Jesse Itzler

“One, I think you should make yourself irreplaceable. That's really important. Then you have the leverage, like, you can't even fire me. I know everybody, every customer, I'm unfireable. Now you have some leverage.”

“One of my friends, Jesse Eitzler, when he had no money before he married Sarah Blakely and they became billionaires and he started NetJets and a bunch It was big companies. He used to go to the Beverly Hills Hotel in in California. And he had no money then, bu…”

“When he came to me about all day running I was, I didn't even, to be honest, I didn't even look at the paperwork. I know how much equity I own in the business, but like, besides that, I was like, I trust this guy, you know, I saw it, DocuSign came in, I signed…”

“I think if you want to be an entrepreneur, part of being an entrepreneur is you have to get over the fear of being embarrassed. You know, it's like the best gift you can give yourself in anything, entrepreneur or not. Once you get over the fear of being embarr…”

“We had a thousand people there. It's a three-day like wellness festival in the middle of Georgia. And it's kind of like the Woodstock of wellness. There's speakers and breakout sessions and music, and bands, and we built the world's biggest sauna. It's almost …”

“I remember Warren Buffett saying that's like the one thing you'll never get rid of is, is private jet.”

“When we had Marquee Jet, which is my first successful, second successful company, but the biggest. We flew 3000 of the who's who of pop culture, entertainers, CEOs, whatever. I was 2829 years old when we started the company”

“In your twenties and thirties, for most people, you're gonna make five to 10 times more money in your forties and fifties than you will in your twenties and thirties, because you'll have more contacts, you'll be better at whatever it is you do, you'll be much …”

“Like, I think we raised four million dollars from friends and family, which to start a jet company, I mean, it doesn't make any sense.”

“So Curtis came in, and he worked with me for like a year and a half, and then he became 50 cent.”

“And then the next day he wrote into all of his contracts he would only fly with Marquee Jet.”

“I've also had 20 companies that didn't work.”

“The most important thing is to tell stories in a speech that only you can tell. So if I say, You know, hey, you have to get comfortable being uncomfortable. A million people can say that. But if I say, you know, I rode my bike across the United States of Ameri…”

“They do eight figures a year in revenue, and what they do is they have got these events all over the country, and they pick a really tall hill or mountain, and you climb up that short mountain as many times as it takes to equal Mount Everest, and so it's like,…”

“We had to cut it out of the episode because he got so awkward.”

“And so you plus a little like side job that I had became the money we paid for the ticket to fly that guy out, which definitely changed the trajectory of our life.”

“I sold that company to a public company called SFX, and that was my first, I was 27, we sold it for four million bucks, and then we had, there was an earn out for another 12 or 16 or something, which we earned out”

“And you know what happened to me then? I lost it. Because I didn't know anything about it. And fortunately, I was able to bounce back through having other successful businesses and failures, but no one ever told me about it.”

“I have never, I've never been the CEO of a business. I've never ran or operated a business, but I've been a founder, I think, five times.”

“As we got big, all of a sudden, you know, we have 4000 members. We're doing a billion dollars a year. Then the model changed, and we had to start buying our airplanes.”

“Yeah, no, because our average customer spent close, I think it was 250 or 235,000 dollars a year.”

“I'm part owner of the Atlanta Hawks.”

“Well, like, two hundred and forty-five million Americans eat pickles every year. It's like 75% of our population eat pickles.”

“A wire's a wire. You get the wire, and it's, like, the same feeling you get when you sell a business. Is the same feeling you get when you finish the marathon, you walk an old lady across the street, or you do anything that makes you feel good about yourself. …”

“In my twenties, I didn't have a way to, I had no, I was really on a super tight budget. I was writing 10 handwritten letters. I went a year, not every single day, but pretty much writing about 10 handwritten letters a day. And that was my entire marketing stra…”

“I try to have one big year defining thing on my calendar every year. Last year was my bike ride across America. 2015 was living with the seal, the book I wrote. 2017, I lived on a monastery. 20 16 or something. I started 29 or 29 this company with my partner. …”