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If you are capable of making a half million dollars a year and you make $50,000 a year, we call you LOSER.
We don't call you LOSER because of the difference between $50,000 and a half million, we call you LOSER because you are not doing your best

Meta rule - you have to discipline yourself

The rule might not be - "follow this rule!"
The rule might be - "you have to follow some rules!"
It's a meta rule - "you have to discipline yourself"
And the issue is how? That's not really the relevant question. You can pick a disciplinary path

Create a business that runs without you!

When you're selling a company, you want to sell a company that doesn't have you attached to it. I would remove myself as part of the company. They call that the key man risk. Disney's the best business because Mickey Mouse isn't in the negotiation.

If you went home tonight and in the next few days cleaned up a whole list of decisions that might furnish enough inspiration for the next 10 years. After you've decided getting on with it is easier than deciding. Sometimes decision is the toughest part

What does the person who loses something important with grace do? The answer is fairly straightforward - he accepts the defeat and thinks - okay what is it that I have left to improve that will decrease the possibility of a similar defeat in the future

Why a Harvard Degree Can Actually Hurt Your Company

Sometimes you hire somebody with a Harvard degree and you allow that person to change the culture of the company. Then you're like, 'We just lost what we used to have.' Degrees don't mean anything. First, they have to prove they understand the culture.

Paying Taxes Is an Honor

I tried to pay less taxes. In the next two years, my taxes were nothing - I didn't make anything. You got to make money to pay. Pay all the taxes you can, because you get to keep the balance. It's an honor to be able to create money and then pay taxes.

Why Untouchable Cash Is the Real Measure of Wealth

Take 5 million and put it in T-bills - that's your safety nut. I've never touched that five, it's always there. Everybody says they're rich but it's tied up in a boat, a car, real estate, stocks and bonds. Then you're not rich, you're just taking risk.

If you are not a disciplined person it's uncomfortable, it's going to be painful, it's frustrating... You have to force yourself into this things. It's a muscle that has to be developed. These patterns have to be developed in your mindset. Incrementally

If you overestimate your abilities you're in deep trouble because you're gonna get a wake-up call. Objectivity is one of the most critical aspects of development. You have to be objectively assessing your strength and weaknesses at every step of the way

The better the goal the more full and rich your experience is going to be when you pursue it. That's one of the reasons for developing a vision and for fleshing yourself out philosophically because you want to aim at the highest goal that you can manage

Always Ask Questions

I've studied everything. There's nobody who knows more about tax, marketing, accounting, and all these things, because I always ask questions. I never wanted to simply defer to a professional lawyer or anybody else - I wanted to know as much as I could.

The Best Investments Are the Ones Nobody Believes in Yet

When Uber was pitching, they told people everyone would ride in a stranger's car using their phone. No one believed them. Airbnb said you'd stay in strangers' homes. No one believed them. Find the answer that no one believes - that's where the money is.

For those who don't believe in God

Find a local church. You have a Creator who loves you deeply. Jesus Christ died for our sins and saved us. This world will last, but our time here is only a moment. The question is: how will you use it to influence others and fulfill your higher calling?

No matter what you are acting out some people are way better at it than others. Doesn't matter if it's basketball or hockey or plumbing or law it doesn't matter. As soon as there is something valuable and you are doing it collectively there is a hierarchy

If you want to escape the cycle of poverty, be friends with at least one rich person. Because all the rich people want to teach you how they become rich. They want to help you, they want to mentor you, they want to give you some money to start a business.

Who loses the most, losers or winners? Losers - that's the obvious answer. The answer is winners, because winners keep going! They learn from their losses. Losers stop at their losses. A loser loses three times, he's out. A winner loses 20, he's still in.

People who live mediocre lives are always looking forward to getting off. Successful people are always looking forward to getting on. Successful people don't want OFF, they want ON. They want to get on with the job. They rest only enough to gather strength

Disgust sensitivity is associated with orderliness and you need order in a society in order to maintain it and the Germans are very orderly and that was actually a canonical part of their civilization and part of actually what makes them great and powerful

Fall in love with the work

I loved what I did. I love the smell of diesel in the morning. Every morning was like Christmas. A lot of kids don't want to do that today. They're looking at what other people do and think it's easy, but you got to fight and get in there every single day.

Why do most business owners fail?

Most people quit before they hit success. It gets tough and they throw in the towel — rather than tying a knot at the end of the rope and holding on. Because success is generally right around the corner when people are getting ready to throw in the towel.

Ego comes before the fall

When I got arrested, it took the ego out of my life. When you lose everything and have to rebuild - especially when you're in the papers - it strips away your ego and humbles you over time. When I was younger, I was cocky and arrogant, and I paid the price.

PR is what makes growth possible

The most important thing is press and PR. If you don't have it, you won't grow. You need people talking about it - magazines, articles, Instagram, anything you can get. Otherwise, people don't even know it exists. PR is the piece that makes everything work.

Know yourself. Love yourself. Be yourself.

First, know yourself. Then, love yourself. Finally, be yourself. That last step is the hardest because there are so many situations where you're tempted to be someone else just to fit in. But the order matters: know yourself, love yourself, and be yourself.