Your father goes bankrupt. You work for 50 cents a day to try to help your family survive the Great Depression. At 19 you see an opportunity where others see nothing. You start “a little fuel delivery business” with one used truck. Five years later you have 10 trucks. World War II breaks out and you serve as the fuel supply officer for General Patton. You come back to America and apply what the war taught you about logistics and moving fuel efficiently. You expand from fuel delivery to storage, refining, and open gas stations in 16 states. You take your company public. You merge with an oil exploration firm. You build the largest refinery in the Western Hemisphere. You buy the New York Jets. You built your “little fuel delivery business” into a multibillion-dollar, multinational, vertically integrated energy behemoth. You are Leon Hess, founder of the Hess family dynasty.This episode is what I learned from reading <a href="https://amzn.to/4jQNobG">Hess: The Last Oil Baron</a> by Tina Davis and Jessica Resnick-Ault.----<a href="https://ramp.com/">Ramp</a> gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operations —all on a single platform. Make history's greatest entrepreneurs proud <a href="https://ramp.com/">by going to Ramp and learning how they can help your business control your costs and save more</a>. ----<a href="https://www.vesto.com/">Vesto</a>: All of your company's financial accounts in one view. Connect and control all of your business bank accounts from one dashboard.<a href="https://www.vesto.com/"> Go to Vesto and schedule a demo with the founder Ben</a>. Tell him David sent you. ----Founders Notes gives you the ability to tap into the collective knowledge of history's greatest entrepreneurs on demand. Use it to supplement the decisions you make in your work.  <a href="https://www.foundersnotes.com/">Get access to Founders Notes here</a>. ----Join my free email newsletter to <a href="https://world.hey.com/davidsenra/buffett-and-munger-a-study-in-simplicity-and-uncommon-common-sense-6ae80a40">get my top 10 highlights from every book</a>----
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