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Beshore: Using zero debt in acquisitions generates higher long-term returns
“You create higher returns over time by using little to no debt as weird as that is in the finance world.”
Beshore: Debt is an amplifier of return, not a source of return
“Debt is not a source of return. It is an amplifier of return. So it makes good things Be great. It can take mediocre things and destroy them. And of course it takes bad things and nukes them.”
Beshore: A passive index of small businesses eventually trends to zero
“The reality is over a long enough period of time, that index is zero. Like it's really hard. The governance of these things is difficult. Like the norm for most small businesses is entropy is decay. Is dying a slow death and being wound down. Like that's a nor…”
Beshore: Gaining personal awareness without healing is worse than ignorance
“If you gain awareness without healing, it's way worse than not being aware.”
Beshore: Insisting on paying every dinner bill is covert social control
“In a friendship, in a real relationship, you cede control to the other person. The other person concedes control to you. It's not, you're always controlling. The whole point of a friendship is that you can trust and you can be vulnerable and you can cede contr…”
Beshore: Short-Term Capital and Time Horizons Prevent Sound Long-Term Decisions
“There's no way
To make good long-term decisions with short-term capital with short-term time horizons.
There's no way.”
Beshore: Expecting to rapidly transform a 30-year-old business is hubris
“Like if you've, if the business has been operating a certain way on a certain trajectory for 30 years, it is nothing but hubris to come in and think that within a short period of time, you're going to completely change the trajectory of the business.”
Beshore: Scaling a HoldCo means repeatedly reinvesting overhead, resetting cashflow to zero
“So every time on the way at the cycle up, you've got to pass through this gauntlet of over and over and over again.”
Beshore: Unsolicited 'Heroic' Help Diminishes Others by Stripping Their Agency
“Heroes create victims because you're removing all agency from them. And you are telling them that they can't help themselves, that they are helpless. And when you do that, you are creating somebody who is diminished and insulted.”
Beshore: Fear provides short-term high-octane drive but ultimately causes burnout
“That fear is like, it's higher octane almost. It's higher octane. The problem is it's got all kinds of contaminants in it and you eventually like torch yourself and the car breaks down and you go off the rails and blow yourself up, whatever analogy you want to…”
Beshore: Scarcity mindsets are contagious, requiring active protection for abundance cultures
“As soon as, I mean, if you look at the game theory of scarcity, as soon as one person acts scarce, the fear ripples through the entire crowd and love is fragile. Care is genuinely fragile. This, either this fear mindset or this abundance mindset, love mindset,…”