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Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy
- ▶ 7:44 David Senra I mean, now, this is even rereading this after studying Sam Insull. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:17 David Senra Uh, last week, Sam Insel, how much, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:43 David Senra This came top of mind because I just read Sam Insull's biography. 4 times in the scene
How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: The Life Story of Samuel Insull
- ▶ 0:01 David Senra Do you remember Sam Insull, the billionaire utility tycoon from Chicago? 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:02 David Senra So I'm going to start with the relationship that he had with his father. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:26 David Senra In fact, uh, one of the, these authors, uh, this guy named Samuel Smiles that Insul was reading about actually wrote a series of inspirational books that we'd call self-help today. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:26 David Senra And so now Sam starts to see, oh, this is a path to advancement. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:12 David Senra Insel is 19, and he still has this habit of reading and using the best, like absorbing as much useful information as possible. 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:12 David Senra It's not like Sam Insull. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:02 David Senra Take a look at all my resources, young Sam Insul, because remember he had been writing there, essentially what he's going to do, he's going to sell off a bunch of like his patents and licenses for his telephone business. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:54 David Senra Like the intro is, hey, this guy, the subtitles, the rise and fall of a billionaire utility tycoon. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:31 David Senra And so this is a very important six years in Samuels' life because he is now essentially saying, hey, Thomas Edison's like, you, you have to run the company, and Edison is, he's not interested in, like, he's off on other things now, right? 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:19 David Senra But at the very beginning of the book, it mentions, hey, it's that billionaire utility tycoon from Chicago. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:09 David Senra That was Insul's idea. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:30 David Senra They guess that maybe, maybe one day you might be able to get 25,000 customers, Sam. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:22 David Senra And so he has a great understanding of what we would call public relations, even though there was no such term as public relations in his day. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:01 David Senra Insull proposed to them a mortgage with no limit, and they accepted. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:20 David Senra Convinced that the vulnerability of utilities derived from a lack of popular understanding, Insull attempted to educate his customers. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:51 David Senra Uh, every employee of Insul's, uh, companies were stock salesmen. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:09 David Senra The first thing he did was go to the rescue of his employees who were caught with margin brokerage accounts by supplying him from his personal portfolio, whatever additional collateral they needed. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:41 David Senra Uh, and then the guy that is doing this for insole said very, so this, it's very simple. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:15 David Senra He eventually flees, and is extradited back to the United States, put on trial multiple times, beats every single trial that can never prove any fraud. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:35 David Senra Um, and I was just sitting here thinking, it was like, imagine a young Sam Insul, right? 3 times in the scene