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Treat People Right, Build Anything

Once you learn how to pay people and treat them properly, you could build any business. As long as you're taking care of your people, that's where the biggest opportunities are.

When school doesn’t teach you what you need

I wanted to learn how to be an investor, so I went to business school. When I got there, they didn’t have classes on how to be an investor. So I started reading books instead.

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.

Success is something you attract, not something you pursue. Success is looking for a good place to stay. So instead of going after it, you work on yourself [Personal Development]

Somebody says to me - "If I had a million dollars I'd never work another day in my life". That's probably why the good Lord does not give them a million. They'd quit. They'd quit

Persistence gets the yes

Most people quit after being rejected. I didn't. I asked my wife out 50 times before she finally said yes. She still says, "You're the most persistent bastard (person) there is."

When one good thing happens to you it makes you a little more powerful and attractive and so that fractionally increases the possibility that another good thing will happen to you

Everyone's entitled to their opinion!

I came to the healthy realization that no stranger is going to tell me who I am. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, and I'm entitled to think your opinion doesn't matter to me.

Be empathetic and sympathetic to those around you!

The key to success is empathy. Think about others. Think about your employees. Think about your family. You get up every day being empathetic and sympathetic for those around you.

You can't hack taxes. Try to hack taxes, and you're going to jail. It's not worth it. There are expenses - a lot of people don't realize what their day-to-day life is: an expense.

Wealth is a function of productivity. You have a lot of young people with a lot of needs, and entrepreneurs who need to meet those needs - that's how you see a lot of wealth grow.

Pass Down Wealth and Knowledge

Wealthy people learn how to consistently pass down not just money, but information. You create what's called Family SOPs - a blueprint for your family to live by when you're gone.

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.

Sometimes just stay with your investment!

You become more confident in everything you're doing... that confidence enables you to stick with trades when you really should. Sometimes just stay with your investment over time.

What's the worst financial advice?

You can't save your way to wealth. If inflation is 2–3% and your money earns only 1–2% in the bank, you're going backwards - your purchasing power is being eroded by inflation.

This is what I want to be remembered for

I want to be remembered as someone who freed Africa from exporting only raw materials and importing goods. I want to industrialize Africa - that's what I want to be remembered for.

You are a young man and all the women are rejecting you. Who's got the problem? - It's not all the women, that's a bad road to go down. If all the women are rejecting you, it's you!

Turn customers into friends

Stay the same person. Stay loyal. Stay hungry. Don't just have customers - make them your friends. Buy them an ice cream, buy them a hot dog. That's how you build something lasting.

Everything Starts With Putting the Work In Before the Money Comes

Do the homework first, which is free, which is time. Anything you buy, you can sell. Anything you do for free, you can get paid to do. Put your homework in - that's the first thing.

Whatever you reap is what you've sown.
If you don't like the crop who do you look up? Answer - whoever planted it.
Where do you find who planted your crop? Answer - in the mirror

The language of the poor

I used to say - what if this happens? It's called "the language of the poor". What if this happens and on top of that if this was to happen look at the fix I'd be in I better not try

Mind is like a mental factory. Whatever you think about all day long pours ingredients into this mental factory and that's what builds economic, social, financial fabric of your life

Building a life is a lot more important than building a house and yet people treat it so carelessly and so casually about making plans for what they want their life to work out to be

Why Building for Money Alone Always Fails

"If you're trying to create a product just to make money, you're just going to move on to the next thing. What's different is being truly committed - trying to change people's lives.