73 Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick: The Bitter Partnership That Changed America — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2019-05-26
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Product
“Um, and this is a mistake Carnegie makes, and then the way Frick responds, there's actually some good strategic moves he makes…”
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Focus
“Instead, I have turned my focus upon the thread of a relationship and have restricted my attention for the most part to…”
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People
“Like, it's just people, uh, plenty of people die i- in, in this line of work.”
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Persistence
“Like, the deal we offered you that you rejected last year is no longer, uh, no longer on the table because you…”
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Capital
“While he lacked the five hundred dollars he needed to invest, and, uh, Carnegie writes later in his autobiography that at th-…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
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