California, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where California comes up
What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success
- ▶ 25:23 unnamed speaker Birkenstock's California mystic, and then Ross Perot, the, you know, the straight-laced Texas, uh, you know, the veteran, the military veteran who's gonna run for president.
The Mindset Behind Building a Great Little Business | Brad Jacobs
- ▶ 35:52 Brad Jacobs So one of my favorite investors in my companies has been Orbis, uh, out in California and in Bermuda, and they're contrarians.
The Mindset That Unlocks Your Full Potential | Dr. Gio Valiante
- ▶ 25:48 Dr. Gio Valiante If you look at the world of golf, you know, historically great golfers out of Texas and California, these great golf states.
Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions | Winston Weinberg
- ▶ 10:39 Winston Weinberg I started using it to do very basic, like, here's a fact pattern, here's a statute in California, you know, apply this fact pattern, uh, to the same statute, or the statute to the fact pattern, and it got really good outputs. 2 times in the scene
Ray Kroc : How McDonald’s Took Over America
- ▶ 0:24 Shane Parrish Two brothers in California did all of that.
- ▶ 15:27 Shane Parrish Operators wanted to know about this place in California run by two brothers named McDonald's, and they were running eight multi-mixers simultaneously, 40 milkshakes churning at once.
- ▶ 25:15 Shane Parrish He stopped to visit an old friend from his lily tulip days who had retired to California.
- ▶ 26:06 Shane Parrish The McDonald's Brothers building was designed for California. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:26 Shane Parrish New stores were popping up in Illinois, California, and Tennessee, but growth created its own problems.
- ▶ 37:38 Shane Parrish Tired of pouring every ounce of energy of his life into building something great, well, two men in California collected a half a percent of every dollar he made.
The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking | Peter D. Kaufman [Outliers]
- ▶ 9:37 Shane Parrish Peter claims that in California, 98% of the time, a stranger will smile and say good morning right back.