- All right, I know that sometimes entrepreneurs,
we are out there trying to change the world,
and we get stuck against roadblocks
and things that are hard.
There's ups and there's downs.
And, I think for most of us,
a lot of times we turn to quotes to get us excited.
And there are four quotes that I found this week
that meant a lot to me during times when I was struggling,
times when I didn't wanna wake up in the morning,
or times when I wanted to go to the next level.
So I'm gonna share with you guys four of my favorite quotes
that hopefully will have as big a impact on you
as they had on me,
and I recommend watching these over and over again.
And tag someone down below who you know
is in the thick of it,
who needs some help,
needs that little push over the edge.
And I hope that these quotes will help you
as much as they help me.
Theodore Roosevelt said,
"The only man who never makes mistakes
is the man who never does anything."
This is such a cool quote,
and it reminded me of another one of his quotes.
It's even longer, so I'm gonna read it.
It says,
"It's not the critic who counts.
It's not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,
who strives valiantly, who errs,
who comes short again and again
because there's no effort without error and shortcoming,
but who does actually strive to do the deeds,
who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,
who spends himself in a worthy cause,
who at the best knows in the end
the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst, if he fails,
at least he fails while daring greatly,
so his place will never be with those cold and timid souls
who knew neither victory nor defeat."
So many of you, I know this, I've gone through this as well.
You're out there and you're trying
and you've got people who want you to fail,
people you love who just want you to go back to normal life
and they're hoping you, like they want you to fall flat
on your face.
They want you to live a normal life.
And as you're trying to do things beyond yourself,
they honestly are like,
"I kinda hope they fail."
Or the people who aren't gonna like you.
There's your haters who really do.
And I think when you understand this,
this is something that's got me through so many times.
In fact, the last of it here, where it says,
"Then if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly,
so his place will never be with those cold and timid souls
who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Like for all of us, you guys, as entrepreneurs,
we're going out there, we're creating, we're trying,
we're challenging, we're doing things,
we're trying to create.
You are gonna fail over and over and over and over
and over again, and that's okay
because you just need the one success.
If I could show you guys how many funnels flopped
before ClickFunnels' funnel.
I mean we had six variations of the ClickFunnels funnel
before it took off.
But prior to that, the 100 plus, 120, 130 plus funnels
I did in a dozen different markets
ahead of time that didn't work.
Then you guys would understand like, wow this is okay.
It's not a bad thing to fail.
It's a gift that we have to be able to fail,
to learn, to grow, and if we keep doing it,
we become who we need to be
to go serve the people we've been called to serve.
So there you go, Theodore Roosevelt.
This is Dan Gable.
He is our Michael Jordan.
One thing he said, he said,
"Gold medals aren't really made of gold.
"They're made of sweat, determination,
"and a hard-to-find alloy called guts."
I share this one because I think a lot of times,
especially in our community, we're looking
for the two comma club award, looking for two comma club x,
looking for all these kind of things.
And I think coming back to this,
understanding like gold medals are not made of gold, right?
They're made of all the stuff you have to put in to earn it.
So if you really want to get those things,
you want to gold medals, you want the records,
you want the prize, you want the money,
you want the whatever your driving force is.
You got to understand that, that's what it's made of
the blood, sweat, determination.
So thank you, Dan Gable, for being the man
and for sharing the quote for today.
Vince said "Practice does not make perfect.
"Only perfect practice makes perfect."
Recently I did a podcast episode kind of ranting
on coaching client who was not doing things right,
and I kind of, I may have got that person a little offended,
and I think that some reasons it's hard to be coached
'cause like you tell people what they need to know,
even if they don't want to hear it, right?
In fact, recently I was coaching Myron Golden.
Myron is like one of the most coachable people
and he asked my advice, and I gave him my advice,
and it was completely different than what he thought.
I said "Sorry I know that's not what you're asking for."
He's like "No, that's why I'm paying you."
He's like "If I knew what you were going to tell me,
"I wouldn't have had to pay you."
He's like "I want your different advice,
"That's what I'm paying you for."
And I was wrestling, I used to have a coach who would
always harp on us like we'd be practicing a move
over and over again, he'd stop us he's like
"You're doing it wrong." I'm like "I'm doing the move."
He's like "No, no, no."
He's like "Just 'cause you're doing it, if you're
"practicing it wrong, you're going to, it's worse
"than if you didn't do it at all. 'Cause now you're going to
"keep doing it wrong over and over and over and over again,
"and you're going to practice the wrong thing,
"and you're going to do it wrong."
He's like "If you're not doing it, if you're not practicing
"perfect, it doesn't make any sense to even practice."
And so I want you guys to think about this as you're
being coached by people like don't take it personal
and be like "Man, I'm so grateful this person coached me,
"'cause I could keep practicing the wrong thing,
"and become really really good at doing things wrong,
"or I could shift, I could adjust and practice the right
"thing and become perfect at it,
"and that way all the practice I'm doing
"actually helps me as opposed to making me worse."
During a lot of times in my life where things have been down
and been hard and I've been struggling,
I turned to Churchill so many times,
and this is one of my favorite quotes talking about the war.
He said
"We have before us an ordeal of the most grevious kind.
"We have before us many many long months of
"struggling and suffering.
"You ask, what is our policy?
"I would say it is to wage war, by sea, by land, by air,
"with all of our might and with all of our strength
"that God has given us.
"That is our policy.
"You ask, what is our aim?
"I can answer in one word.
"Victory.
"Victory, at all costs.
"Victory, in spite of all terror.
"Victory, however long and hard the road may be."
And I think for all of you guys who are out there,
who are trying to be successful.
You have before you an ordeal of the most grevious kind.
It's not going to be easy.
You have many long months of struggle and suffering.
What is your aim?
Victory.
Victory, at all cost.
Victory, in spite of terror.
Victory, however long the hard the road may be.
I want you guys to remember that, 'cause sometimes
this road is long. And if I could rewind 15 years ago,
when I started this journey.
If I would've known it would've been this long and windy,
I probably wouldn't have gone on it.
There were times, like I said,
when we went through, you know,
I had to fire a hundred people in a day.
There were times when I lost friends,
I lost family members that have worked here.
I, so much of the stress and the twirl in the
things he's talking about.
But when you look at it, say look,
victory is what we're going for.
However long or hard the road may be.
That's the goal, that's where we're going.
It gives you the force that you need to keep moving forward.
So, Winston Churchhill,
again one of my favorite quotes of all time.
"Victory, however long and hard the road may be.
So those are four of my favorite quotes.
I would love if you take five seconds and post
your favorite quote that's gotten you through tough times
down below, so that I can read them, so the entire
community can read them.
Anyway, let me know your favorite quote down below,
and I'll see you on the next video.