Founders #306

  • Pay peanuts and you get monkeys
  • Similar to Dyson
  • He didn’t know his purpose
  • Incompetent amateurs <> only A-players (Jobs)
  • Hire brainy people with honesty
    • Company is also about combination
  • Albert D. Lasker (#206) and Claude Hopkins (#170 A Life in Advertising & #207 Scientific Advertising)
  • Teamwork is term for mediocre people <> formidable individual
  • Use unconscious via rest
  • Discourage banting
  • More facts the better <> adjectivesrevisit
  • You’re not advertising to standing army, but to moving parade (e.g., ovens and married couple)
  • Put the work in—read everything, go to places, become the most knowledgeable in the relevant field
  • Name idea
    • Ad nauseam