David Meltzer
speaker
411 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jul 2025
David Meltzer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Not right now. It's not a prequel quote. It was for gratitude. Right, right, right. Yeah.
And every day since then, everything was better than what I was willing to do to buy my mom a house. And still, everything I get to do, I still have that baseline that I am willing to do that in joy. Right. I have figured out how to learn to love some of the most awful times, most awful things in my life to find the life and love and lessons in it.
And I am a student of gratitude and of forgiveness. And I think those two things raise our awareness of what we're given. See? Here on the status exchange, there's a bunch of people who believe the more you give, the more you receive. And I believe that. But you know what they don't teach you? It's really the more you give, the more you're given.
So let's elevate our awareness through gratitude and forgiveness of what we're given, even when we're dying on our bed. You are looking for what you were given, not for it to receive anything. And when we do that, then we have to work on something that you need to work on. It's receiving. Because people go, oh, it's okay.
I feel bad. You've helped in teaching me that.
Because that's what creates the value-add rule. If you really believe that there's more than enough in everything for everyone, so here's how I believe. I give everything I have. I'm going to be given more. I'm going to receive more. I'm going to ask for more than more from people who have it.
Then I have more than more, and I'm giving more than more, giving more than more, to receive more than more, to ask for more than more.
You see, I end up with more than more than more of everything where everyone else ends up in a zero-sum game because you and other people that I've met like you that are beautiful, my first responders, just generous, kind people, they give 100%, but then they only, oh, you know what, I'll only take 98% because that's enough for me. Well, your new 100% becomes 98%. It's a zero-sum game.
You end up at zero sooner or later.
You know what? It relates to so much. One of my biggest messages to young people when I talk about the stock market is investing in stocks and not stuff. We are like the most, the largest consumer generation probably in history. We want what we want when we want it, right? I always have joked, and I do it myself. I see something on Instagram that I want.
I'll go to buy it, and then it will offer me... It may be a $19 item. And then it will say, well, if you want it delivered yesterday, you could pay $25 to have it gotten there quicker. So I'm paying more to have what I want when I want it for the thing that it would have no value. But you're describing that. We don't really think of the value of time. First of all, something we'll never get back.
And also to think about that we are buying things. We need things. We think we need things. And there's just want and need and what that equation gives us at the end, which is getting things at the minute we own them, they actually start to lose value. And so that's a mindset that I try to teach people.
that let's say you have the iphone 12 and there's nothing wrong with it but the iphone 13 just came out and i need it i want it i have to have it and that urges we know also urges on walk around the block have some chocolate you won't urge it you won't need that thing as much and think about it if you don't buy that iphone 13 but you buy three shares of apple stock
suddenly you're going to be walking around not with the flashiest phone but you're going to be able to show people that you actually the possibility that you bought something that the minute you bought it has the potential to go up in value and all that so look every minute with you is just so exciting for me i wanted to know did when you went up to your interview with
Mr. Steinberg, was it like, did everybody tell you you couldn't do it? You're crazy. Don't go up there. He's going to send you away. You know, I'm confronted by young people who always say to me, oh, I can't go talk to them. I can't knock on that CEO's door. I'm not good enough for that. That whole self-esteem thing that people are afraid. And I always thought there was no door.
What's going to happen? The worst thing that will happen is.
i'm sorry there's no spot for you right now good luck and have a nice day right there's no door that you can't go knock did everybody tell you you can't do that for sure i actually went even i wasn't looking for a job and he wasn't hiring i went to go help him i had a friend that you know they were having difficulty with magic johnson in a reality show for showtime and i just volunteered because i wanted to meet him right
And they're like, my wife was extremely concerned. She's like, why are you wasting your day going up to help this guy with his show and talk to Lee Steinberg? I said, because I can actually help Lee Steinberg. And I know when I help people, you see, my main objective is would it help you if, or do you know anyone that could help me?
this is what i asked right right this is how it is i want to add value and so sure enough i didn't know everything going on with me at the time but he had never met anyone like me he said because i came in unconditionally hey he asked why i was there i said well this guy's my friend he told me he's having a difficult time getting the deal done with you i told him i thought i could help him he thought it was a good idea that i just joined the meeting
He said, that's really nice. And then he said, tell me a little bit about you and kind of hit it off. I want to get to that point because you talked about buying things you don't need for instant gratification, but also people buy things. And this is a huge void that you don't need to impress people you don't like. There's a big void right between I am and this is what I want people to think I am.
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