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Bill Perkins

18 statements across 4 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 16, 2024 by Bill Perkins · said 22 times in 7 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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brought up most by Codie Sanchez (17), Lewis Howes (4), Alex Ramon (1)

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2025 10 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode
2024 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode

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Everything said about Bill Perkins, oldest first

Apr 16, 2024 positive
Opinion
Perkins: Couples Need a Relationship Coach to Build a Great Marriage
“I tell all my friends, I'm like, you should have a relationship coach. I don't care how good your relationship is, you should have a coach.”
Bill Perkins Apr 16, 2024 ▶ 15:40 What They Don’t Tell You About Money and Marriage (feat. Bill Perkins)
Apr 16, 2024 neutral
Insight
Perkins: Relationships Fail from a Thousand Small Cuts, Not Singular Incidents
“I think that relationships die from a thousand cuts, not like this big thing. You know what I mean? Like, even relationships that they have, oh, they cheated on me or whatever, it's like probably the thousand cuts that's created the environment for the infidel…”
Bill Perkins Apr 16, 2024 ▶ 16:34 What They Don’t Tell You About Money and Marriage (feat. Bill Perkins)
Jun 25, 2024 positive
Insight
Perkins: Solitude Drives Maximum Impact for Knowledge Workers
“As a knowledge worker even though I'm interacting through devices to communicate with people, it's generally me in solitude having the most impact, you know?”
Bill Perkins Jun 25, 2024 ▶ 42:59 Your Under-Performer Friends Cost You $100K a Year | Bill Perkins
Jun 25, 2024
Insight
Perkins: Manage autonomous operators like 'fire and forget missiles'
“Like, I'm always trying to find fire and forget missiles. Like, I just want to, that's where I want to go. I want to hit that target. Shoot it up in the air, and they boom, and they hit the target. I don't have to tell them, I tell them what I want, Not how to…”
Bill Perkins Jun 25, 2024 ▶ 47:19 Your Under-Performer Friends Cost You $100K a Year | Bill Perkins
Jun 25, 2024 positive
Insight
Perkins: High Performers Have an Obligation to Stakeholders to Delegate Low-Value Work
“And so I have an obligation to others to effectively allocate my time to my goals, to my ambitions.”
Bill Perkins Jun 25, 2024 ▶ 32:52 Your Under-Performer Friends Cost You $100K a Year | Bill Perkins
Jun 25, 2024 positive
Insight
Perkins: Buy luxury assets to share experiences with friends
“His saying is, is we buy stuff to give it away. And it's true. Like, I didn't buy this boat so I could be on this boat by myself. I bought this boat to share memories with my friends. I didn't buy this property to just sit out here like Little Lord Farm or in …”
Bill Perkins Jun 25, 2024 ▶ 50:32 Your Under-Performer Friends Cost You $100K a Year | Bill Perkins
Jun 25, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Perkins: John Arnold is the greatest commodities trader since rice markets
“Actually, my friend John Arnold, he was the most successful commodities trader since the rice trading markets, called in rich and wanted to do philanthropy, and he wanted to have, like, analytical, impactful philanthropy”
Bill Perkins Jun 25, 2024 ▶ 38:43 Your Under-Performer Friends Cost You $100K a Year | Bill Perkins
Jun 25, 2024 positive
Insight
Bill Perkins: Delusional ambition is a requirement to enter the arena
“I generally am the most delusional of my friends. And I think that's a requirement, you know, that, that puts you in the arena. Doesn't mean you're gonna succeed, doesn't mean you're gonna, you know, swim upstream it just means you're in the arena, and you're …”
Bill Perkins Jun 25, 2024 ▶ 37:31 Your Under-Performer Friends Cost You $100K a Year | Bill Perkins
Jan 29, 2025
Disclosure
Perkins: Sold Nevada solar project to Capital Dynamics for $180M
“I sold it to Capital Dynamics for like a hundred and eighty million dollars, right, and spent like 20, 30, 40,000,030 million dollars of mine and my friend's money developing it.”
Bill Perkins Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 40:23 Your Ego Is Keeping You Poor | Bill Perkins
Jan 29, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Perkins: I pay at the top of the market to retain talent
“I'm like, what is the market? And then I pay at the top of the market. You know? Golden handcuff them.”
Bill Perkins Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 19:26 Your Ego Is Keeping You Poor | Bill Perkins
Jan 29, 2025 neutral
Insight
Perkins: The ability to convert capital into experiences declines with age
“The, your ability to convert your capital into meaningful experiences or useful experiences declines as you age. Your lung capacity goes down. Your muscle mass goes down. Your fragility goes up. Your, even your attitude. You're like, I don't like that anymore.”
Bill Perkins Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 28:08 Your Ego Is Keeping You Poor | Bill Perkins
Jan 29, 2025
Insight
Perkins: Educated founders face ego risk, not financial risk
“And so I say to most people at this level of education and intelligence, like, there's no financial risk, there's only ego risk.”
Bill Perkins Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 9:17 Your Ego Is Keeping You Poor | Bill Perkins
Jan 29, 2025
Insight
Perkins: People love watching failure to validate their own cowardice
“And the reason why people love a failure is not that they're evil, but it validates their own cowardice, right? They had dreams too that they didn't go pursue.”
Bill Perkins Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 9:53 Your Ego Is Keeping You Poor | Bill Perkins
Jan 29, 2025
Insight
Perkins: Directing tasks instead of outcomes treats employees like children
“If you're telling somebody what to do instead of what you want, Then you don't have an employee, like, you have a child.”
Bill Perkins Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 37:45 Your Ego Is Keeping You Poor | Bill Perkins
Jan 29, 2025
Disclosure
Perkins: I lost $10M on a failed El Salvador LNG project
“I lost ten million dollars doing that. You know, when I, when it was, when ten million dollars was like a significant portion of my net worth.”
Bill Perkins Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 10:37 Your Ego Is Keeping You Poor | Bill Perkins
Jan 29, 2025
Insight
Perkins: Founders destroy value by tinkering with low-level operational tasks
“It's great to pop in, and tinker, et cetera, and you feel useful, and you're learning, but realize that there's the other you, let's call it you prime, that's not doing the big thing that it's meant to do, and you're actually destroying value every time you do…”
Bill Perkins Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 37:20 Your Ego Is Keeping You Poor | Bill Perkins
Jan 29, 2025 neutral
Insight
Perkins: Wealthy investors actively seek capable executors over ideas
“The money is easy. It's having an idea that you can execute on. There's tons of money. There's tons of rich guys that don't want to work. They just want to invest in somebody and make a good return.”
Bill Perkins Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 4:05 Your Ego Is Keeping You Poor | Bill Perkins
Jun 30, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sanchez: Bill Perkins conditioned investment on her stopping pumping gas
“Bill Perkins was one too. And he told me that he wouldn't invest in one of my companies if I kept getting my own gas for my car”
Codie Sanchez Jun 30, 2026 ▶ 1:17 You're Wasting Your Life (Here's How To Fix It)
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