John Morgan
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There's a genetic seed that goes in to the paper boy because the paper has to be delivered every day in the snow, in the sleet, in the cold.
You have to get up and do it.
Warren Buffett was a paper boy.
Oprah Winfrey was a paper girl.
Walt Disney was a paper boy.
Have your viewers Google famous paper boys.
So I think the one pattern is –
There's a genetic entrepreneurial seed.
You have it.
I could tell when as soon as I walked in, I'm like, this guy, I don't know if you had papers, but I guarantee you something when you were 11, 12, 13, you were hustling something.
I don't know what.
Today, everybody's on YouTube and coding and all that.
That's the new paper route.
So that's the one thing.
And then the next thing is what I wrote a book about called You Can't Teach Hungry.
There is something inside of you when you're poor.
I talked about that helplessness, that powerlessness, that hopelessness that makes you hungry.
And it can't be taught.
You can't, like your guy that I met coming in, the comedian, you can't teach funny.
There are certain things that cannot be taught.