show me your friends and i'll show you your future unless you want average in america
marry 2.4 kids with one and a half dogs but i can guarantee you you will never achieve
anything greater than your highest aspiration if you want a million you'll make a million
not a million five if you want ten million a hundred million and uh you'll never exceed that
if you change a billion lives that's the formula to become a billionaire and change the world
time costs lives show me your friends and i show your future
you want to know why you're all [ __ ] up just look at the bums you hang around with
i do what you don't want to do that you know that you got to do to be where you want to be
ted turner just gave his 75th anniversary party on cnn a few months ago and he has he makes a
couple of comments and he says number one and i'm not suggesting this for everybody it's how i live
though uh first 10 years of my uh starting cnn i slept on my couch i didn't have an apartment
bill gates slept in the office steve jobs slept in the office and i can go down a whole list
now these are super successful mega wealthy guys i slept in my office
not everybody's willing to make that sacrifice but it's not the only thing but even if you don't
sleep in your office if you want to send your kids to a better school if you want to be able to
take care of your mother when she gets dementia if you want to this all takes money i i think andrew
carnegie by the way andrew carnegie arguably the richest most successful entrepreneur of all time
he said the the best thing that you can have for a child is him to be born into poverty
and i agree once you become fearless life becomes limitless and of course the people
that i've talked about andrew carnegie henry ford rockefeller steve jobs they're all tough there's
never an easy time to make a hard decision never but what you have to be able to do is
pull the trigger take action and reading books and listening to podcasts is not taking action
it's just another form of procrastination the main differentiation between the high performance
people is they believe in the extraordinary remember yesterday i said you're never going to
exceed your highest and wildest expectation for those of you that want to be a millionaire
you're never going to make 10 million for those of you who want to be 10 million you're never
going to make 100 million for those of you that want to make 100 million you're never going to
be a billionaire because psychologically see your subconscious doesn't know you're fully
your subconscious starts to slow down when you get let's use 100 million number at 75 79 82
89 91 and then you're asleep at 96 million and you may stumble over the goal at 100 million by
there's no such thing as work-life balance there are work-life choices and you make them and they
have consequences before i had any money i used to go to the rolls-royce dealers and sit in the
cars and smell the leather touch the leather okay i went to million dollar houses and my wife
and i would walk through the house and they'd say what are your parents getting here kids
no we are the buyers practice within when you're without practice being successful how many people
listening to this today practice being successful today through affirmations through going to
the rolls-royce dealer maybe lamborghini maybe something else in my particular case it was rolls
royce and within a year means going to rolls royce dealer i had a rules okay within 19 months of me
dreaming and adding it to my goals a castle on an island i own guthrie castle
19 months go to stores you can't afford if you have poor public speaking skills join toastmasters
do these if you go if you went to a good school and you're not successful go to the
alumni deals okay i didn't go to a good school i'm a perfect living example that
a lot of trouble as a kid um working class background my parents i went to uh just a
mediocre university that i flunked out three times before i finally graduated with honors but uh
and had no money to begin with 820 so it's all possible but i you know i devoted myself uh to
feeling successful i was wearing suits like this before i could afford them
but my life changed when i went i was pretty much a haphazard kid got a lot of trouble got
arrested four or five times thrown in jail and this is when my dad is a cop but then i went i
volunteered for the draft in 1966 at the height of the vietnam war and i went to ocs and that
changed my life because it was the really first real high performance thing that i could measure
myself against other with other people two-thirds of all fortune 500 ceos have one thing in common
military background really two-thirds of those two-thirds have something else martial arts
what do you learn in martial arts brian discipline focus and uh one of the reasons
i've been so successful in generating this equity and value in my kids and i call you all kids
is because i convince him that making a mistake is okay your parents probably told
you you can be anything you want but you can't that's horse you can't if it's all juxtaposed
so but what you tell them is that you can do anything you want that you have passion for
because that eliminates most of the crap because most people don't follow their dream you know
like they say in the sound of music you can't have a dream come true unless you have a dream
now i still dream i dream of technicolor i say my affirmations and goals every single night
it's bloody hard to be a high performance person perfection equals paralysis
if you left it to engineers no car would ever come off the assembly line
no car would ever come off the assembly line and i've been in business with enough engineers i can
attest to that with my hand on my heart they'd still be
trying to make it better and the internet business is very much the same the internet kids
want to test and test and test and they want the the landing page to be this roll it out
the great thing about the internet is your your results are instantaneous if something that i'm
overseeing at a concord level 60 000 feet doesn't work in two days forget about it move on and 95
of the time i know probably better than they do we're never going to be able to know everything
or have them know everything unless they make some mistakes and get comfortable with making mistakes
what gets measured gets accomplished without measurement you're just fooling yourself
strange times are there are these in which we live when the old and the young are taunt falsehoods
in school and and and the person that uh does tell the truth is called a lunatic and a fool
but john lennon said it a little differently being honest may not get you many friends but it
will always get you the right ones and what i want you to do from this point forward no matter if you
hated what i said or the way i said it is choose carefully the people that you associate with
warren back when he used to send out tweets buffett that is you will continue to suffer
if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you true power is sitting back
and observing things with logic and power is restrained true power is restrained if
words control you that means everyone else can control you breathe and take let things pass in
my day they used to say sticks and stones can break your bones but words can never hurt you
now it's just the opposite there are major universities in this country in this country
on this planet that have safe rooms that have safe buildings that if life gets becomes too
stressful you go to that building if your adult child needs a safe space to avoid defensive words
you failed as a parent most of us care what other people say and most people care
what other people think and if you can just reduce that emotional baggage just a little you have no
idea how much freer you're going to be and how much more you're going to accomplish in your life