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Trust your wings, not the branch

Once you're comfortable in your wings, it doesn't matter whether the branch is strong or weak. A strong branch is great, a weak branch is just another lesson - you'll always find another one.

Plan for the Best

What if things go right? Most people think, “What if things go wrong?” I don’t look at it that way. I look at, “What if things go right?” Plan for the best, and it starts happening.

All values must be defended:
Political values
Social values
Community values
Family values
Marriage values
Friendship values
Business values
...
Every garden must be tended all summer

Car washes business is depression-proof

You know how many billionaires have car washes? All the smart ones. It's like an ATM machine. A legal ATM machine. It's recession-proof. It's depression-proof. I learned that from Mr. Buffett.

Find someone who's actually done it

Find a great mentor - someone who's actually done it. There are plenty of teachers and gurus out there, but dig deep and find someone with real experience. Then pay close attention and listen.

A warning to young men!

For the young men out there: don’t look at porn. Stop pounding your fucking carrot every day. That’s your life force. Put that shit away. It will rob you of your soul, just like dope will.

When I don't know what to do...

When you don't know what to do - do nothing. So many people react to situations. If I don't know what to do, I take my time and I'll let you know when I'm ready. Don't make desperate decisions.

Purpose Takes Time!

When you understand that you have a Creator who placed you here for a unique purpose, you realize that purpose won’t be discovered overnight. It is developed, groomed, and nurtured over time.

Build for the growth you want

Most companies prepare for scale only when they have to. Build your processes and structure before growth arrives, so you're ready to grow into your potential instead of scrambling to catch up.

$1 Trillion Economy Hiding in Plain Sight

Find businesses that are enabling the informal economy - providing payment infrastructure, technology, logistics, working capital. It's a $1 trillion opportunity and nobody's talking about it."

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living, which is fine. But if you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune, which is super fine

It's not what happens, it's what you do

It's not what happens that determines the quality or the quantity of your life. It's what you do that changes everything. What happens is about the same. What people do - that's what's different

The injunction behind religious thought, fundamentally, is that you should live your life in such a way that the suffering it has to contain because you are confined and vulnerable, is justified

The distribution of the idea of individual sovereignty and property rights and free market economies out into the non-western world is making the non-western world rich really really really fast

You don't need a massive amount to start!

In the age of AI, you don't need a massive amount to start. You just need a good idea, grit, and hard work. You can use AI to build a business plan, a prototype, an app - and then raise funding.

Faith gives strength!

My faith in God helped me endure everything I faced. Even when I had doubt or fear - or thought too highly of myself - I knew I could fall back on God, and He would lead me where I needed to be.

You can't do what you don't know. But the key is to keep learning so that good ideas keep occurring to you - now you can do more wise things. But philosophy is where it all begins - what you know

What can never be taken away

You can lose your health, your money, and your friends. But if you have a relationship with Jesus Christ, you have something that can never be taken away. Everything I am today is because of Him.

Stand tall, stay kind

Stay kind, no matter how bad the situation you think you are in right now - it’s your moment to shine. Stay kind, be polite to people, and stand up tall. Even if you die, you won’t regret it.

Strategy, Capital, Execution

You need three things if you started in private equity: You need a strategy that makes money, you need access to money... and then you need a team of people who can execute against that strategy.

Your family is more messed up than it could be, if you were less messed up than you are. So if you just got your act together like ten percent more your family would be one percent better.
Do it!

If you are radically left and you are playing the identity politics game there is actually no such thing as free speech because you are only the mouthpiece of your group whether you know it or not

You have to pursue things of value. If you do it with other people cooperatively and competitively, then you are going to produce differential outcome because people will be differently good at it

Don't always try to make people like you, because when you're successful, you will have haters. If you're prepared to say, 'Let them say whatever they say,' then you will be ready to be very rich.