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Take Ownership of Your Failures

I never saw myself as a victim. A lot of people blame everybody else when they fail. I don't blame anybody but myself, because I want control. I can't control anybody else - I can only control myself. When you take ownership of your failures, learn from them, and get up one more time than you fall down, that's my definition of success.

The Non-Degree Is Very Expensive

My non-degree is very expensive. In 1980, when I was 26 years old, I hired a PhD from Georgia State to teach me everything about business that an MBA or PhD would have taught me, for $2,000 a month. Because I was insecure about not having a degree, I developed an unending thirst for knowledge.

Always Ask Questions

I've studied everything. There's nobody who knows more about tax, marketing, accounting, and all these things, because I always ask questions. I never wanted to simply defer to a professional lawyer or anybody else - I wanted to know as much as I could.

I don't care about controlling anybody else, but I do believe in controlling myself.

Focus on Helping Others

You have to look at what people want and be more interested in them and helping them than you are in yourself. Once you do that, you unlock the power to help somebody else.

Know Why You Want Your Goal

I was coaching football in 1981, and one day it rained, so I put everybody in the room and asked, “What is your goal?” Everyone answered, “Win the national championship.” I asked, “Why do you want to do that?” and I got 22 different reasons. One wanted a girlfriend, another wanted friends, and so on. The next day, one of the guys wasn't blocking right, so I told him, “Bob, you'll never get a girlfriend if you don't block better than that.”

What They Don't Teach You at Harvard

There's a book called "What They Don't Teach You at Harvard". It was written by a Harvard graduate who started IMG, the management group representing people like Jack Nicklaus. What they don't teach you at Harvard is how to deal with people.

God Prepared Me for What I'm About to Do

When I went into a foster home, I was always by myself at home. But when I went into a foster home, there were five kids, and it was the loudest room in the world. Then they sat down, got quiet, held hands, and said a prayer. I thought, “That's what I want when I grow up.” I've always maintained that, and I believe God has prepared me for what I'm about to do now.

It's not my money, it's God's money.

Help Others Get What They Want

You can have everything in the world you want if you help other people get what they want.

A man's greatest job is to prepare his seeds to live and succeed when he's gone.

Pass Down Wealth and Knowledge

Wealthy people learn how to consistently pass down not just money, but information. You create what's called Family SOPs - a blueprint for your family to live by when you're gone.

Prepare the Next Generation

If you don't prepare the generation today to be successful, then they'll be the next financial slaves.

The Ability to Create Wealth

Deuteronomy 8:18 says God gives us the ability to produce wealth, man.

God Never Told Us to Be Broke

God never told us to be broke. Christ gave us 37 parables, and 16 of them were about money, business, greed, and how to steward wealth. I think that's simply a part of the Bible that people don't read.

The Book That Changed His Life

The number one book I read that changed my life was the Bible.

Equity Is Freedom

I think it's better to be an investor, because everybody isn't built to be a business owner. Running a business can be taxing - not just financially, but mentally and physically. As an investor, you let someone else do the hard work while your money invests in their dream, and their success pays you. You get equity in that - and equity is freedom.

Learn the Playbook They Live By

We can't depend on the government to feed us. There are two playbooks: the one they teach you and the one they live by. Why not use the playbook they live by? The one they teach us only makes them richer while we get poorer.

Don't Depend on a Single Source of Income

I'm not saying everyone is meant to be an entrepreneur. But if you're dependent on one job and one source of income, that becomes financial suicide.

Dependence Has a Cost

If you allow them to feed you, you give them permission to starve you.

Ability to Buy Your Time Back

Poor people live paycheck to paycheck. Rich people live year to year. Wealthy people live from generation to generation because they learn how to buy their time back. And once you buy your time back, you can do whatever you want to do.

Information Into Results

Information changes situations only through implementation. And it changes the conversation. The conversation changes your compensation.

Information changes situations only through implementation.

Information Is Freedom

Frederick Douglass said: 'Once a man gets information, it makes it hard for him to be a slave.'