59 Howard Hughes: The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2019-02-11
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“Kaiser, a one-time builder of roads and dams, revolutionized the shipbuilding industry with an assembly line that was capable of building an…”
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Focus
“no one else is doing it, so that's the focus I'm on, uh, that I wanna focus on.”
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People
“And that most people, I don't think, understand that because most people always say, "Oh, I've always been told bigger is better…”
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Persistence
“He had w- uh, failure after failure after failure, which I think is important for us to understand because, um, you know…”
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Capital
“But at the same time, like I don't know how much of he did it because he, like it seemed like he…”
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