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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Texas comes up
What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success
- ▶ 25:05 unnamed speaker Ross Perot, uh, for people who don't remember, he was a technology magnet from Texas, a billionaire, uh, one of the greatest investors of his era, also ran for president twice on an independent ticket. 2 times in the scene
The Mindset That Unlocks Your Full Potential | Dr. Gio Valiante
- ▶ 25:32 Dr. Gio Valiante So, you know, great singers tend, you know, tend to come out of this little, little school in Dallas, Texas, around Dallas, Texas. 2 times in the scene
Alpha School: AI and The Future of Education | Joe Liemandt
- ▶ 19:19 Joe Liemandt And with the vouchers, it's in Texas and Texas has a new voucher program that they announced billion dollars of vouchers.
- ▶ 2:00:16 Joe Liemandt We're hiring a thousand coaches, right, through Texas, in Texas for Texas Sports Academy for these middle schools, right?
Mary Kay Ash: The Greatest Salesperson In History [Outliers]
- ▶ 0:01 Shane Parrish Dallas, Texas, August, 1963.
- ▶ 2:25 Shane Parrish To understand what Mary Kay Ash built, you need to understand what shaped her, and that starts with a telephone in Houston, Texas around 1925.
- ▶ 26:52 Shane Parrish They had to rent basement storage for cosmetics, which meant walking two blocks in Texas heat every time they needed to restock.
7 Principles of Inner Excellence to Stay Calm Under Fire | Jim Murphy
- ▶ 5:58 Jim Murphy Yeah, so I was in Dallas, Texas.
Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers]
- ▶ 23:28 Shane Parrish But it was in Texas that Hetty made one of her boldest moves ever. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:21 Shane Parrish The crisis gave Hetty unprecedented leverage in Texas.
- ▶ 27:24 Shane Parrish Her son had turned the Texas Midland Railroad from a bankrupt, fifty-two-mile stretch into the state's most efficient railroad. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:09 Shane Parrish Her son, Ned, revealed years later that during the 19 oh seven panic, Hetty had loaned over six million in Texas alone in addition to her New York loans.
- ▶ 33:02 Shane Parrish Ned had become a powerful Texas political figure, serving as the Republican state chairman,
- ▶ 35:18 Shane Parrish Ned continued running the Texas Midland Railroad and became a major Texas political force, living on the grand scale his mother had denied herself.
Sol Price: The Retail Legend Who Taught Sam Walton, Jim Sinegal, and Jeff Bezos [Outliers]
- ▶ 20:46 Shane Parrish By 1957, Saul's opening stores in Texas, and he immediately shocks everyone by announcing FedMart will pay a dollar an hour. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:23 Shane Parrish Texas law in 1957 required that blacks and whites couldn't eat at the same table.
Rose Blumkin: Women of Berkshire Hathaway [Outliers]
- ▶ 34:39 Shane Parrish The company has expanded to Iowa, Kansas, and Texas.
Henry Singleton: The Greatest Capital Allocator in History [Outliers]
- ▶ 5:59 Shane Parrish Henry Singleton was born on a small ranch in Texas, where his family raised cotton and cattle. 2 times in the scene
Estée Lauder: A Success Story
- ▶ 26:10 Shane Parrish She once rode a bus for six hours to open a tiny store in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Andrew Mellon: America’s Secret Banker [Outliers]
- ▶ 1:05:17 Shane Parrish On January sixth, 1932, a freshman Democratic congressman from Texas, Wright Patman, stood before a packed House of Representatives and declared, on my own responsibility as a member of the House, I impeach Andrew William Mellon, Secretary…
Codie Sanchez: Your Blueprint to Financial Freedom
- ▶ 1:26:53 Codie Sanchez Let's go knock on a bunch of doors in Texas.
John Mackey: Building Whole Foods
- ▶ 6:05 John Mackey Buddy I play basketball with, pick up basketball with, and, and, uh, he'd inherit a lot of money from his parents who died, and he, uh, he put in like a 100,000 bucks, and, or no, 50,000 dollars, and then we got more money from the…
- ▶ 11:00 John Mackey Yeah, so nine months after we opened up that really successful store, the whole first Whole Foods Market in 1980, um, when we were building it, the owner of the building, uh, this Texas good old boy named Ben Powell, he let me know that…
- ▶ 1:26:29 John Mackey In the context of what it was like in the United States, 200 years ago, or 170 years ago, or even when I was a little boy growing up in Houston, Texas, and they had Jim Crow laws.
Brent Beshore: Business Brilliance and Happiness at Home
- ▶ 1:48 Shane Parrish Some of his companies include Ace Fence, the largest residential fencing company in Texas, Chance Rides, the leading amusement ride manufacturing company in the United States,
Todd Herman: Unleashing Your Secret Identity
- ▶ 26:12 Todd Herman It's actual root, uh, where it came from was two ladies in Texas, um, in the 19 seventies.
Dr. Gio Valiante (Part 1): Discipline and Resilience
- ▶ 31:42 Dr. Gio Valiante And he went to the Dominican Republic where they're turning out these incredible young baseball players in a place in Texas that was turning out incredible musicians.
Keith Creel: Lessons from Life on the Railroad
- ▶ 1:06:53 Keith Creel There's going to be some growing pains, and there's one railroad that I've known from 20 years previous, that if we could combine the two, we could extend our networking in connect markets in Mexico and the Texas markets.
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- ▶ 4:33 Balaji Srinivasan Texas on abortion.
- ▶ 2:25:22 Balaji Srinivasan I do think there's individual pieces that will do potentially quite well, like, you know, Texas and Florida and Colorado and Wyoming, those things that are leaning into the future rather than trying to fight it.
- ▶ 2:44:32 Balaji Srinivasan They have the civilizational confidence of, of, of folks that are rising and that offsets and, uh, you know, the, the woke group that's falling and it compliments the Texas, Florida, you know, Colorado pragmatic folks within the West.
#122 Robert Cialdini - The Principles of Persuasion
- ▶ 28:41 Robert Cialdini Well, I'm born in Minnesota, but my wife is from Texas. 2 times in the scene
#120 Chris Bosh: Hunger and Greatness
- ▶ 7:17 Chris Bosh Texas schools, which are like malls.
- ▶ 14:39 Shane Parrish You're a Texas boy.
#110 Jim Collins: Relationships vs. Transactions
- ▶ 49:29 Jim Collins And, uh, their original business plan was copy PSA in Texas. 3 times in the scene
#85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
- ▶ 3:46 Bethany McLean So the idea that this company that was so celebrated, that it just built this gleaming new headquarters in Houston, Texas, the idea that this could be a fraud was almost inconceivable at that point in time, and I think that's one of the…
- ▶ 11:35 Bethany McLean I've, I've often thought about this, because I, I left an investment banking job and went to Fortune, and I guess, 95, and I've thought, well, if I'd gone to an executive recruiter, and they had said, there's this great energy trading…
#78 Balaji Srinivasan: Exploring COVID-19
- ▶ 1:07:39 Balaji Srinivasan Washington state, or Massachusetts, or California, or Texas, or whatever, figured out something, then that could be propagated to other states, and you wouldn't have to bottleneck everything.
#65 Shep Gordon: Trust, Compassion, and Shooting Friends from Cannons
- ▶ 31:42 Shep Gordon You could be, you know, the Texas billionaire of all time.
#55 Scott Page: Becoming a Model Thinker
- ▶ 10:09 Scott Page And Texas is doing well or something, right?
#53 Howard Marks: Luck, Risk and Avoiding Losers
- ▶ 30:25 Howard Marks So you have a lot of incentive to move from New York and California and New Jersey and Connecticut and Illinois to Florida, Texas and Nevada.
#44 Barbara Coloroso: The Kids Are Worth It
- ▶ 1:43:02 Barbara Coloroso Now, I was a part of developing David's law in San Antonio, Texas, drafting that law for cyber issues because I think he was, uh, what is that law, sorry?
#31 Barbara Oakley: Learning How to Learn
- ▶ 12:40 Barbara Oakley We moved from Texas to Massachusetts, and suddenly they were way ahead of me in the multiplication tables, so I wasn't a super genius, and I never really cared for math anyway, so I just said, well, heck.