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Reject the Victim Mindset

Don't buy into the mindset that it's too hard.

Access to Information Changes Everything

Today, everybody has access to information that can change their life.

Information Eliminated Excuses

Today, there's no excuse not to learn and win at the highest level.

Stop Inheriting Other People's Limiting Beliefs

At some point in your life, you have to refuse to buy into the philosophies that your parents and loved ones sell to you if it doesn't make sense. Question it, don't believe it.

Patience Multiplies Value

We got more than double the valuation because we were patient.

Patience Increases Valuation

The first time someone tried to buy our company, they said they couldn’t—because I was the business.
Everyone told them I was the hardest working person there, seven days a week. So they offered $120 million, but only if I stayed for five years. I said I couldn’t sell it.
So I changed the strategy. I hired a C-suite team, stepped back, and let the company run without me.
Two years later, when they came back, I was there only once every six months. The business was run by a team.
We got more than double the valuation—just because we were patient, not desperate.

Never negotiate from desperation

Never put yourself in a position where you are desperate. Whenever you're in a position of desperation, you're always going to get underpaid and you'll make a bad move that could cost you $100 million.

Listen Before You Pitch

The more I do a needs analysis - asking what's important to you - the more I can make the recommendation based on what's important to you, instead of jumping to conclusions.

Why Cash Is Still King When Every Market Turns

Always have cash. Having cash allows you to pick things up when, for me, they're for sale. Not having cash when the market goes down - a lot of people don't make it.

The Two Types of Growth

Linear growth is biz dev and systems - it's not going to explode your business. Exponential growth is at the top: leadership development or innovative campaigns.

Delayed Gratification - Real Wealth-Building Strategy

I didn't buy my first Rolex until I was 35. I didn't buy my first Ferragamo shoe until I had half a million in the bank. I didn't buy a house until I was 37. I'm not a spender - I'm reinvesting into the company.

Stay Locked on the Vision

Drive for the vision. Don't get distracted from the vision.

Filtering Feedback

You have to have the wherewithal to know which feedback to take and which not to take.

Why a Harvard Degree Can Actually Hurt Your Company

Sometimes you hire somebody with a Harvard degree and you allow that person to change the culture of the company. Then you're like, 'We just lost what we used to have.' Degrees don't mean anything. First, they have to prove they understand the culture.

Everything Rises and Falls on the Operator

Everything rises and falls on the operator. If the operator isn't maniacally focused in growing the business and isn't emotionally stable, he's going to have a hard time.

Information changes any situation.

Shortcut to success

There's only one shortcut to success in today's world, and that's mentorship.

Concentration builds wealth, diversification keeps it.

Execution beats education

If you're only book-smart, no matter where you graduated from, you'll probably end up working for someone with street smarts.

Street Smarts Beat Book Smarts

Street smarts matter more than book smarts.

The riches are in the niches.

Stop Copying Other People

Everyone has their own way. There's no way you can copy me, and there's no way I can copy you.

Build Your Own Path

My family was really poor... My father made it himself, and he always told me that if he could make it, I had to find my own way too.

Own More of the Process

The secret to building hundreds of millions is having a vertically integrated business.