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The Outlier Playbook: The Patterns Behind Enduring Success Dec 30, 2025 · 9 mentions

Jim Clayton: Turning Competitors’ Mistakes Into $1.7B [Outliers] Oct 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:17 Shane Parrish Do you remember Jimmy Patterson's father who worked for decades to pay everyone back?

Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods [Outliers] Sep 23, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:09:37 Shane Parrish That was the exact same thing that Jimmy Pattinson's father had happened to him too. 2 times in the scene

How John Bragg Built 3 Empires From a Small Town [Outliers] Aug 26, 2025 · 3 mentions

Les Schwab: Why Real Ownership Outperforms Experience, Capital, and Credentials [Outliers] Jul 15, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 52:18 Shane Parrish That reminded me a lot of John Bragg and what he said in the episode and the Jimmy Pattison outliers episode and Jimmy Pattison. 3 times in the scene

Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers] Jul 1, 2025 · 169 mentions

  • ▶ 0:08 Shane Parrish Teenage James Pattison invests his life savings, all 15 dollars at the time, in 500 newspapers. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:47 Shane Parrish One day, Jimmy would announce, today we're going to sell a hundred cars, and to do that, we have to pull some rabbits out of the hat. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:18 Shane Parrish After 10 years of building McLean's empire into something extraordinary, Dan McLean made Jimmy an offer that should have been irresistible. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:08 Shane Parrish While other dealers focused on selling cars, Jimmy discovered leasing, an emerging market everyone else ignored. 12 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:05 Shane Parrish As a major advertiser, Jimmy understood radio. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:52 Shane Parrish At a young president's organization's meetings, Jimmy encountered a new breed of businessmen, conglomerate builders. 24 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:33 Shane Parrish In 1968, Jimmy Pattison was about to learn the most expensive lesson of his career. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:12 Shane Parrish When Pattison pursued a snowmobile manufacturer offering twenty-six million, another company swooped in with a higher bid. 18 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:20 Shane Parrish Recovery during the early 19 seventies was slow and humbling for Jimmy Pattison. 17 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:16 Shane Parrish By 1977, Jimmy had learned his most important lesson. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 53:07 Shane Parrish Jimmy Pattison is 96 years old and still runs his company every day. 18 times in the scene
  • ▶ 58:25 Shane Parrish Perhaps a poetic outcome given Pattison's first neon sign endeavor in the 19 fifties. 14 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:01:17 Shane Parrish One, Pattison has what I like to think of as the money-making gene. 24 times in the scene
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