Patrick O'Shaughnessy

I saw when researching your history, so many interesting early anecdotes with you establishing yourself, especially in your work with Ross Perot.

And I always found Ross to be such an interesting character in business history.

I'd love to hear the story of you taking his business public and what that represented to you at an early stage of your career and what it was like to work with him.

What about his style do you feel is most lacking in the world of leadership today, if anything?

Integrity.

One of my favorite ideas of yours is this notion of leaving more on the table for the other guy than you think the other guy thinks he deserves.

Did that come from Ross?

No.

Was there an early formative experience, like a specific experience that most taught you that lesson?

How did you come to that conclusion?

It sounds like at a really young age.

Life and business is a repeat game.

The story you just told about not doing the second deal with that guy, even just the way you've created successful financial outcomes seems to have been by holding longer than anybody else.

So, royalties in short supply of the world.

The idea about loyalty rings through the Home Depot story in such an incredible way.

Like so many stories of people kind of like Grasso starting as a cashier and becoming a senior executive.

I would just love to hear the beauty of the long-term at Home Depot as you've experienced it as a co-founder and now incredibly long-term holder of that business.

What in the history of Home Depot went the most wrong and how did you fix it?

What do you think was the reason you've been able to hold on to these investments, these positions for so much longer than everybody else?

So the average length of your investments is 35 years or something crazy like that?