99 Carroll Shelby (My name is Carroll Shelby and performance is my business) — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2019-11-24
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“And the beautiful part, uh, about Shelby's life is he's gonna be remembered for his main ambition, which is building the Cobra…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: product.
Focus
“Like, you know, he, he says he had OCD, and he had, uh, not OCD, attention deficit disorder, and that he, he…”
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People
“You're talking about a handful of people, six, twelve, six or twelve different people at the time.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: people.
Persistence
“But that's Carroll Shelby when he's, you know, 40, 50, 60 years old, 70 years old.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: persistence.
Capital
“I'm not having any success doing things just for money." And he also realized that money only solves money problems, which he…”
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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