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April Dunford: The Marketing Expert
- ▶ 42:47 April Dunford Yeah, this is the, this is the Warren Buffett quote, you know, how do you beat Bobby Fischer?
Brian Halligan: Building HubSpot into a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 58:59 Shane Parrish It's like w we, we love Warren Buffett, but we want him to also be a better family man. 2 times in the scene
Brent Beshore: Business Brilliance and Happiness at Home
- ▶ 1:49:31 Brent Beshore Of course, um, I, um, had the privilege of spending some time with Buffett at one point, and I asked him this, like, battery of questions, and he kind of, I think at some point got frustrated with me, um, being, I was probably being… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:02:07 Shane Parrish Why don't you do a totally hands-off model like Buffett?
- ▶ 2:03:40 Brent Beshore And by the way, having spent time with both Buffett and Munger, they would say the same thing. 14 times in the scene
Morgan Housel: Get Rich, Stay Rich
- ▶ 9:25 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. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:01 Shane Parrish Because when we look at Buffett, what we want is the outcome, and what we don't think about is all the things that go into creating that outcome. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:48 Morgan Housel I think that's all that matters over time is that, you know, and even Buffett and Munger, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:26 Morgan Housel Buffett is obviously that Bill Gates is that there's a handful of people who are
- ▶ 55:30 Morgan Housel I love the Buffett quote where he says, leave your kids enough money so that they can do anything, but not so much money that they can do nothing.
David Segal: Building a $200m Business
- ▶ 28:53 David Segal I bought what Warren Buffett looks for in investments.
- ▶ 29:35 David Segal This is a Warren Buffett business.
- ▶ 54:25 David Segal Or like, you know, Warren Buffett made most of his money after 55.
- ▶ 56:53 Shane Parrish You mentioned Warren Buffett. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:23 David Segal Level that we're going to reach, you know, not everyone's Michael Jordan, and not everyone's going to be the Warren Buffett, or the CEO, or the president, or whatever, right?
Chris Davis: Three Generations of Wealth
- ▶ 57:38 Christopher Davis The one thing I would say is how profoundly and deeply Warren thinks about risk and thinks about how important it is that Berkshire can withstand just about anything, just about anything, and, and I think, you know, publicly they talk… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:05 Shane Parrish Because Berkshire Hathaway was able to do what it did because Buffett owned so much.
- ▶ 1:22:22 Christopher Davis You know, and so they've really sort of followed what I'd call the Carnegie Buffett school versus the Munger school, where I think Charlie said on that same podcast that half of his net worth had already been transferred to his kids, and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42:25 Christopher Davis And in fact, in our research department, we have a letter that Warren wrote in 1965, I think, uh, that, or 66, uh, that lists the reason that he believes most, uh, money managers, institutional managers tend to underperform.
- ▶ 2:27:42 Christopher Davis So, you know, there's Warren, 2 times in the scene
Tom Gayner: Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 3:52 Tom Gaynor The next level down was sort of the transition he fostered in Buffett to move from the digging around in the balance sheet, finding businesses that were cheap, to finding businesses that were good.
- ▶ 12:50 Tom Gaynor So it's a, it's a, it's a long story in many ways, and again, it ties back to Munger and Buffett. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:26 Tom Gaynor To Munger, um, and, and Buffett as well. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:43 Tom Gaynor Buffett famously talks about coin flips, and the language of coin flips, and a coin flip in your honor, in your, in your favor, where the odds are in your favor.
- ▶ 37:42 Tom Gaynor And Don Graham, the chairman and CEO of the, of the post reached out to me and we chatted and he had understood through my friend, Chris Davis, who was on the board and perhaps Buffett as well, who knew of Markel and knew of us, that we… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:18 Shane Parrish You put Warren Buffett in that situation, he's not going to make a great decision.
- ▶ 1:24:41 Tom Gaynor I think Buffett told a story once upon a time, but the, the person who's gonna really fool him and be able to swindle him out of some money is gonna be a guy, you know, driving a used car, wearing khaki pants, being, uh, very modest and…
- ▶ 1:50:21 Tom Gaynor Is in the context of, so for instance, and Buffett talks about this example all the time, in oil wells,
- ▶ 2:00:43 Tom Gaynor And again, Buffett uses the example, Ted Williams, the hitter. 2 times in the scene
Todd Herman: Unleashing Your Secret Identity
- ▶ 7:25 Todd Herman And, and Buffett both would talk about how success has a lot more to do with not making stupid mistakes than it ever does in making phenomenally right choices.
- ▶ 10:49 Shane Parrish I want to go back to Buffett and Munger for a second. 8 times in the scene
Rey Flemings: A Different Definition of Success
- ▶ 19:45 Rey Flemings I also love Warren Buffett's quote in his documentary. 6 times in the scene
Dr. Julie Gurner (Part 1): Caring Deeply, Challenging Directly
- ▶ 9:49 Dr. Julie Gurner And the gentleman who is a chairperson is, I want to say he's in his mid-seventies or so, and man, that guy, uh, is hungry as ever, even though he's just advising, and he's, but he is engaged, and you see that with Warren Buffett, and you…
Adam Robinson: Positioning Yourself For Success
- ▶ 18:27 Adam Robinson And you know, uh, better than anyone, Buffett's first rule of investing, never lose money, right?
- ▶ 42:37 Adam Robinson Every year on his birthday, and at Christmas, I send Buffett a present. 9 times in the scene
Ravi Gupta: The Realities of Success
- ▶ 57:05 Shane Parrish Well, you know, the example that comes to mind is like Warren Buffett, right? 2 times in the scene
Aaron Dignan: Change The Way You Work
- ▶ 11:43 Aaron Dignan They would kind of play the game more like Warren Buffett plays the game and less like, you know, the average swing trader.
Neil Pasricha: Simple Rules for Happiness
- ▶ 26:24 Neil Pasricha Warren Buffett has a 168 hours.
Andrew Wilkinson: Tiny Holdings
- ▶ 13:01 Shane Parrish Do you remember David Sokol, who used to work at Berkshire Hathaway with Warren Buffett?
- ▶ 51:18 Andrew Wilkinson And I started reading about Warren Buffett. 3 times in the scene
Marshall Goldsmith: The Essentials Of Leadership
- ▶ 1:01:10 Marshall Goldsmith He donated, Bill Gates flies to India with Warren Buffett to talk rich people into giving money to the poor. 2 times in the scene
Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations
- ▶ 1:25:10 Shane Parrish So that goes to sort of Buffett's idea of this inner versus outer scorecard.
- ▶ 2:03:46 Shane Parrish And when you ask yourself, like, what would Warren do?
Luke Burgis: The Power of Mimetic Desire
- ▶ 1:18:18 Luke Burgess It could be Warren Buffett as an investor.
David Sinclair: Reversing the Aging Process
- ▶ 48:27 Shane Parrish Yeah, I think it was Buffett, Warren Buffett, who, who at one point said something along the lines of the key to his age was the fact that he has no stress in his life.
#122 Robert Cialdini - The Principles of Persuasion
- ▶ 1:01:38 Shane Parrish Um, what makes Warren Buffett so successful? 2 times in the scene
#116 Jeff Immelt: Leadership In A Crisis
- ▶ 12:48 Shane Parrish How did the Warren Buffett deal come together? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:45 Jeff Immelt If I go Wednesday with Buffett, I make it to shore or doing a deal or selling a business or waiting too long or going.
#111 Joel Greenblatt: Investing Made Simple
- ▶ 0:05 Joel Greenblatt As Buffett would say, you know, you don't have to swing at every pitch.
- ▶ 4:08 Joel Greenblatt It's, ah, as Warren Buffett would say, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:36 Joel Greenblatt And I read an article in Forbes about Ben Graham, which is Warren Buffett's teacher, and it was just a simple formula he had for picking stocks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:04 Joel Greenblatt You know, one of the reasons I wrote is because I got to read, you know, Ben Graham and all the letters that Warren Buffett wrote and everything else.
- ▶ 27:35 Joel Greenblatt So for the most of the ones you, you take a pass, you throw it as Buffett would say in the too hard pile.
- ▶ 38:04 Joel Greenblatt More along my skill set would be watching Warren Buffett allocating capital over the years and trying to learn from what he ended up liking. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:35 Shane Parrish One thing that Buffett doesn't seem to do ever is stock options. 2 times in the scene
#105 Seth Godin: Failing On Our Way To Mastery
- ▶ 17:27 Seth Godin So if we think about the stock market of which I know nothing, lots and lots of people, millions of people have read Ben Graham, but almost none of them turned into Warren Buffett.
- ▶ 38:24 Shane Parrish I want to come back to something you said about sort of winning the, the birth lottery here, the ovarian lottery, I think as Buffon calls it, um, and how, how that puts us sort of on a trajectory that we, we didn't control, right?
#102 Sendhil Mullainathan: The Chaos Inside Us
- ▶ 1:17:40 Shane Parrish Where you, and I think that, you know, what we're describing in a really roundabout way is like how Buffett has 4 times in the scene
#100 Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key
- ▶ 16:51 Matt Mullenweg Warren Buffett and Charlie Munker's approach.
#97 Roger Martin: Forward Thinking
- ▶ 40:42 Shane Parrish One of the things I ascribe that to is that Buffett and Munger controlled about 40% of its shares until recently so they could sit on cash and not do anything and not worry about an activist investor or, you know, and what they were really…
#94 Chamath Palihapitiya: Understanding Yourself
- ▶ 37:01 Chamath Palihapitiya And in many ways, you know, Buffett's simplicity, Warren's elegance of his mental model, 3 times in the scene
#89 Maria Konnikova: Less Certainty, More Inquiry
- ▶ 26:22 Shane Parrish Um, you know, people have said that Buffett's lost it, too, and every time, you know, that, that popular sort of sentiment rears its head, he tends to 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:40 Shane Parrish I think like Warren Buffett calls that the ovarian lottery, right?
#88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation
- ▶ 14:24 Shane Parrish Like if you think maybe Warren Buffett's a good example, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31:31 Derek Sivers I thought that was Warren Buffett that said that. 2 times in the scene
#85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
- ▶ 51:24 Bethany McLean When people invoke comparisons to others like Warren Buffett, but where they want to take something of somebody else's halo and appropriate it in order to improve their own, their own image, um, I think that's one that's
- ▶ 1:11:20 Bethany McLean I mean, to put it in really sort of blunt terms that that would make sense, I got to go spend a day with Warren Buffett in Omaha, right? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:24 Shane Parrish Coming out of that, the Buffett meeting, did you change anything about what you do?
#82 Bill Ackman: Getting Back Up
- ▶ 33:38 Bill Ackman So just briefly on the investment side, you know, I got into this business because someone tipped me off about Warren Buffett early on, so he's certainly obviously a hero.
- ▶ 1:11:39 Bill Ackman I do think, you know, if Buffett doesn't want to, the government shouldn't come in on terms that are more favorable than where Warren Buffett would provide the company with capital, I guess is, I guess is my point. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:07 Bill Ackman And so I would expect Buffett to have, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:37 Bill Ackman I don't know if that's the first, I think, I think it was the first insurance company he bought for whatever, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight million dollars or something like that in the, in the 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:37 Shane Parrish What are some of the lessons that you've learned over the years from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger? 15 times in the scene
#77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future
- ▶ 22:22 Mike Maples Jr. Buffett and Munger, they're investing in big companies with understandable businesses.
#70 Scott Adams: Avoiding Loserthink
- ▶ 44:28 Scott Adams So for example, you can imagine, hypothetically, that there might be a Warren Buffett degree. 4 times in the scene
#67 Jim Collins: Keeping the Flywheel in Motion
- ▶ 1:02:06 Jim Collins I'm not sure I would be as encoded for it the way, say, a Howard Marks or a Warren Buffett or, uh, somebody who's just, they're just, like, they're so stoic, uh, when it comes, they're, they're, they're able to ride through things with a…
#53 Howard Marks: Luck, Risk and Avoiding Losers
- ▶ 0:38 Shane Parrish The most famous investor ever, Warren Buffett, said of Howard, when I see memos from Howard Marks in my mail, they're the first thing I open and read.
- ▶ 45:41 Howard Marks You know, and Buffett talks about the ovarian lottery.
#50 Josh Wolfe: Inventing the Future
- ▶ 1:31:49 Shane Parrish Buffett said he had the best 32nd mind in the world. 2 times in the scene
#49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining
- ▶ 37:46 Brent Gilchrist You know, how the, the history of the stock market, you know, what Buffett writes, what, or says, what Munger has written in, in the Almanac.
#47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1)
- ▶ 46:29 Shane Parrish Okay, but hasn't Warren Buffett become, like, one of the richest people in the world off that very algorithm? 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:10 Adam Robinson John Maynard Keynes, who was not just one of the great economists of all time, and by the way, the one economist, Warren Buffett, ever cites, he was also a great investor. 2 times in the scene
#40 Ben Thompson: Thriving in a Digital World
- ▶ 56:43 Ben Thompson Other than I say, I say your, your own, your own by Warren Buffett. 2 times in the scene
#37 Annie Duke: Getting Better by Being Wrong
- ▶ 1:48:35 Shane Parrish I mean, Buffett was on the cover of, uh, what, Time Magazine, 1999, as being out of touch, and yet we're still talking about him today. 3 times in the scene
#36 William MacAskill: The Science of Doing Good
- ▶ 7:37 Shane Parrish I guess when you're talking about that, I mean, one of the things that comes to mind is, uh, Warren Buffett's decision, um, to give away most of his wealth, but not do it until he had, uh, compounded it over a period of, you know, 70… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:37 Shane Parrish Uh, I think Warren Buffett has a similar plan. 2 times in the scene
#32 Patrick Collison: Earning Your Stripes
- ▶ 1:00:42 Patrick Collison Warren and Charlie at Berkshire and how the folks at Koch Industries are so into a kind of epistemology and structuring of doubt and accounting for biases and mechanisms for, for clarity of thinking, um, like to, to a very striking degree. 2 times in the scene
#23 Ray Dalio: Life Lessons from a Self-Made Billionaire
- ▶ 1:03:39 Shane Parrish Buffett said, uh, one of the things that he kind of worries about is keeping the, the culture, uh, 3 times in the scene
Rory Sutherland: The Psychology of Advertising
- ▶ 44:30 Shane Parrish Just in general, but in every industry, in every trade, there's, uh, you know, for every Warren Buffett, there's a hundred people trying to sound like Warren Buffett and emulate him, but they don't have his skills and attributes. 5 times in the scene
#18 Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher
- ▶ 42:02 Naval Ravikant Uh, I would combine radical honesty with an old rule that Warren Buffett has, uh, which is praise specifically criticized generally.
- ▶ 50:59 Shane Parrish I think Buffett has a great example of that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:50 Naval Ravikant Warren Buffett's, ah, partner.
- ▶ 1:29:50 Shane Parrish Um, you mentioned kind of like how you determine if you can trust somebody, and I know you've said in the past you've kind of used Buffett's criteria for evaluating people, which is the combination of intelligence, energy, and integrity.
#14 Morgan Housel: Reading, Writing, and Lifelong Learning
- ▶ 23:08 Morgan Housel And, and people like, like Munger and Buffett have done that so incredibly well.
#4 Jason Zweig: Elevate Your Financial IQ
- ▶ 13:45 Jason Zweig And when you first read it, it's kind of shocking because it sounds arrogant, but when you know the writings of Benjamin Graham, who for anyone in our audience who isn't familiar with him, was Warren Buffett's teacher and arguably the…
- ▶ 33:10 Shane Parrish That kind of goes to Buffett's point about temperament being more important than IQ and your ability to act. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:33 Shane Parrish Take what Buffett recommended and do index funds, or do you think that it's better to put effort into trying to learn to be like that and possibly detach yourself from being human a little bit to make a more rational decision?
- ▶ 43:59 Jason Zweig Warren Buffett told them.
- ▶ 56:12 Jason Zweig Skeptical essays by Bertrand Russell, who wrote some of the best, uh, who was one of the best writers of the 20th century, as well as one of the clearest thinkers, and his hero, Warren Buffett's.
#3 Sanjay Bakshi: Why Mental Models
- ▶ 11:21 Shane Parrish So multidisciplinary thinking is incredibly popular in the value investing kind of community in the sense that people look up to Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett, and yourself, and they try to bring that approach on their problems.