Michael Douglas
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2,055 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Aug
Michael Douglas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And we're having to deal with investors and people who want their money back times 10 and all that kind of stuff.
I'm in that world, you know, it's bloody hard work, you know, and you realize that a lot of it's about confidence and a lot about it's about.
The act, you know, there was this great thing that somebody said to me recently.
I don't know if I said it on this before, but in order to get to sleep, you have to at first pretend to be asleep.
And I thought, fuck it, that's absolutely brilliant.
But if you take that and you apply it to other things in your life, you know, you could say, well, in order to be successful, I have to start at least pretending to be successful, you know.
And that is the nuts and bolts of what the investors are looking for.
is the act.
Do I believe this person can do this thing?
If I give him a million pounds, will he give me 10 million back?
And what you have to do is a performance in some way when you speak to investors, that you instill a belief in them that you can carry out this thing.
And that is an act.
It's part pretending because you've no idea because the future is not yet written, you know.
So he often does this thing where he says, oh, I'm building a new car.
It'll be ready in April next year.
And everyone gets really excited.
He's always late.
He's always like three months late.
But he's like, well, you know, you've got to set a date and go for it.
You know, it's like be ambitious, you know.
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