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John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History
- ▶ 2:49:04 Shane Parrish And if you look at Warren Buffett, they did a lot of the same things.
Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 2:24 Bill Gurley And so, you know, that starts with Peter Lynch, one up on Wall Street, you know, best-selling book, probably the first book I read about investing, a random walk down Wall Street, Burton McKay, all the Buffett letters, you know, uh, Ben… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:42 Bill Gurley Studying Buffett and Howard Marks and seeing these investors that were successful, like, putting their stuff out there, if I was thinking through a problem about a new
An Unlikely Empire | J.W. Marriott
- ▶ 15:26 Shane Parrish This is a lesson that Warren Buffett understands. 2 times in the scene
Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power
- ▶ 1:07:21 Shane Parrish One of the most interesting answers I've heard to that question is Warren Buffett, and he says when he's reading, he's not reading for your opinion, he's reading for the facts. 3 times in the scene
Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
- ▶ 3:02 Morgan Housel I think this was a Buffett line. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:22 Morgan Housel 99% of Warren Buffett's net worth was accumulated after his 65th birthday. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:17 Shane Parrish And the idea of Buffett and how, uh, we handled the financial crisis came up. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:02 Morgan Housel And we can contrast that against Buffett, who we talk a lot about, who obviously does not have ten million dollar watches in a yacht. 4 times in the scene
The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking | Peter D. Kaufman [Outliers]
- ▶ 14:25 Shane Parrish And when Peter asks how many people are truly constant, he names two from his own experience, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. 2 times in the scene
How to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear
- ▶ 46:29 James Clear And I don't want to be a VC or an investment advisor or, you know, like somebody who's trying to be the next Buffett or Munger or whatever.
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 29:38 Shane Parrish Well, Buffett had this saying where his directive, his letter, I guess, to all of his CEOs after he acquired the company was
- ▶ 45:15 Rory Sutherland I mean, Buffett, okay, you're quite rightly your hero, um, is, he was obsessed with the quality of the management of companies with whom he invested, wasn't he? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:11 Shane Parrish Buffett and Munger had a good way to sum this up, which is never ask your barber if you need a haircut, yeah.
Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgment [Outliers]
- ▶ 0:40 Shane Parrish Munger was the partner of Warren Buffett, and together they created one of the best track records the world has ever seen, and they used psychology to do it.
- ▶ 6:15 Shane Parrish In investing, this creates what Munger and Buffett call falling in love with your companies.
- ▶ 17:26 Shane Parrish And Warren Buffett added, what the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:36 Shane Parrish Warren Buffett has repeatedly said that it is not greed that drives the world, but envy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:33 Shane Parrish Warren Buffett's solution to this was very practical.
- ▶ 49:31 Shane Parrish Well, Warren Buffett answered this. 2 times in the scene
Panera Founder Ron Shaich
- ▶ 17:08 Ron Shaich In fact, somebody told me we actually beat Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway.
Forensic Account: The Bubble No One is Talking About | Anthony Scilipoti
- ▶ 17:00 Anthony Scilipoti You know, historically, and if we follow what, what Buffett says, the company is the present value of its future cash flows.
- ▶ 24:36 Shane Parrish And then on top of that, like just from my, like how I sort of approach things, you have the greatest investor of all time, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:35 Shane Parrish I remember this interview Alice Schroeder did, and she hasn't done many interviews, and one of the most illuminating things that I remember from that interview is that Buffett, when he was looking at patterns and
- ▶ 37:20 Anthony Scilipoti Warren Buffett tells you he's buying something.
- ▶ 39:54 Anthony Scilipoti The number one rule, and I borrow this from, from Warren, and so if you ever, you know, it's not going to 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:38 Shane Parrish I remember Buffett and Munger getting tailed with something with the SEC in the early seventies, I think it was.
- ▶ 1:03:53 Anthony Scilipoti And if they're not an expense, I, I borrow from Buffett and even the chair of the accounting has said things like this, that, that if it's not an expense, then what is it?
- ▶ 1:21:52 Shane Parrish Why do you think so few people, like everybody talks like Buffett, and then a situation like 2008 comes along, and people were paralyzed. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:39 Anthony Scilipoti So when I started in the industry in 1999, ok, and this think of Buffett, he'll tell you the story of, he used to read the financial statements, and he used to get the chart, the old charts, and look at them, and no one was doing that.
Jim Clayton: Turning Competitors’ Mistakes Into $1.7B [Outliers]
- ▶ 0:25 Shane Parrish Seven years later, Warren Buffett would read his autobiography and buy his company for 1.7 billion dollars in cash.
- ▶ 2:06 Shane Parrish He would one day sell his company to Warren Buffett, but first he had to learn the value of a seed.
- ▶ 53:35 Shane Parrish Then Warren Buffett called.
Building Great Businesses | Tracy Britt Cool
- ▶ 0:20 unnamed speaker She is best known for working directly with Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway, where she served as his financial assistant before becoming CEO of Pampered Chef,
- ▶ 16:31 Tracy Britt Cool I'd written one of those letters to Warren Buffett, 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:51 Shane Parrish I've always, as an outsider to Berkshire, thought a lot of the success resulted from the fact that nobody could come in at a certain point in time and tell Buffett to do something different.
- ▶ 1:28:04 Shane Parrish I want to circle back to this because it just brought back a little bit of a memory, uh, and it involves Buffett, but it was interesting.
- ▶ 1:37:04 Tracy Britt Cool You know, one thing that Warren always said to the CEOs is, like, think about this business as if it's your family's only asset, and you can't sell it for 50 years. 2 times in the scene
Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers]
- ▶ 0:59 Shane Parrish She bought entire towns, faced down a railroad baron with a loaded gun and accumulated wealth using strategies so ahead of their time that Warren Buffett is still using them today. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:31 Shane Parrish It sounds a lot like Warren Buffett, who would later say the key to investing success is to be fearful when others are greedy and 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:25 Shane Parrish Warren Buffett living modestly in Omaha while managing billions follows principles Hedy would have approved of. 2 times in the scene
Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods [Outliers]
- ▶ 57:43 Shane Parrish Warren Buffett later encapsulates the exact same idea by saying, we never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow's obligations.
- ▶ 1:17:02 Shane Parrish After nearly losing everything in 1996, Ed learned what Buffett already knew.
Fred Smith: The Story of FedEx [Outliers]
- ▶ 50:04 Shane Parrish Warren Buffett said, 15 years of family culture were shattered overnight. 2 times in the scene
How John Bragg Built 3 Empires From a Small Town [Outliers]
- ▶ 46:38 Shane Parrish His favorite Buffett quote became a bit of a mantra for him.
- ▶ 1:04:49 Shane Parrish His favorite Buffett quote is, I am a better investor because I'm a businessman and a better businessman because I'm an investor.
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
- ▶ 1:20:34 Shane Parrish You know, one of the things that Buffett has always said is he looks at intermodal rail volume as a leading indicator for the economy. 2 times in the scene
Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
- ▶ 2:02 Shane Parrish Oh, and if that wasn't enough, thanks to an unlikely friendship with Warren Buffett, she ended up with one of the best track records by shareholder return in business history.
- ▶ 28:13 Shane Parrish Warren Buffett had bought five percent of her company without telling her. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:01 Shane Parrish Under Buffett's guidance, she authorized aggressive stock buybacks when the shares were undervalued, maintained a conservative balance sheet with virtually no debt, made selective acquisitions that transformed the company.
- ▶ 48:50 Shane Parrish Warren Buffett captured her essence best.
- ▶ 53:33 Shane Parrish Warren Buffett bought five percent of her company without asking. 2 times in the scene
Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 48:03 Shane Parrish What I find fascinating, Jimmy discovered what Buffett and Munger had been practicing for years, that capital allocation is the CEO's most important job, but he learned it the hard way through near total failure.
- ▶ 1:03:19 Shane Parrish Jimmy Pattison is often dubbed as Canada's Warren Buffett, a comparison that Buffett even himself playfully flipped and said back in Omaha, unknown as the Jim Pattison of the United States. 3 times in the scene
Anna Wintour: Vogue [Outliers]
- ▶ 53:39 Shane Parrish As Warren Buffett says, only when the tide goes out do you discover who's swimming naked.
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment
- ▶ 1:00:08 Reed Hastings And there, there are a few people who work, oh, Warren Buffett. 2 times in the scene
Rose Blumkin: Women of Berkshire Hathaway [Outliers]
- ▶ 0:56 Shane Parrish How did this penniless refugee build a billion dollar empire, and why did Warren Buffett later say he'd rather wrestle grizzlies than compete with Miss B?
- ▶ 1:49 Shane Parrish When the world's greatest investor, Warren Buffett, met Rose Blumpkin, he said simply, I'd rather wrestle grizzlies than compete with Miss B. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:50 Shane Parrish As Buffett would later observe, this wasn't business acumen you could learn at Harvard.
- ▶ 25:31 Shane Parrish When Warren Buffett quipped at a Berkshire Hathaway meeting that he'd like to introduce Berkshire Hathaway's managers except Ms.
- ▶ 26:13 Shane Parrish Warren Buffett had known of Nebraska Furniture Merck for many years. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:45 Shane Parrish One thing that's interesting here is how both Rose and Buffett prioritize character over credentials. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:20 Shane Parrish As Buffett observed, everything Miss B knew how to do, she would do fast. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:26 Shane Parrish And when Warren Buffett, the world's greatest investor, was asked about Rose after her death, he said simply, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:14 Shane Parrish Warren Buffett bought her business on a handshake with no audit because character recognition works both ways.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
- ▶ 32:34 Shane Parrish Um, and because they can't maintain the simplicity, they can't maintain the focus, they can't do the secret sauce, which obviously has a lot to do with, with Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:50 Garry Tan It's like the things that actually win, you know, I mean, I, and going back to Buffett, I, you know, I went to, um, their, uh, you know, sort of conclave in Omaha.
- ▶ 2:10:03 Shane Parrish It's the same as going back to Buffett, just tying a few of these conversations together, right? 2 times in the scene
Henry Singleton: The Greatest Capital Allocator in History [Outliers]
- ▶ 1:14 Shane Parrish While other business leaders were caught out of position and desperately trying to save their companies, Singleton quietly executed a strategy so unconventional that Warren Buffett later admitted, I wish I had had the courage to do it… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:16 Shane Parrish What do you get when you mix a chess prodigy, a mathematician, a brilliant engineer, and an investment savvy that literally made Warren Buffett jealous? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:37 Shane Parrish Warren Buffett was an admitted singleton admirer, and we can see how Teledyne's decentralized structure with centralized capital allocation became central to Berkshire Hathaway's playbook.
- ▶ 26:02 Shane Parrish And as you probably already noticed, there's a lot of parallels to Singleton, Buffett, and Munger, Berkshire Hathaway, and Teledyne. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:28 Shane Parrish This pivot was remarkably similar to what Warren Buffett was doing at Berkshire Hathaway around this exact same time, buying insurance companies and using the insurance float as a form of low-cost capital that could be invested for higher… 2 times in the scene
James Dyson: Against the Odds [Outliers]
- ▶ 1:06:02 Shane Parrish And one of the things that he mentioned to me was, he said, Warren and I have rarely been forced into a bad decision.
Estée Lauder: A Success Story
- ▶ 2:15 Shane Parrish Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger said it was a crime that business schools didn't study Henry Singleton.
Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
- ▶ 21:33 Shane Parrish I always come back to sort of Buffett in the sixties with the loom, right?
- ▶ 43:27 Josh Wolfe So the past, I don't know, 10 plus years where this has really become the case with Fidelity and BlackRock and State Street and others that the ETFs, which were well intentioned, you know, you go and listen to Buffett back in the day. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:03 Josh Wolfe A lot of LPs, allocators have gone into private credit, have gone into private equity, in part because they are mechanisms of muting volatility, and the vicissitudes of the market, because you don't have daily mark to market, and so…
- ▶ 1:10:41 Josh Wolfe Buffett-like, the moral sort of mandate would be, like he described Don Keough of Coke, that when you do die, you want them to say what they said about him, which was everybody loved him.
Andrew Mellon: America’s Secret Banker [Outliers]
- ▶ 6:19 Shane Parrish They understood something that modern investors like Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger would later teach so simply.
- ▶ 20:11 Shane Parrish And you can think of the 2008 financial crisis and how Buffett was able to deploy billions of dollars 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:15 Shane Parrish We see this pattern in great minds like Munger and Buffett and guests that we've had on the show.
- ▶ 1:00:54 Shane Parrish This reminds me of something Warren Buffett said.
Timothy Eaton: How to Build an Empire (And Why It Crumbled) [Outliers]
- ▶ 36:19 Shane Parrish I wanted to see what Warren Buffett had to say about retailing, so I looked it up. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:35 Shane Parrish As Buffett commented, You have to be smart and
Codie Sanchez: Your Blueprint to Financial Freedom
- ▶ 1:01:38 Shane Parrish One of Buffett's filters, I think, if I remember my reading correctly, is that, uh, he was super friendly with people, but if they asked him for a favor, it was an indication that they weren't necessarily friends in the other person's eye,…
- ▶ 1:11:08 Codie Sanchez First of all, Buffett said the most important thing, which is, what did he say exactly? 2 times in the scene
Best of 2024: The Blueprint for a Transformative New Year
- ▶ 6:31 Morgan Housel And if we look at Buffett, this guy standing behind our shoulder here, and let's, let's look at the course of his life. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:05 John Bragg Conrad and Buffett were a big EBIT, I believe her. 3 times in the scene
Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
- ▶ 23:24 Charlie Hoehn Um, my, uh, one of my good friends' moms was the CEO of, uh, John's Man Bill, and so she would hang out with Warren Buffett and stuff, and I was, like, begging her, please tell Charlie Moker when he was live to publish a book on mental…
Adam Karr: The Investing Blueprint
- ▶ 3:29 Adam Carr A Buffett who is trying to own things forever, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:20 Adam Carr Buffett might call it circle of competence.
- ▶ 57:20 Shane Parrish Going back to TSMC for a second, I think one of Buffett's filters is, is it knowable? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:36 Shane Parrish Talk to me about that a little bit, because I think one of Buffett's earned secrets that most people don't recognize is that he's always in a position for success. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:23 Shane Parrish Are there particular lessons from Munger and Buffett that you try to remember every day that have made more of an impact for you?
John Mackey: Building Whole Foods
- ▶ 1:12:02 John Mackey Warren Buffett's like the best example, and we actually contacted Warren and asked him if he'd be interested, and he has a good sense of humor, and he said that, um, ah, you know, I own Dairy Queen. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:01:25 Shane Parrish Warren Buffett. 4 times in the scene
John Bragg: The Blueberry Billionaire
- ▶ 47:41 Shane Parrish Buffett talks about, well, I want all my managers to run their businesses as if they own a hundred percent of it. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:17 John Bragg We're trying to, we own, like, a lot of Buffett, and we're just hanging on to it, and probably you'll have it 10 years, although I read a 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:55 Shane Parrish It's one of the differences that strikes me from your past and, and his, and they both obviously worked out exceptionally well, is that after the sixties, he basically seemed positioned for success no matter what happened. 10 times in the scene
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