Wall Street, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Wall Street comes up
What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success
- ▶ 34:26 unnamed speaker Are you a financial firm on Wall Street?
John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History
- ▶ 10:37 Shane Parrish Rockefeller would use those exact words to outmaneuver and outweigh Wall Street tycoons and independent refiners for the next 70 years.
- ▶ 2:17:58 Shane Parrish Wall Street soon saw what the government had missed. 2 times in the scene
The Mindset That Unlocks Your Full Potential | Dr. Gio Valiante
- ▶ 59:22 Dr. Gio Valiante I had a, um, a Wall Street guy who I was working with. 2 times in the scene
Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 2:10 Bill Gurley So, because I started on Wall Street, you know, and not in venture directly, I got caught up in all the people you would expect, you know, around 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:46 Bill Gurley So I do think that Wall Street, because they just can't get out of their, they can't let go of this greedy power grab they have around the IPO.
The Outlier Playbook: The Patterns Behind Enduring Success
- ▶ 22:35 Shane Parrish Wall Street loves him. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:45 Shane Parrish He was selling Wall Street the story of endless growth.
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 48:43 Shane Parrish So he wouldn't do it if there was volatility, but he also had this thing where it was so counterintuitive to what you hear on Wall Street, which is like, I don't mind paying more.
Mary Kay Ash: The Greatest Salesperson In History [Outliers]
- ▶ 50:55 Shane Parrish Wall Street wanted predictable quarterly earnings growth, and Mary Kay wanted to invest heavily in recognition and consultant support. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:09 Shane Parrish When Wall Street demanded she cut recognition spending to boost quarterly earnings, she bought the company back, rather than compromise.
Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple [Outliers]
- ▶ 41:43 Shane Parrish The company built on the joy of making something new suddenly had shareholders, quarterly earnings reports, Wall Street analysts. 2 times in the scene
Jim Clayton: Turning Competitors’ Mistakes Into $1.7B [Outliers]
- ▶ 51:16 Shane Parrish Wall Street noticed Clayton Homes.
Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers]
- ▶ 0:00 Shane Parrish It's 19 oh seven, and Wall Street is in complete meltdown. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:31 Shane Parrish While her friends gossiped about fashion and social climbing, she listened to Wall Street men discuss finance.
- ▶ 9:04 Shane Parrish First, understand what Wall Street was like then. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:25 Shane Parrish In a scene that became Wall Street legend, Eddie appeared at the bank's offices in her black dress cape, her voice as chilly as the January air. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:16 Shane Parrish Unlike other Wall Street operators who would have squeezed him dry, Hetty showed restraint.
- ▶ 30:19 Shane Parrish I saw all the big men on Wall Street during those years, her secretary, Walter Marshall, later recalled, they would come hat in hand to Miss Green, and she would make them wait while she finished reading some railroad report. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:36 Shane Parrish It lost a pioneer who had carved a path through Wall Street's granite face, proving that financial genius knows no gender.
Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods [Outliers]
- ▶ 57:25 Ed Stack Quotes Wall Street gets on my back sometimes, saying, we don't have an optimal balance sheet, which is its way of saying we have too much cash and don't have what the street considers the proper amount of debt.
- ▶ 1:17:12 Shane Parrish Dick's has very little debt, despite Wall Street calling their balance sheets suboptimal.
Fred Smith: The Story of FedEx [Outliers]
- ▶ 34:56 Shane Parrish Wall Street loved the deal, at least initially.
Sol Price: The Retail Legend Who Taught Sam Walton, Jim Sinegal, and Jeff Bezos [Outliers]
- ▶ 41:22 Shane Parrish Costco pays wages that make Wall Street analysts cry.
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
- ▶ 14:25 Ryan Petersen Um, and hedge funds and analysts, like Wall Street types that want to see what's going on.
Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
- ▶ 2:42 Shane Parrish Her father, Eugene Mayer, had already conquered Wall Street. 2 times in the scene
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year
- ▶ 48:43 Harley Finkelstein Uh, Michael Douglas.
Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 29:11 Shane Parrish But executing a hostile takeover would require Wall Street expertise and complete secrecy. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:31 Shane Parrish Through Wall Street connections, he arranged to buy Norris's shares and approached Leach with the same offer. 2 times in the scene
Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi: Lessons from the Top
- ▶ 30:27 Indra Nooyi And then we always promise the street a number that's lower than what we said ourselves to do. 3 times in the scene
Henry Singleton: The Greatest Capital Allocator in History [Outliers]
- ▶ 2:05 Shane Parrish Rather than chase growth for its own sake, he pivoted to buying back over 90% of Teledyne shares, a move that Wall Street analysts couldn't even comprehend.
- ▶ 4:44 Shane Parrish He didn't offer guidance to Wall Street. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:13 Shane Parrish Wall Street was shocked.
- ▶ 43:57 Shane Parrish Wall Street began speculating.
- ▶ 53:03 Shane Parrish Wall Street largely missed this, too, because it didn't fit the mold of what conglomerates of the day look like. 2 times in the scene
Cornelius Vanderbilt: The First Tycoon [Outliers]
- ▶ 36:22 Shane Parrish Frustrated by Billy's passive demeanor, Vanderbilt placed him under Wall Street broker Daniel Drew, forging an uneasy partnership.
- ▶ 40:56 Shane Parrish Accused Vanderbilt's enterprise of being an experiment in which a few lawyers in Wall Street were the principal movers, their original purpose being to obtain a charter and afterwards dispose of it at any good price.
- ▶ 52:24 Shane Parrish Wall Street buzzed with news that mysterious brokers were accumulating quantities of transit stock.
Andrew Mellon: America’s Secret Banker [Outliers]
- ▶ 46:45 Shane Parrish Pennsylvania's powerful senators, Penrose and Knox, saw in Mellon exactly what the administration needed, a financial genius who had built his fortune not through Wall Street manipulation, but
- ▶ 58:11 Shane Parrish While Wall Street was in meltdown, he calmly discussed art acquisitions over lunch with Duveen, a famous art dealer.
David Heacock: Building Filterbuy
- ▶ 1:28 Shane Parrish Today, I'm talking with David Heacock, who left his Wall Street career to build a business selling air filters. 2 times in the scene
Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
- ▶ 13:12 Shane Parrish The whole thing for me started in 2018 when the New York Times wrote this article about me calling me out as a spy who helped people on Wall Street.
Dr. Jim Loehr: What it Takes to Win
- ▶ 1:04:37 Dr. Jim Loehr You want to be a big investor, just like Wall Street?
Todd Herman: Unleashing Your Secret Identity
- ▶ 1:12:29 Shane Parrish So we went from having an audience on Wall Street to an audience of people who care about going from 90 to 90.1.
TKP Insights: Making (Even) Better Decisions
- ▶ 1:18:23 Tobi Lütke The word of business, um, so short-term focused, well, it's because Wall Street wants quarterly reports, right?
Andrew Wilkinson: Tiny Holdings
- ▶ 7:38 Andrew Wilkinson and I did that reboot, I had spent a year going through the world of high finance, meeting all these billionaires, super successful people, uh, meeting people on wall street, all sorts of successful entrepreneurs and realizing what made me…
- ▶ 52:14 Andrew Wilkinson They wanted to sell, but to be blunt, they didn't want to sell to some Wall Street douchebag, right?
Luke Burgis: The Power of Mimetic Desire
- ▶ 1:21:03 Luke Burgess Well, you go work on wall street because bonuses are high.
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- ▶ 1:39:56 Balaji Srinivasan They're not, uh, wall street. 2 times in the scene
#118 Doug Conant: Leadership With Integrity
- ▶ 4:10 Doug Conant And, uh, and most people are flying by the seat of their pants, especially all the people that were listening to you on Wall Street.
- ▶ 25:00 Doug Conant You're going to be whipsawed by analysts and, and Wall Street and boards and activists.
- ▶ 26:36 Doug Conant We had people that we would go toe-to-toe, and we disagreed on some things, but you know, those points of view, it was better to have it in the boardroom than it was to have it out with, with Wall Street, or, or the analysts, or any…
- ▶ 42:37 Doug Conant And the leaders today sort of hunger for the quick fix, just like the Wall Street hunger for the good quarter.
- ▶ 54:08 Doug Conant And, uh, and most people are flying by the seat of their pants, especially all the people that were listening to you on Wall Street.
#78 Balaji Srinivasan: Exploring COVID-19
- ▶ 56:01 Balaji Srinivasan And things like this, because otherwise there's going to be a deficit of folks with that training, because one of the drivers of this is you can definitely make a lot more money outside of politics and journalism and whatnot by, uh, if you…
#74 Jeff Hunter: Embracing Confusion
- ▶ 1:12:31 Jeff Hunter So let's say a person comes in, and they've had a, you know, lifelong experience on Wall Street, and they were a trader on Wall Street, and so they decide that they want to get into the, you know, um, therapeutic massage, and so that's the… 2 times in the scene
#69 Stephen Schwarzman: What It Takes
- ▶ 54:41 Shane Parrish What was it like on Wall Street running one of the largest asset management companies in the world during the financial crisis?
#56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success
- ▶ 1:21:31 Shane Parrish You know, Wall Street is super competitive and attracts really type A high quality people who put a lot of effort and time and sacrifice a lot of things in order to try to achieve their goals, whatever their goals are.
#53 Howard Marks: Luck, Risk and Avoiding Losers
- ▶ 5:10 Shane Parrish Isn't Wall Street full of people with the same sort of logic, who identified an opportunity, but what was the difference?
- ▶ 6:10 Howard Marks On Wall Street, they buy more when the prices rise.
#51 Celeste Headlee: The Dying Art of Conversation
- ▶ 23:25 Celeste Headlee And it doesn't matter if it's an, uh, story about Wall Street or the military or whatever it is.
#47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1)
- ▶ 57:50 Adam Robinson The people who buy books like that, they are patsies for Wall Street. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:24 Shane Parrish Which is a common Wall Street term meaning.
- ▶ 1:24:31 Adam Robinson That's what I thought, and I thought, well, if I, if I do that, it's, I'm gonna have to support myself somehow, because it's gonna be years before, right, I can make a living as an author, and, um, and I knew if I went to Wall Street or
#41 Tobi Lütke: The Trust Battery
- ▶ 1:38:18 Tobi Lütke The word of business, um, so short-term focused, well, it's because Wall Street wants quarterly reports, right?
#35 Robert Greene: Alive Time vs. Dead Time
- ▶ 1:50 Robert Greene Like it started, the rappers started reading about people on wall street.
#28 Michael Mauboussin: A Decision Making Jedi
- ▶ 1:12:33 Michael Mauboussin Uh, I think it was called 30 years, but basically I started on Wall Street just a little, now, now it's 31 years, but 30, a little over 30 years ago, and I, I try to write down my reflections on what made for a great investor, so the top…
#24 Susan Cain: Leading the Quiet Revolution
- ▶ 9:37 Susan Cain Were distinctly introverted and were, to me, obviously, contributing and wonderful people because of their introversion and not in spite of it, and, um, and I, and I had been interested, um, from pretty early in my adulthood in feminism,…
- ▶ 21:24 Shane Parrish You were doing that when you were on Wall Street, though, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:13 Shane Parrish You mentioned office environments, um, earlier when you were on Wall Street and you had an office
#5 Chris Dixon: The State of Venture Capital
- ▶ 14:44 Chris Dixon So, you know, but there is on the flip side, you know, Facebook and Google, most prominently, they have dual class stock, which is, which means that they basically, when, before they went public, the founders, you know, uh, structured it…
#4 Jason Zweig: Elevate Your Financial IQ
- ▶ 51:55 Jason Zweig And there's an unforgettable scene in that book where he describes the people commuting from, ah, Oyster Bay and the other very wealthy communities on the north shore of Long Island into Penn Station to go down and work on Wall Street in…