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Why the Smartest CEOs Admit They Don't Have All the Answers

I'm not smart enough to have enough good ideas about how my business needs to thrive, pivot, and make all the decisions I need to make. I need to rely on my employees.

Nothing Beats a Great Product

Product is everything. Product is the endgame in business. If you don't have a great product, people aren't going to invest in it, people aren't going to buy from you.

Trust your gut, not the doubters!

Everyone said, “These people are never going to meet with you. Your idea is stupid. It's a total waste of time.” And you know what? You’ve got to trust your gut.

Discipline - major step to human progress. If there is one thing to get excited over - that's it. Get excited over your ability to make yourself do the necessary things

People can improve themselves I think to a degree that we don't understand. Because a human being for better or worse is something potential as well as something actual

Low IQ is good predictor of poverty. If you are less cognitively gifted, and you have children, they are going to be in a less enriched environment. These things spiral

The world is full of suffering and you should accept that as your responsibility past present and future. You are supposed to do something about that as much as you can

If you are not everything you could be more people will die, more people will suffer, more evil will be unconstrained, more tyranny will reign, more chaos will remain...

The response is much more negative from the fans if you lose a fight and complain about it. It's ruthless because they understand that you've made a huge character error

The two major problems that people face obviously are suffering - tragedy and malevolence. You are supposed to look at the capacity for human evil as clearly as possible

When work doesn’t feel like work

If you're doing it for yourself, it's not work. If you're doing it for someone else, it is. Since I was 19, I've never worked for anybody else - so it's really not work.

Money follows winners, not chasers

When your goal is just money, you eventually get there and then you stop. Money follows - I don't focus on money at all. I focus on winning and I've made a lot of money.

The Invisible Asset Most Entrepreneurs Leave Unprotected

You have to own the IP. Your intellectual property is so important in any business. You have to protect that property - but understand, it's an investment to protect it.

Being Broke Is a Choice

The fact that they're broke is a choice. Not everybody, but for the majority, it's a choice, because you're born with the same hands, feet, legs, eyes as everybody else.

If you look at your bank account and your income and you're not happy, there's sever places in the Bible to check to see what the heck's wrong so you can make the changes

Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better;
Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills;
Don't wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom;
That's the key

Make sure you share in the upside

It's okay to make an investment in yourself and a company - just make sure your compensation is structured in a way where you actually get to benefit from that hard work.

The Two-Step Formula That Changed Everything

First, you have to surrender. Once you turn your will and your life over to God, then you have to take responsibility for everything going on in your life - good and bad.

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.

Live Below Your Means

I don't have jewelry. I fly private, but I don't own a jet. I really don't overspend. I always have enough money so that if things go wrong in the company, I can fund it.

You have to be willing to walk away. I've walked away so many times and came back a year later when they called me and said, 'We can give it to you at the price you want'.

Legacy is what keeps us growing. We want to contribute to our country's skyline, to our country's development. We want to say we contributed to what makes this city great.

In Nigeria, if you don't make other people money, you don't get to make money. In America, if you don't make money, you can't make other people money. It's very different.

One of the most frustrating experiences in life is looking for an above average job with above average pay without becoming an above average person. It's called frustration