Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend
, subject: Biography of Siggi Wilzig, Holocaust survivor and business leader, 2021
Siggi Wilzig kept pursuing new opportunities through repeated career setbacks, and grew by serving customers well enough that they brought in others.
About the book
Greene, a Holocaust scholar, gives the first third of the book to Wilzig's survival of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Mauthausen. The rest follows him from shoveling snow in New York to running an oil company and a bank.
Why read it
Best if you want a founder story about pressing on after repeated setbacks, growing through customer referrals, and sorting employees as workhorses or racehorses.
Key themes
- Grow through the customers you already have
- Workhorses and racehorses
Evidence and original sources
Sources: official Founders episodes — #223, #227
This record is supported by 7 public evidence rows linked to original Founders episodes.
- Unstoppable: Siggi Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend — David introduces 'Unstoppable' as the book this episode covers.
- The Essays of Warren Buffett — David uses an aphorism from Unstoppable about even smart people making self-defeating mistakes to introduce Buffett's discussion of resisting temptation.