A short monologue (YouTube video) by Larry Weidel arguing that running a business should be pursued for freedom and ownership of one’s life rather than purely for money. The speaker encourages going "all in," valuing greatness and freedom enabled by earnings, and criticizes indifferent attitudes toward financial motivation.
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I meet so many people that want to go run their own business and it's like the franchisees or regional vice presidents or branch managers or a new contractor or a guy who wants to buy a new butcher shop or anybody who wants to go get big. And when I say big, I'm not talking just financially, I'm talking big time. Own their own life, have their own business, not just make a trazillion dollars. But I will tell you this, you said earlier, it's better to be great than not. It's better to win than not win. And so it always makes me laugh when people go, well, I don't know if the money motivates me. Good, the hell with the money then. But what about the freedom that the dollars can give you? Okay, let's just go there. But anyway, my point to that is, is that I think that that's one of the best examples I've ever heard of. Like, dude, if you don't ring it out, if you don't let it all on the field, if you don't go all in, it ain't coming all back to you one day. I.