Armando Pantoja
speaker
980 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Aug 2025
Armando Pantoja’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
All of that is interwoven into like a tapestry. that underlies all these financial markets. Now we've figured it out, you can figure out everything on top. So that's what I've been trying to teach people over the years is that these things, it's very simple to understand if you just look past all the fluff and just look at the base and see what's happening.
Yeah, that was one of the validation points along my life, you know, because that was one of the big moments because, you know, IBM, a company like that, recognized you for your innovations on blockchain. We came up with a solution to get people, you know, work with IBM to get people to use the blockchain to get people hired back after COVID to get people back to work.
And we won an award for that. It was me and my business partner, actually. And we, you know, that was a big moment to win that award. But like you said, that's a big validation point. It makes you feel like you're doing the right thing. And you know, I was proud to win it. And actually that was after I won that award, I got a blue check like the next week.
That was before the blue checks you could pay for, you had to earn it. So that's the biggest thing. The main Twitter page shouted me out and said, you know, I won this award for my picture. And then like the next week I got a blue check on Instagram. That was before you had to pay for it. So you had to earn it and you couldn't even like ask for it. They just had to recognize you.
So that was really the biggest thing. So I was really excited about those two things.
right what are these seven laws of wealth and and how can people start imparting them into their routine and their habit when it comes to finance it's about like these market cycles and patterns that we you know that we uh i just talked about uh so these are the seven laws that i've learned over time and a lot of them you know almost fly in the face of what traditional logic is because uh traditionally i've learned in life is that when everybody does something is probably wrong
When everybody thinks a certain way, it's probably wrong. And then if you just fly in the face of that, a lot of times you'll be right because the system does not allow everybody to be rich. It's relative. It's based on ratios. So only a certain amount of people can be rich and everybody else has to be middle class and poor. That's just how it works.
The more people that move up, the system will readjust and then now the goalposts will move. And now all of a sudden this is rich. So everybody can't be rich. So The only way you can be rich is by thinking differently than the masses. And that's what those seven laws are. It's like, you know, you don't have to hustle and be up three, four days straight to make money.
A lot of the billionaires I know that they don't have, you know, their schedules are pretty free. Because they got everybody else doing the stuff for me. You know, and also I learned in that book, we talk about how you have to have a certain amount of your week free. Because if you're maxed out, you're hustling, you're working 60 hours a week, early in your life is different.
When you get later, 30 and 40, you got to start pulling that back. It's because if you don't have a certain time you're free, if an opportunity comes, you don't have time to chase it. You see, if you're working 60 hours a week, somebody comes to you, look, man, I got this idea. This is gonna make a lot of money. You don't have any time to work on it.
So you have to, what you have to do is you have to find something, work on it, and reduce the time it takes for you to make money on it, then put it like in a basket. And that basket is your passive income. So when you reach an opportunity, let's say somebody comes to you and says, man, I got an opportunity to build a website that can make a bunch of money. All right.
Well, I'm going to build a website. I'm going to go. I'm going to work on it. We're going to get it developed. But over time, I have to reduce the amount of time it takes me to work on it to finally a zero. And I throw that in my basket of passive incomes. Then I move on to something else. So you have to think about things in life like that. That's actually a law. It's called be lazy.
And it talks about how, not actually technically lazy, but it talks about always find ways to not make money with your time. Constantly be jealous with your time because you need that time to build up new passive. You can't work all the time and you won't be able to build up anything. So, and then if you stop working, the money stops. So a lot of that book is focused to that.
Some of the book is, it talks about the trends that we talked about, trends and patterns and stuff that exist in markets. It talks about having the right circle of friends around you. That's very important. building a circle of winners. And it also talks about how a lot of people think that they just can show up to a group of people and all of a sudden that group is going to feed into them.
It doesn't work like that. So you have to show up to the group. Let's say you show up to a group of millionaires. You're not the millionaire. The first year of that group, you have to be giving them stuff. You have to, you know, I've heard people just show up to a network of events and say, now what do I do? It doesn't work like that.
You know what you do when you show up to a networking event, you find the people that can help you and you offer them something first. Everybody's trying to get, everybody's trying to take them out to lunch, pick their brain. That's nothing. So I don't even, people ask me to lunch five times a day. I don't go. Cause it's, I'm not driving over to Tampa cause I live a little bit outside Tampa.
It's not worth it to me. So you have to come to these people and say, look, do you need somebody to pick up your laundry every week? I'll do that. And don't ask for anything in return. Say, do you need somebody to spot you at the gym? I'll do that. Especially when you're young. Do you need somebody to help you with anything? I'll do that. And don't ask for anything in return.
And do that to all the people in the group. Over time, they will pull you up to their level. You know, eventually you're building, get into that life. You're helping them. They'll start to like you, hopefully. And then they'll start, you'll hear stuff and you'll start understand how they think. They'll put you on opportunities. And that's how things work.
It's not like you show up and they're not going to, there's no incentive to pull you up unless you integrate yourself into their lives. And that's how you have to do it. That's why most people fail in those situations.
Yeah, I agree with you. Yeah, so you have to just work smart. A lot of times labor is not needed if you're strategic about anything. At first you do, especially if you come from poverty or a lower income because you don't have the initial capital. Yeah, you got to grind. You got to grind. That's your capital. That's all you got.
Showing 941–960 of 980 · page 48 of 49
← Previous
Next →