Sanchez: Earning through dealmaking beats penny-pinching your way to wealth
Codie Sanchez · Why Playing Small Is Keeping You Broke · Aug 18, 2025 · at 15:52
Investor Codie Sanchez speaks on stage at Create & Cultivate LA about personal finance mindsets, challenging conventional advice centered on aggressive saving.
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“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 much easier to earn than it is to save, and if you get better at becoming a dealmaker, at doing better deals, and at figuring out revenue, you will never have to focus on savings again”
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