How To Stay Poor…

We get advice from people who don't have the lives that we want. So the best way to stay poor is to get advice from people who have lives you don't want, portfolios you're not interested in, and relationships that you don't see. Bill Perkins, author of Die with Zero. He's become a good friend of mine and a mentor. And I remember I was walking with Bill in his giant property and I'm telling him about my idea, and then he stops me and he kind of looks me in the eye and he goes, do you think that you've been around small business for so long that small has infected your thinking? And I remember kind of like pausing there and young Cody would have probably told him to off, but semi evolved Cody said, a man who is worth more than I am has done something right and what can I learn here? And he was absolutely right. And so I came back with a bigger idea and we did a huge deal together. And so the question I would ask is, are you around people that make you think so big? It's slightly uncomfortable.