i'm most proud that i made it so to just fulfill the dreams and just work hard and you know just
persevere through everything and you know i learned that at age 13 14 15 to use criticism as
motivation so whenever somebody told me i couldn't do it it just made me go out and work harder
i see a lot of youngins lost in their bag on the ground cool flossing but
dude told me one time this dude was he told me he said you're rich but i'm wealthy
i didn't know the difference i said what's what's the difference he said well wealthy is die
my kids died when they kids died when they kissed i was the same amount
i thought about that then i said okay how you doing he pulled out a piece of paper
after he said it ain't about how much you make it's about how much you keep
how many times we see cats we get the bag with a hundred and then then they go blow it the same
day now they got to get another hundred so he said if you got a hundred dollars save that that's 50.
he said rich people say okay i'm saving 50 and i'm good but it said the wealthy does this save
that this ball out house chain car whatever you want but 75 save it yeah that's what he said oh
and so i told him when i was 95 and i did that and i didn't i didn't spend my first nba check until i
started having my families so i was making so much money and i wasn't that educated so i was like
i don't want to spend it i know that right like people always say you got to invest and got the
best but still you got to be educated to know what you're investing in right i'll fill all of them
my theory and my thought process is to never focus on the problem focus on the solution
the key thing is that focus on the solution not on the problem because where your energy goes
that's where your focus and concentration goes it's one you have to educate yourself
now when i say education they know always about go to school right you come from the
same place i mean people we see do something on the corner we educate ourselves and we do
it a little better right a little bigger right right educate yourself right learn
ask questions second thing is watch there's so much information going on you can watch
like me i watch people's mistakes it's not that i'm smarter than everybody i just watch right i
ask questions and you listen and i listen that's that's the key i don't want to be remembered as a
as an athlete who made a lot of money or an athlete who did great movies like kazam i don't
want to be remembered for a guy that's won a lot of championships i want to be remembered as a guy
because of his action he inspired people to learn more to do more and to want more i never look at
it as investments believe it or not i just look at it as partnerships i help changing the world
and just being part of something that's inspiring my business people all the time whenever they talk
about money you can ask the mother ah i don't want to hear it but if they bring an idea to me
that i think is going to go to the next level most of the time if i follow my heart
and everything else will fall in place i've never ever done a deal a we got this suit company we
throw some pin stripes in the suit you give me a hundred thousand we sell 20 of them we make i've
never did a deal where it was always based on money i've always did my business deals based
on how i felt it was going to go in the future how i felt it was going to help and inspire somebody
investment's not going to always go how you want me to go business plan is not going to go how
how you want them to go so you just have to just have to regroup you know you can never you say
regroup what does that mean what does that look like my theory of my thought process is to never
focus on the problem focus on the solution i invested in this water company it didn't go well
that money is gone now i got to regroup now i got to do something else so i'll be upset for about 20
minutes go to that cabinet get them frosted flakes get some of that cold milk slice them bananas up
wash some espn and then the next day i'm back on track now one thing i i tried to do when i
when i came in was i wanted to be different you know my dad you know growing up i realized that
i was a little bit different but but i didn't like being different and he would tell me you know what
one day you're going to be recognized your name will be remembered because you are different
so master being different don't be like everybody else master being different but then when i start
investing in stuff that's going to change people's lives because i heard jeff bezos say that you
invest in things that's going to change people's life that's why he created amazon yeah but again
like whenever i do business it's not about the money he said he makes his investment based on
if it's going to change people's lives and once i started doing that strategy i think i'll probably
quadruple what i'm working out so then i was like all the kids from my hood need these shoes
you should know that think about how much you make it's about how much you keep right guess
what could it be a day i hope it's not a day i i i hope you shine i hope you get your back forever
could be a day where you don't stop absolutely and then when i talk to people i always speak
to them from my athletic terms what makes athletes greatest because we can adjust absolutely if neon
d are running this way and the defense coming out he can adjust right so if your bag gets messed up
adjust yes we'll get a new bag absolutely but if you save from the old bag yeah your adjustment
absolutely your adjustment time's gonna be much absolutely much a lot easier a lot easier
best thing i've ever done in my life is listen i've done a lot of things and it turned out well
and from the outside looking in it makes it look like oh he's an expert
that's not the case so my strategy is i invest in things that's going to change people's lives
that's the first thing i look at the second thing i look at if it's too good to be true i
stay away from it even if i lose money you have to you have to you have to value partnerships
like i've i've always been a basketball player i've always played basketball i i would i could
probably say i'm a master of basketball so now when i wanted to become a businessman like i
had to go through the do's and don'ts of business but you know to get respect as a businessman i was
like let me go ahead get this master's in business administration so they know and understand
what i'm talking about you know i've always considered myself a leader so you know my thought
process let me get this doctorate in leadership so people know and understand that my thought process
on how i do things but i've always been smart enough to have people better than me on my team
for example like what's the name of this tech crunch so if i'm gonna start a
magazine so if i'm gonna start a magazine called tech crunch basically when i have the techies uh
publisher my detectives camera guys and i have the techies interviewers working for me rather than me
trying to do everything by myself so you have to you know value you know partnership for example
if i want to be the best sheriff in austin texas i got to get the best police officers i can't i
can't i can't be the best without having the best team so i've always i've always i've always always
valued partnerships and i always had people better than me and smarter me around me so
they can motivate me so they can help me don't do it because you're trying to get your followers up
you know what i mean like if you're not really with the cause and you're not going to dedicate
yourself a thousand percent don't do it like when you talk about jim brown and bill russ and those
guys they dedicated themselves a thousand percent we didn't have twitter back then and you followed
they dedicated themselves a thousand percent so if you're not going to dedicate yourself
a thousand percent if you're not going to do it when the cameras are off don't do it
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