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Inside the Contrarian Mind of Sam Zell
- ▶ 44:00 David Senra He read Zach and Doris autobiography.
What I learned from having lunch with Sam Zell
- ▶ 0:28 David Senra William Zeckendorf's autobiography. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:57 David Senra Uh, Zeckendorf's book comes out in 19 seventies. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:48 David Senra One day, when the head of the Morgan Bank stuck out his hand at a gathering of bankers and said to me, Bill, you look like a million dollars. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:16 David Senra And Zecchendorf is the rare high school and college dropout 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:15 David Senra So obviously if you're in real estate, you probably already know who Zeckendorf is. 10 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. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:19 David Senra And so Zeckendorf and his firm are the ones that are actually going to organize, reorganize all their properties. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:24 David Senra I went back through all the highlights, and this can happen over, like, six or seven pages, and I was like, you know what, this is really how Zeckendorf's mind worked, and this is where I think he had his most talent, like, the stuff that… 26 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:27 David Senra And so let's go back to this idea that to read this autobiography is to have this one-sided, you know, 10 or 15 hour conversation with Zeckendorf. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:27 David Senra Around the same time, uh, I had read the book Zeckendorf, the autobiography of the man who played a real-life game of Monopoly and won the largest real estate empire in history. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:51 David Senra He, Zeckendorf, is going to be summoned by Howard Hughes. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:57 David Senra It's called the New York Herald Tribune, and what, what Zeckendorf realizes here is this play that Joseph P. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:49 David Senra Zachendorf's business went bankrupt, not from starvation. 6 times in the scene
Sam Zell's Autobiography
- ▶ 37:58 David Senra William Zeckendorf was perhaps one of the greatest real estate developers of the modern era, and so this one idea he picks up from this book changes the trajectory of Sam's career. 6 times in the scene