Not Selling is the Greatest Return of any Business - Neil Patel

Name: Not Selling is the Greatest Return of any Business - Neil Patel
Uploaded: 2026-03-29T00:54:58+00:00
Duration: 26 s
Channel: Adrian Salamunovic
Description: In this excerpt, the speaker argues that retaining a business that is growing its profits at around 20% annually provides superior returns compared to…

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In this excerpt, the speaker argues that retaining a business that is growing its profits at around 20% annually provides superior returns compared to selling it or trying to achieve market-level returns like those of the S&P 500. He emphasizes that the optimal use of capital is not to flip businesses after fixing them, but to continuously improve and expand them, reinvesting profits into the same business and acquiring additional ones. The core message is that long‑term ownership and compounding growth deliver the highest financial payoff.

So a light bulb went off. Let's say someone's growing at 20% a year. If your profit's growing at 20% a year, you're not going to get that from the S&P, right? Might as well just keep going. Why would I ever want to sell a business that already did all the hard work to fix and it's growing? The best returns are actually keeping a business. It's not actually buying, fixing, and then selling. They're not flipping. Yeah, he's like, you just want to keep fixing them, growing them, and just keep buying more. He's like, those are the heydays. That's the best form of use of money.