Codie Sanchez
555 statements across 137 episodes · 161 bullish · 126 bearish · 22 people on the record · first statement Apr 9, 2024 by Ali Abdaal · across every show →
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Apr 9, 2024 positive
Abdaal: Default mode network activation is vital for business creativity
“Especially if you're in anything creative, which all businesses to some degree, actually having that time for rest, having that time to allow the default mode network in the brain to Activate, which is what happens when you're doing nothing, or when you're in …”
Apr 9, 2024
Apr 9, 2024
Sanchez: Minimum-wage jobs are stepping stones, not full careers
“That's what minimum wage and those jobs are meant for. They're not meant To stay for you for your entire career. You're meant to climb the ladder from a skills perspective, and then you won't have to work so many hours unless you want to.”
Apr 9, 2024 neutral
Apr 9, 2024 positive
Sanchez: Major innovations require intensely driven, irrational founders like Elon Musk
“You like your Tesla? You wouldn't have it if fucking Elon wasn't a psychopath out there working super hard every day. And the same thing goes for most of the things that we take for granted. It's because some irrational human Was so driven for the pursuit that…”
Apr 9, 2024 positive
Apr 9, 2024 bearish
Apr 9, 2024 positive
Apr 16, 2024
Apr 16, 2024
Apr 16, 2024 neutral
Sanchez: Women control household spending, but men understand overall finances
“The data shows us that women are the, have the purchasing power in the household. Like if you are Amazon or Walmart, you actually want to get to the female. Because she's typically the one doing a lot of the household spending. But the one with the understandi…”
Apr 16, 2024 neutral
Apr 16, 2024 neutral
Sanchez: Society Will Soon Recognize a Silent Loneliness Epidemic Among Women
“Right now, we're starting to hear about, like, the alpha men, and we're starting to hear about testosterone levels lowering, and we're starting to hear about incels and men not having sex in increasing amounts, and we're starting to hear about Men having a tou…”
Apr 16, 2024
Apr 16, 2024 positive
Apr 16, 2024 negative
Sanchez: Hiring aggressive divorce litigators is a costly mistake versus mediation
“People try to go out and get the gnarliest, meanest divorce attorney that they can get. And that's actually a terrible idea. You'll spend a ton of money on your divorce attorneys. And instead you guys decided to commit to something for life. Try to exit it as …”
Apr 16, 2024
Apr 16, 2024
Sanchez: Assuming Relationships Are Passively Stable Leads to Divorce
“There's two types of stability, active and passive. People get in trouble when they confuse the two. Relationships, for example, require attention and care. If you assume that your relationship is passively stable, you'll wake up one day to divorce papers.”
Apr 23, 2024 negative
Sanchez: Copycats have turned my creator business into hand-to-hand combat
“In my business, at least right now, I'm thinking in lots of different ways, God, I just feel like we're hand-to-hand combat. We're just like fighting against all these other people who are trying to do something just like us. They copied us in some way, and th…”
Apr 30, 2024 negative
Apr 30, 2024 neutral
Apr 30, 2024 negative
Sanchez: Standard 5% to 20% fund returns do not genuinely change lives
“I don't think people learn that much or get that much value from having another fund to invest in that has like a five to maybe if they kill it, 20% annual return. Like that will change nobody's life. Even people who have millions and millions of dollars. It d…”
Apr 30, 2024
Sanchez: Unless you have generational wealth, success requires leaving your hometown
“We literally couldn't find humans who didn't come from either generational wealth, and thus could stay locally and build on it, or weren't in, like, India, who started something in a small town and grew like crazy, and that's probably just due to massive demog…”
Apr 30, 2024 positive
Apr 30, 2024 positive
Sanchez: Childhood economic connectedness in mixed cities boosts income by 33%
“What was really interesting is the kid who was in Minneapolis, which is an economically connected city, which means people from high incomes, people from low incomes hang out together. They have interactions together. That kid had a 33% higher income by the ti…”
Apr 30, 2024 positive
Sanchez: Relocating between ages 18 and 35 unlocks long-term financial success
“It seems like there's like a life hack from like age 18 to let's call it 35 ish. If somewhere in there you can move around and get like the fluidity and open the aperture to what's available in life. Then you have this long runway. And if you don't do that, it…”
May 7, 2024 positive
Sanchez: BJJ Training Increases Children's Self-Control by Double Digits
“There's a study across hundreds of boys who did jujitsu and a control group for those who didn't. The kids who did jujitsu for just one to three times a week for 45 minutes on average increased their self-control by double digits versus their peers.”
May 7, 2024 positive
Sanchez: Controlled capacity for violence acts as an essential societal deterrent
“If you have the capacity for violence, but not the need for violence, that's actually really important to humanity overall. I mean, we know this from the theory of disarmament, and what happens at a certain level, some people need to have arms in order for oth…”
May 7, 2024 positive
Sanchez: Daily 'team' check-ins maintain marital alignment
“My husband and I do this thing called team every day. I would say we do it 60% of the time, where in the evening we get together and we have this small little Sort of framework that we take each other through so that we're touching base on some of the stuff th…”
May 14, 2024 negative
Sanchez: Grad school is unnecessary unless required for specific licensed professions
“And so, you know, if you're listening to this right now and you're thinking grad school and you're thinking, you know, the next step, unless it is for a massively high increase in salary, a passion that you can't stop and you're in a good enough financial posi…”
May 14, 2024 neutral
Sanchez: Naval Ravikant's wealth frameworks are completely useless if you are broke
“Every time you stop learning and earning, move to the next spot, and then you can apply the Naval Ravikant. Like, How to get rich. Like, really, really rich. But only after you're not broke. And when you're not, when you're broke, all you focus on is getting o…”
May 14, 2024
May 21, 2024 negative
Sanchez: We screen job candidates' Twitter replies and reject negative trolls
“We started running the screen when we hire people, which is that we look at their Twitter replies. And what we found, I don't know if it's dark triad or not, but if it's largely negative, And trolling or hateful comments. There's a high correlation between the…”
May 28, 2024 negative
May 28, 2024
May 28, 2024
Sanchez: Resigned only after side business income covered living expenses
“What I ended up doing is I finally decided that I would leave the company the second that I made enough money that I could replace what my monthly nut was. So the amount that I had to make every month in order to get my expenses covered. And so I started doing…”
May 28, 2024
May 28, 2024 positive
Sanchez: Working at prestige brand companies elevates reputations for decades
“If you work for a big company or a company with a good name, that can last you
Like, decades. I haven't worked at Goldman Sachs since, like, 2008, and I was, like, a peon analyst nobody back then, and yet the first thing people say about me still is that I wor…”
May 28, 2024
May 28, 2024
Sanchez: Re-entering the workforce after a gap requires outworking everyone else
“I think if you haven't played the game in a while, you have to play harder than everybody else and longer than everybody else, and there's basically no other way around it. If you want to get back in the game of being an employee, you can play harder than the …”
May 28, 2024 negative
Sanchez: Most online creators telling people to quit are unemployable
“Most people on the internet are literally unemployable. Like, they've never had a real job. They don't understand people who have jobs. They tell you guys every single day why you should just quit and go all in, and it doesn't matter, and they've only ever bee…”
May 28, 2024 negative
May 28, 2024
Sanchez: Asking for raises triggers defensive instincts unless framed collaboratively
“It's always going to annoy your boss, because what are you doing? You're just saying, like, I want to take more money out of your pocket and put it into mine. And, like, we're humans, and so that's how they're going to respond to you, at least physically. So, …”
May 28, 2024 positive
Sanchez: Lowering Job Stress Does Not Require Accepting Lower Pay
“You've said a statement that I am not sure is true, and the statement is, That no matter what, in order to have less stress, I need to make less money. I would say back to you, what if you don't? And what if it's in fact easy for you to not do that? And so onc…”
Jun 5, 2024 neutral
Jun 11, 2024
Jun 18, 2024 bearish
Jun 18, 2024 positive
Sanchez: Buffett's friend-investment thought experiment applies directly to romantic relationships
“So Buffett asked if you could invest in a friend and get 10% of their income for life, who would you pick? Now, once the students answered the question, he then asked this, why would you invest in that person? What character traits do they have? And now that y…”
Jun 25, 2024
Jun 25, 2024 positive
Jun 25, 2024 positive
Sanchez: Clean 'no thank you' rejections prevent unwanted follow-up negotiations
“That thing where you say, no, that doesn't work for me. No, I'm not that interested in it. Then it opens the door. You're leaving open a little wedge for somebody to come back to you and say, hey Why aren't you interested? Why doesn't that work for you? If I j…”
Jun 25, 2024 positive
Jun 25, 2024 negative
Sanchez: Dallas country club friends dropped me immediately after my divorce
“One, when I got divorced basically all my friends dropped me. The second I got divorced they all went with my husband who was in Dallas at the time. They were all sort of married couples of the country club. I didn't fit in anymore, and it didn't feel great fo…”
Jun 25, 2024 positive
Jun 25, 2024 negative
Sanchez: Lost $100K to $150K partnering with a 'lifestyle investor' friend
“This friendship that became a partnership that became a six figure loss for me. I think, you know, let's call this loss probably something in the realm of a 100,000 to a 150,000, not counting how much time. We spent on this deal and me having to parachute a bu…”
Jun 25, 2024 negative
Jun 25, 2024 negative
Jun 25, 2024 neutral
Sanchez: Moving on from friend groups reflects differing speeds, not superiority
“Just because you started out with one group doesn't mean you should finish with them. And it doesn't mean they're less than you. It doesn't mean you're more than them. It simply means that you guys are moving at different speeds on a marathon.”
Jun 25, 2024 positive
Sanchez: Top performers achieve outsized success through narrow focus and 80-90-hour weeks
“The best performers have to narrow down their aperture as opposed to widen it to have unfair levels of success. So if you think about it this way, how have the best people in any industry achieved something incredible? Is it by doing what is average, normal, o…”
Jun 25, 2024
Sanchez: Alex Hormozi and I trade screenshots of saying no
“And basically, We have a little accountability thing that we do. And I told him I had this issue, and so he said, I'm going to send you a screenshot of every time somebody asks something of me, and I say no. And you can just see all the ways that I say no, and…”
Jul 9, 2024
Sanchez: Negative email subject lines boost performance by 20% to 50%
“If you use a subject line that is negative in some way, shape, or form, or kind of gnarly or mean, you can see sometimes somewhere between 20 and almost 50% increase the same content, but just with a gnarly slant as opposed to a positive slant.”
Jul 16, 2024 negative
Sanchez: Kirchner nationalized industry and outlawed my Argentina investment business overnight
“We got pushed out of Argentina entirely when Cristina Fernandez came in, took over, nationalized all industry, and actually made my business illegal, which was, all we did was, we have international investments, and so if you want to invest outside of Argentin…”
Jul 16, 2024 negative
Sanchez: Turning down $100M to avoid building institutional small business rollups
“It is very alluring when people call you and say, hey, do you want a hundred million dollars to go invest in all these small businesses? And instead I got to kind of check myself because I do have an ego and I do think I'm kind of good at this and say like, ac…”
Jul 23, 2024 positive
Jul 23, 2024 positive
Aug 7, 2024 negative
Sanchez: Content creation is the most competitive game with zero moat
“I think one of the toughest parts that I've realized about the content game is it is the most competitive game there is. There is zero moat to this game, and you are competing for the highest and most expensive commodity that we have in this day and age, which…”
Aug 7, 2024
Aug 7, 2024
Aug 7, 2024 positive
Sanchez: Have never lost money for any investor to date
“The other day we just raised a bunch of money and I put in millions of dollars for a company that we're scaling in the SAS space and I bought it and now we're building it. And, you know, I told some of the investors that gave us money You know, I knock on wood…”
Aug 7, 2024 positive
Aug 13, 2024 negative
Sanchez lost a Brazilian joint venture due to local ownership laws
“I also had a business joint venture in Brazil. This business JV in Brazil had regulations that mandated local co-owners could take over your entire business. And that's what happened. The business was killed. They took over the business.”
Aug 13, 2024 negative
Aug 13, 2024 positive
Aug 13, 2024 positive
Being a woman in a male-dominated industry is not a disadvantage
“The truth of the matter is, if you look different, What is true? You will stand out. And so, I don't think there's anything wrong with being a woman in a male-dominated industry. As long as you're good, and you're not around bad people, but good people, most p…”
Aug 13, 2024 negative
Aug 20, 2024 negative
Aug 20, 2024
Sanchez: Assuming men reject working women becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy
“Sometimes I think a lot of women today, if you're struggling to find somebody to be with we have to be careful the stories that we tell ourselves. And so if you're out there saying men are bad, and they don't want a woman that works, and you know, you're never…”
Aug 20, 2024
Sanchez: Couples fight most during transitions, not steady routines
“Most fights happen in transition moments. Fights don't typically happen during a continuous pattern. They happen in between coming home from work into the door. They happen leaving from the house to the airport. They happen from, you know, leaving a meeting an…”
Aug 27, 2024 negative
Sanchez: Never form 50/50 business partnerships; always plan for dissolution
“No 50 50 partnerships. Never accept marriage. It's no. Most partnerships end. And so, in my mind, you need to have one person who's in charge. You need to have a great exit plan. Start with the end in mind, because you will likely get divorced.”
Aug 27, 2024 positive
Sep 3, 2024
Voss: Summarize opponents' reality until they confirm it to resolve conflicts
“Summarize to how they see things until they say that's right. Because there's the underlying assumption of that is that your perception of reality is accurate. So while it may be accurate, it's always incomplete. There's no such thing as perfect information.”
Sep 3, 2024 negative
Codie Sanchez: Asynchronous voice notes are inefficient and rude to recipients
“I think voice notes are rude to the receiver and great for the sender. For the most part. Like, it's nice to send a voice note if you're excited and you're trying to convey emotion, or if you're, you know, if there's something that verbally you have to talk ab…”
Sep 10, 2024 negative
Sanchez: Teams judge managers entirely by how they treat departing employees
“Your people actually are watching the way that you let people leave a company more than anything else. They are watching the way that you let high performers go and the way that you let low performers go. And when you let a high performer go and you talk shit …”
Sep 10, 2024 positive
Sep 10, 2024 negative
Sanchez: Stop calling your employees family because you can't fire your parents
“I do believe the truth that you shouldn't call people in your business, your family, because at the end of the day, you're probably not going to fire mom and dad unless they're really fucking awful, but you might have to let somebody go from one of your busine…”
Sep 17, 2024
Sep 17, 2024
Van Edwards: Wiseman Study Shows Product Demonstrators Sell More Making Clumsy Mistakes
“There's studies on this where Dr. Richard Wiseman had a model try to sell a blender in a mall, ok? A blender. And he did two trials of this experiment. One where she did a demo of the blender. Hi, good morning folks. We're going to demo this blender for you. S…”
Oct 1, 2024 negative
Sanchez: Fired podcast vendor who refused to work on Joe Lonsdale episode
“So, Joe Lonsdale was gonna come on the show, and we had a vendor that was working on our podcast. They do some, what's called pre-production stuff, like come up with thumbnails or their interesting tidbits on the internet. And this young gentleman reached out,…”
Oct 1, 2024 negative
Sanchez: Khosla backs open borders while suing to block public beach access
“He is going out there saying that we should have an open border when he has a private mansion on a beach trying to block public access to the beach for normal people, is in a lawsuit for like five or seven years while trying to say that we should have open bor…”
Oct 8, 2024 negative
Oct 15, 2024 negative
Sanchez: Refusing to date across political parties is a major mistake
“Yeah, you know, I read a study the other day that increasingly young people, specifically women, which is interesting, but young people today don't want to marry or date somebody of the opposite political party, which I think is such a mistake because my paren…”
Oct 15, 2024 positive
Oct 22, 2024
Sanchez: Twitter survey found only two multimillionaires who stayed in hometowns
“We did this study, and we surveyed thousands of people on Twitter and on Instagram, and we ask, have any of you Never left your hometown for college, work, anything, for longer than six months and become very monetarily successful. Define monetarily successful…”
Oct 22, 2024
Oct 22, 2024 positive
Sanchez: Investment bankers succeed by normalizing 70-hour workweeks with high output
“Why do you think so many of us make money today? It's because we normalized 70 hour workdays with incredible amounts of output required. It sucks, I remember doing it, but you are much more likely to win if you are willing to do that.”
Oct 22, 2024 positive
Oct 22, 2024
Sanchez: Financial freedom requires shallow knowledge; billionaire status requires mastery
“And what I realized pretty quickly is the language is shallow, which means there's not many levels to the game of you becoming at least financially free. Now, you becoming the master, the top one percent, the 10%, a billionaire, that language is deep. That is …”
Oct 22, 2024
Oct 22, 2024
Oct 22, 2024 positive
Sanchez: Hard work without ownership risk cannot build substantial wealth
“Four is take more risk than seems reasonable. Most people don't succeed because they might work hard hours, they might work long hours, They might have a skill set that's valuable, which would be something like, let's say a pipe welder. That's a very valuable …”
Nov 6, 2024
Sanchez: Money is leverage to assert one's will against the world
“I think we got to talk about money more because money is really just one thing. It's just, I get to assert my will more on you, and you get to assert it less on me. The more I have on it, the more I push back on the world, and I create my own reality with this…”
Nov 6, 2024 positive
Callen: Public Speakers Avoid Bombing by Distilling Ideas to Their Essence
“What I would say to you, though, maybe the way to avoid that in the future is to really dial down on what you're saying. Sometimes when we're not quite sure, we get into this gray area. And I would, it feels like, I didn't see the speech, but it feels like whe…”
Nov 13, 2024
Sanchez: Study finds over 60% of women prefer dad bods for partners
“I read a wild study that basically said, actually, if given two choices, a chad, very fit, six pack, et cetera, versus a dad bod, a little fluffy, maybe a tiny bit of a receding hairline, On average, as a partner, perhaps not in a one-off situation, they choos…”
Dec 5, 2024
Dec 5, 2024
Sanchez: Direct call-outs force disengaged meeting participants to pay attention
“And so even in, like, a small group of five or six people, the way to fix that is usually you call them out. You go, oh, hey, hey, Bob, like, how's it going? You thought about that the other day, didn't you? And then they're like, fucking put the computer down…”
Dec 11, 2024
Dec 18, 2024 positive
Dial: Pushing through six minutes of task anxiety unlocks focused flow states
“So all you have to do is fight through on average the first six minutes. And that's it. And you fight through those six minutes and your brain will actually start to become more focused. That's one of the most interesting things that I think is when we feel st…”
Dec 18, 2024 neutral
Dec 18, 2024
Dec 27, 2024 positive
Sanchez: Most Successful People Suppress Their Knowledge Ego
“I found the people who are the most successful typically have the least knowledge ego out there. Not that we don't all have big egos. I'm sure you have a big ego in many ways, but you're like, no, no, no. I don't care where the information comes from. If it's …”
Dec 27, 2024
Jan 2, 2025 negative
Codie Sanchez: Women often avoid tough partnership confrontations
“Like, I've found, by and large, women will be the ones that let the business go down, or like, you know, don't want to engage in the really tough conversation that's like, you fucked this up, you didn't do what you said you were gonna do, you know, this partne…”
Jan 2, 2025 positive
Sanchez: Studies Show 38% of Communication Effectiveness Comes From Tone
“I was reading a study that I thought was fascinating that shows that 38% of communication after studying hundreds of people in the workplace came through tone, not even the words that we said, but the way that we said them determined our outcome.”
Jan 8, 2025 positive
Sanchez: Holding warm coffee softens her harsh analytical on-camera demeanor
“I always have a warm coffee when I film, because I'm pretty in my head, and, you know, linear, maybe, as you would say, and so a lot of the stuff that I talk about is like, Deals, and duh, and money, and that. And that can feel harsh, and it can feel cold, and…”
Jan 8, 2025 negative
Codie Sanchez Refuses to Buy Team Food or Coffee from Big Corporations
“I'll buy any of their food that they want, you know, while they're at the office working or whatever coffee you know, lunch, whatever, but not from a big corporation. I'm like, if you want a coffee, it's not from Starbucks. It's from the local coffee shop.”
Jan 8, 2025 neutral
Alexander: Holding warm beverages causes people to perceive others as warmer
“There was research done with people holding a cold beverage versus holding a warm beverage. If those were holding, this is very clever. I mean, you guys didn't do this intentionally. But me holding a warm beverage Right now, based on the research, would cause …”
Jan 15, 2025 positive
Sanchez: Society needs less casual sex and more appreciation for motherhood
“If we could have more of that in the world, and less of the casual, loose sex, who cares about your other person you know, men are bad, women are good, the world would be a little bit better, and like, part of this podcast is pushing back on this philosophy, a…”
Jan 22, 2025 positive
Jan 22, 2025 positive
Jan 29, 2025 neutral
Feb 12, 2025
Feb 12, 2025
Levesque: I Reject Any Opportunity That Conflicts With My Five Values
“Cody, if there's something on my schedule that doesn't lie with one of those fives, a person, a place, a thing, a business opportunity, an investment, I'm just not doing it. I don't give a fuck. I'm not doing it. I'm just not doing it. It's, that's how stubbor…”
Feb 12, 2025 bearish
Feb 12, 2025
Feb 20, 2025 neutral
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025 positive
Sanchez: Analyzing business case studies beats learning tactics or tools
“Most people think that they want to learn tactics or tools I think the best way to learn is case studies. That's why Harvard, for instance, has the biggest library in the world of business case studies. Because once you've seen somebody else's playbook, you ca…”
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025 positive
Feb 20, 2025
Sanchez: My greatest fear is failing publicly and falling short
“My biggest fear in life is that I won't achieve what I want to achieve in life, that I'm not as capable as I think that I am, that I might fail publicly and everybody gets to go, I told you so, that I'm not as smart as I think that I am.”
Feb 20, 2025 positive
Sanchez: Job applicants should always bring unsolicited ideas to interviews
“The third thing that you should never do in an interview is come without something to give. So even when you're in an interview and you're not getting paid, you might not get the job. I love when people bring me an idea, and so you should come into the intervi…”
Feb 20, 2025
Sanchez: Asking Mentors 'How Can I Help?' Creates Unwanted Homework
“Hey, Cody I would love to do anything you need
You know, please tell me how I can help.
Now why?
Because what are you actually doing?
You're giving me homework.
I don't know you.
I don't know what you're good at.
I don't know if I should trust you.
And you're …”
Mar 5, 2025 negative
Sanchez: Run away from companies that call themselves a family
“And I, in fact, think that if you work for a business right now where they tell you that it is a family, you should run away because it's not true. You don't fire your family unless, you know, they did something really gross. You don't you don't yell at your f…”
Mar 5, 2025 positive
Sanchez says 'personality hires' are essential for high-performing teams
“One of the other keys to teamwork that I've been thinking about a lot lately is I think personality hires got a really bad rap. So if you're a personality hire out there, I actually think you got a really big place. There are a lot of reasons why you need a te…”
Mar 5, 2025 positive
Sanchez: The best businesses operate like sports teams, not families
“But I think we should be honest about the fact that the best businesses are like teams. You trade players when they don't fit anymore. They trade you when they want a different salary or a different geography. You guys hope that you make each other better. You…”
Mar 5, 2025 positive
Mar 19, 2025 negative
Mar 26, 2025
Codie Sanchez: Achieving fitness and wealth requires setting strict peer boundaries
“If you want to get fit, if you want to get financially free, you have to be okay setting boundaries for other people to stay out of if they are not going to help you progress because we are just not strong enough as individual willpowered beings to have willpo…”
Mar 26, 2025 neutral
Apr 2, 2025
Apr 2, 2025 neutral
Apr 16, 2025 negative
Sanchez: Sitting near low performers increases your underperformance risk by 30%
“I saw a study done on a thousand companies where if you sit within a 25 square foot radius of somebody who's considered a high performer, you're 15% more likely to outperform. And if you sit next to a low performer, you are 30% more likely to underperform.”
Apr 16, 2025
Apr 23, 2025 positive
Sanchez: Continuously asking questions is the primary skill for investing success
“There's one real skill set if you want to make a ton of money in investing and it is asking a lot of questions continuously. And never being scared that you don't know the answer because you're, it's a, You know, zero sum game. You either get all the informati…”
Apr 23, 2025 negative
Fisher: Firing comebacks to insults escalates conflict until the last speaker loses
“When somebody is insulting you, where you lose, is you send the Zynga right back. So let's say you're at a three, and they send you something that puts you at a five. We have a choice. Do I rise to the level of it, or do I keep it there? Because if you rise to…”
Apr 23, 2025
Apr 23, 2025
Apr 28, 2025 bearish
Apr 28, 2025 negative
Apr 28, 2025 bearish
Apr 30, 2025 neutral
Graziosi: Give failing business partnerships full attentiveness for 90 days before quitting
“What I always thought about is, what if you're in a relationship, you're not sure, like, should this be over? Business or personal? And you just treat it the next 90 days like the first 90 days. You were a little more respectful. You actually did active listen…”
Apr 30, 2025
Apr 30, 2025
Apr 30, 2025 positive
Graziosi: Delegate low-rate tasks to reinvest time into high-earning core competencies
“Get somebody to do that, but replace that time immediately with the needle mover. And then as you get more and more in business, you get closer to the ring. There might be a time where Something's 300 dollars an hour, but you know you're making 3000 an hour, s…”
May 5, 2025 positive
May 5, 2025 positive
Sanchez: 1% increase in monetization yields 12% business growth
“Well, what's interesting is Y Combinator did a study, and they said for every one percent increase in each one of these, Acquisition, retention, and monetization. What amount of growth do we get from it? Well, it turns out, if you get one percent increase in n…”
May 5, 2025 negative
May 5, 2025 positive
May 5, 2025 positive
Sanchez: Raising Prices Filters Out Disloyal Bargain Hunters
“Price sensitive customers are often less loyal anyway. They'll jump ship the second a cheaper option comes along. By raising prices, you filter out basically bargain hunters and find your true fans or what we call your right fit customers.”
May 5, 2025 positive
May 5, 2025
May 5, 2025 positive
May 5, 2025 positive
Sanchez: Businesses with Higher Margins Win by Outspending Competitors on Customer Acquisition
“Moral of the story, guys, if you don't raise your prices, you won't have any margin. If you don't have any margin, you won't be able to beat your competitors, and the number one rule of business is whoever makes the most money wins because they can just pay mo…”
May 7, 2025
May 7, 2025 positive
May 7, 2025 positive
Sanchez: Running new ideas through RICE framework exposes true opportunity costs
“Every time I come up with a new idea now, I try to make myself run it through a rice model because otherwise you have too many brilliant ideas that turn out they're not so brilliant when you compare them through your opportunity cost.”
May 7, 2025
Sanchez: Leaders Must Systemize and Delegate Work or They Just Own a Job
“If you want to be a leader in a business and you don't want to hate your business and hate your life, you have to name and frame everything so that you can automate things and then eventually delegate and outsource it. Otherwise you don't have a business. You …”
May 7, 2025 positive
May 7, 2025 negative
Sanchez: Mark Cuban is wrong that teaching business online proves it fails
“His clip basically said, if they're telling you about how to do it on the internet,
It doesn't work because if it worked, they'd just go do it.
And I thought that was so funny.
Sounds great.
Except it's wrong.
Because what actually happens is when you give mor…”
May 12, 2025
May 12, 2025
May 12, 2025
Sanchez: Never hire operators who are on a losing streak
“I really never believe in hiring people when they are on a losing streak. It's like, I don't believe on betting on sports teams when they're on a losing streak. It's the same thing. They've got to break that streak and then they can come and work for you.”
May 12, 2025 positive
May 12, 2025 positive
May 19, 2025
Sanchez pitched 150 investors for her first fund before landing a check
“The first time that I raised my very first fund, I had to sell something like a 150 investors
In one-on-one meetings before I got my first big check.
That led to a business that eventually did a billion dollars in assets under management at First Trust.”
May 19, 2025 negative
Sanchez: Refusing uncompensated tasks outside your job description keeps you poor
“Some weird things happen in our culture today, where we think that if we fix things and somebody doesn't pay us for it, that's like, ugh, really? Like, I'm working at this company, and I shouldn't have to do this thing that's not my job. That's a terrible way …”
May 19, 2025 positive
May 19, 2025
May 21, 2025 neutral
May 21, 2025
May 21, 2025 positive
Sanchez: Admitting lower wealth in high-net-worth rooms attracts mentorship and support
“The only embarrassing way that you can do this is by trying to pretend you're something you're not. Because then people can see. But if you're pretty candid about the fact that, yeah, man, I'm not making as much as I want to, and I know you guys have seven fig…”
May 29, 2025 neutral
Sanchez: Her first marriage failed due to a growth mindset mismatch
“I've done a marriage wrong once before, and so I was married before, and I think the biggest problem was, one of us, I think, was more growth mindset, so like, hey, I could be wrong now, but that doesn't mean I am wrong as a human.”
May 29, 2025
May 29, 2025 positive
Hussey: Prioritizing truth over being right allows couples to evolve together
“If I instead say, I just care about finding what's true, then I can change my position on anything at any time. And there's something very powerful about that. And I think that if you can bring that to a relationship, Then you have a relationship between two p…”
Jun 2, 2025 negative
Jun 2, 2025
Codie Sanchez: High-ticket offers must combine at least two desire categories
“If you want to sell to wealthy customers, you got to ask yourself the rule of two. Does your offer hit at least two of these categories? If you're selling convenience, add exclusivity. If you're selling status, add scarcity. If you're selling privacy, add conv…”
Jun 2, 2025 positive
Sanchez: Delta charges $500–$1,000 for concierge tarmac transfers and priority boarding
“Well, actually, the really special people go to first class, and then they get Delta Concierge, which is somewhere between 500 and a thousand dollars for somebody to get them from the front of the airport, drive them around to the back, Let them load up first …”
Jun 2, 2025
Jun 2, 2025
Jun 2, 2025 neutral
Jun 2, 2025 positive
Jun 2, 2025
Sanchez: Wealthy customers will pay uncapped premiums for services saving time
“So if you think about rich people, if they have an infinite amount of money, they can buy almost anything, right? Except more time. So if you can do something that allows them to buy back their time, they will pay you for it, potentially up to a complete no ca…”
Jun 5, 2025
Sanchez: Genuine reps make business leaders resilient against confrontation and criticism
“When you have all the reps, The thing that you propose to have the reps at, you're not so scared to have the confrontation. And so some of the part about being a strong man, or I think a competent human is like, if somebody comes at me and says, or somebody co…”
Jun 5, 2025 positive
Jun 5, 2025 positive
Sanchez: Organizational alignment requires informing, understanding, agreeing, and aligning incentives
“Well, you can tell somebody that that's informing. You can then have somebody make sure they actually understand. So that's, Hey, do you understand what I said? Not, I just told you, but do you understand? And then finally it's agreement. No, I actually, I agr…”
Jun 5, 2025 positive
Jun 5, 2025
Sanchez: True friends must visibly act against their own self-interest
“One of the core
You know, components of a friend that I know that I want to travel through time with is have you ever stood up in a way that I can see somewhere, whether that's publicly or otherwise, and done something that was against your own self-interest, …”
Jun 16, 2025 bullish
Sanchez: ChatGPT replaces thousands of dollars in monthly contractor costs
“But for the cost of like a couple lattes a month with ChatGPT, I have somebody who historically I would have had to pay thousands of dollars a month in order to create visual content for me and come up with memes. And now I've got that happening with ChatGPT L…”
Jun 16, 2025 bullish
Jun 16, 2025 neutral
Sanchez: AI cannot be a friend and should strictly be treated as a tool
“AI cannot be your friend. Why? Because it can't have your same life experience. A friend is somebody who can sit there with you, who can travel through time with you, Who understands what it's like being human, who understands your perspective, and will Tell y…”
Jun 16, 2025 positive
Jun 16, 2025 positive
Jun 16, 2025 bullish
Jun 16, 2025
Sanchez: Market viability requires three C's—cash, curiosity, and a crowd
“At our company, we have something called the three C's which is how we determine If a market is useful to go into and will make money, the market has to have cash, curiosity, and a crowd. And if we have those three things, then we think it's a market worth goi…”
Jun 16, 2025 bullish
Sanchez: Perplexity completely replaced her paid Yahoo Finance subscription
“One thing that Perplexity just added, which is super cool, is they've created their own Yahoo Finance inside of Perplexity, where you can download all the data, and it has completely replaced what I used to pay money for on my Yahoo Finance subscription.”
Jun 19, 2025 bullish
Sanchez: AI will create billion-dollar one-person companies within five years
“I think people will become billionaires this year, next year, the next five years as one person companies from AI. I think there will be billion dollar one person companies created from AI, from what I have seen firsthand.”
Jun 23, 2025 bullish
Jun 23, 2025 positive
Jun 23, 2025
Jun 23, 2025 negative
Jun 23, 2025
Jun 23, 2025
Sanchez: Adverse regulatory shifts killed four of her past businesses
“I had a business in Argentina, business folded. I had a business in money markets. Change one regulation made the company unprofitable. I had a business in Brazil. The 51% owner, because you have to have that locally there, took over the small business through…”
Jun 23, 2025 bearish
Jun 23, 2025
Sanchez: A CEO's sole essential responsibility is ensuring corporate survival
“A lot of people don't realize that your only job as a CEO is this, that you have one job as a CEO, and this is what I tell all my teams. I am here to protect our ability to persevere. I'm here to make sure we survive. That's it. Everything else doesn't matter”
Jun 27, 2025 negative
Sanchez: Business owners should never settle frivolous or litigious lawsuits
“If you're pretty serious in business, there's a great reason to, like, never settle a case if somebody comes after you, and you think that it's ridiculous, and they're just trying to be litigious. It's like, no, no, I will go and spend much more than it would …”
Jun 27, 2025
Sanchez: Higher competence earns professionals the right to break workplace norms
“The more you're a pro, the more you get to draw that line. So if you feel like you can't be authentically yourself to come to a job yet, and that is somehow important to you, that you can wear whatever you want, do whatever you want, get better. Because the be…”
Jun 27, 2025 negative
Poumpouras: Prioritizing personal dress over company culture isolates you from career opportunities
“When you do that, you make it about yourself. So what you're also saying is, I'm not a team player. I just care about me, and I dress for me, and I do me, and whoever likes me. And again, you can do that, but you will be isolating yourself from opportunities a…”
Jun 30, 2025
Sanchez details her exact weekly, monthly, and annual meeting cadence
“I have weekly check-ins with the team. Those weekly check-ins take about two hours per week. Then I've got monthly reviews. That's where we look at, how are we doing on those quarterly goals? And we just pull it up every single time. Then we've got quarterly s…”
Jun 30, 2025 bearish
Jun 30, 2025 bullish
Jun 30, 2025
Sanchez: Business systems must start with high-level vision, not granular processes
“They do what I call start small and then lose all. It's like saying, I want to build the Sistine Chapel. And then you go, the first thing I'm going to do is pick out which candles I want inside of the building. Way too tiny. If you did that, And reverse engine…”
Jun 30, 2025 positive
Sanchez uses media content to source deal flow and institutional investors
“We have, ah, Contrarian Thinking Capital, our venture capital firm, where we let some large institutional investors come in and invest alongside us. So from the content, I get deal flow. I get investors, and I get to fulfill our mission. That's our flywheel.”
Jul 7, 2025
Jul 7, 2025
Jul 7, 2025 positive
Jul 7, 2025 positive
Jul 7, 2025 positive
Jul 9, 2025 negative
Gary Vee: Financially supporting adult children signals they are losers
“Because parents don't realize if you're paying for your kid when they're a grown adult, you're telling your kid you don't believe in them. Through your actions, not your words. They know they're a loser. Yeah. That shit hurts. You know?”
Jul 14, 2025 positive
Jul 14, 2025
Jul 14, 2025 positive
Jul 16, 2025
Jul 16, 2025
Sanchez: Worked out early cannabis investment to cut $12M loss to $1M
“I invested in the industry that really needed regulation to happen, and if deregulation didn't happen, it wasn't going to really change, and so I remember like one deal, we almost lost twelve million, and then it got down to one, you know, and we did a workout…”
Jul 28, 2025 positive
Jul 28, 2025 positive
Sanchez: Media brand reached 10M followers and 120M monthly impressions
“And brand is really what led us to be able to go from zero followers online to a hundred and twenty million monthly impressions, to ten million followers, to having a really big company, and eventually taking all of our attention that we got and funneling it t…”
Jul 28, 2025 bullish
Jul 28, 2025
Sanchez: Generic CTAs are ignored compared to value-exchange prompts
“A lot of times people across platforms, so whether it's a video or it's a newsletter, they'll say things like, subscribe now, join now, sign up. Well, we've heard that so many times that we almost don't hear it anymore. You know what I mean? You go to a site, …”
Jul 28, 2025 positive
Aug 7, 2025 neutral
Sanchez: Small Businesses Typically Trade for 2x to 3x Profits
“Typically, you know, as you know, if you go and look at biz by sell or some of the biggest sites out there for buying and selling businesses, businesses trade for two, To three X the profits of the business. And so on average, we're dealing with two to three X…”
Aug 7, 2025 neutral
Aug 7, 2025
Shift Conversations to the Future Tense to Neutralize Resentment
“One of the most powerful things you can do to make a conversation more productive, especially when there's been resentment and hurt in the past. Just focus on the grammatical tense of the conversation. Pain, resentment, frustration, judgment, all of that exist…”
Aug 12, 2025
Sanchez: Scaling businesses transition from sole generalists to hyper-targeted specialists
“First when you start a business, content or otherwise you are everything, right? You are the generalist. You're the janitor, you're the CEO, you're the poster, you're the editor, you're all of it. Then the second level you hire generalists. So the VA is respon…”
Aug 12, 2025 negative
Sanchez: Standalone online courses fail without built-in peer accountability
“I don't believe really in straight courses because I don't think that that is a great way to learn. I think you need to be around a group of other people all the time that are keeping you accountable one way or the other.”
Aug 12, 2025 positive
Aug 12, 2025 negative
Sanchez: Single-platform focus advice relies on survivorship bias
“And so I think anybody that's telling you that actually doesn't realize that they have survivorship bias. They went on one thing and it worked, which is actually an anomaly, not normal. And simultaneously, they don't actually understand portfolio theory and th…”
Aug 12, 2025 neutral
Aug 12, 2025 negative
Sanchez: Complaining about gender online makes creators targets for trolls
“So if you're like, it's hard being a woman, nobody wants to give me respect as much as they do men, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You make yourself a victim. Then you get treated like one. If you act like prey, you get preyed upon.”
Aug 12, 2025 negative
Aug 12, 2025
Aug 18, 2025
Aug 18, 2025 negative
Aug 18, 2025
Sanchez: Only two questions matter in business acquisition due diligence
“The only thing that really matters in due diligence is two things if you're buying a company. Are the numbers real? Because we buy, we don't buy hopes and dreams. We buy realities and cashflow. And two does it seem like the numbers that they gave me will conti…”
Aug 18, 2025 positive
Sanchez: Wealthier friends directly increase your likelihood of making money
“You are also more likely to make more money if your friend group has more money, and it doesn't mean we should leave people behind that, that aren't our aspiration. I'm not saying that. Bring them with you, but get a couple rich bitches in your group because i…”
Aug 18, 2025
Sanchez: Building a 10x business is easier than a lifestyle business
“I think that 10 X is often easier than two X. That actually, if you try to build a really big business, you are gonna bumble fuck your way at least into a lifestyle business. But if all you try to do is build a lifestyle business, you're gonna end up building …”
Aug 18, 2025
Sanchez: Earning through dealmaking beats penny-pinching your way to wealth
“You can only save your way to zero. There is a bottom on it, and you gotta eat, and you gotta look cute, like you guys all do, and you gotta, like, go out and enjoy life, and so I don't like the obsessive focus on savings culture, because I actually think it's…”
Aug 18, 2025 negative
Aug 18, 2025
Aug 18, 2025
Aug 18, 2025
Sanchez enforces three strict governance rules on every acquisition deal
“Whenever I do a deal, I make sure three things are true. One, that there is no personal relation between the people on the cap table, the bank, and the accounting firm from my founders. We gotta make, it turned out he had like, 47 cousins, they were all involv…”
Aug 28, 2025
Sanchez: Placed vending machines in multiple locations without paying rent
“Like we did this whole experiment with vending machines where we put vending machines in a bunch of different locations. And then we did videos about them and shared the numbers. And everybody was like, you left out the rent. I'm like, I didn't pay rent.”
Aug 28, 2025 negative
Aug 28, 2025 positive
Aug 28, 2025 positive
Sanchez: 95% of Small Business Owners Will Reveal Revenue If Asked
“I would say it's like, 95% of the time they tell you. And why? Because they're proud of it. You know, like, if you're, if you've ever ran a business, and you know what it feels like to actually get somebody to pay you for your service, how hard it is. You want…”
Sep 15, 2025 positive
Sep 15, 2025 neutral
Sanchez: If Even Ray Dalio Gets Hated Online, Anyone Will
“He's a billionaire multiple times over. He runs something called Bridgewater Capital, and people still think he's a fake. So like, if that's gonna happen to him, it's gonna happen to all of us, which I think gave me some chill on like, all right, like people j…”
Sep 15, 2025 bearish
Sep 15, 2025
Sanchez: Creators should treat every piece of content as their life resume
“Like what you are doing is building a Rolodex of pieces of content that are your life resume. And so let's make sure that it's really good and that what we do is so interesting that when somebody else sees it they wanna steal even the napkin that we left behin…”
Sep 15, 2025 negative
Sep 15, 2025 bearish
Sep 15, 2025 bullish
Sep 15, 2025 positive
Sep 15, 2025 positive
Sep 15, 2025 negative
Payment processor shutdown destroyed one of Sanchez's $2M portfolio companies
“This week one of my companies, a payment processor, shut them down, and they took 200,000 dollars in recurring monthly income from them and won't give them back their users. So that just killed a business of like two million dollars a year in revenue, and we c…”
Sep 15, 2025
Sep 15, 2025 bearish
Sanchez says creators must acquire business equity to survive AI disruption
“If you're a creator today and you're not thinking about acquiring businesses and how to get equity and what's called distributing equity, where they keep paying you over time, you're making a huge mistake. If you are only living off of AdSense and you are only…”
Sep 15, 2025
Sanchez: Main Street holds cash-flowing businesses; Contrarian Thinking invests in tech
“Now we have main street holding company, which is where we hold our boring businesses, like the ones we own a big portion of. And then we have contrarian thinking capital, which is our venture capital fund, where we invest in small businesses. But those are te…”
Sep 15, 2025 positive
Sep 15, 2025 neutral
Sep 15, 2025 positive
Sanchez uses physical photographed checklists for team SOPs
“The best idea SOPs ideally you take a screenshot or you take a picture of it and everybody signs off what they did. And this sounds kind of annoying and over the top, but I learned it from boring businesses because that's what you have to do with technicians.”
Sep 15, 2025
Sep 15, 2025 positive
Sanchez: Business Media Requires On-Site Proof and Showing Ugly Realities
“We try to do what we call show don't tell. So oftentimes we're on the site with a small business owner. And they're showing us, like, how did we build this? Can I see the truck? How much did it cost? Can I see the return for that? Can we look at the spreadshee…”
Sep 15, 2025
Operator mismanagement left Sanchez's Contrarian Thinking four weeks from insolvency
“Actually, contrarian thinking at one point, I put somebody in charge of the business. And, you know, my fault, I thought they were a really good operator. I was actually running the holding company and talent, which felt like a lot at the time. And my fault, I…”
Sep 18, 2025 negative
Sep 24, 2025 positive
Sep 29, 2025
Sep 29, 2025 neutral
Sep 29, 2025
Sep 29, 2025 negative
Sep 29, 2025 neutral
Sep 29, 2025
Sep 29, 2025
Sanchez: Framing Workplace Criticism with Intellectual Labels Makes It Harder to Challenge
“I believe that what's happening right now is a lack of urgency bias. What you're really saying is, I think you guys are slow, like really slow. But because we frame it in this fancier way, it's harder to push back on.”
Oct 7, 2025 positive
Oct 7, 2025 negative
Oct 7, 2025 positive
Sanchez: Distressed businesses are almost always fixable if leaders act fast
“And what I've found in investing in hundreds of businesses now, it's almost always fixable to your point. Almost always. But the reason it won't be is because you don't move fast enough. You don't have people who have been there before around you, and you don'…”
Oct 7, 2025 negative
Sanchez: Businesses Lose Deals by Underpricing Because Buyers Distrust Cheap Quality
“So not only do I think we don't sell enough, I think we price ourselves out of deals all the time, because we're the cheapest, you know. Because we're like, oh, no, no, no, I want to over serve the customer. No, you lost my business because I don't trust that …”
Oct 9, 2025 neutral
Sanchez: Entrepreneurs Neglect Workouts Due to Unclear Direct ROI
“We've habit stacked for so long. Our number one priority as being business related or money related that, you know, we just have to rewire our system to say, no, no, no, this actually makes me money here, but it's very hard to see the direct line correlation b…”
Oct 22, 2025
Oct 22, 2025
Nov 3, 2025 neutral
Nov 3, 2025
Nov 3, 2025 neutral
Sanchez paid a $1 million buyout to remove an inactive business partner
“At one point I had a partner who wanted to stop working. But wanted to keep part of my main company. The only way that I could get him to stop is I had to pay him a million dollars. I had to go through lawsuits and back and forth and gnarly letters until final…”
Nov 3, 2025
Nov 3, 2025 positive
Nov 3, 2025
Nov 3, 2025
Nov 3, 2025
Sanchez: Delivering difficult feedback directly earns more respect than backchanneling
“When you have something hard to say, say it to somebody's face, no matter what, you will have more respect For not going around somebody else's back, and instead having the cojones, as we would say in Spanish, to say it straight up.”
Nov 3, 2025
Sanchez: Business success does not require extreme ascetic deprivation or bankruptcy
“I think they lie to you guys when they say that you have to live on your couch in order to have success. I do not think you have to do that. I think you have to do very hard things, but I don't think you have to go to the point of bankruptcy and breaking and a…”
Nov 3, 2025
Nov 5, 2025
Nov 5, 2025 negative
Sanchez: Building With Founders Yields a Better Network Than Business School
“I mean, we always say the best business school is being in business. Like I find business school to be kind of a funny misnomer. I think it's maybe okay for the network, but actually I think a better network would probably be building things with other builder…”
Nov 12, 2025 positive
Nov 26, 2025
Dec 4, 2025 positive
Sanchez: Achieving major goals requires enduring high volumes of failure
“If you want to get rich, go talk to a hundred customers that tell you no to get one. And if you want to buy a business, go look at a hundred deals to find one. Like every answer is basically quantity and more. And if you don't pile on more pain and failure, yo…”
Dec 4, 2025 neutral
Dec 4, 2025
Manson: People develop progressive desensitization to fear and financial stakes over time
“But it's, I mean, it's like anything though, right? Like, I mean, it's, you, you've, you climb that ladder with money too, right? Like, it's like the first time you have a five figure deal, you're sweating bullets. You know, now it's like, You don't even, prob…”
Dec 4, 2025 negative
Sanchez: Every hire who badmouthed a past employer failed
“I always say if, like, the person you were gonna hire, if you ask them, like, tell me what happened in your last job. Like, why did you leave? Why did you choose to move on? If they start going negative, the company was terrible, the boss was awful, everything…”
Dec 4, 2025 negative
Sanchez: EQ increases salary 20-30% while IQ has zero correlation to wealth
“I was reading a study the other day about how there's something like a, like, 20 to 30% increase in salary just from thinking about increasing your EQ and really ignoring IQ, that IQ almost has no correlation between monetary success.”
Dec 10, 2025 positive
Codie Sanchez: Ultra-Wealthy Individuals Execute Faster and Waste Less Time
“I think the richer you are, the faster you move on average. And the one thing I've always found with knowing as many billionaires as we've gotten to know over the years is like, they're just faster than anybody imagines. I think a lot of times people think the…”
Dec 10, 2025 neutral
Dec 15, 2025
Dec 15, 2025 negative
Dec 15, 2025 bearish
Dec 15, 2025 bearish
Dec 15, 2025 negative
Dec 15, 2025
Dec 22, 2025 positive
Sanchez: Munich study finds simple language makes speakers appear smarter and trustworthy
“So a study from the University of Munich found something really fascinating. When speakers use simple language, listeners rate them as smarter, more competent, more trustworthy. But when speakers use complicated or overly technical language, listeners assume t…”
Dec 22, 2025
Dec 22, 2025
Dec 22, 2025
Dec 22, 2025
Dec 22, 2025 positive
Dec 22, 2025
Dec 22, 2025
Dec 30, 2025 negative
Dec 30, 2025 neutral
Dec 30, 2025 positive
Dec 30, 2025
Sanchez: Top achievers set binary, qualitative goals rather than incremental targets
“Pattern two, their goals are binary, not incremental. So, make life multi-planetary. Dominate microprocessors. Become the most customer-obsessed company on Earth. Become a mom. Find a husband. Grow your business. Binary goals. They are qualitative in some ways…”
Dec 30, 2025
Dec 30, 2025
Dec 30, 2025
Jan 7, 2026 negative
Jan 7, 2026 negative
Jan 14, 2026 positive
Jan 14, 2026
Jan 14, 2026 negative
Sanchez: Slow walkers are rarely successful at her companies
“Part of my screening process for hiring is actually, yeah, I love taking them to coffee. I love, yeah, I love, you'll see all of our offices are glass, so I watch how they walk in, how they walk out because it really is a sign of, I haven't met a lot of people…”
Jan 20, 2026 negative
Sanchez Bans Executives From Emotional Cussing at Her Companies
“Executives at my companies, they don't cuss emotionally. So if you need to take a minute and stand outside until you can emotionally re-regulate, that's perfectly fine, and come back in. But we don't do angry cussing at the executive level.”
Jan 20, 2026
Sanchez: 90 Percent of Insults Are Actually Just Self-Disclosures
“Projection theory shows people attribute their own traits and insecurities to others, right? This is from a famous study by this guy by the name of Newman, I believe, back in like the nineties. 90% of insults are just self-disclosures.”
Jan 20, 2026 positive
CEOs Must Resolve Conflicts by Negotiating Forward, Not Backward
“This is key if you want to be a CEO in business. You need to negotiate forward, not backward. Instead of replaying the old scene for the 12th time, you can say, next time this happens, what do you need from me? Here's what I need from you.”
Jan 20, 2026
Jan 22, 2026
Bernstein: People lacking confidence should lower goals to match belief
“This isn't going to be something that you want to hear because it's a little off brand, but I would say change the goals because we don't want to be reaching for things that we don't believe in. If we have a goal that feels out of alignment with what we believ…”
Jan 22, 2026 positive
Jan 22, 2026
Codie Sanchez sets annual business goals using one-word thematic frameworks
“Every year when I do goals, I name the year, just like one word. So last year was flow, the year before that was my full send year, that was like the year I did the book launch and everything, and so I was like, I know this is going to be a lot of work, but li…”
Jan 22, 2026 neutral
Bernstein: Personal healing forces a partner to either do the work or separate
“In your self led energetic state, your partner has two choices. They can rise up to the occasion and get to work on their own, or they can stay stuck in their parts. And that's when a relationship choice is made. You know, is this, are we gonna grow together o…”
Jan 27, 2026
Jan 27, 2026 positive
Jan 27, 2026
Sanchez: Professionals are paid for invisible practice, not public performances.
“You don't get paid
To play the game, you get paid to practice.
The game is the highlight, the stage, the awards, the applause.
That is not what the money is for.
The money is for the boring, invisible, humiliating work that happens long before anyone claps.”
Jan 27, 2026
Jan 27, 2026
Jan 28, 2026 positive
Feb 3, 2026 negative
Feb 3, 2026
Feb 3, 2026
Feb 3, 2026
Sanchez: Burnout Stems From Identity Suppression Rather Than Overwork
“Burnout is not you're overworked. Plenty of people work hard without burning out. So what's the difference? Why can this person work forever, and that person hates their life at the same job? Well, it happens when you live too long against your nature. You sup…”
Feb 3, 2026
Sanchez: Over-Rewarded Competence Leaves High Performers Vulnerable to Burnout
“If you are a high performer, Like I consider myself to be, you actually have a higher likelihood of this happening to you because society over rewards competence. So we're really good at ignoring internal signs. Your persona is highly reinforced.”
Feb 5, 2026 bearish
Feb 5, 2026
Sanchez: Lacking a prenup in first marriage caused major financial losses
“You know, I'm divorced previously and then happily remarried. But it was awful. I mean, when I, it was awful. It was probably one of the hardest things I've ever been through. And I lost a ton of money and time and pain and sorrow and whatever, because we didn…”
Feb 5, 2026 positive
Vivian Tu: Couples Should Split Expenses Equitably Rather Than 50/50
“I think every couple should split things in an equitable fashion. That can be proportional. Doesn't have to be. That can be, oh, one partner just says, I'm gonna cover it all because you make so much less than me that I want you to save and invest your money.”
Feb 5, 2026 negative
Feb 5, 2026 positive
Feb 12, 2026 neutral
Sanchez restricts investing strictly to her business, mutual funds, and private equity
“I literally only have three investments I worry about. That's it. My business, mutual funds, and equity and private businesses. I don't do single stocks. I don't mess around with gold. I don't try to speculate on Bitcoin”
Feb 12, 2026 negative
Feb 12, 2026
Feb 12, 2026 bearish
Feb 13, 2026 neutral
Feb 19, 2026 negative
Feb 19, 2026 negative
Feb 19, 2026
Feb 19, 2026 negative
Senra: Marriages of the Greatest Entrepreneurs Are Typically Terrible
“Terrible. They're terrible. I mean, there's very few people because you tend to be obsessed. Like I also think like it's important to note. So the people that appear on founders podcasts, right? They were so good at their jobs that somebody wrote a book about …”
Feb 24, 2026
Feb 24, 2026
Feb 24, 2026 negative
Feb 24, 2026
Sanchez: Modesty reduces perceived capability while self-promotion boosts hiring recommendations
“Self-promotion increased ratings of competence, intelligence, and recommendations for hiring. Slight decrease in likability if too strong, but not that much. Ingratiation and modesty increased likability, but actually didn't increase competence, reduced percei…”
Feb 24, 2026
Feb 24, 2026
Feb 27, 2026 negative
Sanchez: Passed on early Robinhood investment over gamification concerns
“I remember back in the day, I had a chance to invest in Robinhood when it was, like, super, super early on, and I'm an idiot, and I didn't, but the reason why I didn't, I actually kind of stand by, which is that I really don't think you should gamify Stock mar…”
Mar 4, 2026 neutral
Sanchez: Contrarian Thinking opened 'vibe coder' roles across all company departments
“We did this job posting, Bill, and I was like, we're hiring You know, we're hiring sort of vibe coders. We're hiring them in every single department. We're hiring engineers as well, but we already have engineers that we've been hiring. I've never hired this pe…”
Mar 6, 2026 negative
Mar 6, 2026 positive
Mar 12, 2026 positive
Mar 18, 2026 bullish
Sanchez: Best Moment Ever to Build AI-First Businesses Against Slow Incumbents
“I don't think there's ever been a better moment to build an AI first business and eat every existing market's lunch because the incumbents are too busy putting out fires, sitting in meetings, slapping AI first on their pitch decks instead of actually building …”
Mar 18, 2026 positive
Mar 18, 2026 negative
Sanchez: Relying on AI as the Decider Will Create Cognitive Dependence
“If you can actually harness the power of AI to increase the speed, scope, and depth of your work, you're going to be just fine. But if you use it, not as an editor, but as the doer in everything and the decider, then I think we're going to be like idiocracy wi…”
Mar 18, 2026 positive
Mar 23, 2026
Mar 23, 2026
Conversational impact requires leading with conclusions rather than chronological storytelling
“In conversation, this means starting with the conclusion, then walking backwards through the evidence. And your brain It actually resists doing this in storytelling because our brains are made to chronologically order the events. That feels natural, but natura…”
Mar 23, 2026
Mar 26, 2026
Mar 31, 2026 positive
Mar 31, 2026 positive
Mar 31, 2026
Mar 31, 2026 positive
Mar 31, 2026 positive
Sanchez: A CEO's role is communication, buy-in, and cross-disciplinary problem solving
“If you want to figure out what the job of a CEO is, it's communicate well, get other people to buy into your dream, and understand how to solve complex problems using a series of unrelated disciplines or networks.”
Mar 31, 2026
Codie Sanchez: Fast thinking is a myth driven by structured frameworks
“Fast thinking or being quick on your feet is actually a myth. So I think what you're really seeing is fast structuring. So all the research that we've been doing shows the best communicators aren't improvising. They're slotting ideas into frameworks they use h…”
Mar 31, 2026
Sanchez attended a private meeting vetting US governors for presidential runs
“I sat in a room where these couple of guys literally brought in governors from different states, sat the governors down, listened to the governors get peppered with questions, And then in the end, they circled around. I don't know why they let me in here, you …”
Mar 31, 2026 negative
Mar 31, 2026 positive
Sanchez: Build a mental swipe file of five rehearsed core stories
“Well, what if you have a swipe file in your head? Like, build, like, five go-to stories that your husband or your wife is going to fucking hate by the end of this, because they're going to hear it so many times, but it's going to get laughs. This is your go-to…”
Apr 9, 2026
Apr 14, 2026 bullish
Apr 14, 2026 positive
Apr 14, 2026 bearish
Apr 14, 2026 positive
Apr 14, 2026
Sanchez: Sales succeeds by finding people already predisposed to buy
“You never, Sell anybody anything. You only find people who are predisposed to already want what you're selling. And if somebody hasn't already done the action you want them to do, don't ever assume they're going to do that action. The best predictor of future …”
Apr 14, 2026 positive
Apr 14, 2026
Apr 14, 2026
Sanchez: Starting her businesses 15 years earlier would have cost her millions
“Like, I think a lot about how much less money I would have made if I had started 15 years earlier. Which is like not very popular to say. Like, I talk so much shit about old bosses and old companies, but the truth of the matter is, I learned so much on somebod…”
Apr 14, 2026 negative
Apr 16, 2026
Apr 16, 2026 positive
Apr 21, 2026 bullish
Apr 21, 2026 bearish
Apr 21, 2026 positive
Apr 24, 2026 negative
Apr 24, 2026 negative
Apr 24, 2026
Apr 24, 2026
Sanchez advises charging for unbuilt products to validate actual market demand
“Let's spin this up in 24 hours and see if anyone bites.
If they do, we'll build it, which basically means we don't have a product.
We're not ready, actually, to launch this, but I want to spin it up, see if we can get credit cards, and if we can't, we're gonna…”
Apr 24, 2026 positive
Apr 24, 2026
Sanchez: Overwhelm VIPs with lightning-fast meeting follow-ups
“I have a rule.
It's called the 24 hour rule.
And now I think it's even a shorter rule.
Might be the two hour rule now.
But the rule is when you meet with somebody that you want something from, you should
Overwhelm them with the speed at which you respond back …”
Apr 24, 2026 positive
Apr 24, 2026
Apr 29, 2026
Apr 29, 2026
Apr 29, 2026
May 7, 2026
Sanchez: Changing roles fails to solve burnout without learning delegation
“You can change your location and even change your title, but if you are a people pleaser and you stay well, and if you don't know how to delegate and you never figure it out, it's really problematic because you can, you build like this, like constraint that is…”
May 7, 2026 negative
May 7, 2026 neutral
May 7, 2026 negative
Sanchez: Harvard and Google credentials have almost zero correlation with job fit
“Resumes and history has so little correlation to good and a fit. There's almost no correlation. And it used to be that if you worked at some of these big companies, you're like, There's a pretty high indicator that you might continue to have like a certain out…”
May 7, 2026 positive
Sanchez: Applicants must complete unpaid audition projects to prove authentic interest
“Now we make everybody do a creative project, and I don't like to pay people for it, not because of the expense. I don't like to pay people because I want to know how they feel about Doing work with us. Are they really interested? Or are they merely kind of cur…”
May 13, 2026 negative
Sanchez: Founders complaining about startup misery were already unhappy people
“I think a lot of entrepreneurs were unhappy when they started companies, and so now when they're famous or all over the internet, they're unhappy now, and they were unhappy then, and so now there's a lot of people that talk about how miserable it has to be to …”
May 21, 2026 positive
May 21, 2026 neutral
May 25, 2026
May 25, 2026
May 25, 2026 positive
May 25, 2026 negative
May 25, 2026
May 25, 2026 neutral
2019 fMRI study found reduced prefrontal activity in chronic procrastinators
“So in 2019, researchers ran an fMRI study that scans the brains of high procrastinators while they worked through really high pressure tasks. And they found measurably reduced activity in two regions. The anterior cingulate cortex, which handles error monitori…”
May 25, 2026 neutral
May 25, 2026
May 27, 2026 positive
May 27, 2026 bearish
Codie Sanchez: Trading Cards Are a Terrible Investment for Everyday People
“I think this is a terrible investment strategy, and I think anybody who buys, you know, it's okay for the super rich people to buy like a seven million dollar card or whatever. They don't fucking care. It's like one millionth of their, you know, net worth. But…”
Jun 3, 2026 neutral
Sanchez: Dave Ramsey's company fires employees after two gossip offenses
“Dave Ramsey's company when I went and went to his headquarters, and I have a lot of respect for Dave in many ways, is they have a no gossip policy. It's really aggressive at their company. And if you're, if you know, you do it, and another team member hears yo…”
Jun 8, 2026
Jun 8, 2026
Jun 8, 2026 positive
Sanchez: Framing risk and reputation forces price to compete against consequence
“In sales, everyone fights over this. It's called the price anchor. But the real anchor gets set earlier when you frame the problem. This is called priming. So, let the buyer decide the conversation is about, this is expensive, and you'll spend the rest of it d…”
Jun 8, 2026
Jun 8, 2026
Jun 8, 2026
Jun 8, 2026 neutral
Jun 8, 2026 neutral
Sanchez: Wealthy clients view new vendors as reputational risk
“Risk is the hidden one, and it's the one most salespeople completely miss. Successful people are surrounded by other people pitching them, advising them, managing their money, asking for more money. And so every time they say yes, it's exposure. So every new v…”
Jun 8, 2026 negative
Jun 8, 2026
Sanchez: Offer named concessions, not arbitrary price cuts, to optimizer buyers
“If you've got an optimizer on your hands, give yourself room to move, but you're never going to slash the price like you're clearing mattresses on a holiday weekend. We're not going to do that. You're going to give the concession a name and a reason.”
Jun 8, 2026
Sanchez: Closing one wealthy client leads to 5 to 10 client referrals
“When you sell to rich people, the prize was never their money. The prize is their trust. Money follows trust. Referrals follow trust. The next five clients follow trust. So that rich client you close, that doesn't stay one client. They become five or 10 becaus…”
Jun 8, 2026
Jun 8, 2026 negative
Jun 8, 2026
Jun 8, 2026
Jun 15, 2026 neutral
Sanchez: Vending machines teach entrepreneurship well but fail at scale
“I like vending machines to learn how to do business. It's cheap. There's not a lot of risk. You have an entire business and company with very little capex. It's sort of a great, but it's a terrible business at scale. Actually, really tough business.”
Jun 15, 2026 negative
Sanchez: Inexperienced operators trying to innovate without data is pure ego
“I think there's some ego and I see it a lot in our leadership teams where they want to figure out an innovative way to do it. And I'm like, why would you have no context. You haven't wanted this before. You haven't done it before. So why would you With no data…”
Jun 17, 2026 positive
Jun 17, 2026 neutral
Sanchez: 90% of day-one employees left as companies tripled annually
“We found in our companies, we about triple every year. And that's crazy, by the way. Well, we've only been in business for like, you know, four years, but I think that originally used to freak me out. And I'd be like, my people who are here from my first day, …”
Jun 17, 2026
Sanchez: Military veterans and former bankers handle startup workloads better than freelancers
“So, you know, if they were a Green Beret or a nuclear sub operator or, you know, investment banking or, you know, worked at McKinsey on their acquisitions team, I just know they're going to be able to handle a lot. And if they've really only worked in corporat…”
Jun 17, 2026
Sanchez: Extreme operational focus requires willingness to kill social niceties
“And I think that relentless focus on the thing that matters instead of the thing that's right in front of you is really, really hard and rare. And maybe it's not as hard as we think it is. It's just, you have to be willing to kill social, social niceties to fo…”
Jun 24, 2026 bullish
Jun 24, 2026 negative
Sanchez: Highly successful people share no common daily routines or morning habits
“The most successful people I know have nothing in fucking common about how they run their days. Like, Almost nothing. Some of them drink a lot, some of them drink zero, some of them get up early, some of them stay up late, like, almost no similarities. But the…”
Jun 24, 2026 positive
Jun 24, 2026
Jun 24, 2026 positive
Sanchez: Exclusivity, timeliness, scarcity, and relevance drive all buying decisions
“The only reason anybody, anybody buys anything is exclusivity, timeliness, scarcity relevance. And he's like, if you can figure out a way to wrap all four of those around whatever you do, you'll be able to sell more and more frequently and with less struggle.”
Jun 30, 2026 positive
Jun 30, 2026
Jun 30, 2026 negative
Jun 30, 2026 negative
Jun 30, 2026 negative
Jun 30, 2026
Jun 30, 2026
Jun 30, 2026 bearish
Jun 30, 2026
Jun 30, 2026 negative
Jun 30, 2026
Jul 2, 2026 negative
Jul 2, 2026
Codie Sanchez: Mimetic desire leads people to build unfulfilling lives
“I think most of us fall into mimetic desire, right? And so we just, we become an amalgamation of all the things around us, like a mirror and a hall of mirrors. And so then you end up having this life that you didn't architect, you don't actually want, turns ou…”
Jul 6, 2026 positive
Jul 6, 2026
Sanchez: Five management layers filter out forty percent of company truth
“The truth that you actually get is the truth times how honest people are with you times how many layers you have in the company. And so each layer passes along, I don't know, let's say, 90% hard truth. That sounds fine. But 90% across five layers is .59%. But …”
Jul 6, 2026 positive
Jul 6, 2026 neutral
Codie Sanchez: Relationship capital equals value deposited minus favors requested
“The value that you deposit minus the favor you withdraw equals how much relationship capital you have. The truth is most people go negative on the very first call, and then they wonder why nobody picks up the second time.”
Jul 6, 2026 positive
Sanchez: Loyalty is earned by crisis support without immediate asks
“But the thing is, powerful people never ever forget who showed up while it was on fire. Like, everyone can clap at a win. A loss is the only thing that tells you who's real. So I like to think about it like the times you showed up when it was burning minus the…”
Jul 6, 2026 negative
Jul 13, 2026 negative
Jul 13, 2026 negative
Jul 15, 2026 positive
Sanchez: ChatGPT outperforms Claude on short-prompt image creation
“ChatGPT does a really good job of very short, prompted image creation. I still find even with Claude Design has a design. That looks like Claude. And you have to beat that design out of it still. I'm sure that'll be gone at some point. But chat actually does n…”
Jul 15, 2026 bullish
Sanchez uses real-time AI objection coaching to level up sales reps
“We take all the data from Avoma and actually feed it into something that in real time can give you feedback on these objections. And it sort of voice triggers based on what you say on the phone call. It's been a game changer, especially for, we had an underper…”
Jul 15, 2026
Jul 22, 2026 positive
Jul 22, 2026 negative
Jul 22, 2026 neutral
Jul 28, 2026
Jul 28, 2026
Jul 28, 2026
Jul 28, 2026
Sanchez: Employees Must Attempt Direct Peer Resolution Before Escalating Conflicts
“If you guys talk to each other and you can't work it out and you are doing it direct, then you can bring it to me. But if you are not even having a conversation, I don't want to hear about it because all you're teaching me is that you're not good enough or str…”
Jul 28, 2026
Jul 28, 2026
Jul 28, 2026
Jul 29, 2026 positive
Aug 3, 2026 positive
Sanchez: Strategic silence separates professional speakers from amateurs
“It's one of the biggest differences between amateurs and pro. Amateurs are rushy. They're like afraid of silence. They fill all the words, so you know, I guess. If you want to be a great speaker, silence is not empty. Remember, silence is like tension. It's se…”
Aug 3, 2026 positive
Aug 3, 2026 positive
Aug 3, 2026
Aug 3, 2026 negative
Aug 3, 2026
Aug 3, 2026
Aug 11, 2026 neutral
Sanchez: Businesses Drift Toward Failure Quietly Rather Than Crashing Suddenly
“I think businesses drift towards death quietly. They never run right into a wall on them. You always are kind of like moving your way towards it, but ignoring all the signs. And this checkpoint actually catches it early.”
Aug 11, 2026 positive
Sanchez: 1989 Research Shows Prospective Hindsight Improves Cause Identification by 30%
“So in like, 1989 researchers found that perspective hindsight Assuming an event has already happened and explaining why makes people feel about 30% better at correctly identifying the reasons for future outcomes, which is crazy.”
Aug 12, 2026
Aug 17, 2026
Aug 17, 2026
Sanchez: A CEO has only three true core responsibilities
“Your CEO, as a CEO, your real job is really three things, which is give a vision so big other people see their dream is bigger underneath you. Create systems inside of your business so that the business runs without you, and be so delusional optimistic that ot…”
Aug 17, 2026 positive
Sanchez: Buyers Acquire Autonomous Machines, Not Owner-Dependent Jobs
“The thing is, buyers don't buy jobs, they buy machines that make them money, whether you, the previous owner, shows up or not. And people don't give you more money if you are the entirety of a division or a group. If the whole operation lives in your head, the…”
Aug 17, 2026 neutral
Aug 17, 2026 negative
Aug 17, 2026
Aug 17, 2026 negative
Aug 24, 2026 positive
Sanchez: Putting in 10% extra work still creates major career opportunities
“And so the only thing I could figure out how to do was be in there earlier than everybody else and stay later than everybody else. That's literally all I had. But damn if that wasn't enough. And you know, of course one of the MDs sort of You know, saw me there…”
Aug 24, 2026
Aug 24, 2026 positive
Sanchez: Judge home service operators by the organization of their vans
“I could tell the good operators by the status of their cleaning vans. And so you open up the doors, and if it's a mess, I know that guy's not going to be on time, they're not going to hit their quota, and they're definitely never going to be in management.”
Aug 31, 2026
Sanchez rejected Branson's Necker Island invite due to mistaken hero complex
“I thought there is no way, you know, my company cannot afford to have me offline for that long. And it's still a regret of mine to this day because I thought I was being the hero and I was going to save everything. Everything was fine. I could have been gone f…”
Aug 31, 2026
Sanchez: Fixing operational problems yourself displaces highest-dollar time use
“Each time you swoop in and try to fix things yourself, especially where those problems are outside of your unique subject matter expertise, you basically remove the highest dollar use of your time for whatever seems urgent, but is really just in front of you.”
Aug 31, 2026
Aug 31, 2026
Sanchez outlines systemic fixes for decision, delivery, and direction bottlenecks
“So decisions typically need written authority. So people know exactly what they can do without you. Delivery needs SOPs, documented processes, so somebody else can run it start to finish, not you, and you don't have to be miserable all day. Direction needs a s…”
Aug 31, 2026
Sanchez: Most business owners fail from burnout, not lack of cash flow
“Because most owners don't have their business fail because of not enough cash flow or because they can't generate enough profit. It's because they give up. And this problem has nothing to do with talent. It's really that you're too tired to keep going this way…”
Aug 31, 2026
Sep 8, 2026 positive
Sep 8, 2026 negative
Sep 8, 2026 negative
Sep 10, 2026 negative
Sep 10, 2026
Sep 10, 2026 negative
Sep 10, 2026 negative
Sep 10, 2026
Sep 10, 2026
Sanchez: Price services at 10% to 30% of client value created
“First you determine how much money does your work make or save your client each year. Then I want you to take that number, plug it into this equation. I'm going to put it up on the screen, but it's basically your price equals 10 to 20% of the value you created…”
Sep 10, 2026 neutral
Sep 10, 2026
Sep 10, 2026 negative
Sanchez: Most small businesses are underpriced by 30% to 300%
“I basically went through thousands of small businesses over the last five years, and I analyzed all of their pricing. And I found that on average, most businesses are priced anywhere from 30% below or 300% below the price of what they should be selling for.”
Sep 10, 2026 positive
Sanchez: 1% price hike lifts operating profit 11% per HBR
“And there's actually a famous Harvard Business Review analysis that found that for the average company, improving price by just one percent, even if your volume, so the amount you do stays flat, is going to lift your operating profit by 11%. So raising prices …”
Sep 10, 2026 negative
Sep 10, 2026 positive