• "revolution has struck the guillotine becomes very busy who's going to live and who's going to die" - Dr. Stephen Hicks [00:00:00]

• "the guillotine becomes very busy in 1793 thousands and thousands of people are executed in many cases summarily without due process unjustly in various ways" - Dr. Stephen Hicks…

"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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• "The algorithm that founded the company turned out to be exactly wrong... We won't have a company if we don't confront the fact that this doesn't work." - Jensen Huang [00:02:42]

• "Technology is changing all the time and so long as you're able to confront the reality, so long as you are able to learn, the technology itself actually doesn't matter." -…

• "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…

"Age pushes you backwards but wisdom pushes you forwards. And if you can... focus and train you can run harder into the wind than the wind is pushing you backwards." - Nicholas Thompson [00:09:05]

"How many people in your life do you have when you have something that's cool... are 100% happy? And my dad was 100% happy for everything good that ever…

• "Pick a business problem that you want to solve and think about business building as a way to solve the problem." - Jason Bellow [00:00:01]

• "We have found that players who take multiple shots on goal against a single goal tend to be much more successful than players that are placing lots of bets all over the place." - Jason Bellow…

• "ask 10 people what an entrepreneur is you get 10 answers selfish savior gambler builder maybe all of it honestly... you cannot learn this in a classroom the syllabus changes every morning the only education is actually doing it" - Nikhil Kamath [00:00:19]

• "the street believes struggle makes the founder we just removed the struggle... kb…

• "The street believes struggle makes the founder. We just removed the struggle." - Nikhil Kamath [00:01:19]

• "The day of a dad or a mom sitting down on dinner table and say if you marry this man you'll be happy for the rest of your life is out of the question because there are no guarantees in life." - Ronnie Screwvala…

"If you worry, you don't need to worry. And if you don't worry, you need to worry. Because if you don't worry, you're not taking care of the things that you should worry about." - Ray Dalio [00:11:47]

"I think my core competency is insecurity... insecurity allows for curiosity because if you're insecure, you don't think you're the smartest person in…

• "Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome." - Charlie Munger (via Shane Parrish) [00:04:14]

• "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon him not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair (via Shane Parrish) [00:04:53]

• "The longer the…

"Having the courage to start over you have to — when you're faced with a difficulty you have to have that courage to start over." - Marcia [00:01:15]

"By keeping a positive attitude you're my — I hire great people and and I let them do it and I become a cheerleader." - Gary…

"what does an entrepreneur do an entrepreneur is either going to get over the wall or through the wall but they will get to the other side somehow" - Henry Kravis [00:07:06]

"don't keep one foot on the dock and one foot in the boat either keep two feet on the dock and let this opportunity go by or put both feet in the boat and row like hell" -…