Sometimes the best properties aren’t necessarily the biggest properties.
It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it.
Do the work. Out-work. Out-think. Out-sell your expectations. There are no shortcuts.
When you’ve got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?
I think college is an absolute. In this world you have to learn how to learn and get in the habit of always wanting to learn. Some kids have that out of high school and may be able to do the college equivalent of home schooling. Most kids can’t. So I highly recommend going to college.
Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much you squeezed out in any one deal.
Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn.
I’m the one guy who says don’t force the stupid people to be quiet – I want to know who the morons are.
Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.
It takes time, it’s a grind. There are no shortcuts. You’ve got to grind and grind.
Creating opportunities means looking where others are not.
Kids should go to college, but they should go to the best school they can afford to get through with minimal or no debt. That might mean going to a community college or an inexpensive local state school. Whatever it takes.
All you need is a laptop or a PC and an Internet connection and you can pretty much do almost anything and create almost any type of company.
I’m the luckiest guy in the world. I wake up every day just fired up. My one rule is, don’t let anyone pinch me, because I don’t want to wake up.
One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is that we lie to ourselves. We don’t step back and look at ourselves like a competitor would.
Know your stuff. Have an angle. Know how to grow business, how to develop products, have patents and an undeveloped market that could be huge.
Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.
Perfectionism is the enemy of profitability.
I still work hard to know my business. I’m continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I’m always selling. Always.
Once you have found out what you love to do, there is only one goal: to be the best in the world at it.