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Never Stop Educating Yourself

The most successful people will never, ever stop educating themselves.

The best industry to invest in is what you're obsessed with.

Find a Community, Not Just a Product

I didn't find a winning product - I found a culture and a community I could serve. That's what business is about: finding a community of people with a shared need or purpose and providing something valuable to them.

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.

Protect Your Invention With Patents

If you create something revolutionary and unique, protect it with a patent. You know you'll face knockoffs, and there's nothing worse than seeing someone copy what you've worked so hard to build. I believe in having the power to do something about it - that's why I got patents.

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.

Your Only Limit Is Your Imagination

You are only limited by your own creativity and imagination.

Dream, Drive, and Resourcefulness

If you have a dream and the drive to do whatever it takes, and you're smart and scrappy, today's world makes it easier to build something. There are so many things you can do that don't cost you any money - like using social media and creating your own videos.

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.

Steve Jobs' Daily Rule That Builds Billion-Dollar Empires

If you get three things done every 18 hours you're awake, you don't have to worry about the long run because you're going to be so effective and powerful that nothing can distract you.

Focus on the Signal, Ignore the Noise

Pick three things every day that you must get done. Those three things are the signal. Everything that keeps you from getting them done is noise. Aim for 80% signal and 20% noise. Focus on those three things, and you'll advance your business, your goals, and yourself. That's how you succeed - get focused.

Secret to Building Wealth in Real Estate

The secret to creating wealth in real estate is leverage - a large mortgage, a small down payment, and then, as tenants pay more rent, going back to the bank for another mortgage and taking cash out. I've never sold any real estate I've bought - I just keep taking cash out as we go.

Turn Your Failures Into Your Story

I told him about all my failures in my life and how I had overcome them. But I did it all in 30 words, and he hired me for the show.

I didn't take no for an answer.

Overcome Failure and Get Back in the Game

It's all about overcoming failure. If you don't have that gene naturally in you, you have to develop it, or you'll never succeed in business. You have to overcome failure, get back up, and get back in the game.

Hustle Is the Real Skill

I could do anything else - it's all the same. You hustle your ass off, think of solutions, and keep moving. When you hit a wall, find a solution - find a cheap one - and keep going. I don't think it has anything to do with real estate. I didn't know a thing about real estate throughout my career, but I knew how to hustle.

Take Ownership of Your Failures

I never saw myself as a victim. A lot of people blame everybody else when they fail. I don't blame anybody but myself, because I want control. I can't control anybody else - I can only control myself. When you take ownership of your failures, learn from them, and get up one more time than you fall down, that's my definition of success.

The Non-Degree Is Very Expensive

My non-degree is very expensive. In 1980, when I was 26 years old, I hired a PhD from Georgia State to teach me everything about business that an MBA or PhD would have taught me, for $2,000 a month. Because I was insecure about not having a degree, I developed an unending thirst for knowledge.

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.

I don't care about controlling anybody else, but I do believe in controlling myself.

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.

Know Why You Want Your Goal

I was coaching football in 1981, and one day it rained, so I put everybody in the room and asked, “What is your goal?” Everyone answered, “Win the national championship.” I asked, “Why do you want to do that?” and I got 22 different reasons. One wanted a girlfriend, another wanted friends, and so on. The next day, one of the guys wasn't blocking right, so I told him, “Bob, you'll never get a girlfriend if you don't block better than that.”

What They Don't Teach You at Harvard

There's a book called "What They Don't Teach You at Harvard". It was written by a Harvard graduate who started IMG, the management group representing people like Jack Nicklaus. What they don't teach you at Harvard is how to deal with people.

God Prepared Me for What I'm About to Do

When I went into a foster home, I was always by myself at home. But when I went into a foster home, there were five kids, and it was the loudest room in the world. Then they sat down, got quiet, held hands, and said a prayer. I thought, “That's what I want when I grow up.” I've always maintained that, and I believe God has prepared me for what I'm about to do now.