#347 How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland

There's two things that Charlie Munger said one time that I think almost all of history's greatest entrepreneurs Understood intuitively. And that's learning from history is a form of leverage. And the second thing he said was that there's ideas worth billions in a thirty dollar history book. If you've been listening to these episodes I've been making about the filmmakers recently, like Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino.

This idea comes up over and over again, both Tarantino and Spielberg actually studied Walt Disney and learned from him as well. But they would watch and rewatch old movies that they loved, and then decades later, entire scenes from those movies would actually appear In Steven Spielberg's movies. They'd appear in Quentin Tarantino's movies. It's the exact same idea behind st uh young Steve Jobs.

Uh, studying Edwin Land, and then you see Edwin Land's ideas show up in Steve Jobs companies and products. Jeff Bezos was famous for passing out. Sam Walton's autobiography to the early employees and the top executives at Amazon, and you see that Sam Walton's ideas would show up in Jeff Bezos' companies and products. And that is a main theme that reappears Over and over again for anybody that gets to the top of the profession, whether it's in business and art and sports and music, you see it over and over again. Anyone who becomes great at what they do.

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