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Sexton: Monogamy is an economic trade of freedom for companionship and sex
“I've always said in relationship, like, if you're gonna rob me of solitude, you owe me companionship. If I'm gonna trade having sex with lots of women For having sex with you regularly. Then that's the deal. Like that's the economy that we've agreed to.”
Sanchez: Working from home is a tragedy unless someone has made it
“I think it's a tragedy, actually. Unless you've made it. If you've made it, work from home, maybe.”
Do: Budweiser's progressive campaign alienated its core because it was inauthentic
“And the classic example is, I think when Budweiser tried to do something that was non-binary, it said something that was quote unquote very woke. And there was a lot of backlash for that because we know that's not them. And they're just signaling, virtue signa…”
Do: Praising children conditionally teaches them to constantly seek external approval
“Because for them to, for me to be proud, it means there's times when I'm not proud. I'm always proud. I'm proud when you exist. That's all that needs to happen. You get You get love, appreciation, and joy just because you exist in this world. I bet you're prou…”
Sanchez: Ignoring Musk's lessons because you dislike him makes you an idiot
“If you don't like him, you know, Elon talks about the idiot test, but I think the other idiot test is, if you don't like Elon Musk, you're the idiot, because there's something to learn from him, no matter what.”
Jorgenson: 99.9% of organizations err on firing employees too slowly
“And what I realized is like erring on the side of firing too quickly is actually so rare. And so we have such like an emotional reaction to it. Oh, it's unfair, but actually 99.9% of organizations on the planet are erring on the side of firing too slowly.”
Sanchez: Many VC investors lack skin in the game and operating experience
“A lot of these investors are salaried investors. They got no skin in the game, and they've never actually run anything.”
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…”
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…”
Sapp: Jeremy Miner's Confused Door-to-Door Tactic Gets Doors Slammed
“Jeremy Miner is a great guy. Love Jeremy Miner. He's awesome. He's an OG. He was actually the reason I started posting, because I was really good at sales. I was making all this money, and I wanted to learn sales, so I'm looking up, like, sales tips online on …”
Sapp: Miami's Business and Networking Scene Is Mostly Smoke and Mirrors
“I lived in Miami for a while, and I think everybody in Miami, it's kind of smoke and mirrors in there.”
Sanchez: Chamath Palihapitiya led two of the decade's best investment deals
“Now look at the guy. He's done like two of the biggest and best transactions you could say in the last decade in investing.”
Zimmer: CEOs Spoke Out During MeToo for Virtue Signaling, Now Stay Silent
“During, you know, Black Lives Matter and Me Too, you know, every, you know, every corporate CEO couldn't wait for, To say something, because it was the virtue signaling that was key to the time, and now we're all, you know, everyone's either so afraid or so am…”
Galloway: Signaling resources is the primary factor attracting women to men
“Women are generally attracted to men for three reasons. The third is kindness. They want someone who's going to be a long-term partner. The second is intellect. If you're funny, really lean into it because the fastest way to communicate intellect and men who m…”
Sanchez: Stopping work at 5 PM is a 'fake millennial' boundary
“You're going to actually have to set boundaries and not like fake. With all due respect, I am also millennial, not like fake millennial boundaries. Like I don't work or answer my email after five. Good fucking luck. Good luck.”
Tu: Society expects unpaid domestic labor from women while rewarding men professionally
“When you do something for free, a woman does it. When you get paid to do something, a man does it. So when you cook at home, you are the one who's expected to do it. The wife cleans, the wife cooks. Tell me why there are so many significantly more Michelin sta…”
Vivian Tu: Expecting a traditional homemaker requires being a sole financial provider
“Well, I think the safe thing to say is that if you want a traditional wife, then you have to be a traditional man, and you want to talk about a wife who cooks and cleans and has a hot meal on the table ready for, yeah, because back in the day, we could also al…”
Charlamagne: Cutting people off over politics means you never liked them
“If you could just cut me off or cut somebody off based on who they voted for, you never really liked that person.”
Bernstein: People attract narcissists because wounded parts feel unworthy
“Stop blaming the narcissist and look at why you were a match for the narcissist. Okay, this is very important, right? Some people find their way into narcissistic relationships, and some people just don't. Why? Because the people that find their way into the n…”
Bernstein: AI has given better advice than some human therapists
“I think that there's been many instances where AI has given me better advice than some therapists have had.”
Tony Robbins: Sharing problems offers support but prevents breakthroughs
“In a man's world, the more you solve problems, the more you move up the hierarchy of being a man. In a woman's world, no, you share your problems so you can connect and feel for the person, right? And you want to stay with it, and so forth. So what happens wit…”
Codie Sanchez: Professionals Should Not Cry in Business Meetings
“I don't think you should cry in business meetings just because you can't express yourself fully.”
Legacy Real Estate Franchises Are Failing Because They Abandoned Agent Training
“The minute the training went out the window, which is what All franchise operators in the real estate brokerage space have forgotten to do. Quality goes out the door, and that's why all those businesses are failing. Like, one by one by one. They're also aging …”
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.”
Sanchez: Entrepreneurship is a trauma response half the time
“Entrepreneurship is a trauma response, which I think it is half the time.”
Sexton: Getting married is legally negligent with a 53% divorce rate
“So I could make a pretty easy legal argument with the divorce rate about 53%. That it is definitely negligent, possibly reckless to get married.”
Sanchez: Business Leaders Who Cry Do Not Remain Leaders for Long
“Every single leader that I have seen cry in business is not a leader for very long.”
Sanchez: Unwillingness to sacrifice is the only barrier to US wealth
“But in this country, the only reason you guys cannot succeed and make a ton of money is because you're not willing to do what it takes. You only want to do what you want.”
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.”
Sanchez: Intelligence has zero correlation with how much money people make
“Once you realize that, your life will totally change because intelligence really has no correlation with how much money you can make.”
Masad: Antitrust blocks on startup acquisitions kill the startup ecosystem
“So the policy of blocking monopoly via company acquisition, which, you know, seems like common sense also means that you're blocking innovation entirely because they're going to find a way around it and they're going to kill the startup ecosystem.”
Sanchez: TAM and pricing strategy matter far less than customer obsession
“Even though people are going to say other things matter more, like your pricing strategy, what's your go-to-market? What's your total addressable market? All those things sound fancy, and they don't matter. Get a few people to buy things from you fast. Get a f…”
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?”
Gary Vaynerchuk: Imposter syndrome is just a euphemistic label for insecurity
“Do you know what imposter syndrome is? It's called insecurity. We've just given it makeup. Nobody's like, yo, I'm insecure. Nobody says that code, but so many people are like, man, I have imposter syndrome. Makeup. Got it? The definition, literally the definit…”
Gary Vee: Eliminating competitiveness causes nihilism and severe depression
“Winning and losing is incredibly imperative to the human race. Nothing is good out of balance. Of course, people are like, Gary, winning and losing, like, is it ok to, like, hurt people to win? No, no, it's not ok. But is it okay to completely eliminate merit …”
Poumpouras: Fortune 100 clients complain about new employees' weak work ethic
“One of the biggest complaints they have is we, we're getting people in who have a weak work ethic, who are bringing versions of themselves that is not helping the whole mission of the company, that we're having difficult time keeping people, finding the right …”
Sanchez: Private equity relies primarily on financial arbitrage, not operating talent
“They use big words because they don't want us to realize private equity ain't that hard. If those guys were good, they'd start businesses. The thing that they're best at is financial arbitrage, and we can steal their homework on it.”
McCord: Universal Basic Income is a guaranteed way to levelize an economy
“UBI Crucially separates, like, untethers one's contribution from one's reward. And I don't mean this in a kind of moralistic way, like we need contributors. I think we do need contributors, but I mean that the price mechanism in markets is the thing that tells…”
McCord: Universities Produce Narrow Technicians or Conforming Ideologues
“You look across the landscape and you see universities almost without exception as being a place where people who are either narrow
In their specialization, narrow technician or conforming ideologue who really is not thinking about these questions very deeply.”
McCord: FIRE Is What the ACLU Could Have Been
“They are the very best when it comes to defending things like free speech, right? They're what the ACLU could have been.”
Freitas: Fathers must be dangerous on behalf of their families
“And so you absolutely have to be dangerous, never toward your family, but on behalf of them.”
Freitas: Online trolls proliferate due to lack of physical consequences
“That's why you have so many trolls is because they believe they can operate in this world where they can say whatever they want and get away with it without any sort of physical consequence.”
Freitas: Society maintains order when good people are willing to use violence
“The barbarians are kept in check by the good people that are willing to use physical violence in order to maintain order.”
Freitas: Successful businesses owe society nothing because voluntary trade is inherently valuable
“I hate this inclination that if you run a successful business, you owe people something. No, you're, you are providing something that people have voted on with their dollar as being good.”
Sanchez: Amazon Dropshippers Only Make Reliable Money by Selling Courses
“The only way people can reliably make money with dropshipping through fulfillment by Amazon is to teach others how to do it.”
Nagpal: Initial job performance never reverses; test hires as contractors
“I will get one out of every four hires wrong. And if you work with that constraint, you can be smart about it. So wherever possible, I love to have people contract or do something for a couple of months, because you can always tell after you start working with…”
Sanchez: Doctors provide no escape plan for chronic cholesterol medications
“It's fascinating, actually, because no doctors give you an escape plan for medicine. I mean, for cholesterol levels. You're just on cholesterol medicine for the rest of your life.”
Dan Go: Pharmaceutical Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Brainwashes Patients
“Notwithstanding, the shitty things that are happening with, like, pharma advertising, the, you know, all the advertising that's happening with pharma that actually pushes this stuff and psyops people into wanting to take this stuff. That shit is fucking... I w…”