Tai Lopez
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250 – now he's worth $150 billion. He owns 5% of Microsoft, $3 trillion company. I asked him. I said, you know, wealth, it's like do you deserve all this kind of thing at dinner? He's like, well, you know, I'm a smart guy. I would have been wealthy. But if I hadn't met these two guys, Paul Allen and Bill Gates –
250 – now he's worth $150 billion. He owns 5% of Microsoft, $3 trillion company. I asked him. I said, you know, wealth, it's like do you deserve all this kind of thing at dinner? He's like, well, you know, I'm a smart guy. I would have been wealthy. But if I hadn't met these two guys, Paul Allen and Bill Gates –
wouldn't be worth 150 billion so he was like the connections i made created my wealth and by the way mark zuckerberg who's the youngest wealthiest person he mark zuckerberg was the only person in history worth 100 billion under age 37 And Zuckerberg, he networked. He had all these smart people. He also networked and had Steve Jobs as his mentor in his mastermind.
wouldn't be worth 150 billion so he was like the connections i made created my wealth and by the way mark zuckerberg who's the youngest wealthiest person he mark zuckerberg was the only person in history worth 100 billion under age 37 And Zuckerberg, he networked. He had all these smart people. He also networked and had Steve Jobs as his mentor in his mastermind.
Your mentors can be in your mastermind. People don't know. He had Steve Jobs guiding him from like 2008 to when Steve Jobs died. So years of mastermind. So behind every Forbes list billionaire, if you dig into this story, there's a mastermind. And so when I meet entrepreneurs that are doing 1 million, 5 million, 10 million, and I'm like, who's your mastermind? Like, oh, I don't need one.
Your mentors can be in your mastermind. People don't know. He had Steve Jobs guiding him from like 2008 to when Steve Jobs died. So years of mastermind. So behind every Forbes list billionaire, if you dig into this story, there's a mastermind. And so when I meet entrepreneurs that are doing 1 million, 5 million, 10 million, and I'm like, who's your mastermind? Like, oh, I don't need one.
I'm like, bro, let me get this straight. You're smarter than Elon Musk. You're smarter than the whole Forbes list. Warren Buffett said, I wouldn't have been that wealthy if I hadn't met this guy, Charlie Munger. He met him at like a group thing, like a conference, and he met this guy. They eventually became partners. Before then, Warren Buffett was working twice as hard and making half the money.
I'm like, bro, let me get this straight. You're smarter than Elon Musk. You're smarter than the whole Forbes list. Warren Buffett said, I wouldn't have been that wealthy if I hadn't met this guy, Charlie Munger. He met him at like a group thing, like a conference, and he met this guy. They eventually became partners. Before then, Warren Buffett was working twice as hard and making half the money.
And he's like, I met this guy, Charlie Munger. A great book on this, if you want the actual science, is by Jim Collins. He wrote a series of books, Good to Great, generally considered the most respected.
And he's like, I met this guy, Charlie Munger. A great book on this, if you want the actual science, is by Jim Collins. He wrote a series of books, Good to Great, generally considered the most respected.
modern business book he's like the modern Peter Drucker in his research of highly successful high net worth individuals he was surprised he called he said I thought it would be a what event meaning somebody had an invention and thought of something he said what it turned out to be was a who event This guy met this other guy. Steve Jobs met Wozniak.
modern business book he's like the modern Peter Drucker in his research of highly successful high net worth individuals he was surprised he called he said I thought it would be a what event meaning somebody had an invention and thought of something he said what it turned out to be was a who event This guy met this other guy. Steve Jobs met Wozniak.
When Steve Jobs was young, his neighbor was the founder of Hewlett-Packard. So when Jim Collins, who's a researcher, one of the most respected business researchers, he said, wait, it's not somebody coming up with some idea. It's somebody meeting, connecting with another human. That's it. There's a lot of books on this. Working Together by Michael Eisner, the former... CEO of Disney.
When Steve Jobs was young, his neighbor was the founder of Hewlett-Packard. So when Jim Collins, who's a researcher, one of the most respected business researchers, he said, wait, it's not somebody coming up with some idea. It's somebody meeting, connecting with another human. That's it. There's a lot of books on this. Working Together by Michael Eisner, the former... CEO of Disney.
He also says... It's a myth that solo people make the most money. It's people who either have joint ventures, partnerships, network, share ideas. By the way, we could just go back to Carnegie, 400 billion net worth, and he says he owed it all to his brain trust. That's another word for master. That's an 1800s word for brain trust, you know? I mean, that's an 1800s word for mastermind.
He also says... It's a myth that solo people make the most money. It's people who either have joint ventures, partnerships, network, share ideas. By the way, we could just go back to Carnegie, 400 billion net worth, and he says he owed it all to his brain trust. That's another word for master. That's an 1800s word for brain trust, you know? I mean, that's an 1800s word for mastermind.
20 million brain trust. You can put it in sub-headline. Build your brain trust.
20 million brain trust. You can put it in sub-headline. Build your brain trust.
Yeah, because introversion, look, about half the world genetically is literally born on the more introverted side. If you look at, there's a modern science, more advanced, it's called Hexaco score. There's like the big five. Those are the old ones. The newest one's called Hexaco. In there, there's a...
Yeah, because introversion, look, about half the world genetically is literally born on the more introverted side. If you look at, there's a modern science, more advanced, it's called Hexaco score. There's like the big five. Those are the old ones. The newest one's called Hexaco. In there, there's a...