#123 Albert Champion (Record-Setting Racer to Dashing Tycoon)
What I learned from reading The Fast Times of Albert Champion: From Record-Setting Racer to Dashing Tycoon, An Untold Story of Speed, Success, and Betrayal by Peter Joffre Nye. ---- [0:01] A brief sum...
1 Mai 20201h 4min
#122 Alfred Sloan (General Motors)
What I learned from reading My Years with General Motors by Alfred Sloan. ---- [2:40] There are ideas worth billions in a $30 history book: Henry talked to me on several occasions about a book by the ...
26 Apr 20201h 5min
#121 Billy Durant and Alfred Sloan (General Motors)
What I learned from reading Billy, Alfred, and General Motors: The Story of Two Unique Men, A Legendary Company, and a Remarkable Time in American History by William Pelfrey. ---- [0:01] They were oil...
19 Apr 20201h 22min
#120 Billy Durant (Creator of General Motors)
What I learned from reading Billy Durant Creator of General Motors: The Story of the Flamboyant Genius Who Helped Lead America into the Automobile Age by Lawrence Gustin. ---- [0:32] DURANT MAY BE THE...
11 Apr 20201h 11min
#119 The Dodge Brothers
What I learned from reading The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy by Charles Hyde. ---- This is the story of two small town machinists who became enormously successful automobile...
5 Apr 202053min
#118 Forty Years With Henry Ford
What I learned by reading My Forty Years With Ford by Charles Sorensen. ---- Henry Ford’s greatest achievement and his greatest failure [0:01] Henry Ford had one, single idea [4:15] Henry Ford’s manag...
31 Mar 20201h 20min
#117 : Chung Ju-yung founder of Hyundai (the most inspiring autobiography I've read)
What I learned from reading Born of This Land: My Life Story by Chung Ju-yung. --- For a long time I was known as the bulldozer. [0:01] How Chung’s son remembers him: He had a wonderfully positive dis...
26 Mar 20201h 20min
#116 Sam Bronfman (Seagram's and the Bronfman family dynasty)
What I learned from reading Samuel Bronfman: The Life and Times of Seagram’s Mr. Sam by Michael R. Marrus. ---- The story of Sam’s rise to fame and fortune from a hard life on the Canadian frontier is...
21 Mar 20201h 7min
