Founders

#302 Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon)

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What I learned from reading The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection of His Written and Spoken Words edited by J. Christopher Herold. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Follow one of my favorite podcasts Invest Like The Best and listen to episode 326 Alexis Rivas----(3:45) A man who combined energy of thought and energy of action to an exceptional degree.(4:45) He knows that men have always been the same, that nothing can change their nature. It is from the past that he will draw his lessons in order to shape the present.(5:15) Destiny must be fulfilled. That is my chief doctrine.(6:05) Napoleon: A Concise Biography by David Bell (Founders #294)(9:25) To aim at world empire seemed to Napoleon a most natural thing.(10:00) To have lived without glory, without leaving a trace of one's existence, is not to have lived at all.(10:55) The greatest improvisation of the human mind is that which gives existence to the nonexistent.(11:45) The be