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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Wall Street comes up
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