a big Paris fashion house to give prestige to his booming, but kind of boring business. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:33 David Senra Balenciaga's house in Paris looked like a church, and they compare it to some of the other designers at the time, and some look like a London townhouse, or something that's like warm and inviting.
- ▶ 34:06 David Senra And the result of this seventy-year career, he's, he's wealthy, he's rich, he's got houses in Paris, in Madrid, in Barcelona, in Basque, but the way he designed his main residence, something, there's a line in there,
- ▶ 35:18 David Senra Abruptly, he retired, shut down his Paris house completely because there was no possible successor, and returned to Spain.
Walt Disney and Picasso
- ▶ 1:27 David Senra If Picasso created shocking novelties, he did so in a traditional old-world manner, in an artist's studio, and in the familiar capital of art, Paris.
- ▶ 7:31 David Senra Picasso also saw that Paris, with its preoccupation with novelty and fashion, was the place where he could shine and rise to the top.
- ▶ 31:11 David Senra Just as Picasso and Paris went from one phase to another to cater to the insatiable appetite for ideas of the art world.
David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)
- ▶ 10:33 David Senra I was a chef in Paris, a door-to-door salesman, a social worker in the slums of Edinburgh, an associate of Dr.
- ▶ 12:05 David Senra 30 years ago, I was chef at the Hotel Majestic in Paris.
Robert Caro on Power, Poverty, Ruthlessness, Obsession & Running.
- ▶ 8:22 David Senra Uh, this is before he founds Next, before he founds Pixar, and he's walking around, I think, Paris, uh, with his girlfriend, and, you know, he's got the equivalent of about, like, two hundred million dollars at that point, never has to…
What I learned from having lunch with Sam Zell
- ▶ 40:52 David Senra I need to spend it immediately, and he goes and takes this, like, long-ass honeymoon to Europe, and he goes to Paris, and he meets all these other high rollers, and he gets back.
Bernard Arnault (The Richest Man in the World)
- ▶ 30:54 David Senra So in the background, the environment that allows him to wind up getting control, eventually getting control, one of the, the, the things that helped him get control of LVMH is this fact that there is the deregulation of the market in…
- ▶ 44:45 David Senra There was only two Vuitton company owned shops, one in Paris, uh, and one in Nice.
The Biography of Napoleon
- ▶ 8:01 David Senra On the other side of the fight is a slightly larger number of men, dirty, tired, and hungry, who have spent the past week marching more than 200 miles from the coast, and who have the seemingly absurd ambition of making it all the way to…
- ▶ 31:44 David Senra I must make all the peoples of Europe into a single people, and Paris, the capital of the world.
The Biography of Ralph Lauren
- ▶ 58:24 David Senra What does it mean that somebody from the Bronx who starts out selling fat ties can build a fashion empire that stretches from New York to Paris to Tokyo?
The Biography of Vannevar Bush (Engineer of the American Century)
- ▶ 35:28 David Senra I think he flew from, like, New York to Paris.