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Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers]
- ▶ 0:32 Shane Parrish Hetty Green. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:12 Shane Parrish Hedy Holland Robinson was born in 1834 into one of New Bedford's wealthiest whaling families, but she was unwanted. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:11 Shane Parrish The darkness began when Hetty was in her early thirties. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:26 Shane Parrish Hetty set up shop right in the middle of it, and in an era where most fortunes were made and grown through swindling and cheating and doing whatever you could get away with, she would not succumb to the tactics of other millionaires. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:05 Shane Parrish Hetty's frugality, which was something that would be praised as prudent business sense in men, became the subject of vicious gossip because she was a woman. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:34 Shane Parrish While Hetty methodically built her fortune through careful research and conservative investing, her husband Edward embodied the era's speculative fever. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:21 Shane Parrish She still shunned a private office, stole work from the chemical bank lobby, arriving each morning in black, eating onions to ward off colds. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:49 Shane Parrish Before sending him off, Hedy gave precise instructions for managing her mortgage businesses. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:05 Shane Parrish She always found herself in a good position, so she was the master of her circumstances rather than being mastered by them. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:01 Shane Parrish George Williams of the Chemical Bank approached Hetty with an emergency request. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:49 Shane Parrish In a surprising transformation, Hedy decided to help him. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:19 Shane Parrish As 1900 dawned, Hetty stood at the pinnacle of American finance. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:39 Shane Parrish By 1910, at 76, her health was failing. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:30 Shane Parrish When they buried Hetty Green beside her husband in Bella's Falls, the world lost more than just the richest woman in America. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:18 Shane Parrish Before we get into some of the reflections, I want to sum up some of the wisdom of Hetty Green in her own words, and I'm going to just quote her here.
- ▶ 39:24 Shane Parrish She was clearly a wolf in sheep's clothing, and I wouldn't even say sheep's clothing. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:07 Shane Parrish Hedy researched obsessively to uncover what others missed or ignored. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:03 Shane Parrish There's so many things that we can learn from Hetty Green and take away from this episode.
Andrew Mellon: America’s Secret Banker [Outliers]
- ▶ 14:52 Shane Parrish Hedy Green, who would go on to become America's richest woman, developed her legendary financial acumen by reading market reports to her father and grandfather.