#367 Inside the Contrarian Mind of Sam Zell

One of the craziest things that has happened as a result of the podcast is a few years ago I read Sam Zell's autobiography. And then I made an episode on what I learned from reading Sam Zell's autobiography. And Sam Zell listened to the episode that is about his autobiography. And asked to meet me as a result. And in that autobiography he talks about the impact.

that his partner Bob had on him. And here's one of the stories from his autobiography. says Bob was extremely frugal and watched every single nickel in our business. Bob was constantly on the lookout for anything that could be reused. He used to walk into somebody's office and while talking

would casually rummage through the person's trash can. He would take out stacks of papers that still had paper clips on them. All while continuing his conversation as though nothing out of the ordinary was occurring. Bob would then just pull those paper clips off. Hand them back to the employee.

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