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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

Whatever you believe in terms of spirituality study, practice and teach!
Don't leave your spirituality unstudied.
Don't leave it unpracticed and
Don't leave it untaught

Cut the funding to the universities / What the university should be!

Cut the funding of the universities by 25 percent and let the faculty have a war about what's important. And maybe what would be left over is what the university should be!

Is everyone built for entrepreneurship?

Not everyone is built for entrepreneurship. The real question is: Can you live with uncertainty, and do you have enough confidence in yourself to get through the dry times?

How Entrepreneurs Survive Early Struggles

The first three years we didn't make any money.
The first ten years I made only about $58,000 in total.
We worked other jobs and side hustles just to keep things going.

Opportunity and Choice

Being poor is a choice, guys. We were all given abilities to go out there and create wealth and abundance for ourselves - whether it's getting a job or starting a business.

Success demands sacrifice

Building a business requires sacrifice. You can't be on a business trip and at the same time be at every school dinner, school play, or family event. Something has to give.

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.

Take Calculated Risks and Learn

Don't be afraid of risk. Go for it, take calculated risks, and be smart. If it doesn't work, pivot to something else. It's not a failure - you're learning. They're lessons.

It's push-shove world. So you can't relax too much and you can't rest too long. If you rest too long the weeds take the garden. And if you don't think so, we call you naive!

Life and business is like the changing seasons. You can not change the seasons but you can change yourself. That's how life gets better for you - not by chance but by change

Post modernism is a dead end from the perspective of applicable wisdom. It leaves you bereft and nihilistic. And that's not good because people can't exist without a purpose

Master one thing first

Think of it like an arrow. The tip is the one thing you do exceptionally well. Master that one thing first, and once it breaks through, everything else can follow behind it.

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.