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You cannot be desperate. Don't negotiate from a place of weakness.

You cannot be desperate to get a deal done.

Negotiate With Options

There’s a great book called Negotiation Genius, but one principle always stands out: you want to have options. If you can walk away and have multiple alternatives, you’re always in a stronger position.

Money Can't Buy Happiness

Money will never get you true happiness. You can have security, it can help set you up to learn about yourself so that you can learn what really will give you and drive happiness for yourself, but it is probably not going to be extrinsic things.

Why I Wanted to Be Famous

I was a shy extrovert. I always wanted to connect with people and be popular. I had this scarcity mindset - I wanted to be rich and famous because, growing up, I felt like I didn’t get the attention I needed from my parents or my peers.

The Ultimate Test for Finding Meaningful Work

Do what you would do even if no one ever found out and you never made any money from it. If it failed tomorrow, you still wouldn’t feel like you wasted your time.

Stop Thinking and Start Doing

In today's world with AI, it benefits the doers more than the thinkers.

Build, Don't Overthink

Don't sit on your ideas, go build them. Don't just wait and overthink, go do things.

Find Your Edge at the Intersection of AI

You have some experience in life that’s differentiated - maybe you’re a nurse, you’re into sports, or you’re obsessed with something. Find the intersection with AI, figure out how to transform that industry, and you can build something extraordinary.

Apply AI to What You Already Know and Get Rich

Don't be specific about which part of AI. You can apply AI to any industry. Pick any vertical you have experience in and figure out how to apply AI.

The Mindset Behind Extraordinary Achievement

Is Zuckerberg that much better than me? Is Elon that much better than me? Why are they better than me? They're not. And if you just have that self-belief, that self-talk, I think you're going to be able to achieve amazing things. It's mindset!

Think Long-Term, Move Fast

We got offered to get acquired for a billion dollars in 2019. I said no because I want to build a trillion dollar company... always thinking big and paradoxically have incredible patience to be able to do it in 10, 20 years, but move incredibly fast in the short term.

Sell it first and then figure it out. You need customers, you need revenue.

The difference is getting started, putting something out there.

The Power of Vision and Patience

Think big. Believe in visualization. Have incredible patience. Our business took eight years to take off - most people quit within a year.

AI and the New Era of Wealth

The internet and AI is the biggest wealth creation engine. There's going to be more millionaires and billionaires created in the next 5 years than ever in the history of humanity.

Action Beats Intelligence

The difference between people who get rich and people who don't, it's not about smartness, it's people who ship, people who do things.

There Are No Bad Deals, Only Bad Prices

No one likes to be sold, but everyone loves a good deal. Give people a good deal up front. And there's no such thing as bad deals - only bad prices.

The Best Investments Are the Ones Nobody Believes in Yet

When Uber was pitching, they told people everyone would ride in a stranger's car using their phone. No one believed them. Airbnb said you'd stay in strangers' homes. No one believed them. Find the answer that no one believes - that's where the money is.

The Contrarian Question That Finds Every Great Investment

Ask yourself: tell me something that's right that almost no one agrees with you on. If you have an answer to that, you're going to make money on it.

Let Your Results Speak

I invested my own money, made money, and then showed my returns to others. They saw the results and decided to invest with me.

Strategy, Capital, Execution

You need three things if you started in private equity: You need a strategy that makes money, you need access to money... and then you need a team of people who can execute against that strategy.

Never Stop Educating Yourself

The most successful people will never, ever stop educating themselves.

The best industry to invest in is what you're obsessed with.