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A Sean DeLaney Collection

The Distillery

Extracting timeless wisdom from the minds that have shaped how I think.
Each distillation is a deep dive into the philosophies, frameworks, and principles behind someone who has had a meaningful impact on my life. Published once a month.
The Collection
Latest

Chris
Begg

Volume XVI
B
Founder & CEO, East Coast Asset Management · Teacher, Columbia Business School
“Persistent incremental progress eternally repeated. This is at the heart of the magic of compound interest, and the underlying principle with which all evolution takes place.”
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Bernard
Arnault

Volume XV
A
“In business, the secret is to seize opportunities.”
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XIV

Brunello
Cucinelli

Volume XIV
c
“Enthusiastically build an extraordinary reality day after day.”
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XIII

Danny
Meyer

Volume XIII

M
“Business, like life, is all about how you make people feel. It’s that simple, and it’s that hard.”
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XII

Nick
Saban

Volume XII
s
“There are two pains in life. The pain of discipline, and the pain of disappointment.”
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XI

Arnold
Schwarzenegger

Volume XII
A
“Every morning you have two options. Continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them.”
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X

Michael
Jordan

Volume X
J
“Anything can happen if you are willing to put in the work and remain open to the possibility.”
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IX

Tony
Robbins

Volume IX
R
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
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VIII

Phil
Jackson

Volume VIII
J
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
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VII

Bob
Iger

Volume VII
I
“My instinct throughout my career has always been to say yes to every opportunity.”
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VI

Bruce
Lee

Volume VI
L
“At the core of everything he did was honest self-expression.”
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V

Josh
Waitzkin

Volume V
W
“It’s rarely a mysterious technique that gets someone to the top. It’s the profound mastery of basic fundamentals.”
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IV

Toto
Wolff

Volume IV
W
“How you cope and behave in moments of failure is how you can see right into the soul of somebody.”
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III

Nick
Kokonas

Volume III
K
“Intellectual curiosity. This is the basis of everything.”
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II

Yen
Liow

Volume II
L
“You have to learn in dog years in order to compete at a high level early in your career.”
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II

Jonny
Kim

Volume II
K
“You can be born with bad cards… but you have a choice and the power to craft your own destiny.”
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