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Galloway: Universities create artificial scarcity to hike tuition faster than inflation
“Institutions like mine at NYU take pleasure in artificial, creating artificial scarcity so we don't let in as many kids as we could, such that we can drive up the cost of tuition faster than inflation and pay ourselves more for less accountability”
Galloway: Young people need to drink more alcohol
“Well, on a practical level, the young people need to drink more.”
Galloway: Young Americans transfer $1.3T yearly to seniors via Social Security
“Every year, young people transfer 1.3 trillion dollars in the form of Social Security payments to the wealthiest generation in the history of the planet, seniors.”
Galloway: Health risks of alcohol are dwarfed by social isolation for young adults
“And I think the risks to a twenty-five-year-old liver of alcohol are dwarfed by social isolation.”
Galloway: Tech Dominance Comes from Overwhelming Competitors with Cheap Capital
“Winning in our economy has become a function of establishing a great product, establishing the perception that you're the market leader such that you can attract cheaper capital. And essentially, Overwhelm the competition with capital.”
Galloway: Corporate Breakups Benefit Everyone Except the Monopolist CEO
“Breakups are one of those few things in economic history that almost always work for almost everybody. The only person that loses is the CEO who wants to sit on the iron throne of all seven realms, not just Westeros.”
Galloway: US teen suicide has increased 60%, driven partly by social media
“We have a 60% uptick in teen suicide in the US, and I don't put it all at the hands of social or the feet of social media, but it's definitely played a role”
Galloway: US 30-year-olds are financially worse off than parents at 30
“For the first time in our nation's history, a thirty-year-old isn't doing as well as his or her parents were at 30.”
Galloway: US spends $12 on seniors for every $1 on kids
“Every year in the U.S., we spend 12 dollars on seniors for every one dollar we spend on kids.”
Galloway: On Tinder, 46 of 50 women focus on four men
“If there's 50 men on Tinder and 50 women on Tinder, 46 of the women will show all of their attention exclusively to just four men. Leaving 46 men to fight over four women.”
Galloway: Unmarried men by age 30 face 1-in-3 substance abuse chance
“If a man hasn't cohabitated or been married by the time he's 30, there's a one in three chance he ends up a substance abuser.”
Galloway: Remote work is a disaster for young people
“I think remote work is a disaster for young people. I think they need to meet each other, learn how to read the room.”
Galloway reached his $150 million wealth target ten years ago
“My number was one hundred and fifty million because I thought it would be hard for me to spend half a million dollars a month, although I figured out how. And four percent of a hundred fifty million is six million, half a million dollars a month. I got there a…”
Galloway: Quality Time Is a Myth Invented by Wealthy, Absent Parents
“I don't believe in quality time. I think that's a concept invented by wealthy people with no time who don't want to spend that much time with their kids and pretend they're good dads.”
Galloway plans to restrict children's inheritance to essential security
“I'll give them enough money so they can always have a house, always afford education. I'll give them a start, but they won't inherit. I won't give them a ton of money. I'll give them, I don't know what that number is, but I'll give them enough money. I love wh…”
Galloway: Seven Companies Represent 34% of the S&P 500
“34% of the S&P is represented by seven companies, and 50% of the equity value of the world, and 70% of the enterprise value, if included the debt, is wrapped up in the U.S. Economy, which has seven companies, and if any of those seven companies sneeze, the who…”
Galloway: US outpaces Europe because companies ask forgiveness, not permission
“If you were to try and come up with three or four reductive reasons why the U.S. Has created so much more economic value than Europe, I think if you're intellectually honest, you would say that in the U.S. Companies are allowed to ask for forgiveness, not perm…”
Galloway: 75% of women prioritize partner wealth vs 25% of men
“75% of women say economic viability is hugely important in a mate. It's only 25% of men.”
Galloway: Average men need 200 dating app swipes for one coffee date
“And the scary stat I saw, I think you referenced, is that in order to get one coffee, a man of average attractiveness on a dating app has to swipe right or try and connect with 200 women to get one coffee.”
Galloway: In 80% of long marriages, the man was initially more interested
“If you talk to people who've been married longer than 30 years, 80% of them say one was much more interested in the other at the beginning, and it was always the man was more interested in the woman.”
Galloway: Goldman Sachs Manages Wealth; Excess Over Baseline Is Spent or Donated
“Goldman manages my money. They give me a number every year. And anything above my number, I either spend it or I give it away.”
Galloway: Having children increases professional motivation for most men
“For most men, kids are motivating professionally, because you realize it's no longer just about you.”
Galloway: Becoming a billionaire requires building allies through high character
“And the key to being a billionaire is establishing allies along the way. And that is people put them in a room of opportunity, even when they're not in that room, because they're really high character, good people.”
Galloway: Miserable billionaire stereotype is false; wealth supports healthier families
“I find that's mostly a cartoon that there's so much anxiety injected into relationships when you don't have enough money that those are the people that have really dysfunctional families. So my experience has been that actually wealthy people are both a high c…”
Scott Galloway: Meaningful parenting moments require extensive unstructured garbage time
“I find the most important time with your kids and you have some time to figure this out is what I call garbage time. And that is the really amazing moments with your kids happen unpredictably. You're on your way to, you're driving them to school, and they're n…”
Galloway: Wealth artificially inflates social validation and leads to bad places
“Once you have money, people laugh at your jokes, people find you interesting, people want to know you, and it can lead to bad places.”
Galloway: Unafraid people who risk rejection end up wealthier and better matched
“The person who is unafraid and asks for all of those things every day ends up wealthier and with a higher character mate than their peers.”
Galloway: Lacking Imposter Syndrome Means You Are Arrogant or Not Reaching Enough
“If you don't feel imposter syndrome, you're either arrogant or not reaching, Far enough.”
Galloway: 24% of Teens Addicted to Social Media vs 6% to Drugs
“Six percent of kids are teenagers that are clinically addicted to alcohol or drugs. 24% are addicted to social media.”
Galloway: Unmarried, Six-Foot, Six-Figure Men Under 50 Are Just 2.6% of Population
“Six feet, six figures. That's 2.6% of the population of people who aren't married, aren't obese, or under the age of 50.”
Scott Galloway: Relationship scorecards lead people to inflate their own efforts
“There's a problem with that because you'll always inflate your contribution of the relationship and minimize theirs.”