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Graziosi: I pay people to pump gas and change lightbulbs
“I don't just pay somebody to take my garbage out. I pay people to change my light bulbs, to go fill up my gas in my car.”
Graziosi: Businesses ignoring AI will permanently fall behind within a year
“Decide not to use AI and watch where you are in a year. If you're in business, you're going to be behind. You'll never catch up.”
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…”
Graziosi: Great project managers often fail as leaders due to emotional demands
“Leadership is not project management. I've promoted so many great project managers to leaders, and I love them as project managers and wanted to shoot them when they became leaders. Because a leader is more of like a kindergarten teacher. You have to understan…”
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…”
Graziosi: Scaling past $30M to $100M requires autonomous leadership teams
“There's, in my opinion, there's no way to go from 10, 20, 30 to a hundred without a team where all of you are in the same boat, all rowing in the right direction and not you babysitting.”
Graziosi: Mentoring junior hires into leaders fails beyond $10M revenue
“I was really good at hiring young, amazing soldiers, like, A players that I could see their potential, and mentoring them, and training them to be amazing, and turning them into leaders. That worked at five, ten million dollars a year. It didn't work at the hi…”
Graziosi: Founders should split time 80/20 between current and future company
“80% of your time should be focused on the company you are. And 20% should be on the company you're becoming.”
Graziosi: Advertisers Who Can Afford Highest Customer Acquisition Costs Win
“You know who wins in advertising? Those that can afford to spend the most to acquire a client.”
Graziosi: Courses drive transformation compared to books by enforcing interactive assignments
“Books are very inspirational, but courses can be very transformational, because it's video, You give homework, you give assignments, you give challenges, like go do this right now. Stop, stop playing this video. Go do the work.”