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Profit Is Unnatural

Name: Profit Is Unnatural
Uploaded: 2025-11-28T16:45:01+00:00
Duration: 29 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this brief monologue, the speaker recounts a conversation with a 70‑something‑year‑old billionaire mentor who claimed that “profit is unnatural.” The…

28 Nov 2025 · 0 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker recounts a conversation with a 70‑something‑year‑old billionaire mentor who claimed that “profit is unnatural.” The mentor explained that, over time, a business will erode its own profits as people inevitably spend money, so the only way to preserve profit is to enforce relentless expense discipline. The speaker emphasizes the need for a dedicated person or mindset that constantly curtails spending, insisting on “making more money and not spending more.” The core message is that profit preservation requires a disciplined, almost counter‑cultural approach that resists the natural tendency to increase costs.

I had a mentor tell me, he's like a 70-something-year-old billionaire, and he's like, profit is unnatural. I remember telling him this and I was like, what do you mean? He's like, a business will over time slowly eat away its own profits because people just spend money. He's like, you have to have somebody on it who just is ruthlessly just ripping, is just keeping the fucking expenses down and being like, nope, we're just going to keep making more money and not spend more. We're going to keep making more money and not spend more. And so it's good that you have that. I just want you to lose that discipline because it's not normal.