I laugh every time I hear people saying, yeah, you know, I don't like
Speaker:working for other people. So, you know, I want to work for myself because
Speaker:I want to set my own hours. Yeah, right. When you work for
Speaker:yourself, there's no Christmas, no Easter. There's
Speaker:This is so true. You have to be a freaking warrior.
Speaker:As a multiple seven-figure entrepreneur, what's been the best financial advice that you've ever
Speaker:Ooh, if you haven't heard of this and you're self-employed, you need to implement the Augusta
Speaker:rule. As long as it's for business, you can rent your house to your business and
Speaker:That guy had some great advice. My only concern is the fact
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Speaker:hit me up with some videos to do reactions to. So let's
Speaker:jump in and see what is entailed today. Hopefully, something
Speaker:People that are successful are the ones that are working on
Speaker:the business. as opposed to in the business. So every time I
Speaker:see an entrepreneur and I see that they're working in the business, I'm like, okay, you're not going
Speaker:anywhere. You can't scale working in the business. You gotta think, how do I work on
Speaker:this business to make it this kind of its own living, breathing
Speaker:That's so true. I remember there was a pivotal moment in
Speaker:my entrepreneurial career and I was getting coached
Speaker:by someone and they said, look, you've got to now outsource this
Speaker:stuff that you were doing on a day-to-day basis to somebody else.
Speaker:And it was at that time that I hired a global operations
Speaker:manager and said, hey, you take all this day-to-day work
Speaker:that I'm doing and now you do it. And then, that helped
Speaker:me grow my sales to over $50 million. All
Speaker:Excuse me, sir. Quick question for you, man. Is this your Ferrari? Yeah.
Speaker:And what do you do for living out in Los Angeles to be able to afford a Ferrari? I own my own consulting firm.
Speaker:So you're a business owner? Yeah. And how long have you been an entrepreneur for? Six years. And
Speaker:over these six years, what's been the most amount of money that you've ever made in a single year? Just over
Speaker:about $7.1 million last year. $7 million? Yeah. I'm sitting in
Speaker:a Ferrari right now. This is a lot of people's dream car. Tell me the story of how you bought this thing.
Speaker:I'll be honest with you, I had already offsetted all my taxes for the year and
Speaker:I just wanted a Christmas gift, so I just went and bought myself a Ferrari cash. When you don't
Speaker:pay taxes, a lot of these types of purchases start to become a little bit different. So
Speaker:you don't pay taxes? Oh no, I don't pay any taxes. Why is that? People say that
Speaker:it's patriotic to pay taxes. It is not patriotic to pay taxes. It's
Speaker:actually more patriotic to not pay taxes. The government has created
Speaker:this tax system and it's a legal playbook for us to legally pay the
Speaker:least amount of taxes possible. People need to wake up and utilize that book and
Speaker:As a multiple seven-figure entrepreneur, what's been the best financial advice that you've ever
Speaker:Ooh, if you haven't heard of this and you're self-employed, you need to implement the Augusta
Speaker:Rule. As long as it's for business, you can rent your house to your business and
Speaker:charge yourself a fee for it. That is an amazing tax strategy at the end of the year. What
Speaker:are your thoughts on debt as a business owner? Oh, I love debt. I'm focused on trying
Speaker:to increase my debt actively right now. And the reason why is because debt allows me
Speaker:to buy more real estate and in return, I can use that real estate to offset my
Speaker:taxable income. So I love debt. I'm a partner with the bank. I look at me and
Speaker:Damn, I love this guy. He's not paying taxes. God.
Speaker:If there was some way that I could not pay taxes in Australia legally,
Speaker:then I definitely would because I hate paying taxes. That
Speaker:guy had some great advice. My only concern is the fact that
Speaker:he did $7.1 million in a single year. Shit,
Speaker:I've done over $15 million in a single year and I didn't run out
Speaker:and buy a Ferrari. The first thing I did was pay off my debt, the
Speaker:bad debt. The second thing I did was go out and buy more
Speaker:property. And then I bought a shit
Speaker:ton of Bitcoin. So I think maybe this
Speaker:guy's stepping ahead of himself by just running out and getting the Ferrari
Speaker:first, but who knows. In any case, I did like how
Speaker:he is upfront about his advice. He's doing well. I give
Speaker:him props. for at least doing well
Speaker:Amazon is being accused of tricking millions of people into
Speaker:paying for Amazon Prime. The Federal Trade Commission is suing the
Speaker:world's largest online retailer. It says Amazon knowingly
Speaker:duped customers into signing up for a renewing of its
Speaker:$139 a year Prime service and then made them jump through hoops to
Speaker:cancel. Amazon says the FTC's claims are
Speaker:They're so cheeky, aren't they? So what they're saying there is that, you know,
Speaker:you've got a Prime program, which I admit has a lot of benefit. If
Speaker:you're not on the Amazon Prime program, you should definitely sign up. But
Speaker:what I hate is when they make it difficult to cancel. Very,
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Speaker:All right, thanks guys, and back to the episode. All right, let's check out this
Speaker:next video. If you want to be financially independent someday, it's
Speaker:Two homes and one car. The
Speaker:average American gets two cars and one home. Here's a
Speaker:good advice. Two homes and one car. You
Speaker:God, is this guy actually talking to me or something? Is he going to go
Speaker:at me? I've got like five cars in this shed alone of
Speaker:the seven cars that I have in total, but I do have multiple properties
Speaker:as well. So does that mean that I can have the more properties I have, I
Speaker:can have more cars? Not sure. In any case, I
Speaker:don't want to buy any more properties. I don't want to buy any more cars. I
Speaker:just want to buy more Bitcoin. Oh, I can see this one. Dana White.
Speaker:I laugh every time I hear people saying, yeah, you know, I don't like
Speaker:working for other people. You know, I want to work for myself because
Speaker:I want to set my own hours. Yeah, right. Let me tell you what, when you
Speaker:work for yourself, there's no Christmas and no fucking Easter. There's
Speaker:none of that shit when you work for yourself. In the early days, you're working through all
Speaker:those holidays. Every day something bad happens. Every day
Speaker:there's problems. Every day somebody's trying to
Speaker:fuck you and take what you've built. It's a
Speaker:This is so true. You have to be a freaking warrior
Speaker:if you're going to go and be self-employed and run your own business.
Speaker:No one gives a shit that you have a business. When
Speaker:you're an employee, it's freaking amazing. You just show
Speaker:up, do your 9 to 5, collect your paycheck, and you leave
Speaker:the job behind. As a business owner, it's 24-7. But, the
Speaker:reward could be much, much greater. And that's why I
Speaker:Excuse me, sir. Quick question for you, man. Is this your G-Wagon? Yeah, it is. And
Speaker:what do you do for a living, man? How are you able to afford a G-Wagon out in Houston, Texas? I started a
Speaker:You've got to ask yourself, though, why would you even go buy a G-Wagon, hey?
Speaker:How much money is that business going to generate you this year? We're doing like seven figures a month right now.
Speaker:How old are you now? I'm 27. How old were you when you became a millionaire? 27. 27? Yeah.
Speaker:That was this year. What keeps people broke in today's world? Ignorance. And ignorance is
Speaker:not a demon, by the way. So I think for me, the way that you can collapse time
Speaker:is knowledge. The best decision that I ever made was I stopped making decisions.
Speaker:Everywhere that I wanted to go, someone had already gone. And so I just needed to
Speaker:Going into 2024, what is the best industry that people should be looking to get into right
Speaker:I mean, I'm biased. I would say cybersecurity, yeah, man. It's costing my country like
Speaker:10% of its GDP, like hundreds of billions of dollars. So if you can be the kind
Speaker:of person that goes into an organization and helps protect the organization, I
Speaker:You'll get the money you're looking for. Among yourself and the most highly successful people that
Speaker:Patrick Bette Davis said this, but only the paranoid survive. If you don't realize
Speaker:that being stagnant is dying, I think you'll see like it just eventually like
Speaker:Good things don't take time. I think that changed my life. And because most
Speaker:people would say it takes 10 years, 15 years to get to these heights. You
Speaker:Wow, I love this guy. I was just like captivated watching that video
Speaker:to think what he has done by the age of 27. He
Speaker:talked about being paranoid. Yeah, I know I don't want to say it, but yeah, I'm
Speaker:paranoid that I don't have enough Bitcoin. This guy's incredible
Speaker:and I love the fact that he's just gotten out there and made
Speaker:a success of himself. I just hope he's not putting everything though into
Speaker:the g-wagon. Okay guys I hope you enjoyed that episode of
Speaker:me reacting to random videos and I think there was a key
Speaker:thing there which was something's telling me that I need to go and
Speaker:buy more Bitcoin mate. But anyway, let me know what
Speaker:you think in the comments about any of those reactions,
Speaker:or if you differ to my opinion, especially when it comes to
Speaker:property and Bitcoin. All right, take care. Thanks
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