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How Henry Singleton Worked
- ▶ 3:55 David Senra Singleton was very different from other high profile CEOs, such as Steve jobs or Sam Walton or Herb Keller or Mark Zuckerberg.
How To Run Down A Dream
- ▶ 13:00 David Senra This is important because as Sam Walton said in his autobiography, you can make a lot of different mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation, or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
How Roger Federer Works.
- ▶ 11:24 David Senra This is important because as Sam Walton said in his autobiography, you can make a lot of different mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation, or you can be brilliant
The Creative Genius of Rick Rubin
- ▶ 12:58 David Senra This is important because as Sam Walton said in his autobiography, you can make a lot of different mistakes and still recover.
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder
- ▶ 34:07 David Senra And he's trying to teach people like, well, what, what would account for the success of like a Les Schwab or Sam Walton?
How Larry Ellison Thinks
- ▶ 8:05 David Senra Sam Walton talked about this in his autobiography. 2 times in the scene
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 46:06 David Senra It's about making sure that you're, you're running an efficient company, and what Steve says here reminds me what Sam Walton said in his autobiography, that he always ran a real tight organization, that he had no excess people, and so…
This Orphan Built a $116 Billion Empire Without You Noticing
- ▶ 56:26 David Senra Now, what was one of the most surprising things about reading this story is he makes the same exact mistake that Sam Walton did. 2 times in the scene
Michele Ferrero's $40 Billion Privately Owned Chocolate Empire
- ▶ 7:42 David Senra There's a bunch of things that he does that are just like Sam Walton that Sam Walton did when he built Walmart.
- ▶ 44:02 David Senra When I got to this section, this is exactly what Sam Walton, they said, Sam Walton went into more stores, more retail stores than anybody has ever lived. 2 times in the scene
How Tamara Mellon Built Jimmy Choo
- ▶ 2:07 David Senra Sam Walton was obsessed with controlling costs and the competitive advantage that it gave you just like Andrew Carnegie was. 2 times in the scene
Lessons from Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 11:20 David Senra So there's a lot of Sam Walton-esque ideas when you study Bezos, and this is not something that he hid by any means. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:59 David Senra That's very similar to what Sam Walton said. 2 times in the scene
The Life Story of Michael Dell
- ▶ 52:31 David Senra The fact that constraints are your friend is going to sound a lot like Sam Walton. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:56 David Senra Sam Walton. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:50 David Senra There's a funny thing that that story reminded me of what Sam Walton was doing on black Friday. 3 times in the scene
Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
- ▶ 13:56 David Senra Think of Sam Walton. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:04 David Senra So Estee Lauder, Sam Walton, Ray Kroc. 2 times in the scene
Todd Graves and His $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream
- ▶ 42:03 David Senra And there's a lot of similarities between like Todd Graves and Sam Walton, where Todd just, just really focuses on a simple idea, you know, taking very seriously, but also in the way he thinks about the people that work inside of his… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:36 David Senra Like Sam, like I'm about to quote Sam Walton in a minute, same thing. 7 times in the scene
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood: Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 33:17 David Senra The great founders that we've seen over and over again in history, Sam Walton, Jim Casey, you know, Steve Jobs, they want to be told the truth.
- ▶ 54:49 David Senra You know, James Dyson's autobiography, Phil Knight, this biography, they're just really important, because it's Sam Walton's, they just lay out exactly, you know, it's a, it's a wise older man looking back at, with a lot of wisdom, and I…
Dinner With Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 1:32 David Senra That's very important because as Sam Walton astutely pointed out in his autobiography, he wrote, you can make a lot of different mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation, or you can be brilliant and go out of business…
- ▶ 24:04 David Senra Sam Walton, he did not want to spend time in his office, right? 4 times in the scene
400 Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 21:45 David Senra Rockefeller to Sam Walton to Bill Gates, great financial success comes from starting businesses with concrete products in the real world, building jobs, creating value and helping people.
- ▶ 1:03:42 David Senra There's a great example in, um, in Sam Walton's autobiography where they're interviewing other people around him and he's constantly questioning. 3 times in the scene
The Life Story of Jerry Jones: Owner of The Dallas Cowboys
- ▶ 0:54 David Senra Spoke about that sounds a lot like the way Sam Walton talked about his cost control and his manic frenzy for cost control in his autobiography. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:14 David Senra Sam Walton and hundreds of other of history's greatest founders that you and I study in this podcast.
- ▶ 28:00 David Senra He planned to eventually build a Walmart on the property, so sell to Sam Walton, it sounds like this, ok?
How Jensen Thinks
- ▶ 1:50 David Senra This is important because as Sam Walton said in his autobiography,
The Richest Woman In America: Hetty Green
- ▶ 52:02 David Senra This is why you see like people like Sam Walton and other people, they would not let any of their salespeople or any of their buyers take any kind of gifts.
Rare Jeff Bezos Interview
- ▶ 24:34 David Senra Sam Walton. 2 times in the scene
Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars
- ▶ 1:39 David Senra And this is important because as Sam Walton said in his autobiography, you can make a lot of different mistakes and still recover.
- ▶ 1:15:18 David Senra Les Schwab, Sam Walton of Walmart and Jim Casey of UPS. 3 times in the scene
Amancio Ortega: The Genius Behind The Inditex Group
- ▶ 9:10 David Senra This is, this sounds a lot like Sam Walton, who would preach inside of Walmart. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:05 David Senra This could be Sam Walton. 7 times in the scene
The Founder of IKEA: Ingvar Kamprad
- ▶ 36:43 David Senra Uh, it's all, it's in the, the books on, on Sam Walton and Walmart as well.
Inside the Contrarian Mind of Sam Zell
- ▶ 33:07 David Senra I've done multiple episodes on him, but you know, ideas, Sol's ideas were influential on Sam Walton, on Jim Senegal, on Bernie Marcus, on Jeff Bezos.
Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
- ▶ 30:36 David Senra Sam Walton is not looking at his stock in Walmart and maximizing for the best return on the most dollars in his bank account. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:15 David Senra Back when there was a recession in the early 19 nineties, Sam Walton was asked about the recession that was happening. 4 times in the scene
Nick & Zak’s Excellent Adventure: How Nick Sleep & Qais Zakaria Built Their Partnership
- ▶ 13:36 David Senra I just finished reading, uh, for the second time, another biography on Sam Walton. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:27 David Senra So he's talking about Sam Walton.
- ▶ 32:52 David Senra Jeff Bezos was following in the hallowed footsteps of Henry Ford, Sam Walton, 4 times in the scene
Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett
- ▶ 39:42 David Senra It's like Sam Walton talks about, you know, I never really had to invest in much. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:51 David Senra So one of the craziest things that, that kind of smacked me in the face is when I read that other biography, Sam Walton. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:14 David Senra That is why Walton was, Sam Walton was not doing a bunch of investing outside of Walmart.
Estée Lauder
- ▶ 22:16 David Senra A few weeks before that, we talked about Sam Walton in the early days of Walmart.
- ▶ 26:07 David Senra And there's an insight that she has here that I think also Sam Walton realized as well that I want to tell you about one second, but she says we were never to be separated for longer than a few days ever again. 2 times in the scene
Robert Kierlin: Founder of Fastenal
- ▶ 14:46 David Senra Walmart's Sam Walton was a leader when the company he started was small and he remained a leader throughout its remarkable growth. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:19 David Senra Immediately when pops to mind, when I get to that section, that sounds a hell of a lot like the stuff that Les Schwab and Sam Walton would preach as they built their business. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:09 David Senra He was like, and it's gonna sound a hell of a lot like what Les Schwab says, what Sam Walton was saying, what Bob is saying in this book.
- ▶ 28:00 David Senra To go back to what Les said, Les Schwab said and Sam Walton said, right?
- ▶ 33:13 David Senra Sam Walton took more ideas from him.
- ▶ 45:50 David Senra Sam Walton said the exact same thing. 3 times in the scene
I had dinner with John Mackey: Founder of Whole Foods
- ▶ 31:46 David Senra Sam Walton discovered this as well. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:18 David Senra Sam Walton had a really talented executive, but that executive was so talented that he's like, I, you know, I want to be CEO of Walmart. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:05 David Senra And even if you didn't know about this tool, you've heard me use it over and over again, because every time you listen to the podcast and when I'm referencing past ideas from past episodes from past books, like Jeff Bezos, like Walt…
The Simple Genius of Haruki Murakami
- ▶ 5:10 David Senra Sam Walton.
- ▶ 50:13 David Senra It's this picture of Sam Walton. 3 times in the scene
Rare Bernard Arnault Interview
- ▶ 5:34 David Senra We just went over this, you and I just went over this last week with Sam Walton. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:12 David Senra Last week, there's a line from Sam Walton's biography. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:30 David Senra We just went over this with Sam Walton. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:03 David Senra The parallels between Sam Walton is striking. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:00 David Senra What happened with Sam Walton? 2 times in the scene
The Inside Story of America's Richest Man: Sam Walton
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra So the book that I want to talk to you about today is Sam Walton, the inside story of America's richest man, and is written by Vance Trimble. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:04 David Senra And so this is a description of Sam when he was in high school, Sam was going out for football and basketball, learning to play tennis, making A's and friends. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:16 David Senra This is an extremely important turning point in his life, and you're gonna see a lot of the lessons that he's gonna learn from JCPenney. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:37 David Senra So I want to get into where Sam buys his first store, where he gets the money from. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:47 David Senra Because at 32 years old, Sam Walton is gonna lose everything and be forced to start over again. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:22 David Senra And at the same time, he suffers a devastating personal tragedy. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:48 David Senra And so it's no surprise that the Bentonville store starts to do really well because Sam's paying attention to every single thing, and he just has this idea. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:38 David Senra So as Sam is expanding, he's opening new stores. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:25 David Senra And so Sam is always on the lookout for new, exciting merchandise that he can stock in his stores. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:31 David Senra And all throughout his autobiography, all throughout this book, every single interview that you'll see with Sam, even though he didn't do a bunch of interviews, he talks about the fact that, you know, I have no shame in admitting this. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:57 David Senra I think that kind of store will fit in the rural markets just as well in the major metropolitan markets, Sam said. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:56 David Senra And so Sam talks about this time. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:29 David Senra Sam tried to recruit him really early. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:47 David Senra Hardly a day passed when without Sam reminding an employee, remember Walmart's golden rule. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:17 David Senra And so now Sam realizes, oh, Walmart is the main thing. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:02 David Senra And then I want to point out a part of Sam's personality. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:29 David Senra And so Sam is about to turn 57 and Ron Mayer is putting pressure on him saying, Hey, you know, I don't want to just, I want to run my whole company. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:39 David Senra These are the things that, that Sam Walton would repeat. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:04 David Senra Another surprising thing that I don't think I remembered, you know, I've read this book before, I've read Sam Walton's autobiography twice, I've reread my highlights and notes from those books, I don't even know, dozens of times, and I had… 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:54 David Senra This one definitely surprised me, and I think it's another example of Sam copying good ideas. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:50 David Senra This is one of my favorite stories, entire book, something that Sam Walton said over and over again, that he took more ideas with soul price than any single other person. 16 times in the scene
How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty
- ▶ 40:37 David Senra And I still remember Sam Walton in his autobiography says it as plainly as you can possibly say it.
How To Sell Like Steve Jobs
- ▶ 42:29 David Senra And you just heard that because when I'm quoting Sam Walton, when I'm quoting Michael Moritz, when I'm quoting Walt Disney, Herb Kelleher, James Dyson, all these other ideas from past Steve Jobs podcasts, I was doing that by searching this…
How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
- ▶ 3:01 David Senra And so when I was reading this part of the book, I thought about Sam Walton. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:52 David Senra And you just heard that because when I'm quoting Sam Walton, when I'm quoting Michael Moritz, when I'm quoting Walt Disney, Herb Kelleher, James Dyson, all these other ideas from past Steve Jobs podcasts, I was doing that by searching this…
The Biography of Walt Disney
- ▶ 1:40:58 David Senra There's a ton of Sam Walton's ideas that show up in Jeff Bezos' companies and products.
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 0:47 David Senra It's just like Sam Walton's ideas showing up in Jeff Bezos' companies and products. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:09 David Senra I think of what Sam Walton said in his autobiography. 2 times in the scene
How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
- ▶ 5:07 David Senra Cause he'll go and analyze like, why was Sam Walton so successful?
Michael Jordan And Kobe Bryant
- ▶ 57:38 David Senra In fact, Sam Walton talked about having that same exact mentality when he was building Walmart. 2 times in the scene
The Robber Baron's Art Dealer: Joseph Duveen
- ▶ 44:34 David Senra So retail department stores, you know, century before Sam Walton, think about him like that.
Texas Oil Billionaire Monty Moncrief
- ▶ 12:31 David Senra well, why was Sam Walton so successful?
- ▶ 34:50 David Senra Uh, it is episode one 49, one 50 Sam Walton.
Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy
- ▶ 39:56 David Senra I love that, that idea where he, like, breaks down the entire career of Sam Walton, and I think he does this for Les Schwab too, but he has a line in that book that I love, that scale and fanaticism combined can be very powerful. 2 times in the scene
How To Make A Few Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs
- ▶ 40:32 David Senra Les Schwab, Sam Walton of Walmart and Jim Casey of UPS. 3 times in the scene
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz
- ▶ 30:18 David Senra And he's trying to teach people like, well, what, what would account for the success of like a Les Schwab or Sam Walton?
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