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  1. “Studying that I'm doing than if I didn't do that. Again, read over and over again. He says that. That's a literally line from Napoleon. Not read once and then move on. No, read over and over and over again. So I love that idea. I wanted to combine that idea with Napoleon from Napoleon with one of the subscribers to founder Satsa says. Like, man, this has replaced my, instead of reading the newspaper, started reading the news. I'm just reading this every morning. I think you'll like it. It gets better every day. I have a ton of new features coming. That is foundersnotes.com, foundersnotes.com. As always, thank you very much.”

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  2. “The experience of others, like that just every indication of the more biographies I read, the more time I spend re-reading this, it's just every single, when I get to meet people like Charlie Munger and Sam Zell, who are seeped, they are seeped in history, just like Napoleon was when Napoleon was like, hey, when you read his words, he was like, hey, you know, in 300 AD, this guy did this. And in 1645, this guy did this. And look, he was trying to cross the river here, 1755. This guy did this. I got the chance to talk to both before they passed away. Two hours of Sam Zell and three hours of Charlie Munger. They were exactly like that. That is my goal. And, you know, like I'm much younger than they are, but when I get there to be seeped in history where everything that you're seeing, you're just analyzing everything through the ideas and all like the giant game tape of history's greatest entrepreneurs. I believe with my whole heart, I will have a better life. I will have a better career because of this relentless.”

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  3. “I spend my life doing this, right? What would Napoleon do? Why would Napoleon Really, I'm asking you, can you answer what would he do? Of course, he would do this if he had access to Founder's notes, he'd be reading it constantly. So that's just one idea. There's a million ideas. I'm going to keep at the end of the episodes. I'll keep introducing ways to use this. But I think I can leave it there for now, just as simple as that. It's like, hey, sign up. Read the highlights from one book a day. And you have a year. Like you can sign up right now. You do an annual subscription, right? Which means not only do you have access to every single thing I've done so far. But in that year, I'm going to read another 40, 50 book, no, probably 50 books, add a couple thousand more highlights. So the product actually gets better every day. And I can recommend this with my whole heart because I made it. I use it every day. And I love, and when I hear things about like what Napoleon says, like experience must be supplemented by study. No man's personal experience can be so inclusive as to warn his disregarding.”

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  4. “The campaigns of Alexander, Caesar, Frederick the Great, make them your models. It is the only way to become a great general into master secrets of the art of war. With your own genius enlightened by this study, I feel if you use founder notes, if you read it every day. So I've been getting a bunch of messages from people about how they're using it. Because I put this thing out into the world. I'll tell you how I use it. But it's very fascinating. Somebody told me yesterday that they're using it as if they used to read the newspaper or check the news every day. And instead of that, they're reading founders notes and they're reading a different book every day or reading the highlights from a different book every day. So that line with your own genius enlightened by this study. I love that. You will reject Maxim's opposed to those of these great commanders. And then the other tagline that, you know, jumps out at me, which I think is Napoleon describing why you and I should invest time in this doing this.”

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  5. “From Napoleon kept him at his post, where he remained as incompetent as ever. This was really a ruse and an excellent illustration of Napoleon's knowledge of psychology. And then the last one, this is a great place for you and I to close. He's again going back to the importance of studying history and identifying and analyzing the principles that the greats used. All great captains have accomplished great things only by conforming to the rules and natural principles of the art of war. Whatever may have been the audacity of their enterprises and the extent of their success, they succeeded only by conforming to rules and principles. It is only for this reason that they are great models. They are our great models. And it is only by imitating them that we may hope to approach them. All great captains have been diligent students. Histories of wars must be critically analyzed to discover why successes were”

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  6. “In war, there is only one favorable moment genius seizes it. Think about that. Business is composed of nothing but surprises and profiting from those surprises is the essence of genius And then we get to this short story that I mentioned earlier that Napoleon was also gifted at psychological warfare and that we see this again, like an understanding of human nature helps you rise to the top of your profession. And so he says, praises from enemies are to be suspected, right? Do not believe them. They can flatter a man of honor only when they are given after the cessation of hostility. So if you beat your enemy and then he wants to praise you, maybe you can believe it then. But do not believe it until the war is already over, right? And so this is, I love what he did here. It just surprised me. So it says Napoleon was thinking of the Austrian general who opposed him in 1796. Provera was a very poor general with a view to having the Austrian government maintain him at his post. Napoleon made great reports extolling the wisdom and efficiency of Provera. The Austrian government believing that Provera must be indeed good to gain property.”

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  7. “Skill consists in converging a mass of fire upon a single point. He that has the skill to bring a sudden, unexpected concentration of artillery to bear upon a selected point is sure to capture its skill consists in converging a massifier upon a single point. He that has the skill to bring a sudden unexpected concentration of artillery to bear upon a selected point is sure to capture. He's talking about focus, right? There's a lesson for Peter Thiel that I love. And he says, do not divide your attention, that focusing on one thing yields increasing returns for each unit of effort. It sounds very similar to what Napoleon said 200 years ago. In the last few weeks, you and I have talked about this idea over and over again that business is problems. The best companies are just effective problem solving machine machines. War is composed of nothing but surprises. While a general should adhere to general principles, he should never lose the opportunity to profit by these surprises. It is the essence of genius.”

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  8. “Napoleon, something he says over and over again in the mind of Napoleon is like he believes in destiny. He's like, you know, the fulfillment of destiny, he believes in cause and effect. And so he'll say stuff like this. The importance of actions of a great general are not the result of chance or destiny. They are always a rise from planning and from genius. And so related to that is a general above all needs good judgment and common sense. And then again, Napoleon on make sure you're planning, but once you plan, go all in to the last extremity. He says hesitation and half measures lose all in war.”

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