entrepreneur

“I think bad bosses are the number one reason there are great entrepreneurs, and if there are less bad bosses, there'd be less great entrepreneurs.”

“As high at the pinnacle, as high as someone is going to go, that is their point of vulnerability. That is the moment that they are going to look to eat something, look to buy something new, look to whatever, I don't know, porn, whatever it is that they are vul…”

“The majority of entrepreneurs are immigrants.”

“No, there might be like one or two that's not, but I've met one.”

“They're so objective for their businesses, which is this The external thing, but when it comes to the internal, they are so, they are not objective at all. They're quite emotional.”

“As an entrepreneur, this business that you created at this very moment, there are vultures circling around. We're going to buy your business out and crush you because that's how business works, right? It's a merciless environment.”

“Being with an entrepreneur is a nightmare. It's a nightmare. It's like you, like many of them are workaholics. They never stop. It's, they're always talking shop. They can't get their brain off the business. They're in anxious states a lot of the time because …”

“So that's why I'm so confident in saying, will we? Because if we want to, Like we have entrepreneurs who will make it so, you know, and they'll be convincingly real and they'll be pleasurable and all the rest.”

“This is why building a deck is really good for an entrepreneur, even if it's a small business, is you want to put together, here's 10 pages on who I am, what I'm doing, what the goals are, why it's going to be successful. And I think a lot of entrepreneurs say…”

“If it's low ticket and complex, stay, stay away.”

“What do you love to do so much you'll never give it up? Delegate that. Because when you can delegate your passion, you'll learn to delegate the entirety of your business.”

“So take out the military, like you guys are in your own whole other category, but entrepreneurs can suffer more pain, more loss, are willing to take risks. Yet you ask them to do a hundred pushups and they're like, I'm out.”

“Any entrepreneur, anyone interested in business or doing well in life cannot outpace their biology.”

“Just know that most entrepreneurs The reason for your success will be a bad former boss.”

“You're going to look at the spreadsheet. And you're going to say that cell doesn't work. So the spreadsheet doesn't foot, right? It doesn't work. So I'm not going to do this idea, right? Cause you're just looking at it and analyzing it. I'm like an entrepreneu…”

“A lot of the content that entrepreneurs are actually consuming or actually created by investors. And so you could have incentive alignment with them, but many cases, your incentives are misaligned and we should just think about that. And what's disturbing abou…”

“It seems to me like most of the greatest entrepreneurs, you actually would not want them as an employee.”

“You see the success in most entrepreneurs lives happen multiple decades in. Because they didn't interrupt the compounding. You had to wait for time to do most of the work, and that's why the start, scale, sell doesn't work.”

“People think entrepreneurs are obsessed with money. I would argue they're obsessed with control. And that if you're talented, and you're working on a valuable product, or a problem, and you solve the problem for other people, and you maintain control, you wind…”

“And I chuckle thinking about the fact that there are all these people on the internet who tell you can't make a ton of money as an employee. Bullshit. Bullshit. Mitt Romney makes more than like, 99.9% of entrepreneurs ever will.”

“And so the worst entrepreneurs, I think, try to ship at a hundred percent and end up shipping at 40% six months later because they never had real data to work against.”

“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 …”

“Entrepreneurs do not take risk. They do everything in their power to minimize risk.”

“One of the most powerful things an entrepreneur, a salesperson, a creator, an artist has, is a simple sentence, which is, thank you, it's not for you. It might be for somebody. You should make something for somebody, but if someone rejects you because they are…”

“And I think this is the disaster that most entrepreneurs are doing, which is like chasing all three at once and not trying to filter advice through what you want for your life as an adult with the Willpower to choose yourself. So you're like, no, I'll have fre…”

“I read the average entrepreneur makes 46 to 65,000 dollars a year.”