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Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett
- ▶ 1:08:17 David Senra So then Lee talks about the influence, the same influence that Munger had on Buffett, Munger had on Lee. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:51 David Senra Again, that's very much Munger and Buffett-esque. 4 times in the scene
Li Lu
- ▶ 33:52 David Senra What he learned from Buffett and Munger.
Estée Lauder
- ▶ 2:50 David Senra Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger said it should be a crime that more business schools are not studying Henry Singleton.
- ▶ 23:29 David Senra There is a line that Warren Buffett has when he describes Rose Blunkin.
Robert Kierlin: Founder of Fastenal
- ▶ 3:19 David Senra Fastenal succeeds because its people succeed, and so it's very obvious as you start to read this book, there's a lot of Buffett and Munger-esque things in it, and that popped out of me from the very first page because he's, he's going… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:38 David Senra So I'm going to give you this company overview and a story about the CEO that succeeded Kierlin and Warren Buffett that I think just knowing all this at the very beginning, I think will make the ideas that he repeats over and over again,…
- ▶ 10:17 David Senra It's just like, I wonder if Buffett and Munger have ever talked about these, uh, about this company or the way they are about the founder or anything like this. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:58 David Senra And there's already been at least three examples of people that Munger and Buffett admire.
- ▶ 25:15 David Senra And this is what, one of the things that also reminded that I think Bob had in common with Munger and Buffett.
- ▶ 41:19 David Senra And I want to go back to that story of the CEO that was meeting with Buffett, the CEO that succeeded Kerlin.
I had dinner with John Mackey: Founder of Whole Foods
- ▶ 20:25 David Senra One of those was Henry Singleton of Teledyne, who I found out because Charlie Munger said he, that Henry Singleton was the smartest person he ever met, and Warren Buffett said the fact that business schools don't study Singleton is a crime.
- ▶ 1:12:51 David Senra And through the experience of running a public company, he realizes that what Warren Buffett would repeat the lesson from Ben Graham about Mr. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:35 David Senra And so his initial thought was Warren Buffett. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:50 David Senra So his entrepreneurial heroes are like Buffett, Elon, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Rockefeller.
- ▶ 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…
Rare Bernard Arnault Interview
- ▶ 31:18 David Senra This is something Munger and Buffett talk about over and over again. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:30 David Senra And then this hilarious story with Bernard Arnold and Warren Buffett. 2 times in the scene
How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty
- ▶ 23:25 David Senra He said that him and Buffett believed in Carlisle's prescription.
- ▶ 39:44 David Senra There's this book called A Few Lessons from Warren Buffett. 6 times in the scene
J. Paul Getty: The Richest Private Citizen in America
- ▶ 37:14 David Senra There's a great line that, uh, I attributed previously to Munger cause he repeats it, but he said, Buffett is the actual one that taught him that. 2 times in the scene
How To Sell Like Steve Jobs
- ▶ 4:43 David Senra And the genius of the way that Steve Jobs sold, and I would argue that Warren Buffett does the exact same thing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:23 David Senra And so Warren says to Charlie, people don't seem to get that point. 2 times in the scene
The Financial Genius Behind A Century of Wall Street Scandals: Ivar Kreuger
- ▶ 17:28 David Senra There's a great line in one of Warren Buffett's shareholder letters is about this. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:12 David Senra Had dinner with the thirty-eight-year-old Warren Buffett.
- ▶ 59:07 David Senra Warren Buffett once said that you don't know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out.
The Biography of Walt Disney
- ▶ 44:11 David Senra Now, Walt Disney is expressing an idea that Warren Buffett picked up on and analyzed, and it turns out Warren Buffett thought Walt Disney was obviously successful in what he was trying to do, because he talked about, later on, Warren… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:41:02 David Senra Henry Singleton's ideas show up in how Warren Buffett built Berkshire.
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 0:53 David Senra Ideas showing up in how Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger built Berkshire Hathaway. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:33 David Senra That's exactly what him and Buffett did. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:13 David Senra And one, it reminded me when, um, there's a great anecdote when Charlie Munger and Buffett, I think they're buying like the Buffalo evening news.
- ▶ 1:45:06 David Senra Um, let me go through, uh, what Warren Buffett says about this. 3 times in the scene
The Autobiography of Quentin Tarantino
- ▶ 10:36 David Senra And that idea that he has a singular voice that's recognizable immediately as his own reminded me of something Warren Buffett said on the power of brand. 2 times in the scene
The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness by David Ogilvy
- ▶ 2:29 David Senra Until I read Warren Buffett's shareholder letters, and he kept referring to Ogilvy as a genius. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:03 David Senra And it's the trust that Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger established with each other very early on that 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:23 David Senra Again, this is why I'm obsessed with David, and this is why, one of the reasons I'm obsessed with him, and I think it's why Buffett called him a genius.
The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
- ▶ 7:07 David Senra Barnett Helzberg is the guy that sold his family business, uh, to Warren Buffett. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:52 David Senra If you read Warren Buffett shareholders, I think this is episode two, 27, Warren Buffett's essays, which is Warren's shareholder letters, but organized instead of by year, it's organized by, by topic, which is excellent. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:01 David Senra Can you give me a summary of Warren Buffett's best ideas?
How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
- ▶ 1:00:08 David Senra So anything you're thinking about hiring, firing, recruiting, advertising, marketing, a specific person like Ogilvy or Buffett or Munger or anybody else that you and I have studied in the podcast.
The Robber Baron's Art Dealer: Joseph Duveen
- ▶ 50:24 David Senra Because just like Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett talk about, uh, in that book, actually, how much they read biographies, how much time they spend reading history, and, uh, using history, learning from history as a form of leverage, you… 5 times in the scene
Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy
- ▶ 21:17 David Senra This is what Warren Buffett did. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:07 David Senra We would use moats, uh, from the book, A Few Lessons from Warren Buffett. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:39 David Senra But you cannot discount, it goes back to not, never discounting the, the power of enthusiasm, but the fanaticism is one of my favorite words, because it's what Charlie Munger and Warren Buffet talk about. 2 times in the scene
How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: The Life Story of Samuel Insull
- ▶ 31:29 David Senra They all come from Charlie Mung and Warren Buffett, uh, when I got to this part, because he owned a bunch of different companies. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:53 David Senra If you go back to what, uh, Warren Buffett said earlier, companies with these large debts often assume that these obligations can be refinanced as they mature.
Oprah In Her Own Words
- ▶ 40:28 David Senra Henry Singleton is, had a huge influence on both Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger and the way they built Berkshire. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:40 David Senra Um, if you think about, like, how important was that meeting when, uh, Charlie, I think, was like, what, 35, and Warren Buffett's 28.
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz
- ▶ 45:25 David Senra If you really think about it, I think, I think it was Warren Buffett said, it was either Warren Buffett or 2 times in the scene
The Autobiography of Christian Dior
- ▶ 43:27 David Senra Um, let me go through, uh, what Warren Buffett says about this.
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
- ▶ 25:05 David Senra I'm sure you already know this, but just in case you don't, if you read Warren Buffett's shareholder letters, he talks about executive compensation a lot that the fact is the individual businesses that Berkshire owns, the person running…
- ▶ 58:54 David Senra He wind up turning down Buffett earlier in his career.
- ▶ 1:20:00 David Senra Um, let me go through, uh, what Warren Buffett says about this. 4 times in the scene
Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)
- ▶ 1:36 David Senra His insatiable appetite for learning, his uncanny ability to evaluate businesses using simple frameworks that produce more reliable analysis than complex financial statements, and his partnership with Warren Buffett have persisted for…
- ▶ 5:16 David Senra I'm going to start with, there's a foreword written for the book by Warren Buffett, and it is titled Buffett on Munger, and there's just a few, uh, there's just a few highlights from here. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:30 David Senra This is when he's going to meet Warren Buffett. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:28 David Senra So it says that Warren had heard of Charlie a few years earlier when he was raising investment capital in Omaha. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:26 David Senra Then he studied and later would spend a couple hours on the phone with Warren. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:43 David Senra I think this will actually be more common than it was because how much Charlie and Warren talk about this.
- ▶ 34:23 David Senra There's something that he repeats over and over again that he learned from Warren Buffett. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:40 David Senra And then he gives another example that daily newspapers, which him and Buffett made a bunch of money on in their heyday, the most obvious one is the daily newspapers.
- ▶ 48:37 David Senra So I just did, I think two weeks ago, um, I just did, uh, this episode on, on, uh, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger's, one of their favorite managers, uh, this guy named Tom Murphy, who was running Capital Cities, who winds up buying ABC.
- ▶ 57:56 David Senra And so let's go back to this great story that, uh, he tells about Warren Buffett.
- ▶ 1:07:34 David Senra Warren and Charlie, they talk about over and over again that they're teachers.
- ▶ 1:16:04 David Senra And he uses Warren Buffett as an example. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:16 David Senra One thing you'll notice if you listen to Charlie talk or if you read a bunch of books about him, uh, Buffett does this in the shareholders letters as well. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38:54 David Senra Um, let me go through, uh, what Warren Buffett says about this. 4 times in the scene
Tom Murphy (Warren Buffett's Favorite Manager)
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra Warren Buffett said Tom Murphy and Dan Burke were probably the greatest two person combination in management that the world has ever seen, or maybe ever will see. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:34 David Senra I did an episode on Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:34 David Senra I'm going to pause in the middle of that sentence actually, because when I got to that section, it made me think of something I read in Burke and, um, Warren's Berkshire shareholder letters, where he says the behavior of pure companies… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:46 David Senra As you can imagine when he's giving advice to Warren Buffett, by the way, Warren Buffett says that Tom Murphy was one of his heroes, that Tom Murphy made him a better person and that 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:48 David Senra So he buys ABC network for nearly 3.5 billion dollars with financing from his friend, Warren Buffett. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:40 David Senra So not just Tom Murphy, but the eight other CEOs or the eight total CEOs, uh, covered in this book, including Henry Singleton, uh, John Malone, Warren Buffett says the outsider CEOs shared an unconventional approach, one that emphasized…
- ▶ 33:37 David Senra I admire the fact that Warren Buffett calls 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:25 David Senra You just heard in this podcast me pull up all of these past descriptions that Warren Buff and Charlie Munger have said about Tom Murphy.
The Autobiography of Ted Turner
- ▶ 26:56 David Senra There's four people in the meeting, Ted Turner, John Malone, Warren Buffett, and Bob Iger.
- ▶ 1:08:23 David Senra Um, let me go through, uh, what Warren Buffett says about this.
Billionaire Art Dealer Larry Gagosian
- ▶ 43:10 David Senra That I read in one of the Warren Buffett biographies that I think is also really, really important to remember.
- ▶ 1:05:31 David Senra So like the first thing that came up was actually, uh, it's actually a highlight from one of Warren Buffett's shareholder letters.
John D Rockefeller: 38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son
- ▶ 1:40:20 David Senra So like the first thing that came up was actually, uh, it's actually a highlight from one of Warren Buffett shareholder letters.
The Biography of Jimmy Buffett
- ▶ 9:45 David Senra Just like you could think of the life and career of his good friend Warren Buffett. 2 times in the scene
Herb Kelleher: Founder of Southwest Airlines
- ▶ 31:21 David Senra In fact, there's a great line about this in Warren Buffett's shareholder letters. 2 times in the scene
Working with Jeff Bezos
- ▶ 40:18 David Senra What did Warren Buffett say?
David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)
- ▶ 1:45 David Senra I was reading Warren Buffett's shareholder letters, and he kept referring to David Ogilvy as a genius.
- ▶ 15:09 David Senra Why the hell would Warren Buffett call him a genius? 2 times in the scene
Rose Blumkin (Warren Buffett's Favorite Founder)
- ▶ 2:51 David Senra That was an excerpt from the short biography of Rose Blumpkin that I found in the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which is The Women of Berkshire Hathaway, Lessons from Warren Buffett's Female CEOs and Directors, and is… 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:44 David Senra It's in Buffett's shareholder letters where he says that he would rather wrestle grizzlies than compete with Mrs. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:19 David Senra And this is really the basis for her entire, uh, Warren's gonna talk about the advantage that he has and why he's, uh, that she had over her other competitors.
- ▶ 10:39 David Senra How, how Rose is so special that Munger and Buffett make exceptions for her. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:46 David Senra And then this story is also mentioned in Buffett's shareholder letters, which was fantastic.
- ▶ 17:21 David Senra As his mother, and I think long after she passed away, he was still, I just saw him in the, I was reading through all my highlights in Berkshire, uh, in Warren's shareholder letters, and as of like, 92, when Louis was like 92, he's still…
- ▶ 21:23 David Senra Warren Buffett said during the opening remarks at the nineteen-ninety-three Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, I'd like to introduce Berkshire's managers, except Mrs.
- ▶ 23:48 David Senra And then here's the story I referenced earlier where Warren tried, had previously tried to buy, uh, this business.
- ▶ 23:53 David Senra Warren Buffett had known of the business and was aware of its success from living in Omaha. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:19 David Senra Rose is the only founder that Buffett had to buy out twice, so the, the good thing about, about the business is the family business. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:00 David Senra Upon hearing of her death, Warren Buffett said, 5 times in the scene
Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon)
- ▶ 20:01 David Senra Warren Buffett has a line that I found in this book called, all I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there. 2 times in the scene
James Dyson (Against the Odds)
- ▶ 46:18 David Senra And so let's go back to this idea that Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger talk about. 2 times in the scene
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 1:31:26 David Senra And this is what I love about Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett. 2 times in the scene
What I learned from having lunch with Sam Zell
- ▶ 18:02 David Senra What are Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett doing?