NoCaliberTalent Motivation

Some sayings I saw on Linkedin that helped me secure a top BB offer (think RBC/RBC/RBC/POTUS):

  1. unless your wife and kids are working, they are not wealth accumulating assets. get rid of them. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  2. you worship God. I worship Cousin Greg. we are not the same. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  3. I refuse to spend money to cut my hair. this is one of the small things in life that will compound over time to make me a billionaire. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  4. I've never watched anything on Netflix. not a single episode, not even once. 'omg you're missing out'. maybe I am. but maybe you're missing out too - maybe you're missing out on becoming a billionaire. keep your Netflix #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  5. you are living in a pandemic. I am living in a bandemic (period of time during which smart capitalists attempt to accumulate wealth from businesses). we are not the same. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  6. spend $10k on a logo for your startup before launching. you won't regret it. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  7. view people as assets. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  8. you by drugs for fun (weed). I buy drugs to work harder (modafinil). we are not the same. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  9. sigma rule #379: when your company fails, extract at least $1 Billion before you are pushed out. #adamneumann #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  10. do not 'build a relationship' with new connections on LinkedIn. pitch them in the DMs immediately - bonus points if you make no attempt to personalize the message. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  11. accumulate as much non personally guaranteed debt as possible, with no intention of ever paying back your lenders. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  12. use VC money to buy a yacht. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  13. you can't have success unless you never fail. and you'll never succeed unless you aren't willing to fail. don't be willing to fail. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  14. never stop to count your blessings. the time that you spend counting your blessings is time that your competition will spend putting you out of business. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  15. buy your way into the Forbes 30 under 30. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  16. normalize sending kids to China to teach English after high school without making them feel like they are less than four year University kids. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  17. you don't need the right people working for you to be successful, you just need a lot of people. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  18. ghost people when they can no longer provide you value. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  19. use your general marketing emails to scare your customers into checking your website. #creditkarma #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  20. investment bankers think that they are hard working when in reality they only work 100 hours per week. meanwhile entrepreneurs work 168 hours per week every week and don't complain as much. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  21. most bosses don't know how to take advantage of their team, but a true leader knows how to take advantage of everyone. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  22. burn bridges behind you so that you are screwed if you fail. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  23. never doubt yourself. anyone who disagrees with you does not matter. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  24. quick poll out of curiosity. how many hours do you work per day? option 1: 16+ hours per day, option 2: less than 16 hours per day #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  25. learn from the mistakes of people who take your advice. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  26. money speaks only one language - Mandarin. learn Mandarin and move to China if you want financial freedom. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  27. the road to success is lonely. that's why a prison cell only has one toilet but your average house has 2+. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  28. so you're ready to give up? your competition is working ten times harder than you, has ten times as much capital as you, and has ten times as many connections as you. motivated yet? good. now go outwork them. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  29. the 25/5 rule: 1. make a list of the top 25 things that you want to do in life. now do the bottom 5. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  30. you'll never see the stars if you're always looking up - the Sun will burn your eyes. don't dream so big if you want to be successful. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  31. 5 movies for entrepreneurs: 1. Wizard of Lies 2. Matchstick Men 3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 4. Ocean's Eleven 5. A Bug's Life. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  32. stop trying to build the next big thing slow. remember that it only takes 5 minutes to build a peanut butter sandwich. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset 

  33. disappear for just four months: - rent a capsule hotel in Japan - buy physical copies of Rich Dad Poor Dad and sell them to your friends - eat Cheerios for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

  34. don't buy stakes in companies. buy stakes in people. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

  35. if you had to choose one which one would you pick: option 1: true love and 1 Million Dollars, option 2: 100 Billion Dollars. #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

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Some more:

  1. When you cross a bridge, burn it. Then no one can get to where you’re at #burningpassions #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset
  2. Never look back. Only look at the back in front of you and shove it down out of your way. #pushforsuccess #overcomingobstacles #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset
  3. Take out life insurance. Not on yourself, on your family. Make a death in the family a cause for celebration instead of moping  #selfworth #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset
  4. Go launch a new charity. Make yourself the beneficiary and invest all your income into it #solvingtaxes #selfgiving #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset
  5. Live your life with no brakes. Make others afraid of your speed and momentum so if they don't move it becomes their problem, not yours #unstoppableforcevsimmovableobject #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset
  6. Take out all debt you can and make yourself simply too big to fail. Succeed by default and make everyone else know your failure is not an option #solyndradidnothingwrong #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset
  7. Do all your grocery shopping by delivery to cut your own carbon footprint and spend more time focusing on creating what the world really needs, the next CandyCrush #priorities #humanprogress #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset
 

A longer one:

one time in college I was walking around the business school, and I saw a drawing that was hanging up on the wall on the third floor of the building, stuck within a glass frame. next to the frame, there was a note which said that the drawing was being sold, and to contact the email with your bid if you would like to participate in the bidding. I asked a few people what they thought of the drawing. 'anyone with rudimentary skills could draw that drawing.' is what one person told me. another person said - 'I wouldn't pay more than 0.003 cents to purchase that drawing. that drawing isn't worth more than the paper that it was printed on.' I thought that the drawing was beautiful, and I submitted a bid of $50 (all of the money that I had at the time) to try and win the drawing. I won the drawing. When I won, I found out that this drawing was actually the original version of Mickey Mouse, drawn by Walt Disney himself. supposedly this drawing is worth over $100 MM, however I will never sell this drawing - as the lesson that it taught me was worth much more than $100 MM could ever mean to me. know your value. (attached is a picture of a stick figure). #sigmamalegrindset #upyourgrindset

 

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