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OWNERSHIP, POSSESSION, AND CONTROL
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Terry Seares
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Like Ickes, Wallace was a nominal Republican; also like Ickes, he was unknown to the president-elect before his appointment.
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
Brad Adair
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In the brief time he had served as the president of Continental Airlines, Tom Plaskett learned that aircraft suppliers made a point of keeping a little something in reserve in any negotiation with Lorenzo, even past the point of the handshakes, because Lorenzo would try to re-trade the deal. They called it the “Frank factor.” Phil Bakes would call
... See moreThomas Petzinger Jr. • Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
Frank Donovan, a lifetime close friend and a lawyer from Detroit. He was known among his friends and clients as a brilliant legal analyst with a nonaggressive temperament. No litigator. When we were both twenty, I remember him saying: "When there's a fight, I pick up my hat and go home." He had a large head, somewhat out of proportion to
... See moreJohn McDonald • A Ghost's Memoir: The Making of Alfred P. Sloan's My Years with General Motors (The MIT Press)
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
He exited the workroom, troubled, but not unduly, by a pang of sympathy for Kavalier & Clay. Love saw how it was. These boys had come up with this Escapist character and then, in exchange for some token payment and the opportunity of seeing their names in print, signed away all the rights to Anapol and company. Now Anapol and company were prosp
... See moreMichael Chabon • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
To the people of East Tremont, East Tremont was family. In its bricks were generations.