Dean Graziosi burned out working 60-70 hour weeks in corporate jobs, watching unhappy senior managers. He realized you could buy small businesses with other people's money and stack enough of them to replace your salary and escape the corporate world.
And at some point I was kind of miserable. I don't know if anybody could relate, but, you know, 60, 70-hour weeks, and I, I didn't see an end to it. You know, I looked at the managing directors that were higher than me and thought, I don't want any of that, but they don't seem happy. I started to figure out where could my golden parachute be, like, how could I get out of this? And what I realized is, wait, there's nothing that different between a giant transaction and a little transaction. Why couldn't I buy a tiny business? And use other people's money in order to do it, and I could maybe buy enough of those where I could just cover my salary, like that's it.
