21/11/2025
Defend your small business in just minutes.
add a couple other things that I feel were super relevant for me. I started with nothing and have since built and sold multiple companies for millions. Here’s what I would say were attributes that I had growing up that contributed:
1) There is always a way. When my parents, teachers, or bosses would tell me no, or block me from something I wanted. I knew there was some other way to get it. I would go to great lengths to achieve what I wanted even when told it couldn’t be done. I never liked being told how it was because in my mind there is always another way. This isn’t to say that I’d cross moral boundaries, it’s more of being willing to get creative and look at things through a different lens.
2) Trying to do as little as possible. In school I would always try to find out how I could do a little as possible and still comply with the requirements. It has translated to naturally trying to find areas of leverage in my business and life. This isn’t to say that I didn’t work hard, it’s more that I learned how to amplify my output through leverage.
3) Relentless optimism. This sort of goes hand in hand with the first one, but once I locked onto something I always had the resilience to keep pushing and I always believed I could do it. Even when I’d fail over and over again (which I did quite often) I still believed I could do it. When I kept trying to succeed in business many people would’ve said I “never learn” since I would just keep failing. It’s actually the opposite. Every single time I failed I learned a ton which I’d parlay into the next venture. I never stopped believing in my ability to succeed even when on the surface it looked like I never would.
4) Gravitating towards risk. I’ve always been completely okay with risking everything I had. In the beginning that was easy since I didn’t have much lol. But I’ve always been willing to take risks that others weren’t willing to take.
So there are my answers. I would say that there are ways to build lots of wealth outside of the way I did it. I’d say there are probably a lot of easier ways in fact. But for me? Taking risks and not knowing when to quit helped a lot.
*My big fat disclaimer on this though is that “becoming rich” isn’t an end goal you really ever reach. Every time you hit the milestone that previously qualified you as “being rich” you just move the target further. It took me a long time to realize that chasing financial milestones to achieve the things I THOUGHT I wanted in life just left me feeling empty.
