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True wealth is a balanced life

Money is a nice part of life, but it isn't what makes you rich. True wealth is having a wonderful, balanced life - because money alone doesn't make life perfect.

Anyone Can Build Grit and Resilience

Anybody can learn skills and become resilient, gritty, and tough. Every single person has the ability to be great - as long as they're willing to pay that price.

Have you seen miracles happen?

Oh my God, dude. I went from living under a fucking bridge 21 years ago, addicted to heroin and crack, to driving a fancy car and building a successful business.

Failure is part of entrepreneurship

It's okay to fail. As an entrepreneur, you're going to fail every day. Even when you're successful, there's always something you're not going to get fully right.

Create value, don’t ask for it

Create something of value for society. Don’t ask for things for free - create value instead. That’s what matters: contribute, build, and give something back.

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.

Why Debt Is Just Risk With a Different Name

Debt equals risk, and the borrower is slave to the lender. We went slowly because we did it with organic cash - but when COVID hit, we didn't go out of business.

A Roof Over Your Head

The moment you give somebody a quality roof over their head, their perception of who they are and who they can become begins to become evident in their thinking.

Timid approach to life

Some people never will have much, they're too cautious. You can also be too reckless but you can also be too cautious. This is called "the timid approach to life"

You want to lay your life out so that it's providing you what you need to not be bitter and to work for your best interests and for the interests of everyone else

Power in a hierarchy is the right way to be. Human hierarchies are very complex and that the way that you win human hierarchy is by being competent and reciprocal

Faster and easier always wins!

Speed always wins in business - in anything you do. Faster wins. No one ever says, “slow it down and make it more complicated.” Faster and easier always wins.

Follow the pattern of success

I just follow the pattern. Many of my friends are older than me and very successful in business, so I study what they do and follow exactly the patterns they use.

Nourish and give life like a mother ...

Nourish and give life like a mother, protect and defend like a father;
Give life like a mother, take life like a father;
Love like a mother, hate like a father

You decide what goes into your mental factory. Don't let anybody just dump anything they want to in your mental factory because you've got to live with the results

But a rich family came from me

I come from the struggle. Food stamps, foster care, scheming, trying to figure it out. I come from the hustle. I come from nothing. But a rich family came from me.

Buy when people are fearful and sell when they're greedy. Everyone does it in reverse. It's only a negative if you realize and crystallize it on the balance sheet.

How important are relationships for success?

Relationships are everything. It took me most of my career to realize that a company's most valuable resource is its people. Your team is critical to your success.

Cash keeps businesses alive

Most businesses fail because they're under-financed. You can have the greatest idea in the world, but if you can't get through to profitability, you won't make it.

Step out of the system, then use it

Once you understand the system - Wall Street takes money from Main Street and lends it back to guys like me - you just step out of it and use it to your advantage.

Who has a not-to-do list?

Everybody has a to-do list. But if you ask, "Who has a not-to-do list?" almost nobody does. I've learned that a not-to-do list is more important than a to-do list.

Go to work on yourself harder than you work on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you could make a fortune

Power of negotiation

The consequence of not talking is that you fight. That's the end game. Because the only way you can stop from fighting with other people is by negotiating with them

Are you one of the 20%?

Here is the truth about the economy - 80% of people here in America work for 20% of the entrepreneurs. That's what happens.
Are you one of the 20%?
Go and get it!