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“Uber has raised the prices on UberX, I'm sorry, Uber Lux, seven to 10% a year, way above inflation. So the average price of Uber Lux when I was first taking it was 40 to 60 bucks. Now it's 80 to 120.”

“Six percent of kids are teenagers that are clinically addicted to alcohol or drugs. 24% are addicted to social media.”

“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.”

“There's a problem with that because you'll always inflate your contribution of the relationship and minimize theirs.”

“I wish I'd taken more advantage of the human capital I was possessing to improve people's lives. You know, I just, everything was about fucking me. And it's, I feel as if I like, I just wasted so much opportunity.”

“I think the reason we get together is not to make more economic security or make children. I think it's such that we have someone to witness our lives, to notice our lives.”

“When I applied to UCLA, the admissions rate was 76%. I barely, and I didn't get in. I was one of the 24% that got rejected. And I applied the second time when I got in. This year is going to be nine percent”

“Two weeks ago I found out, I made a, one of my biggest, I invested five million dollars in a tech space healthcare company, tier one VCs, baller CEO, best investors, had to elbow my way to get in, that's a big investment for me. It went out of business last we…”

“I survey my kids, when I say my kids, I mean my students, 70 to 80% of them expect to be in the top one percent of income earners by the time they're 35.”

“80% of women have procreated. It's only 40% of men throughout history.”

“70 to 90% of office space is released in Europe. It's like 40 to 60 in the U.S.”

“Now I want to overcompensate people because I don't want to take outside capital. And my goal is to pay people somewhere between 30 and 80% more than they would get in the, you know, in the market.”

“There's just, it's so hard to read the label from inside of the bottle, and one of the big mistakes I made as a young entrepreneur was feeling that leadership was me figuring it all out. That I needed to understand, I needed to portray this image that I knew i…”

“Five years ago, I decided I was going to give away every dollar I made in current income.”

“No, it sold for a hundred and fifty eight million, but we'd only done one round of venture capital. So the. You know, the common shareholders, you know, I was the largest equity owner. So the top, you know, between me and the top six employees, we probably own…”

“I've made more money investing, actually, than I've made for my small, for my businesses”

“And the mistake I made at your age when I had Some wins was I would double down and I would start another company and put all my money into one thing.”

“Being subject to trying to make as much money as you spend, or ideally more at any age, keeps you in the market. You have to understand what the market values and doesn't value.”

“I do think there is an algorithm for happiness, though, a pretty good one, and that is to be rich but anonymous, because at some point I'm going to become the villain.”

“Speaking is the most lucrative business I've ever been, and I had 340 inbound requests for speaking. I accepted 30 of them. I averaged a 112,000 dollars for speaking engagement.”

“MasterCard and they're spending me a hundred, you know, they're spending a 150,000 bucks to have me speak for an hour in Barcelona, which I did last week”

“Two thirds of our kids do not end up with a college degree.”

“I don't invest more than three or four percent of my net worth in any one thing.”

“The average compensation at NYU Stern is 212,001st year”

“I've started nine companies. Four have failed, three are kind of a, three are kind of a tie, got the money back, and two, two were hits.”

“Governor Newsom has that star power. Hands down, star power.”

“We ended, ultimately ended up selling for eight times revenues.”

“I write a book every 18 months. I do seven podcasts a week. I put out a newsletter every week.”

“I have 28 people at Prop G Media.”

“The key between a practice and an enterprise that creates real money is to find outstanding people and get them to leverage your time and your talent.”

“I just flew to Jackson Hole because I got offered 200,000 dollars to speak. What? And I said yes.”

“He's actually reached out to me through a friend saying we should get together.”

“83% of them last year didn't qualify for health insurance because they didn't make 23,000 dollars.”

“I don't invest more than three or four percent of my net worth in any one thing.”

“The average compensation at NYU Stern is 212,001st year”

“PayPal used to be owned by eBay, and they spun it. It's now worth, I think, 15 times what eBay is worth.”

“One company, Apple, is worth more than the entire UK stock market.”

“I have a newsletter that goes out to half a million people every Friday”

“And my stock went from seven bucks this year to zero in about 11 days. And when the company had declared chapter 11 and I lost, you know, I lost pretty much everything.”

“I think there are going to be a lot of businesses, whether it's carpet cleaning or gas stations or you know, hanging and selling draperies into small furniture companies that are owned by boomers. They're going to need a transition, nice small businesses, and …”

“And by the way, that, that investment I've written down by. It's been really hard. I've lost money so far on that.”