Akira The Don, Naval Ravikant - Capital lyrics

A powerful form of leverage is capital
Is capital is capital
A powerful form of leverage is capital
Is capital is capital

And this one's a little less
Hardwired into us because
Large amounts of money moving
Around and being saved
And being invested in money markets
These are inventions
Of human beings in the last few hundred
To a few thousand years
They're not evolved with us from
Hundreds of thousands of years
So we understand them a littlе bit less well
They probably rеquire more intelligence to
Use correctly and the
Ways in which we use them keep changing
The management skills from a hundred years
Ago might still apply today
But investing in the stock market
Skills from a hundred years
Ago probably don't apply to
The same level today
So capital is a trickier form
Of leverage to use, it's more modern
It's the one that people have used to
Get fabulously wealthy in the last century
It's probably been the dominant form of
Leverage in the last century
And you can see this by
Who are the richest people
It's bankers, politicians, and corrupt
Countries who print money
Essentially people who move large
Amounts of money around
And if you look at the
Top of very large companies
Outside of technology companies, many
Many large, old companies
The CEO job is really a financial job
They're really financial asset managers
Deep down I think we all dislike capital as
A form of leverage because it feels unfair
Because it's this invisible thing that
Can be accumulated and
Passed across generations and suddenly
Seems to result
In people having gargantuan amounts
Of money with nobody
Else around them or necessarily sharing in it

A powerful form of leverage is capital
Is capital is capital
A powerful form of leverage is capital
Is capital is capital
That's like capital is a
Powerful form of leverage
It can be converted to labor
It can be converted to other things
It's very surgical, very analytical
If you are a brilliant investor
And give a billion dollars
You can make 80% return
With it whereas anybody
Else can only make a 20% return
You're gonna get all the money and you're
Gonna get paid very handsomely for it
It scales very very well, if you
Get good at managing capital
You can manage more and
More capital much more
Easily can manage more and more people
So it is a good form of leverage but the hard
Part of capital is how do you obtain it?
And that's why I talked about
Specific knowledge and accountability first
If you have specific knowledge in
A domain and if you're
Accountable and you have a good
Name in that domain
Then people are going to give you
Capital as a form of
Leverage that you can use to
Then go get more capital

A powerful form of leverage is capital
Is capital is capital
A powerful form of leverage is capital
Is capital is capital