Shadowing Practice: Asking London Billionaires How They Got Rich! - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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Excuse me, sir.
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Sir, I have a question for you.
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How did you get rich, sir?
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Sir, I grew a channel to 20 million followers in the United States.
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I asked people for advice to help the younger generation.
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Am I being filmed?
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Yes, sir.
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Okay.
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My one piece of advice is this.
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Excuse me, sir.
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Sir, how did you get rich?
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I got rich by having an idea in my head and making it real.
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I built a company called Fluid,
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and I sold the price of Waterhouse Cooper for more money than I ever need.
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How much money are you worth today?
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Three, four hundred million.
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I brought the company up to 150 million, and we're scaling that.
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150 million?
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Yeah, we're scaling that consistently.
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Um, I think 30 million.
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30 million dollars?
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Yes.
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What was the lowest point in your life?
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The lowest point in my life was losing 55 million overnight and I was shell-shocked.
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You said overnight?
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Literally overnight, the recession happened.
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How you doing?
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Hi.
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I said you really enjoyed the interview yesterday.
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Oh yeah?
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Would you like to come and join us first after shopping?
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Yeah, we'll come in there for a second.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Give me a lesson about business right here in our town school.
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How did you scale a 100 million dollar company?
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So the secret, the thing they don't really educate you on,
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they don't really announce, they probably keep it to one side, is...
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If me and you died tomorrow and you had one more message to leave with the younger generation,
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what would that be?
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Wow.
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Um...
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Guys, we just landed in London,
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one of the richest cities in the entire world.
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This is a place where billionaires are everywhere.
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And I just flew from across the world,
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from the United States, to be here with one mission.
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To meet and interview the richest people in London and ask them exactly how they built their fortunes,
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their million dollar, their billion dollar net worth,
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and how you can do the exact same thing and become financially free in today's world.
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So this video is about to be insane from start to finish, so stay tuned.
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With that being said, let's get this video on the way.
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Guys, we're headed in right now to the city of London to go get our first interview,
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but we just found something out insane.
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Guys, London ranks number six as the wealthiest city in the entire world.
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There's over 210,000 millionaires that live here,
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and it's home to some of the most powerful billionaires on planet Earth.
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So honestly, who knows who we're going to go find out here.
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Let's go find out.
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Excuse me, sir.
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I had a question for you.
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How did you get rich?
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Excuse me, sir.
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Question for you.
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How did you get rich?
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Sorry?
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How did you get rich?
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Sir?
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Sir?
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How did you get rich?
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How did you get rich?
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No, don't bother.
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I got you.
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Don't bother.
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Don't bother.
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Excuse me sir, how did you become wealthy?
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Question for you, how did you get rich?
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Nothing, nothing.
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What were you saying?
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Not so easy in England too.
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Hey, it's not that easy,
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but we don't stop until we get them this- Dissemination, I like it.
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Absolutely man, nice to meet you man.
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I watch you all the time.
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Do you actually?
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Absolutely.
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Thank you man, I appreciate that.
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Interviewing all the wealthy people and getting connections and all the rest of it.
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Hey, we're going to find some billionaires right now.
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They're here, but they're very low key.
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They're very low key, yes sir.
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I appreciate that my man, thank you.
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You're very welcome, take care.
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Thank you sir, appreciate it.
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Alright you guys, so look,
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it doesn't matter what part of London we go to right now, man.
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Look, it is rejection after rejection out here, guys.
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Look, it's not like some of the places in the States,
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like Texas or Florida, where everybody's down to talk to you, man.
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These people are private, they're secretive,
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they're going from meeting to meeting,
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they are gatekeeping out here.
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But look, I didn't fly all the way across the world to London for nothing, you guys.
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So I'm not going to stop until I get these millionaires
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and billionaires to give us the game for you and the younger generation.
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Let's go see what they have to say.
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Excuse me, sir.
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Sir, I have a question for you.
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How did you get rich, sir?
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Sir, I grew a channel to 20 million followers in the United States.
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I asked people for advice to help the younger generation.
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Do you have one piece of advice for the younger generation to help them be successful in today's world?
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How am I being filmed?
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Yes, sir.
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Okay.
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My one piece of advice is this.
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You don't get rich by working for someone else.
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You don't get rich by being paid a salary.
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You don't get rich by starting your own business.
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You slave your guts out night and day meeting cash flow crises.
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You get rich by selling your business.
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So my advice to someone who wants to get rich,
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start a business build it up for a couple of years and then sell it.
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What type of company did you sell?
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Real quick sir, sir, real quick sir.
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So I've interviewed John Caldwell,
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I've interviewed, let me show you my channel,
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I've done stuff with like Tom Cruise.
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Are you happy with what I said?
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It's a great answer, but sir,
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I promise you, it's not enough for a clip.
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You mentioned selling a business.
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What's the number one thing that entrepreneurs get wrong about the exit?
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First of all, when you start a business,
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you should work out at the very beginning who's going to buy it in four years' time.
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How do you identify the buyers?
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Because you're in a business,
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you're starting up a company, doing something.
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It might be advertising, it might be public relations.
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You can work out which of the big firms might want to buy your successful little company in a few years time.
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Identify them at the outset and then everything you do is geared towards making that sale in the end.
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Now what's this for?
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What was the main company that you had sold, sir?
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I'm not telling you.
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Can I show you what it's for, sir, at least?
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Before you go in there,
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I at least want to show you the channel.
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Do you know Tom Cruise?
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Yes.
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So this is me and him.
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What industry?
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Did you decide to come?
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Let me ask you, sir.
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What was the best advice that you ever received throughout your career?
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If there's one lesson...
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No more.
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Do you prefer one more?
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I'm a huge fan of your channel.
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Have you seen it before?
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I've seen it before.
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Oh, okay, okay.
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Sir, what's that?
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I don't, you're not going to get more.
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What's that?
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You're not going to get more out there.
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What did he do, though?
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He founded the Adam Smith Institute.
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Okay.
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That'll go.
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Look, man, I pressed him probably about as much as I could press anybody
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that you see me do on this channel, you guys.
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Nonetheless, man, he said it right there, man.
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He said, you're not going to get rich working for somebody else.
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You've got to start your own business,
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identify the right buyer, and sell that thing, you guys.
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Crazy interview out here in London, man.
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If this is how it's going to go,
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man, let's keep it rolling, you guys.
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Come on.
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Excuse me, sir.
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Sir, how did you get rich?
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I'm just interviewing someone right now.
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How did you get rich?
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I got rich by having an idea in my head and making it real.
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I built a company called Fluid out of Hong Kong,
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and I sold it to PricewaterhouseCoopers for more money than I'll ever need.
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How much money are you worth today?
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$300,000,000,000,000.
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Are you serious?
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I'm going all over London interviewing the richest people to help the younger generation.
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Can I get a minute with you for the channel real quick?
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Yeah, of course.
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Let me ask you this real quick.
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You've interviewed tons of people,
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and you've asked them this one question.
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What is your dream?
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Excuse me, get off the phone,
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I've got something important to ask you.
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What am I going to ask you?
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You're going to ask me how I got rich?
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What's my dream?
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What's my dream?
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Exactly, I'm going to ask you how you got rich and what's your dream.
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Let's do both.
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So I interviewed billionaires for a living.
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Have you interviewed me yet?
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I'm a bit insulted.
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We've got to make it happen at some point.
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What is your dream?
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My dream is to fix the education system.
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I feel like young people in particular are getting let down right now.
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AI is coming, but no one's warning people that these jobs we keep telling people they're going to get won't exist.
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We're not giving people the knowledge to realise they can take control of their own life.
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They have agency over their life.
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That's what I want to give people and I will not stop until that happens.
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Because they're saying that the poor get poorer and the rich get richer.
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What keeps people broke in today's world?
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A lot of people are blaming the rich or they're blaming the government.
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They're blaming other people as to why they're not making it.
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The best thing you can do is blame yourself and skill up.
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Realize you can have agency over your life.
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And that's what I think.
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I tried to go the easy route and get social benefit to help me.
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I tried to go the easy route and get a job.
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I had to go the hard route, man.
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And that was the best thing that ever happened to me because I realized I can create wealth.
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I didn't need anyone to give it to me.
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I will f***ing take it.
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What are the richest people in the world you're giving me from everybody else?
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Think about all the billionaires should do.
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What do they do differently?
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There's no work-life balance.
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So the rich don't do two things.
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One, they do not think about retirement.
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They just think about doing stuff they love every day.
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And that means you can go forever, right?
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There's no limit at 65 where you stop.
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So you just keep going.
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The second thing is they're not thinking about Monday to Friday is work and Saturday,
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Sunday is not work.
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There is no work-life balance.
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It's just life.
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Like I have an eight-year-old son.
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He's included in my business.
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You only want work-life balance if you don't enjoy what you do.
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So what did you have to sacrifice to become this successful?
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I have sacrificed the easy life.
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I think when people get a salary,
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they get trapped on a drug that stops them.
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Golden handcuffs, they call it.
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It's worse than that.
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It's a middle class trap.
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A lot of people let the salary own them.
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Once they start getting a salary,
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they start building up debt.
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So if you've got a mortgage,
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you're working for the bank.
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If you've got a car loan,
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you're working for the car company.
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I just want to work for myself.
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I want to own my time.
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The only thing money has brought me of true value is I own my time.
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I'm standing in the street helping this guy,
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not because he's not paying me.
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You're not paying me, right?
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I just can because it's my time and I own it.
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Money only buys you time.
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And if you're not spending money on time, you're f***ing wasting money.
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You know they don't teach us in school, right?
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They don't teach us in school in my opinion for a reason.
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Why is that?
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If you understood how money works,
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why would anyone sell time?
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It's limited.
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You only have a certain amount of time in the day.
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Why would you sell time as an outcome?
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Most of my businesses have been successful.
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I've sold outcomes.
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I've sold results.
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I've taken a percentage of what the success was on that business.
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Not the amount of time it took me to do it.
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The teacher is also charging by the hour.
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So the people teaching you don't even understand how money works.
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You know why?
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They don't want you to operate in the real world.
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They want you to go work for someone else.
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Did you have an LLC or an S-Corp when you started your companies?
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In England you have a limited company, in Hong Kong similar.
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How important is that entity structure when you're building your business?
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Well of course you need to make sure that when you build out a company that you follow the law.
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But it also protects you though.
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But of course if you have a limited business,
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same as LLC in America,
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it's harder for you to be sued personally.
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And of course business shouldn't be personal as far as,
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in America I know a lot of people like to sue each other.
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You do need a structure I think mainly for your accounts but also legally to protect yourself.
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A lot of people make a million excuses as to why they can't start companies.
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There's a business that I use to start all my companies.
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It's called Bizzee.
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And the most successful entrepreneurs I use, they use this company.
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And it essentially allows them to start their business and open it up overnight.
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As opposed to thinking days,
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weeks, and months like everybody thinks.
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Okay, what's it called again?
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It's called Bizzee.
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B-I-Z-E-E.
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It helps them structure their businesses.
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People should know that.
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100%.
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I love that.
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How old are you today?
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How old am I today?
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I'm 51.
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You look damn good for 51.
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I feel younger.
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Simon, if me and you died tomorrow and you had one more message to leave with the younger generation,
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what would that be?
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Purpose of life is a life with purpose.
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You get such a short time on this planet.
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Like, don't ever live with regret.
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I meet a lot of people in their 80s and 90s who,
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like, wish they did something.
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You don't want to be that.
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At least if you try it and it doesn't work,
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you've got a good story.
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Like, I will always execute on an idea because I don't want to live with regret.
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What if, what if?
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Too many people live with regret.
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They don't take action and try it.
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You've got amazing advice, my friend.
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Thank you for interrupting my interview.
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Thank you for all you do for everybody, man.
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Oh, no, it's nice of you to say that, man.
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Likewise, I love you.
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I connect with all the millionaires and billionaires at interview.
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Can I get your contact?
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Yeah, yeah, of course, man.
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You bet.
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Guys, we just interviewed Simon Squibb out here in London,
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man, and he's got over 20 million followers across social media.
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Not to mention, like you said,
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he's worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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But did you hear what we talked about?
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Look, every single one of these guys,
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the millionaires, the billionaires, they all do one thing the same.
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They structure their business properly.
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That's what turns an idea into a real company.
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And that's exactly why I tell everyone,
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like I just told Simon, to use Busy.
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Busy makes it insanely easy to set up your LLC or S-Corp.
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They handle all the paperwork,
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help protect your personal assets,
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and even set you up the right way for taxes.
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So guys, you don't need some crazy lawyer.
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You don't need to overthink it.
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You can literally get your business set up in minutes.
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So guys, waste no more time.
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Go down and click the link in the description of this video to set your business up with busy and actually start.
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That being said, let's go get this next interview.
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How you doing?
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Hi.
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Martin said he really enjoyed the interview yesterday.
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Oh yeah?
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Would you like to come and join us for a glass of champagne?
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Yeah, we'll come in there for a second.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Good to have some champagne, eh?
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How you doing, sir?
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Good, sir.
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Nice to see you.
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Good to see you.
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I now know who you are.
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I looked you up.
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You saw it?
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Nice, nice.
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Ready to go?
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Yes, indeed.
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What was the most amount of money that you made in a single year?
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More than one, less than 10.
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Is it better to be a business owner or an investor in today's world?
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Oh, it's better to be a businessman.
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Why?
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Investors, you take your chances.
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As a businessman, you're dependent on your own abilities,
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your own skills, your own expertise.
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But do you think everybody's built for entrepreneurship?
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No, I don't think everybody is.
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But nature has a way of sorting out the ones that are from the ones that aren't.
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And if you discover that it's not for you,
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then you can always try something else.
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How old are you today?
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I'm in my 86th year.
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You're 86 years old?
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I will be this year, yes.
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That's incredible, man.
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If you were to go back and talk to your 20-year-old self and give yourself one piece of advice,
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what would that be?
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You won't believe what you're about to do in your lifetime.
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Wow, so you ended up doing some amazing things.
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I would have told my 20-year-old,
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get ready for a roller coaster ride.
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Do you have any regrets?
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Oh, everyone has regrets, of course.
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Regrets?
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I've had a few, but then again, a few to mention.
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Hey, that's some Frank Sinatra right there.
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Yesterday, you told me that the way to get rich in today's world is to sell a company.
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Did you ever sell a company?
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Yes, you can assume that.
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What do people need to understand when they want to build a company to sell it?
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Most business owners dream is to sell their company,
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but a lot of people will never exit a business.
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What can you tell people about selling a company?
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How do you make that happen?
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I'll give you an example that for some people is the path to success.
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Join a firm, learn the trades for a couple of years,
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and then with a colleague or two,
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set up your own version using the skills you've acquired and gradually build it up over a few years.
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I mean two or three years.
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Acquire yourself a client base,
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build it up so you've got a turnover of half a million,
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a million, and then you sell it for a multiple of that.
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When you sell the business, you become rich.
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You're 86 today.
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If me and you die tomorrow and you have one more message to leave with the younger generation what would that be?
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If I had one more message for the younger generation I'd
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say it isn't what fortune throws your way it's how you react to whatever comes your way.
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It's not the luck it's how you respond to whatever luck happens.
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My motto
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and I think it's the motto of every one of the
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people we've been talking about in Latin quod tango muto in English it means
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that which I touch I change and if you can
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if you can change the lives of other people for the better then you've achieved something worth remembering.
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You have amazing advice sir thank you for your time sir I really appreciate
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that guys so look I cannot make this up man we go in there
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and he says look I looked you guys up on the channel
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and he comes out to drop some game for you guys
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man let's get this next interview right now London is going crazy you guys come on
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excuse me sir sir sir question for you huh I have
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a question for you sure how did you become wealthy how'd I become wealthy yes sir banking
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and baking investment banking where are you from originally from Nigeria but I grew up here Yeah,
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I went to school in England.
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Did you ever own a company at any point in time or you just worked in the business world?
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I own my own company now.
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You own your own company?
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What type of business is it?
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Fun business.
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Actually?
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Yeah, like the hedge fund.
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You own a hedge fund?
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Yeah, so I can dress like this on a weekday.
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So what was the most amount of money that you made in a single year?
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I think 30 million.
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30 million dollars?
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Yes.
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Did you come from a rich family?
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Relatively.
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Relatively rich.
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Yeah, not rich but my father's a doctor so middle class.
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But you chose not to be a spoiled rich kid.
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Yeah, of course.
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You got to work hard for it.
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Yeah, you work hard for it.
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to be a doctor like your dad?
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Two of my brothers ended up being in medicine.
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So you're kind of the black sheep of the family.
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Totally, but we all have different parts in life.
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Take me back to the most life-changing conversation you've ever had.
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What's the greatest piece of advice that you've received throughout your career?
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Wow.
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When someone says no to you,
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what they mean is try harder.
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I love that.
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I always like to say that no does not mean no. It just means not yet.
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Exactly.
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It just means try harder.
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I've been to job interviews where,
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when I was younger, someone rejected me.
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Then the person that's sitting in the desk next to him hired me.
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Never take no for an answer.
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What's more important in the business world today,
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what you know or who you know?
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I think what you know now.
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What you know.
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Yeah, but in the past,
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it was who you know.
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Why?
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Well, because if you think about it,
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the governor of the Bank of England was complaining that his daughter doesn't have a job.
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That wouldn't happen 20 years ago.
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Because nepotism, yeah, that person would have got a job.
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So what is a lesson about money that banks don't want people to know?
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The bank multiplier.
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Every pound you deposit in the bank,
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the bank lends it nine times.
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They don't teach you that in school.
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They don't teach you that in school, yeah.
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Did you ever leverage money?
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Of course, yeah, that's the only way to make money.
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You have to leverage.
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And I did an MBA.
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No one told me that the power of wealth is about leverage.
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All these properties you see here someone's leveraging Everything you see around here even this car is leveraged.
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Are you married?
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Yes, I am.
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Yeah married with two great kids How long you been married?
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Oh, I've been my wife 30 something years.
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How long have you been faithful?
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30 something years In your kids how old are they today?
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Oh, they're 21 and 18.
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How old are you?
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I'm old Older than 50?
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Yes, 60.
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No, just I'm around 58 So if me and you died tomorrow
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and you had one more message to leave with the younger generation,
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what would that be?
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The US has only been around for 300 years and look at what they've achieved.
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When the queen died, the queen had been alive for a third of the existence of the US.
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So get out there.
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The world is big.
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Compounding helps you.
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Whatever investment you make now,
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your children are never ever going to say you made a bad investment.
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So don't sit there worrying about whether you paid 10% more or not.
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Pay, get in and I think in 20,
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30 years time, you're never going to regret it.
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Can I tell you something, sir?
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Sure.
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You have incredible advice.
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Well, we try.
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Thank you so much for your time, and I appreciate that.
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Guys, I can't make that up.
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Look, I saw my guy across the street,
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and I just had a feeling,
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man, that he had some sneaky well.
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$30 million in a single year,
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man, in the money business,
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in finance, and he just gave us the blueprint right there.
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The richest people in the world, man, they leverage money.
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He said, look at the car,
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look at the house, look at the restaurant.
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Everything out here, man.
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Crazy game, crazy good interview.
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Let's go get this next one out here in London, you guys.
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Come on.
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Excuse me, sir.
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Sir, how did you get rich?
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How did I get rich?
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I made my first million at 23.
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What line of business are you in, man?
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And so now I'm in health tech,
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I'm a founder of a health tech company.
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So what was the most amount of money that you made in a single year?
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I brought the company up to $150 million and we're scaling that.
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$150 million?
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Yeah, we're scaling that consistently.
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Can I interview for a minute?
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I go all over the world interviewing billionaires to help the younger generation.
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Is that okay?
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Yeah, of course, yeah, of course, yeah.
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What was the lowest point in your life?
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The lowest point in my life was losing $55 million overnight and I was shell-shocked.
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So you said overnight?
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Literally overnight.
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The recession happened, the banks foreclosed on all of our facilities.
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We had three massive developments.
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They just withdrew all of that.
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And that was good.
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Are you serious?
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Yeah, and that was good because I was getting arrogant.
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I'd had win after win after win.
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I was quite young and I thought I was a god.
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I thought I was invincible and my character was altering
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and the lesson I learned from that was the universe
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if you don't contribute the universe will take it away from you
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because you need to give back So though I've helped my family.
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I wasn't really conscious of the larger population I wasn't really kind of helping
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and being of value to the universe So the universe was like I'm gonna,
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you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna put you back to where you started and you're gonna have to prove that you're deserving.
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How old are you today?
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I'm 51 today.
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You're in incredible shape.
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How important was your physical fitness for your financial success?
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Is there a correlation there?
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So here's the thing.
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Subconsciously, people might not like to hear this,
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but when you sit there,
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it commands an element of respect.
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I was very young when I made my first millions,
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and I had a chairman of Bank of Scotland,
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etc. And they kind of stepped backward from their position and let me put across what I needed to,
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and there was an element of respect, you know?
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And when you walk into a place, people will notice you.
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They'll want to speak to you.
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It's just a fact.
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You're a part of the top 1% of the top 1%.
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What is the secret that the wealthiest people know that 99% of people do not know?
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Everyone knows the formula, but they can't execute it.
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You have to be continually focused.
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Ideas are cheap.
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Everyone can...
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Like, some people I know have fantastic ideas,
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and they're much more capable than me.
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They're much more naturally gifted,
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but they won't put the work in.
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You take action.
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I take action, and I have the stomach for the sacrifice.
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Did you go to university?
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Yeah, I read law at university.
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People don't believe that, but I read law, yeah.
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Give me a lesson about business right here, not time school.
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How did you scale a $100 million company?
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So the secret, the thing they don't really educate you on,
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they don't really announce, they probably keep it to one side,
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and I didn't know this until I started health tech,
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is annual recurring revenues.
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If I'm selling this bag,
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I've got to sell that and I might sell 10,000 this week,
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but next week I might sell...
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You go out and find the deal.
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But when you're having something that has a subscription base,
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that money is compounding all the time.
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You're making that money, you've got 5,000 subscribers,
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you're bringing X amount of income,
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you leverage AI, you leverage marketing,
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you increase that, that money's coming in whilst you sleep.
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Every month.
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Every month.
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And it's compounding.
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And also key to that is that Institutions will look at
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that and they will multiply that by 10 or 20
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and that's how they value your company
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So you can get a very high evaluation based on a much smaller revenue They said
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that the double R on the Rolls Royce stands for recurring revenue Exactly 51 years old today 51,
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yeah, yeah, yeah If me and you died tomorrow and you had one more message to leave with the younger generation,
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what would that be?
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Go for it.
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Stop stalling.
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Stop waiting.
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Stop self-doubting.
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People less competent, less creative,
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less talented than you have made it.
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Stop hesitating.
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Just go for it.
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Jump today.
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You have incredible advice, sir.
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Thank you so much.
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That's a wrap on today's video, man.
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London was incredible.
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I got to be no words.
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The millionaires and the billionaires just dropped so much game.
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So I need you guys to stop right now,
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like and subscribe for amazing content coming every week with the richest people in the world
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and all the business owners you can ever imagine.
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Guys, if you want to connect with and get direct access to the eight,
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nine, and 10 figure entrepreneurs that you see me interview every week on this channel,
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guys, go down, click the link in the description of this video to join the School of Mentors,
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which is the number one most powerful entrepreneur community and network in the entire world,
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where I host live calls every single week with the millionaires and the billionaires that I interview.
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So I can't wait to see you on the inside.
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With that being said, I'll see you in the next video.
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