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Excellent Advice For Living: 79 Maxims from a Wise Old Man
- ▶ 36:25 David Senra I had lunch with Sam Zell before he died. 5 times in the scene
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 1:31:09 David Senra And this again, like I talked about this last week when I talked about the fact that I had lunch with Sam Zell over two hours. 5 times in the scene
Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
- ▶ 12:20 David Senra Sam Zell was one of the most fascinating entrepreneurs to me. 6 times in the scene
Dinner With Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 3:07 David Senra I've done one with Charlie Munger and Sam Zell and Brad Jacobs and John Mackey.
- ▶ 25:46 David Senra Sam Zell told me to my face, I'll be doing deals till I die. 2 times in the scene
400 Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 1:04:46 David Senra And so when, um, I was lucky enough to have a two hour lunch with Sam Zell before he died. 5 times in the scene
The Wallenberg Family Dynasty
- ▶ 48:49 David Senra His style, I would say is much more in line with what Sam Zell said, where he set up his, all of his companies and everything he was in. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:07 David Senra This is going to remind you again, Sam Zell, Jay Pritzker, Bernard Arnall, they have all been described in a similar way that MW is going to be described from one of his directors. 2 times in the scene
Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars
- ▶ 30:13 David Senra And if you've listened to some of the other episodes I've done, like these, I had dinner with, or I had lunch with episodes, like the one I did on Charlie Munger, uh, the one on, uh, when I had lunch with Sam Zell. 3 times in the scene
Rockefeller's Autobiography
- ▶ 3:13 David Senra I don't know if I mentioned on the last episode of Sam's Elle, but my friend that was mentored and essentially best friends with Sam for, you know, decades was with him on his deathbed. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:38 David Senra A lot of the partners he had, they worked together for many, many decades, and because I just finished rereading all of my highlights from Sam Zell's autobiography, there's a line in Sam Zell's autobiography that came to mind when I was… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:02 David Senra Go back to what Sam Zell said.
Inside the Contrarian Mind of Sam Zell
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra A question for Sam Zell. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:57 David Senra That was an excerpt from the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which is Money Talks, Bullshit Walks, Inside the Contrarian Mind of billionaire mogul Sam Zell, and it was written by Ben Johnson. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:59 David Senra Subtitle of the book where it says inside the contrarian mind of Sam Zell. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:44 David Senra And so that brings me to the second thing that I absolutely love about Sam Zell. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:32 David Senra So let me go back to the prologue of the book, because there's just some fantastic quotes about Sam, which I really think helps you and I get into his mind. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:25 David Senra This is Sam's all talking. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:18 David Senra Next part I want to tell you about is his favorite book and his belief that there is no finish line. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:27 David Senra And one of the most consistent and remarkable things about Sam Zell is how anti-competition and anti-following the herd he was. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:57 David Senra And one of the ways that Zell is described by a lot of people that worked with him is that he's just incredibly rational. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:36 David Senra Another thing that Sam repeats over and over again, he says, unless you're the lead dog, the scenery never changes. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:06 David Senra And then another thing I loved about Zell and the same thing that Charlie Munger had too. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:18 David Senra Now I keep repeating the fact that, you know, Zell didn't care what other people thought. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:35 David Senra And one of the things was that you have an obligation to share what you learn that Sam flew all over the world to talk to other entrepreneurs at his expense, just to teach everything he learned. 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:06 David Senra Many of them were obsessed with reading biographies, Sam Zell included, and I think it's because they understood what Charlie Munger said, and he said it so eloquently.
Mr Beast's Leaked Memo
- ▶ 2:03 David Senra So this was my exact experience when I talked to Sam Zell, when I had lunch with him, when I had dinner with Charlie Munger, they had entire historical databases of companies and industries and all these examples from 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:41 David Senra In Sam Zell's autobiography, he talks about one of the most important relationships that he ever made, uh, was with this extremely famous and wealthy family that's, uh, in Chicago. 6 times in the scene
Estée Lauder
- ▶ 41:02 David Senra This is why I told you Sam Zell and Charlie Munger both said to me in different ways in person.
The Nobel Family Dynasty
- ▶ 52:56 David Senra And so growing up with these stories that you hear over and over again, this is something I talked to Sam Zell about when I had lunch with him too, because, you know, his family escaped the Holocaust.
The Simple Genius of Haruki Murakami
- ▶ 40:09 David Senra The most important lesson I learned from spending two hours with Sam Zell before he passed.
Rare Bernard Arnault Interview
- ▶ 4:50 David Senra I got to have a two-hour conversation with Sam Zell before he passed away. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:05 David Senra This is exactly what, what, uh, Sam Zell said in his autobiography. 3 times in the scene
The Financial Genius Behind A Century of Wall Street Scandals: Ivar Kreuger
- ▶ 1:12:09 David Senra So that was one of the things when I had lunch with Sam Zell shortly before he died, that's one of the things he said to me, because we were talking about some of his business. 4 times in the scene
The Autobiography of Quentin Tarantino
- ▶ 28:35 David Senra And so this goes back to his mom's unusual, unusually relaxed attitude about movies, leading directly to his phenomenal career, because by the time he starts making movies and writing his own scripts, you know, 1115 years later, he's got…
- ▶ 35:03 David Senra The, the, the people I mentioned earlier, in addition to Napoleon, was Charlie Munger, Sam Zell, and Kobe. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:00 David Senra Napoleon, Sam Zell, all these people I mentioned on the podcast.
The Robber Baron's Art Dealer: Joseph Duveen
- ▶ 57:02 David Senra The next one is the autobiography of Sam Zell.
Texas Oil Billionaire Monty Moncrief
- ▶ 32:14 David Senra You know what, it reminded me of something that Sam Zell said. 2 times in the scene
Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy
- ▶ 59:16 David Senra When Napoleon was like, hey, when you read his words, he was like, hey, you know, in 300 AD, this guy did this, and in 1645, this guy did this, and look, he was trying to cross the river here, or 17 55, this guy did this. 2 times in the scene
How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: The Life Story of Samuel Insull
- ▶ 8:23 David Senra The other night, I was having dinner with two founder friends, and we had, we ended up having this very interesting discussion on Sam Zell, and I actually went, it inspired me the next morning to go and reread all my highlights from Sam… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:54 David Senra Then there's three in a row, uh, from Sam Zell.
Oprah In Her Own Words
- ▶ 57:28 David Senra Sam Zell talked about it when I met him. 2 times in the scene
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz
- ▶ 58:16 David Senra This is something that I had the pleasure of speaking to both, uh, Sam Zell and Charlie Munger in person.
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
- ▶ 7:28 David Senra And so the note I left myself when I read this the second time was he's a moneymaker his whole life, just like Sam Zell. 4 times in the scene
Billionaire Art Dealer Larry Gagosian
- ▶ 41:53 David Senra In fact, this reminds me of Sam Zell. 7 times in the scene
John D Rockefeller: 38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son
- ▶ 35:07 David Senra This entire paragraph reminds me of Sam Zell and the way he described it. 4 times in the scene
Working with Jeff Bezos
- ▶ 19:12 David Senra I think it's episode two 97. 2 times in the scene
Walt Disney and Picasso
- ▶ 47:55 David Senra I, I experienced this to some degree when I got to sit down, um, and have a two hour long lunch with Sam Zell. 4 times in the scene
Rose Blumkin (Warren Buffett's Favorite Founder)
- ▶ 30:10 David Senra So when I had lunch with Sam Zell, that was episode two 98. 2 times in the scene
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 1:28:36 David Senra And this, again, like, I talked about this last week when I talked about the fact that I had lunch with Sam Zell over two hours. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:12 David Senra To the average person that are going to think people like us are saying, you know, I told the story where I was telling my dad that I got to meet Sam and like, you know, this guy sold his company for thirty-eight billion dollars, 81 years…
What I learned from having lunch with Sam Zell
- ▶ 0:02 David Senra What I'm going to do first is go into detail about what I learned from having a two hour lunch with Sam Zell. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:21 David Senra And so I get a DM from Rick Gersten, who has been friends, a close friend of Sam for like two decades. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:43 David Senra If you read Sam's autobiography, uh, you know that his father, uh, it was actually very interesting. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:14 David Senra The one time he looked at his phone, 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:47 David Senra I'm doing this intro after, and I quote directly from Sam's autobiography where he's sitting there talking about, I was like, listen, uh, he was, it's his, 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:37 David Senra Uh, and the one Sam Zell told me that I had to read, uh, one that Sam Zell talks about in his autobiography that he read when he was a young man. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:41 David Senra In 1970, if you read Sam Zell's autobiography, he says it was around 1971 when he picks up the book. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:14 David Senra Uh, what's so fascinating about sitting down and talking to Sam Zell is that every single person, this is not an exaggeration, every single entrepreneur from history that I brought up to Sam Zell, there's not one thing that I could tell,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:20 David Senra Think about a thirty-year-old Sam Zell picking up this book, learning from, using the, the life experience of Zeckendorf as leverage. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:42 David Senra Like obviously Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have mastered, uh, Sam Zell. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:47 David Senra This is where, before I met Sam Zell in person and at lunch, I had read the, his, uh, autobiography, obviously, and I had bought the book. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:26 David Senra To some potential buyers to hold back our bid low in the expectation that in our eagerness for cash, the opposite of having a fortress of cash, which Munger and Buffett and Zell have, right? 2 times in the scene
I had dinner with Charlie Munger
- ▶ 1:06:33 David Senra Sam Zell, I don't think I've told you this yet. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:44 David Senra It's something I experienced directly when I, when I had lunch with Sam Zell.
Sam Zell's Autobiography
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra No one has ever left a meeting with me wondering what I meant.
- ▶ 1:20 David Senra Straight Talk from a Business Rebel, and is the autobiography of Sam Zell. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:31 David Senra And another thing I liked about Sam's philosophy is that he's all about long-term partnerships. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:59 David Senra But the personality types that stay in the game for as long as Sam has, and he's been in the game for 50 years, usually describe entrepreneurship as a calling and an obsession. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:08 David Senra So Sam Zell's family is Jewish. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:54 David Senra So then we get the relationship that Sam had, cause Sam was the first one, I'm pretty sure the first one of his family to be born in America. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:59 David Senra So while he's in college, this is how he accidentally enters into the real estate industry. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:44 David Senra So he, so Sam goes to law school and this is what he says about it. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:46 David Senra And so Sam is relating this conversation between a partner in the office and they're just, they can't understand the way he thinks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:44 David Senra He talks, I mean, even many years, I heard Sam talking, I think Jay died like 20 or 30 years ago. 23 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:35 David Senra Sam, just like everybody else that we studied on the podcast, read biographies, learned from biographies and autobiographies of the great people that came before him, exactly what you and I are doing at this moment. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:19 David Senra So now he talks about the building of his real estate empire. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:10 David Senra So Sam Zell's nickname is the grave dancer. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:41 David Senra And so that's where he starts buying into and in some cases, grave dancing into other industries. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:10 David Senra And then we move on to a devastating part of his life because not only does he have his biggest financial challenge in the company in the early 19 nineties, 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:45 David Senra And this is where he realizes, like, to get the capital I need, I have to go to the public markets. 34 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:03 David Senra So now I have to get to what Sam Zell is most well known for. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:10 David Senra And he says, let me leave you with this. 3 times in the scene