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Show Notes
[00:03:00] - He could think quicker and along more individual and original lines than any of them.
[00:04:00] - John D: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers by David Freeman Hawke. (Founders #254)
[00:04:14] - Miami meetup with Shane Parrish
[00:07:31] - His life was enormously important, endlessly fascinating, and connected to some of the most controversial and constantly reinterpreted events in the world history.
[00:08:37] - Paul Johnson’s books:
Churchill by Paul Johnson. (Founders #225)
Mozart: A Life by Paul Johnson. (Founders #240)
Socrates: A Man for Our Times by Paul Johnson. (Founders #252)
[00:10:54] - Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle by Paul Johnson. (Founders #226
[00:12:20] - He knew the importance of actively crafting his image in all available media.
[00:15:08] - Napoleon found comfort and companionship in books
[00:17:02] - The revolution was overturning age-old hierarchies and giving worldwide prominence to previously obscure figures
[00:17:24] - Napoleon was ruthless.
[00:18:36] - Only after that battle did I believe myself to be a superior man. And did the ambition come to me of executing the great things, which so far had been occupying my thoughts only as a fantastic dream.
[00:20:00] - Many are the historical opportunities that have been lost for lack of talent or vision. In Napoleon's case, the man met his hour.
[00:20:13] - He could see in a moment how to maneuver everything for maximum effect.
[00:21:03] - Napoleon was a man of stone and iron.
[00:26:27] - Napoleon was something new and the keenest observers understood it.
[00:29:06] - I wanted to rule the world, who wouldn't have in my place?
[00:29:26] - If papa could see us now.
[00:29:45] - Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership by Edward Larson. (Founders #251)
[00:32:15] - You might as well send a cow in pursuit of a rabbit. The Indians were accustomed to these woods.
[00:35:30] - The Empire was increasingly coming to resemble a skyscraper built in haste without a proper foundation.
[00:35:58] - Driven: An Autobiography by Larry Miller. (Founders #168)
[00:39:24] - The key to victory was to plan and pursue a war exactly contrary to what the enemy wants.
[00:39:49] - Hardcore History Ghosts of the Ostfront series
[00:41:08] - The distracted do not beat the focused.
[00:42:36] Success is never permanent. The same person that built the empire, destroyed it.

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