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Founders: #330 Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)

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What I learned from rereading Les Schwab Pride In Performance: Keep It Going! by Les Schwab. ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes ---- (8:00) I didn't know how to ride a bike. We never had one. All the other young kids delivered newspapers on a bike. He's got no money. He doesn't have a bike. So he ran his routes for two months in order to get enough money to buy his first bike. He’d run nine or 10 miles a day. (8:00) I was too proud to complain. (10:00) For a poor boy, money was much more important than pride. (10:00) Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel by Sam Zell. (Founders #269) (13:00) I was young. I was cocky. But the same cockiness helped me a lot in going through life. (15:00) The very first sentence describing his very first day in business is mind blowing: I had never fixed a flat tire in my life. (15:00) the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Munger (Founders #329) (29:00) Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man by Vance H. Trimble (Founders #150) (35:00) I always knew that if we fixed all the flat tires in town, we'd have all the t

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