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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: Leaders should only touch the first and last 10%
“When we're doing important shit, I tell the team, I have to be involved in the first 10%, because I'm molding it. Then I disappear. And then you need to come back to me to close it. I open and close. The middle's the problem. And winners, and people aspiring t…”
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 …”
McCord: Existing AI provides decades of profitable deployment even without new advances
“Technology, even if it's immediately available, takes a long time to like propagate. In other words, you could stop right now. Google just did its big announcement, like stop, pause, you know, nothing else. And we would have, A few decades of like very profita…”
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: AI cannot succeed as a central economic planner
“AI will not be a good central planner. Fundamental epistemological reasons why it will not be a good central planner. Same reasons that were surfaced by Ludwig von Mises in the 19 twenties, enhanced by Hayek decades later same wall.”
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: 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.”
Greene: Managing egos and politics is 90% of the career game
“Ego, politics, playing, you know, making other people look good. That is 90% of the game, especially when you're starting out.”
Greene: Supplying fantasy and illusion grants immense social power
“We want to be led. We actually want to be deceived. We want illusion. We want fantasy. We want pleasure, and so you want to be the person that's supplying that fantasy, that's giving people that pleasure, because if you do, it gives you a lot of power, right?”
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…”
Brooks: Four uses of money bring happiness; buying material goods fails
“So there's five things you can do with money. Okay. This is a very much a Cody Sanchez part of the conversation, isn't it? Number one, you can buy stuff, right? We've already talked about that. Number two, you can buy experiences. Number three, you can buy tim…”
Voss: Decoupling understanding from agreement unlocks unmatched influence
“So when you can decouple those, Then actually you give yourself the ability to influence people in a way nobody else can.”
Voss: Lying is never necessary in negotiation, even in life-or-death scenarios
“No, I don't think it's ever necessary. I'm very much against it.”
Voss: Vocal Tone Triggers Involuntary Neurochemical Responses That Dissolve Barriers
“Your response to my tone of voice is a neurochemical response, which means it's not a choice. And if it's, if I can trigger neurochemicals in your brain, then you can't stop me from triggering them. Now you can fight them. But I can initiate the process, which…”
Saladino: Cooking Does Not Neutralize All Plant Defense Chemicals
“There actually are defense chemicals in vegetables, and some of these can be detoxified when we cook them or when we ferment them, but not all of them, and a lot of people with autoimmune conditions do feel better when they eliminate some or all vegetables.”
Senada Greca: Intermittent fasting disrupts hormones for women in their thirties
“It's not that great, period. If you're, you know, especially when you're hitting your late thirties and early forties, it is just not a good idea because of our hormones. Our hormones are much different than a man's hormones and that can wreak havoc. In our ho…”
Galloway: Economies Become Inefficient When Government Spending Exceeds 32%
“Government, when an economy goes above sort of 30, 32% of spending is the government, it just becomes very inefficient.”
Galloway: Business School Is for the Elite and Aimless
“I describe business school for the elite and the aimless. You're good at what you do, you're smart, you want to make money, you're disciplined, but you have no idea what you want to do. We all try to sound very focused in our business school applications, but …”
Sanchez: Your bank account reflects the value of your skill set
“A hard truth is if you don't like your bank account,
Your bank account is a reflection of how valuable you are currently in your skill set.”
Lonsdale: Recessions are necessary to prune unproductive parts of the economy
“Recessions are actually good to have every once in a while. They clean out a lot of nonsense. You know, what happens is there's a lot of resources being used for things that are not productive in the economy, and you need a sensor mechanism. You need certain t…”
Sanchez: Prosecuting former presidents triggers a retaliatory cycle when power shifts
“What happens when your guys go out of power and the other guys come into power? Then you just play a game of going after one another. It's why we shouldn't Arrest former presidents for political reasons.”
Van Edwards: Avoid romantic partners stuck in a victim self-narrative
“The last one is the one you want to watch out for, which is a victim self-narrative. A victim self-narrative starts like the hero. Challenges, mistakes, problems that they couldn't overcome. That no matter how hard they worked, They weren't able to change anyt…”
Voss: Six instigators can turn a 2,000-person peaceful crowd into a mob
“And then they show us how a crowd of peaceful demonstrators, numbering anywhere from 50 to 2000, Can be turned into a raging violent mob by six instigators. Only six instigators to turn a peaceful crowd of a thousand into a raging violent mob.”
Dr. Lyon: Seed oils are irrelevant if you avoid processed foods
“If you're not eating processed foods, you don't have to give a shit about seed oil.”
Gabbard: Congressional term limits simply shift power to unelected permanent committee staff
“You implement term limits, the power, the money and the attention shifts from the special interest away from the elected politician and towards the unelected chiefs of staff, professional committee staff members, those who stay on regardless of who the elected…”
Kennedy: Inability to cause harm is uselessness, not true virtue
“Like, if you're not capable of hurting somebody and you don't hurt somebody, that doesn't mean you're good. It just means you're useless. But if I'm able to take your face off, but I choose to be kind and gracious and giving and selfless to you, now I'm good.”
Sanchez: Young, hungry professionals should avoid remote jobs and work in-office
“I think if you are young, Hungry, and you want to make big moves, and make a bunch of money, you should not take a remote job. You want to be in the office.”
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…”
Sanchez: A 30% to 45% close rate indicates optimal business pricing
“If you have an 80% close rate, you are way too underpriced in your business. If you have a 60% close rate, You're too underpriced in your business. If you have a 45 to 30% close rate, you're probably sitting just about right with your business pricing. And tha…”
Chris Do: Effective pricing should make both provider and client slightly uncomfortable
“And I want to always be slightly uncomfortable, and I want the client to be uncomfortable with accepting the price. I don't want them to say yes easily. I want them to be a little bit concerned, consternated about it a little bit, and just like, ooh, it's a lo…”
Sanchez: Selling expensive services to fewer clients is easier than high-volume sales
“Also, by the way, way easier to sell fewer people more expensive things than it is to sell a ton of people something really cheap.”
Codie Sanchez: Never imitate competitor pricing, going premium is always easier
“Never, ever imitate. Don't let your sales people talk you into it. Don't let your friends talk you into it. Don't do it. Go premium. Premium is always easier.”
Sanchez: Market rates reflect competitor fear; most business owners are broke
“The market rate is the average of everybody else's fear. It's basically like I mean, most people are broke. Most business owners don't make any money. Why, dear God, would you price off of what most people do?”
Sanchez: A line out the door often signals a pricing error
“If the line's out the door, that's a clear sign of, in some ways, a pricing error, unless you have high volume, high speed sales.”
Sanchez: Repricing floor should be double current rates to be worthwhile
“Your floor is double what you charge today because anything less than double isn't worth the sweat.”
Perez: Founder focus allows adaptability, whereas obsession restricts flexibility
“Part of being a founder is adaptability. You have to be able to adapt. You can have a clear goal, but if you need to shift things to actually, like, be able to make a return to your investors, to be able to actually, you know, hire more people or really produc…”
Perez: Initial emotional impulses are childhood defense mechanisms, not authentic reactions
“That the first impulse is the real you, and it's not. The first impulse is your defensive mechanism that you learned probably when you were a child.”
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…”
Sexton: Marriage is an illusion of security, not real protection
“Marriage is a symbol. That's all it is. It's a symbol. We've decided we're gonna create this legal connection or spiritual connection that's gonna symbolize this way of keeping the relationship safe. It's an illusion. It's not real.”
Sexton: Men ask if cheater had sex; women ask if they're in love
“The thing that's interesting to me, and I've talked about before, and I talk about my book, is the question when people are confronted about adultery. Because the man's first question is, did you have sex with him? And the woman's first question is, do you lov…”
Adelman: Scaling to $10 million is much harder than $100M to $1B
“That first 1,000,010 million are much harder than the hundred million to a billion.”
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.”
Adelman: Better to hire 10/10 work ethic over 10/10 intelligence
“The number one quality to me is I would rather have somebody That's an eight in intelligence and a 10 in work ethic than a 10 in intelligence and an eight in work ethic.”
Adelman: Chefs, doctors, and lawyers generally make poor business operators
“Chefs generally make poor business people. Doctors are very poor business people, right? And a lot of time lawyers don't translate into being operators. Like that's just a, something I've noticed.”
Adelman: Junior employees do not schedule formal calls to pitch spontaneous ideas
“A junior person is not going to suggest an idea in your company. If you walk by the hall and I'll walk into his office, like, what are you working on? And like, well, we have this crazy idea. They're not going to call my assistant, make an appointment to do a …”