Dean Graziosi relays Warren Buffett’s advice that the greatest investment is in yourself, not stocks or companies. The speaker emphasizes modeling proven practices, finding mentors, joining masterminds, and allocating monthly funds toward education/coaching to accelerate personal and business progress. He contrasts temporary consumer-driven status-seeking with the long-term value of skill and network investment.
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As Warren Buffett said when he was asked what the greatest investment is that you could do, he didn't say Geico, he didn't say Allstate, he didn't say Coca Cola. He said, the greatest investment you could make is in yourself, whether you have a job for someone else. You should look at that job as you're there to gain experience so you can model proven practices. If you start a business, get a mentor and model proven practices. That's the fastest way to get from where you are to where you want to be. Find somebody who's already done what you want to do, see what they're doing and see how you can make a variation of it, how you can make it better, how you could take it to the next level and then go allocate on a monthly basis, allocate money that goes away for your next level education, to get a coach, to get a mentor, to get in a mastermind, to get courses, to get trainings. People are so consumed with impressing people today and nobody really gives a crap. And most of those people won't be in your life and the things you bought will be gone. But when you invest in yourself, then you're doing something most people don't.
