"If I wanted to propose a grand synthesis for Americans to understand Shenzhen, it would be Detroit in its heyday of about 100 years ago to Silicon Valley today." - Dan Wong [00:01:22]

"Deng Xiaoping was not at all charismatic, but incredibly effective as a manager." - Kerry Brown [00:07:37]

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• "When I was an academic I used to think history was made by big forces now I see what a difference individuals make." - Walter Isaacson quoting Henry Kissinger [00:10:20]

• "Empathy is not your friend when you're trying to get to Mars when you're trying to get to the era of electric vehicles... it was basically a vanity on your part." - **Elon Musk as…

Quotes

"It is easier to sell one's signature than a bale of silk and it was also more profitable." - Joseph Wechsberg / Merchant Bankers 00:04:58 "We must not let in daylight upon magic." - Traditional Merchant Banking Motto 00:07:20 "Lawyers like to complicate matters. We like to…

Day 2: Youtube, Nuggets

"Poetry presents two ideas that may not be interrelated and it forces you to use your imagination in order to relate the two things." - Instructor…

Day 1 : Youtube, Nuggets

"This hierarchy is the amount of God that you receive in your soul... The closer you are to God the more you are able to receive his light." - Professor…

"The imagination is what will lead you to the truth." - Jiang Xueqin [00:07:07]

"In the pagan worldview the universe it's a circle... but with Jesus the circle now becomes a line." - Jiang Xueqin [00:19:15]

"If we are truly to embrace Dante we have to use our intuition and imagination."…

"To understand what made me and my colleagues become the people we did become, we've got to understand the history because we went through a harrowing period that tempered us—that either broke us or tempered us." - Lee Kuan Yew [00:02:10]

"They are like radioactive dust. How do you get rid of it? You got to vacuum the whole place out and with it…

"If the only human reality was brute force we would still be living in tiny hunter gatherer bands in the African savannah because the whole of human history is about how do you get more people to cooperate and to trust each other and you cannot do that only with brute force." - Yuval Noah Harari [00:02:58]

"Nationalism at its core is about loving and…

"What is the cause of management's fantastic faith in the machinery?" - Richard Feynman [00:07:02]

"for a successful technology reality must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled" - Richard Feynman [00:13:33]

"He knew the difference between knowing…

"Plato is philosophy and philosophy is Plato." - Ralph Waldo Emerson [00:06:41]

"The safest general characterization of European philosophy is that it consists in a series of footnotes to Plato." - Alfred North Whitehead [00:07:05]

"Because everything is matter, nothing matters.…

"I calculate the movement of stars but not the madness of men." - Sir Isaac Newton (attributed) [00:12:05]

"He was Citadelian, I mean there was just phenomenal amounts of turnover that was just flowing through his portfolio..." - Toby Nangle (on Winston Churchill) [00:14:23]

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"I believe the power to make money is a gift of God. I have ways of making money that you know nothing of." - John D. Rockefeller [00:00:23]

"He was a serious boy determined to make money work for him. From the very beginning he understood the discipline of capital." - Narrator…

• "[Gladstone is] a crazy professor and the most incompetent British leader since the American Revolution." - Otto von Bismarck (Regarding William Gladstone’s idealistic foreign policy) [00:08:08]

• "Harmony between England and Russia is always a danger for us. If France should become a monarchy again and join that combination, the…

"00:00:54 Bismarck was not just any regular statesman. He was the man who forged the German Empire... the fabled Iron Chancellor, Germany’s architect and its founder." - Narrator

"00:06:44 His biggest fear... was an alliance between France, Russia, and Austria-Hungary, as this would have surrounded…