"during my 44 years as a CEO and a seral entrepreneur I've made every possible mistake in business I've overpaid for Acquisitions and botched Integrations I've run operations for cash when I should hav..."

"career began in 1979 when I started a privately owned oil brokerage company called amorex oil Associates I was 23 with just a few thousand bucks and no experience within 4 years my partners and I had ..."

"takes it public in '92 is going to sell it in '97 we became the industry's fifth largest player and in 1997 we sold United waste for $2.5 billion United waste taught me that I love working with outrag..."

"the share price at Inception was $3.50 and it now trades at more than 100 times that price in 2011 I was on to my next big thing XPO Logistics XPO was the seventh best performing stock in the Fortune ..."

"guide if you have a burning passion to make enormous amounts of money in business or want to turbocharge your chances of success in sports the Arts politics philanthropy or any part of your life read ..."

"their brains to Prevail at achieving big goals in turbulent environments where conventional thinking often fails I want to read one more sentence and I'm going to read to you this quote from Peter tea..."

"instead of formulas instead of using conventional thinking remember that uh later on we're going to talk about this outrageous thing that happened Brad winds up making about $4 billion buying back a b..."

"about him is he's distilling down his knowledge from ma into like simple to remember maxims and so he says so much of success in business comes from keeping your head in a good place he talks about ex..."

"for Founders and you and I have talked about this before there's a great quote by Mark andreon that said entrepreneurs only ever experience uh two emotions Euphoria and Terror and nothing in between i..."

"around World War II I read his biography because Charlie Munger recommended it to me and actually when I went to Charlie monger's house to have dinner with him uh the book was sitting behind Charlie o..."

"friend had a similar worry how would I advise them to handle it so this idea of stepping outside of yourself is something I've triy to practice as well step outside of yourself it's your problem prete..."

"heard his Audi book can't hurt me that's what mine sounds like so I'm going to have to take Brad's advice here I've become much happier in middle age when I stopped expecting unrealistic levels of per..."

"a reference and you'll go back and there's a bunch of things like all the chapters are separate things so like how to run great meetings uh how to do a lot of uh m&a without imploding your company how..."

"already said this but Brad was kind enough to invite me to uh the book launch party they had in New York I flew up uh to New York just for like 16 hours just to go to the book launch and and meet Brad..."

"problems this comes up over and over again that business is problems and great companies the way I think about it is great companies are just effective problemsolving machines and I first heard that i..."

"then he put down his Fork turned to me and said look Brad if you want to make money in the business world you need to get used to problems because that's what business is it's actually about finding p..."

"so Danny Meer is kind of unloading his problems and his stresses to an older wiser entrepreneur he says opening this new restaurant might be the worst mistake I've ever made Stanley set his Martini do..."

"problem solving that's an excellent line too success lies not in the elimination of problems but in the art of creative profitable problem solving the best companies are those that distinguish themsel..."

"are just opportunities and work clo Jeff vasos multiple books in the everything store the first biography of Jeff B was written by Brad Stone there's this interaction between one of one of Jeff and on..."

"manufacturers would call Waste I find this incredibly energizing I see it as potential years and years of variable and fixed productivity gains and more efficient higher velocity and more flexible Cap..."

"same thing it's exactly the same great this is an opportunity for me to create a lot of value if you can figure out how to solve this problem I if I excuse me if I can figure out how to solve this pro..."

"remember this and one of the things that I wrote was that Charlie had a complete almost a complete indifference to problems he said they should be expected you should toughen up like you just essentia..."