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sam walton. sam walton and all the people he had around him.om cotton and david glass, and now more recently doug mcmillon. the guy who runs it now, he is fabulous. people. it is always the people. david: when you go in and take a look at a deal, how do you assess the character of leadership? what defines for you a good one from a not so good one? ken: let me give you a specific example. i met jeff bezos at the conference last year. i told him i would love to come out and spend some time with him. and he in turn said he would like to meet frank blake, who ran home depot. he is retired now. so frank and i agreed to fly to seattle and have lunch with jeff. we had lunch in his boathouse. and let me tell you why this guy is a huge winner. two fabulous, incredible ingredients like ham and cheese, smart and humble. now we went out to learn from him. when i left, i felt my brain had been sucked out of my head. there is a leader. it is no accident that amazon is the success that it is. the same with gates. the same with the guys at google. look at the
sam walton. sam walton and all the people he had around him.om cotton and david glass, and now more recently doug mcmillon. the guy who runs it now, he is fabulous. people. it is always the people. david: when you go in and take a look at a deal, how do you assess the character of leadership? what defines for you a good one from a not so good one? ken: let me give you a specific example. i met jeff bezos at the conference last year. i told him i would love to come out and spend some time with...
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sam walton. sam walton and all the people he had around him. tom cotton and david glass, and now more recently doug mcmillon. the guy who runs it now, he is fabulous. people. it is always the people. david: when you go in and take a look at a deal, how do you assess the character of leadership? what defines for you a good one from a not so good one? ken: let me give you a specific example. i met jeff bezos at the conference last year. i told him i would love to come out and spend some time with him. and he in turn said he would like to meet frank blake, who ran home depot. he is retired now. so frank and i agreed to fly to seattle and have lunch with jeff. we had lunch in his boathouse. and let me tell you why this guy is a huge winner. two fabulous, incredible ingredients like ham and cheese, smart and humble. now we went out to learn from him. when i left, i felt my brain had been sucked out of my head. there is a leader. it is no accident that amazon is the success that it is. the same with gates. the same with the guys at google. look at th
sam walton. sam walton and all the people he had around him. tom cotton and david glass, and now more recently doug mcmillon. the guy who runs it now, he is fabulous. people. it is always the people. david: when you go in and take a look at a deal, how do you assess the character of leadership? what defines for you a good one from a not so good one? ken: let me give you a specific example. i met jeff bezos at the conference last year. i told him i would love to come out and spend some time with...
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Sep 9, 2018
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you wouldn't say sam walton is included on that list. sam walton is a great competitor but is limited to greater clinic competitors and what to the terms treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors have in common? they are all crimes. the look at the text of the a let's assume hypothetically hamilton and madison said what they didn't, that that is an additional element. assume the framers had in mind a broader provision. what was ratified were the words of the constitution. when you apply the principle of lenity you cannot conclude the commission of a crime is not a prerequisite. once you can prove the commission of a crime you have to introduce other factors. it has to be a high crime. the political situation has to be such that the impeachment should go forward. the political and comes in after high crimes and misdemeanors are decided. if you had great president, incan, and he had -- lincoln, and he had done something terrible, the senate would decide not to remove him even though he was subject to removal on political grou
you wouldn't say sam walton is included on that list. sam walton is a great competitor but is limited to greater clinic competitors and what to the terms treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors have in common? they are all crimes. the look at the text of the a let's assume hypothetically hamilton and madison said what they didn't, that that is an additional element. assume the framers had in mind a broader provision. what was ratified were the words of the constitution. when you...
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Sep 18, 2018
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both of those countries let's see what happens in the coming days ok and what is going to slide sam walton's writing jets might have been doing in the attack in syria. well they haven't officially said what they were doing but we know that they've been striking israeli jets have been striking targets within syria since about two thousand and fifteen the been going off to arms dumps off to hezbollah convoys within the country itself they've been going off to what israel calls should teach targets that guarantee its own serenity and its own borders we saw this in the golan heights as well way israel has long been concerned about iranian backed forces coming towards that so that's really where the whole russia israel security agreement came into being it's when israel was concerned about the war coming to its borders and asking the russians to get involved and to guarantee hits and to help guarantee with israel as well this curacy of its own borders so we know that they've struck a least two hundred targets in the last few years within israel itself but there's been very little admission from t
both of those countries let's see what happens in the coming days ok and what is going to slide sam walton's writing jets might have been doing in the attack in syria. well they haven't officially said what they were doing but we know that they've been striking israeli jets have been striking targets within syria since about two thousand and fifteen the been going off to arms dumps off to hezbollah convoys within the country itself they've been going off to what israel calls should teach...
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Sep 22, 2018
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you hire someone to do a job for you and instead they do a job for themselves, sam walton who founded walmart wouldn't let his buying agents take so much as a glass of water from the salespeople because he said you work for me and the minute you owe the sales guy a favor, you work for yourself. and this kind of renaissance italy style print slings and dukes marshaling armies beneath them to create, propped themselves up and gain advantage and i was like is this just, leaving aside the out and out crook, is this just powerbrokers marshaling armies of useless people so they can use them in these games within the company? >> yes. that is a large part of what is going on. it is not all of it but basically a big part of it. i make a distinction -- we may talk about this later -- between different kinds of bullshit jobs. i say judging by the testimonies i got you have five basic types of bullshit jobs, flunkies, dove tapirs, box tickers and tax masters. we are recognized immediately what some of those might be. flunkies are obvious, they are there to make someone else look or feel good but
you hire someone to do a job for you and instead they do a job for themselves, sam walton who founded walmart wouldn't let his buying agents take so much as a glass of water from the salespeople because he said you work for me and the minute you owe the sales guy a favor, you work for yourself. and this kind of renaissance italy style print slings and dukes marshaling armies beneath them to create, propped themselves up and gain advantage and i was like is this just, leaving aside the out and...