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Guy Laliberté

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“Opportunity, I spend a lot of time in Vegas, especially by activating certain things. We love let's make sure we don't lose contact. I will definitely eat a good bottle of secchi over a good Japanese meal or a good bottle of wine, the red wine burgundy over a good meal.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Challenging and interesting. So I'm having a very interesting brain activities with all those ampers keep rolling. The amsters are definitely awake in this brain.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, there's a different factor on that. One is I realized I didn't do my epilogue. You know, I laugh at pain of coal, I visit things. I had bad result things for X reason. Again, another conversation. But what is my epilogue in all this amazing creative production adventure? And what I'm working now is my epilogue. The second thing is a challenge. It's funny. As much I'm very active, something I have the impression that I could become very lazy when comfort is there. So I always perform the best when I'm on the cliff. And it's true. It's true. And knowing that if I decide to come back on that, and I'm risking a lot, I cannot do what I did at Sergio Soleil. I have to find different way. I have to address every angle of the artistic experience I'm about to do with a different look at it. And this is intellectually so, so. you”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of my goal at the end, which is, I mentioned it before, being a good ancestor. And this is all the desire of giving back as much as I could in the time left. And I hope there's another 30 years, whatever, my goal is at least 100 years. But I was fed by so much love, so much joy, so much opportunity that what I got was bigger than what one individual has. So I'm trying to find a way that how could I give back of all that to what I know best is creating shows and creating entertainment companies. So this is where I am. We talked about the Tome 1. There's a Tome 2, and I'm starting to engage Tome 3, basically.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“environment. And at the end, what does it mean? What is the conclusion of that? It's like, you know, in life, you could have all the success you want. You could have all that, but what is most important in your family, your friends, your tribe, the people that live a life with, and the comfort of that is so much important than anything else after, which at the end, if you realize that, and for me this exercise of starting up a new entertainment company with new show that I cannot disclose today, but I believe the pretty ass kicker also there. First of all, we have a lot of fun. We're laughing, our ass out every morning that we're writing and creating ass things. So we'll live a die from the public reaction, but amongst the team here, we're like cranking up and we have a lot of joys. But at the end, what all this will permit me is somewhere, hopefully to this new adventure engage in, which I didn't have to, is maybe end up having achieved to one.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't have the patience of most of the things. One of my investment was the biggest betrayal of my life. I said, wait a minute, I want to be with my friend. I want to be my loved one. I want to be with my tribe. I want to be with my family. So it shift and made me the decision that I said, I want to do shows again. So the last year about, I don't know, since last September, yeah, about a year, I've been gearing up and we're developing concept and with some of it with my old friends that we told ourselves, let's do something again. And a bunch of young new kids, young people that have the fire, the drive, and that invite to play with us and make sure with all my elders that we use this opportunity of creating things and transfer the knowledge of what we have or wisdom or form them and give them and work with them so they could carry on nice entertainment.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I realized that what became important for me lost my parents and then suddenly it was like, wait a minute, one of my dream, because that's I would love to go back with all my group of people or friends, invite them on the island. Oh, you're my island, whatever, and spend a couple days or a night just with a good bottle of wine and just listen what their life was about, just to see the people you love, what they evolved. Because a lot of them, I always kept contact with them. But to some I've not seen for 20 years. And we're still in contact. We just would love to hug ourselves and have a good conversation again. It changed the last couple years, really, and especially from last year about 14 months ago. I really went through that period of whoa, what are my priority? First, family office type of money management, not my type of, I'm an entrepreneur. Okay, I need action.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah, I would like to talk about the community, which is again the beautiful 40 years that I live with amazing colorful people that come from the same environment of work, which is funny. Then, obviously, I soul sick delay 2015. Many things happen. Another story to tell. And I'm jumping to the conclusion where when from family office different portfolio explore a lot of things. I don't want to go details. Rough moment, COVID having to, you know, I was about to activate new content, new project and COVID kill it all, lost my investors and stuff like that, you know, like starting to lose not every year. Now it's like at least a couple of months friends that are dying. You know, make me realize that, wait a minute. I'm not saying clock is ticking, but let's say time pass fast and it does have impact.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, for example, without saying they're second generation, but they are because I know the founder of some of them. And, you know, obviously we had a huge impact in inspiring cultural or artistic entrepreneurs to use us as inspiration. And my wolf, some of them, I said, well, listen, you've been very important in inspiring us and many others like that. And when you see this or even in circus, there's been a little troops, things all like babies of Seg du Soleil that had defined their own style, that inspire and contribute to the elevation of the art of circus. And that's beautiful. And there's more of that, there's failure. And actually, it's very rewarding to see that type of impact you could have on the next generation. So yes, it's people who try, but the clever one or the one who don't try to copy, but try to make their own sign up.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Original. Then there's the other one that you inspire. Okay, young artists. And I had a lot I was responsible with a lot of new emerging entertainment company that inspired themselves about what we did and became the second generation. You know, it's like an art. We have the first generation. You have the second generation. And you have the other one that, or we call the derivative. Derivative of the bad one, you know, that sometimes make money out of things, but they just copy and they have no contribution to the evolution of the art. But today we have nurture, signless LA and nurture dozens of second generation of artists and things. And it's not necessarily always about circus. For example, I don't know if you know Mia Wolf.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, we were a pioneer, but after the success, like any good success, you have impact. Creative mind of production company. Some will have the easy reaction, a lazy reaction of trying to copy you. Very bad for them. Very bad for the business. Very bad for my brand. Why? Because they will play and inspired by, they will call that a cic launch of that to try to grab the flavor and attract them by trying to sell that there at the same level, right? Disaster. And this, for me, is lazy people to do that and non-creative people. There's some of that and you have to deal with that. Some drivers usually, they don't last long, but it does affect your credibility for a period of time. But people are not stupid. They will understand what is the real risk versus the fake one, right?”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which was a test case, sick story on it. And it's very interesting. And the people who will read it, it really makes you understand how addressing a red ocean by creating a blue ocean could totally be a game changer for an enterprise and the way of thinking about your envisioning strategic.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we did contribute a little bit. Now Vegas is a total red ocean, but we arrive creative blue ocean. I just like squeeze it with beautiful show. And they were giving us all the money we want to create the most amazing show and always an example of it. This is like masterpiece. It's like, that's the perfect match with somebody who believe in you, have a lot of money, and a team that arrive at creative maturity to do his masterpiece.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just like that open your night day after sold out, sold out, sold out. We were the hit new show. Rock Vegas, then after that, there was a whole show, and you know the story. It's like bang, bang. There's a certain point that after you sold to MGM. A moment and a pentacle of things, we were responsible of 6% of about 40 million visitors of primary reason why people were coming Vegas. And we were controlling almost 39% of every entertainment tickets in Las Vegas.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You ask you to make a deal with them, and that's what the breakdown you tasked me to make sure that it will be with us. I did it. That was the condition. It was a break deal. I signed it. The creditor sill to the credit of SIL at the moment, SIL said this is contractually binding. Seal said, no, okay then, I will have to trust you. I hope you're right and you will prove me wrong. But here it is. I will trust you. See you at opening night.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And yeah, and Frank Westminster is like, Do you know German Oprah is very important in the world of Opera Riswell Institution? And Steve is totally disabilized. And then he started to say, I like that. I don't like that. I want you to change that. And then I intervened. No, Steve. I said, I explain to you, explain all the things. We're not done yet with the show. This will be a great show. Trust me. And by the way, I have the last word contractually about what will be the show or not. And his reaction, yeah, but I control the room. And if I decide nobody goes in, fair from you, then you'll be in penalty because if I deliver a show and I have the right, If you don't want to let people in, it's your problem. I would have done my job. And then he turned rage because he said, you have to understand, Steve Wynne, always have control on 2% of his narrative. Everybody's at his foot. Here's a little kid from Quebec and like standing in front of him saying no. When people tell him yes, three times in a row to make sure you understand no yes. And then you turn a bobby ball into you and say, what the fuck is that contract? I don't have the last word.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, I'm obliged to run a show that's supposed to give him the information what the show is about, but instead of being 100 miles an hour, it's running at 75. So obviously you don't see the beauty of the race car. It's like it is just safety, safety, safety. You mark your tech and client lining. Does the light could affect an acrobat? You know, there's all hundreds of detail. So obviously everything is slowed down. So at the end of the show, stand up. We have a meeting with him and he's around the day, Bo. Talk to him and say. What the fuck is this show? Look and feel like a fucking German opera. The director turned around and say, Thank you, Steve. Swear, this is true. Sorry, I see it's just like, what? It's just here. I just down the other show is a piece of crap. And you tell me thank you by telling you that.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We arrive, I'm not sitting with him, I'm sitting with Bobby Baldwin, a CEO because he's my friend and that's the one I made the deal. Franco Dragon and Gilles Saint-Coa, the director and the director of creation with Steve, and you could see Steve. And you know, they'll show that I have so much mechanic on it. You cannot put the artist on risk. So you don't run the show at real speed. You run the show in a safe way. So you mark the step and then, you know, it's a process.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I just tried to play with the situation. So he said, Listen I'm flying tomorrow. I want a private view of the show, okay? And there's no way you will open this show. And I will tell you what's work doesn't work. I have the experience of that in Las Vegas and everybody's freaking out. So I'm cranking because we took months to explain him this process. And now he's like treading me to not open the show or whatever, you know, and Steve Win way.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Steve, it's like this was the lion dance, and we're testing it. Wrong and stuff like that. The clown panic will correct that. Don't worry, that's part of the process.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But the tests people are only the worker of the casino plus all the executive because Steve will ask all these topics. Go check it out. First, we don't even call that address real, so we call that a lion den. Meaning it's the cage of a lion. The risk we're taking there, and we just want to do a bit. Normally, we invite friends and family, small crowd. The room is like probably 50% of the executives with the tire right there. And the number go wrong. Benny panicked the clown panic and he started to throw all the tart on the audience. So, of course, I receive a phone call from Steve Winn that's doing ski and ask bench, say, what I will not use the word. happen it's like what are you doing what is it to throw tarts to people in the room in the new theater like i said”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The same I would have done that still believe he's one of the best lines in the world, but you want to do an original clown act, which is about a satiric number of boxing in Las Vegas. And his game is to set up kind of boxing things, theatrical one, invite an audience member to have a boxing fight that end up to throw each other tarts, cream tarts.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“First dress rehearsal, another magic moment with Steve Wynne. My clown, the same Benny, by the way, and the same Benny that is my clown. He want to do a saturate clown number”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we go to show, and you know, it was a hard show to start a show and build up success. So the reaction at the end was good, but it was not determic. You know, it was not overwhelmed. It was like everybody was like, is he okay? So we overcome that moment that it could have been crucial. And then two, three months after he said, the real reason what I want to lock you down is because I'm doing treasure and then I want you to do the main show of this thing. The show gave us and became the timeless kiss that we made missed there. We tried to explain him our creative process, which we need, you know, you give us a theater, we'll design it for a show, but we need dust free and we need time to air soul. And with clowns, we need the audience to test things and stuff like that. So theoretically, get everything.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think I experienced what it means and what is a temperature in the feeling to be in the tomb. The sound, the sound of the big top, the CEO bobby ball and see the same thing and Steve Wooden don't see what's going on, what's going on. And CO said, well, there's an artist who fell on the end and he knew that we fell, I think it was a banker, one of the major banks. So he just fell in that thing. And she said, What? And that silence. So thank God it was just kind of like hurt on the shoulder. He couldn't break his neck. Basically, one inches on the top, he break the neck. And that was it for me. It was done.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They bought all the new equipment, built the things behind the mirage. And I didn't know at that time that for him you have something else. The treasure island was in mine and actually you want to lock me down. He did that contract just to lock me down so I could not talk to others because in two years after he was building this thing and it cost his money. And on the top of that opening night, my God, again, all the big shebang of Vegas and Stephen have very powerful and influential friends in the political things, the business side. You have his bankers there. And an opening night, one artist, animation, again, but this one could have been turned very bad. He did that 2,000 times. He's slying on the road from the tower over the head of people on the stage. We're about to start a show. I'm seeing from the side of my light the art is.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I said, we have to negotiate this guy will make sure that you will have a good deal and I will have a good deal and we'll make it happen. I need to be activated very fast. Shake in. Day after, make a deal.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I said, I would like to have a conversation. I think I have some things that we could bring Sulet. I said, have you seen Seg du Solt? Yeah, I've seen it in Santa Monica in 1987. Oh, I said, we have a new show. It's called Experience. Have you seen? No, I want you to see it. I said, where are you? Said, well, I'm in Toronto now. But I said, before we converge, I want you to see what I am about now. I don't know at that moment that the eye problem and vision problem. So you said, I'll be there Friday with my CEO and one or two board member. So he flow in, receive in, look at things. And then I see the guy, we go into a mission and say, I like it. So I would like to bring this show behind the mirage and we could set up there. You turn around. He said, deal. Look at that deal. And he present his end.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, yes, yes. We were trying to make a deal when one of the casinos to put our product there. Then that failed. So we went around. Next one, next one is the Ilton, where Elvis Presley was there at that time. It was like a Broadway show was there. Same story. Pitch, pitch, pitch, suddenly. Oh, it's too complex. And then that one I didn't raise because having received that answer once, I was expecting. And then like a week after I received a message, call Steve Wind called you called back. So I call back Monsieur Laubert. There's very more radio voice than me. Said no why I said why did you come see me? And I said, wow, you have the best show in town. I didn't even think you'll be interested in my brother. You have the best show in town.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't think ever in my life had done so many hours of stepmaster in my life in a raging, streaming for three hours. And then I was like, wait a minute. And that was 300,000 investment at the moment. We're talking 19. 9091, beginning of her success.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We went through a level, presented the board, and Ricklock, Terry Lanny, and Santa Ri City in Los Angeles, all those very aged persons with a couple of young executives, and we pitch and we believe at that moment that we did a great pitch for confidence in the show. And actually, the deal with them was far away from the deal image in the future with Steve. So I'm back in Montreal waiting the answer, received a phone call. I was on my treadmill. And this vice president said, well, sorry, I have a bad news. I said, well, the board think that your show is too isoteric for Las Vegas. Zoteric was the word. To explain to me why they did not go ahead with the deal.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The potential of becoming the third biggest entertainment city in the world after New York or with New York and London. And this is where Sir Mama, I start to put a lot of focus. Then we have Caesars was the first one to approach us from a vice president entertainment part, Caesar's location. So we engage in the development of deal, which I at that time to put $300,000. They put $300,000. And we develop a concept of show it's called timeless kiss. But timeless kiss is the first show, which is a, but missed there. Okay. Mister Troja Island.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Money, you have a volcano, you have showers or whatever, hundred dancers, you have the spectacular. But when you analyze it in the artistic quality things, it's level one. And then with this 20 minutes, I say, wait a minute, look around X1, two, three, four, five, say, casino. They don't have big show. This big show has been. So I suddenly realized this, wait a minute, this city.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Game changer C win a game changer for me and I will start sick du Soleil I always found myself by going to see as much as possible so right up being a circ I would go visit see artists and I would always make a stop in Vegas to see the entertainment then and then suddenly Mirage arrived there and the Siegfried and Roy show was there and his wife not the entire show the first 20 minutes it was like mind-blowing. I said wow I was so inspiring and impactful for me because I realized and made me realize that wait a minute Feas is as his baby foot of modern entertainment You know you have New York on one side London on the other side but Veas is still cheesy they have big production but still not deep in the what we call the theatrical the artistic reason very flamboyant it's a big thing and they put a lot of”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I've not been that smart all the time because I'm in some case that I forgot to put it or my family office, I forgot to put it. But now I'm telling you, this will be from now on. Even with experience, I did forget to put it because I guess I even trusted more than I believe that I should not put in it. And that became the biggest retrial and business I ever did. So now it's there forever.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's understanding that we desire to conquer Planet March. We will do everything to. You know, it's like very poetic sometimes, very philosophic. It's very mission-oriented. You know, we all do document in business a mission and vision. Why are we not putting those principles right in the contract when two parties do things? Because this become a new mission. This is built on new value. And I think this is, I believe, an antidote against persecution or legal process.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Write the thing, it's very difficult for them. Then it's betrayal. And you know it's a betrayal, it's not a misunderstanding.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In the contract. So based on the contract The first page is not about legal stuff, it's about the philosophy, the spirit of why we're doing the dream. What had brought us to that deal? What is the spirit of the deal? Okay, I made a mistake to forget that sometime and this was the most chaotic things because I'm telling you, it's like if you're not attached to the spirit and it's just legal, we're living in the country, not America, especially in the States, hit and me will make me happy, make a mistakes and not clear. It's much more difficult for a person to deny the spirit if it's been written down. Was the Niversa say it's not what I When you try to bring the spirit in an oral conversation, they will always find a way to justify that it's not what they say.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I would say at the end there's more success than failure, but the failure are more touching than the win of trust because it's usually attached to deception. So I'm talking more about the deception. You know, you're in business, you win, you lose, you make good decisions, you do bad decision. That's part of it. Nobody's perfect. And nobody's perfect in the choice of who you work with, who you trust or not. It's part of doing business. It's more deep than that what I'm saying. It's just like, so this is why I guess as much honest conversation at the beginning to establish not the contract. This is why in my contract, I always not put just the legal part. I always start the first page by the assumption, the spirit of how a deal is done. Because my wish that if there's conflict before going on the legal battle, you look at what the spirit of the deal was. And if you have sensitive people, intelligent people, they will relate to this.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Versus the love, respect, and trust side of life, which is what we had built our things with. And that brought me a lot of deception to people I really trust that I believe that we had enough experience together and they fell on that part. And again, it happened in my own little etos, but look what's going on in the world. You know, we're driven by this tension between the two side of it. And obviously, the people who are driven by greed, ego, and power every morning they wake up and they're thinking about how they could be better. Us, you know, on the side of the love, peace, and love and stuff like that, we get it on the face. We look at the sun, we meditate, and we are a little more slow to react on that. So I guess we have to be a little more organized.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You mentioned something about trust. There's a thin line between wasting time of doubting versus trying to see the best side of a person and work toward making a merge of a person this best side. And this is a conversation I still have, whatever with my kids, when my ex and the actual business is this notion of to which level you trust without compromising the fundamental. And this is very difficult to conclude because I've lived the two spectrum of that in life. I got some of the best reward by trusting people and focusing on their beautiful soul versus their dark side. And that has been very rewarding. That had provoked the observation that people of sometime when you have given trusts, they will fall in the trap of failing in the greed, they go and power side of life.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Recognizing or realizing that a certain moment you're not the person to bring your business or your baby to another level, to be able to step out when you realize that you maximize for different reasons your contribution to the success of your enterprise.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then change your entire way of addressing things. So suddenly you're not the same person. You don't address your business the same way. You don't address your vision and things because you're not your fear. Okay. So my say or that is like danger there is, but please evaluate danger. Don't note your fear. Because at the moment you nurture your fear. There's a good chance that you call your fear and the result of the fear. So that's one thing. And I've seen a lot of entrepreneur shifting their way of being shifting or transforming what they are and deny where they come from. So at the end not being themselves and having a business or success changing their soul, their way of doing things and become other people, which again could affect the real company. And the other one is more”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I've seen a lot of successful enterprise. There's many things that kill success. The first one I've seen is about once you have success, you get a lot of reward financially, economically, and then you're starting to nurture the fear of not having tomorrow, what you have today.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I couldn't live that. That's where I come from. And while I was seeing successful people failing because they were starting to nurture to not having tomorrow they have today and start to nurture fear. And there was like, no.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Create a blue ocean by so if we were ahead of our time we package we didn't reinvent nothing that a hard form of circus was there we just put color on something that was very dusty and apply a theatrical approach versus a circus show approach and we R&D and we once we started having money we reinvest for supplying our organic growth and at the same time that we're building relationship and having access to bank money so we became great business people and that always related to when at the beginning of sick when I tried to convince bank put a place on the board where nobody want to be aboard I said well now I'm condemned to play business and I still had play business and had a fun playing business because it was always about the game and it's like we come from nothing so what was overweight situation go back nothing”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“On hit and create, I would set attention. We were very famous to every open at night at that time. It was an amazing party that everybody wanted to be there. And then after that sale was going on. And the model was click, click, click, click. And then we expand to show and then the breakthrough of Vegas with Steve Wynn. It's just like live of the universe that was presenting us opportunity. And we were Heis was enough open to see them and seize them because it goes both ways. And I believe this is something that's very important for people to understand how we were thinking somewhere in this phase of this dimension, there's something for us and we have to find it. But not only we had find it, but it was coming to us. And this is all the notion of the blue ocean concept versus the red ocean environment.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Now you have to understand that we start to build wealth on reputation and we're able to do media deal. So we're starting to be much more strategic in our communication. Remember, the first year was very difficult because we have all the money for the operation, but we're very tight. Sometimes we start to generate cash flow and profit. So again, it supported good campaign. So we were able to buy a full page in the New York Times.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We did have Bumpy Road and stuff like that, but from that moment, there's only one year, the year of a growth crisis and our growth that we lost a little money, but since then sick except the bankruptcy year, we've been doing money, money never, never been on a deficit year. That's interesting.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So finally, do the show Standing Ovation and the day after is like sell sells. We're sold out. And it was the beginning of never looking back again”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT