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“The number of missing is, is still in the hundreds and again, not being reported.”

“I go to the only hotel where there's two in the town that had power, and it was completely booked up with federal FEMA personnel.”

“From Afghanistan to Western North Carolina, the response of the American people the generosity of the entrepreneur and veteran community to do what the government couldn't even do.”

“I really believe that suffering is the best thing that can happen to a young person.”

“Like, if you're not capable of hurting somebody and you don't hurt somebody, that doesn't mean you're good. It just means you're useless. But if I'm able to take your face off, but I choose to be kind and gracious and giving and selfless to you, now I'm good.”

“It's toxic. They're trying to poison us. They want you sick.”

“We're putting, first and foremost, inside of them this intrinsic desire to accomplish, to create, to collaborate, to critically think. And those characteristics are not being taught in school. I argue that they're actually being taken from them.”

“I'll take two of them rednecks in, in a Toyota Overlander that over a hundred PhDs from the federal government, and they literally would, they could get into areas that nobody could get into, and they were bringing Life-sustaining support to these people in th…”

“There's no difference in leadership from military leadership to civilian leadership. Leadership is leadership. And when it comes to strategy, rehearsals, and time management, civilian and military approach to that, I think should be the same.”

“Studies have shown economically, financially your circle plus or minus a 100,000 dollars is where you, you're going to end up.”

“If you're not going to be faithful to your wife, you're not going to be faithful with my money. If you're not going to be disciplined with what you're going to be doing with your time, you're not going to be disciplined with my time.”

“The bluff, the bottom line up front is a weak man is not a good man because he's not capable to do one or the other. A strong man that's capable of violence but chooses to be kind, chooses to be gentle, he's clearly morally a good man because he has the capabl…”

“You can look at somebody's calendar, and I know if that is a five million dollar entrepreneur, if that is a billion dollar business owner just by your calendar.”

“And then when I was overseas, I had somebody follow her to make sure she was a good woman.”

“If you think that I can walk into Afghanistan during the middle of the evacuation without DOD and DOS support, like, you're an, you're a crazy person. If you think that we're going to be in Djibouti or Sudan during a coup, like, you're a crazy person without t…”

“The only people profiting are the people that make the things that kill both sides, and they sell to both sides, but there's people that need help, and I can't not do it.”

“If you are intimately familiar with violence, and you are capable of violence, the less you have to prove, and the less amount of violence you have to do to ever be successful at anything.”

“There's definitely a difference about how you parent every single child, and especially boys and girls. But I mean, I'll argue that the amount of adversity that women have to overcome is, is far more significant than the type of adversity that I have to overco…”

“There's not a predictor of, like, this guy did jiu-jitsu, or he was a wrestler, or he played water polo. Like, the best swimmers in the world go to Bud's, and they bump, they bail out just like everybody else. The freak D-one athlete that played football, like…”

“Everybody says that time is this like most important resource. I argue that attention is the most important resource. I could be doing something specific with my time, but if my attention is elsewhere or a hundred percent of my attention is focused on Somethin…”

“Especially for like middle management, Or above, I always go and eat with them. I always want to share a meal with them. I want to see how they treat the staff. I want to see how long it takes them to bite, to pick what they're gonna eat.”

“I have never let someone go in a layoff or fired somebody that I was not immediately relieved within 48 hours that that was the right thing, and I wish that I had done it months prior.”

“Really great leaders will go into a bad leadership Problem because they run towards the sound of gunfire. They turn and they face the problem and they want to address it. And they see whether it's a culture problem, a leadership problem a substance abuse probl…”

“What, for that transition to happen is you're gonna have to be able to build, mentor, and then ultimately delegate responsibility and authority to the people that are gonna be running that, and that is a selfless act. That is you having faith And a little bit …”

“There's nothing more dangerous than a young man without purpose, direction, motivation.”

“You know, if I'm at the mall, or I'm at church with my family, And I start hearing gunshots. First thing I'm doing is getting my family off the X, right? Like they're going to get in the car. They're going to be gone. There's not a chance in hell that I'm not …”

“You want to talk about the most motivating thing to like a young E-Five on Target that doesn't deserve to be there as like, the boss of all bosses is sitting next to you, spot checking your job, and you're doing the right thing. Like, that was the most motivat…”

“These are the things that we were taught by our government to do. And I take the inverse of that and do that for good in a country to rescue Americans out of a conflict area.”

“Unbeknownst to them, my plan was to go into live television and give my home address, which is what I did. The camera goes on, and I see A red light, and I was like, we're live? Like, yeah, we're live. Like, this is so cool. Like, you can send anyone that you …”

“The majority of our work is in planning. If I'm going to be going into a meeting, I know who I'm meeting with, I know what the ask is going to be, I know financially what I am going to benefit, the return on investment, and then in addition to the planning kin…”

“We are living in the most Prosperous era of American history.”

“Bedros actually systematically in a process of his life, he forces himself for six weeks at a time to do something that he's not good at. Rock climbing, jujitsu, learning how to do an Ironman. It is part of his program of life to go for six weeks and do someth…”

“From that day until the day I left for Iraq on my first real combat deployment, I took her out on a date every single day from that day until I went overseas.”