In this candid monologue, the speaker shares personal beliefs about money, emphasizing that money itself is neutral—a tool and amplifier that can be used for good or bad. He warns that reckless spending can lead to financial scarcity, forcing entrepreneurs into undesirable decisions such as selling unsuitable programs or being unable to meet payroll. The speaker advocates for disciplined stewardship: living well below one’s means, saving, and treating money as a resource to be intelligently compounded. He outlines strategies for compounding wealth, including investing in the stock market, advertising, and especially in personal development—spending large sums on mentors and self‑education when financially prudent. By maintaining frugality, he claims he can stay calm, make better business choices, and take big bets on himself to become the best for his team and clients.
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You know, I don't know why I feel called to share this, but I think there's a lot of people in my position who would flex money way harder than I do. Like, they would have probably a penthouse apartment, uh, a Rolex, a really flashy car, a Lambo, whatever. And I just want to share a belief. These are my beliefs. Whether they're right or wrong doesn't matter. They're just my beliefs. But I just want to share the belief that I have about money. I don't think money is good or bad. I think it's a tool, and I'm sure you've heard this before. It's a tool, and you can use tools for bad shit, and you can use tools for good shit. You know, you could use a knife to chop vegetables, you could also use it to stab someone. But I think that money is just a tool, and it's certainly an amplifier. It certainly allows you to do more of what you were otherwise going to do. But I'll just say this: I really believe that you should be a good steward of your money. And I mean that in the sense of like, you know, if you're reckless with it, if you make money and you don't save some of it and you don't take care of that resource, you can get yourself into positions that you really don't want to be in. You don't want to be in a position where you're in scarcity mode and you can't pay rent and you can't do that kind of stuff. And like, that to me is when you get into situations in your business where you have to do dumb shit that you shouldn't be doing. Like, you have to sell people into your program that you shouldn't have been selling into your program, that you should have said no to, but you now can't say no because you need the money for the dumbass shit you're buying. Or like, who wants to be in a situation where you can't make payroll and now the mouths that you're feeding, you can't feed? And also, I don't know if you've realized this, but like, money compounds if you're intelligent in regards to what you do with it. Put it in the stock market, put it into ads, put it into things that are going to have it compound, right? Instead of buying dumbass shit with it. Anyways, I'll just say this. I just don't— and maybe I'll change my beliefs about this, I'm allowed to change— but I, I just like to spend, and I probably got this from my parents, love them, God love them, appreciate them. I just like to spend far below my means, and I think that allows me to feel calm and make intelligent decisions. And also it allows me, candidly, to come from a place where I can take very big bets on myself because I have the resources to do so. Like investing hundreds of thousands of dollars into mentors because I want to learn, I want to grow, and I want to be the best I fucking can for my team and my clients.
