"Daniel e the founder of Spotify was kind enough to invite me to come to Sweden and since I was going to go to Sweden I figured I'd want to read and learn more about the most powerful family in Sweden ..."

"interested in that he was interested in Technology Innovation and drastically expanding the family fortune now there is a couple ideas that he never deviated from so there there's a line at the very b..."

"and and the main competitor for the Wallenberg family was actually his life and work was destroyed uh by his association with Ivar Krueger so this idea it's like hey you want to have a ton of liquidit..."

"restructures combines a bunch of companies that the family owned for an extremely long period of time before MW was born before he played a role in fact in the the the family business the family bank ..."

"was way more defiant than his siblings uh they also said that he often got his own way thanks to his charm and powers of persuasion so the family has Suchi set up a track for all the kids very early o..."

"base inside Sweden he said this is my first last and only wish with this whole idea was to promote Merchant trade and so then I got to bring up for the first time and it won't be the last time there's..."

"engage in intense physical training so it's a tennis involved physical training which made him conscious of the importance of taking regular exercise he never abandoned his habit of doing physical exe..."

"one of surprisingly like one of the most controversial observations that I have just about reading all these books many of the Great Founders once that they know what they want to do I would argue tha..."

"largest individual financer in the world time the the way that she wanted to train her son the Next Generation you know cuz hdy green was fifth generation she her family was rich for five generations ..."

"you need to prioritize the personal contacts I'm going to read this great advice that he gives to his son again appearing in one of these letters that go back and forth between uh Father and Son throu..."

"fact that Lazard they actually because of their long established relationships with the Wallenberg family and the SCB which is the family bank they Marcus Wallenberg Senor was actually able to persuad..."

"marriage requires a common outlook on life shared interest as well as mutual respect and tolerance and then true to his personality when MW writes to his father about wanting to get married he essenti..."

"should not MW himself ultimately take the decision on his own future so the book talks a lot about what they call the Wallenberg family sphere which I absolutely love that description and in the most ..."

"one that still exists this day and its subsidiaries backed by sebb which is the family's bank backed by scb's capital resources and this is a key Point here although dominated by the Wallenberg family..."

"price on like how much wealth does this family have any and this goes for you know anything that's been compounding for a long period of time so later on the book they're like fighting with the eventu..."

"something that reoccurs over and over again in this story in his life is the fact that he was extremely interested in technology again he did not view himself you know he was not an administrator he w..."

"for how problems should be handled inside of their companies and one of the most surprising things that I learned from this book is they really try to avoid letting bad Investments die there's a you k..."

"you're going to start if if AO Wallenberg any Wallenberg started a company who do you think is going to be that company's Bank sebb was the atlas's bank Atlas became the largest mechanical engineering..."

"because this is during World War I and there's a huge demand for their products after the war ends there's a depression in Sweden that hits both companies very hard so keep in mind this is 50 years af..."

"position for the company as a world leader in the area of pneumatic technology had been initiated by investing in The Cutting Edge of technology and the international marketplace MW chose a direction ..."

"operated their business so not only were they not taken down or destroyed by them they actually as a result of the collapse of the Krueger Empire the Wallenberg group was drastically expanded I'll jus..."

"1916 which holds large ownership stakes in major Swedish multinational companies like Ericson in telecommunications Atlas in industrial equipment ABB in engineering astrazenica and pharmaceuticals and..."

"Finland and the family Bank SCB says hey we are going to loan you government of Finland $4 million from our bank so you can then spend that money that came from our bank and give it to Ericson so they..."

"is repeated they just have a handful of OT that they repeat over and over again like everybody else surround yourself with great people this is something the wallenberg's repeat so now MW is writing r..."

"in terms of wisdom and intelligence but he also had great judgment industriousness energy and he also enjoyed good health and had a sense of responsibility really the reason I'm reading this to you be..."