This is a YouTube video titled "Don't respect rich people? You'll NEVER be rich!" created in August 2025. It features Lewis Howes delivering a motivational talk about the importance of respecting wealthy and successful people to achieve financial success. He discusses leadership as a key evergreen skill across industries, sharing examples from his own team and notable figures like Steve Kerr to emphasize the value of leadership over technical expertise.
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If you don't respect rich people, you're not going to be rich. If you don't respect people who make a lot of money, you always talk trash about them behind their backs. You're not going to be that person. You're just not. If you admire somebody that's a great executive and an earner and recreating themselves, then guess what? You'll eventually make that money. So, you know, money and success is not attracted to people that talk down to them. Just like anything else, they're not attracted to you. They want to be respected. Money wants to be respected, not loved. But money wants to be respected. It wants you to say, you know what? I respect what we can do with money and how much power you can bring to my family. I respect it. What do I need to do to get more of it? Well, guess what? Right now, your market value is $68,000 per year. You want to improve it? I do. Here's what you got to do. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Okay, great. And the way of making money for the longest time, you know, everybody wants to say entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship. There's many other ways of making it. You can. That's one way to go. You can be a creator. You know, Mr. Beast has proven the fact that you can be a billionaire by being a YouTuber. You guys got 3,400 million subscribers. Probably by the time this video comes out, he's at 500 million subscribers. But no matter what you do, I don't care what you do, whatever business you're in, I'm interested in learning skill sets that are evergreen to 100% of industries. What is that? Let's talk about that. So one is leadership, okay? In every environment. Like, we had a. We have a team of 30 people in our production team at the office, right? And there was a lot of chaos two weeks ago, three weeks ago, and I held a meeting. In a meeting I held, I'm watching to see who's showing signs of leadership and what's going to happen. This is an opportunity for them to show who's the leader. And then the person you weren't expecting stood up. And the person you were expecting to lead, it's kind of like quiet, not saying anything. Well, maybe this guy's not a leader. He's a technical expert, but he's not a leader. This person is not technically as much of an expert as this person, but this guy knows how to bring everybody together and get all the productions to be done on time, delivered high quality thumbnails, everything. That guy's a better leader, even though technically he's not as good as this. The market pays for great leaders. So whether I'm a assistant, whether I'm an executive assistant, whether I'm a salesperson, whether I'm a coder, an editor, whether I'm a, you know, in the military, whether I'm a cop, firefighter, politician, a. An athlete, it does not matter. Steve Kerr wasn't technically the best player, but he's one of the best coaches in the league today. Right. So why is he where he's at? Because of leadership. Right. So leadership is what, getting people to do things they wouldn't do on their own and setting a great example.
