- Now, I don't know
where you're studying these successful people
but my observation,
my study tells me a very different result.
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Most people, they do not succeed in their late 20s.
If you're by, you say research,
by meaning you see people on Instagram or on Facebook
and they succeed in the late 20s, that's not research.
You're guessing, and that's what they want you to see.
The people that I study, the truly successful people,
most of them succeed by the late 40s,
in some cases late 50s, not late 20s.
The successful entrepreneurs that I know,
that I've had the privilege of sitting down
and interviewing through my Dan Lok Show,
maybe you already know that, on my podcast,
that I interview heavy-hitters,
billionaires, and multimillionaires,
and I sit down with them,
I interview them and I pick their brains,
and I bring you the best insights.
Most entrepreneurs, they don't succeed.
They don't succeed in years, they succeed in decades.
Decades.
And people see that as, oh, it is an overnight success.
It's not and that's not an overnight success.
People see what I do, oh, I'm an overnight success,
give me a fucking break, right?
It's like a 10-year overnight success.
The sacrifice you have to make,
the price that you have to pay, no one talks about it.
You only see the fruit of the labor,
you see the glam, you see the glitz, you see the glory.
You don't see the blood, sweat, and tears,
the nights that you couldn't sleep,
the vendors that are calling you,
the payroll that you couldn't make,
the debt that you got into, the sale you couldn't close,
the failures that you have, the bad business partnership,
the losses that you have, all this BS, right?
That's the price but most people don't see a lot of that.
So that is not true.
And that's the problem with a lot of young people.
And I get this on YouTube.
I have a lot of fans, right?
You are 16, you are 18, you are 14, you're 20 years old,
and you wanna succeed in two years,
you wanna succeed in five years,
and maybe you could do it, I'm not saying you couldn't,
maybe you could, most couldn't.
I couldn't.
I'm not smart enough to do that.
I don't know about you.
Most people, you need to dedicate
and you need to give yourself some time.
So on one hand, you have a sense of urgency,
which is what I teach, you gotta have that sense of urgency,
or at the same time, you need to have patience.
It's this yin and yang
that you're working your ass off.
Yes, you are paying the price.
At the same time, this shit takes time.
Anything great takes time.
No one becomes a champion overnight.
Even though by some luck,
that you kinda, quote unquote, made it a little bit,
to sustain, to have that longterm success, that takes work.
That takes time.
So give yourself a little bit of time.
Don't be too hard on yourself
oh, I haven't made it in two years.
You're not supposed to make it in two years.
I haven't made it in five years,
you're just not supposed to make it in five years.
Ross Perot, you may or may not know from Perot System,
arguably one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time,
he wrote his book,
one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time,
in his book, he didn't make money,
did not make money the first 15 years as an entrepreneur.
15 years!
Can you imagine?
Are you willing to put in the work?
Are you willing to work and sacrifice for 15 years?
That's a true entrepreneur.
So I don't fully agree with your study,
your research about people,
most people succeed in the late 20s.
If you are very, very, very good and you start early,
maybe late 30s like myself,
if not late 40s, maybe even late 50s,
that's the truth, right?
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