A short spoken-word clip by Steve D Valentine reflecting on entrepreneurship and real estate investing risks and rewards. He considers the possibility of failure (‘what if it dies tomorrow’), contrasts current capabilities with his position two years earlier, and emphasizes taking calculated risks, mentorship, and experiential knowledge as valuable for decision-making.
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What if. What if I have no semblance of it ever happening? What if real crashes and burns? Yeah. It dies tomorrow. Here's what I know. Stocks probably not worth a bunch. If it happens, could lose it all, just like lose anything else. Here's what I didn't have two years ago. I didn't have the ability to try and go, well, if it does work, where am I going to be? And if it doesn't, I'm no different than I was two years ago, where I was. Yeah. So I would rather take the risk and go, what's the reward going to be? The reward was amazing. And part of that is, which I think is so important. You came to me, our relationship. I didn't have any questions because you've already done it. And I think more people need to understand that. If I have a conversation with you, it's because I've gone through it, I've tried it, I've done it. And I'm trying to say this is going to be very beneficial for you. Sure. But I'm not going to pull you kicking and screaming to do it. Not at all.