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Business attorney. Tax law. Real estate. "Money Twitter's favorite lawyer." Memento mori. Your hard is relative.
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Your addiction to money destroys your ability to make money
Your obsession with your body makes you less attractive
Your infatuation with women makes women like you less
Your compulsion to find happiness makes you unhappy
Your obsession with control only leads to chaos
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You think you’re “getting old” at 30
Brad Pitt was 35 in Fight Club & he was just getting started
Get it together boys
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The average person's life is so dull & bland that if you show the least bit of energy, charisma or spark when your lives happen to cross, it will literally be the highlight of their entire day. Not hyperbole.
The next time you enter a normal place of business or have a normal
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You will be judged at your worst moment
Envied at your best
And ignored the rest
So don't do it for others
Be crystal clear about what you want
(it will terrify you)
And then pursue it with dogged determination
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People forget
Bryan Johnson built & sold an $800 million company when he was out of shape, depressed & unhealthy.
“Imagine what he could have done if he was healthy”
Nah, he never could have created it healthy
That’s the terrifying paradox.
For that level, you probably
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The average 47 year old slightly overweight suburban dad who mows his half acre in white new balances every Saturday is more dependable than you in almost every area of life.
He’s never read a self help book. Doesn’t do crypto. He listens to Rogan once in a while but thinks the
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@BillSimmons
Me when I hit my first little league home run & my mom congratulated me then my dad
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If you think peak life in your 20s is getting a lambo, smoking a Cuban & wearing a Rolex
And posting pics of your gf half clothed on the bed next to you (back only for privacy ofc)
Not only have you not peaked
But your development has likely been completely stunted to the
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Memento mori.
Remember that you have to die.
The impetus for all ambition.
The cure for sloth.
The catalyst of cruelty.
The cost of courage.
Behold your death & be transformed.
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Everything in life is paradoxical.
Christ is the lion, but also the lamb
A wife criticizes her husband's fanatical workaholism, but she wouldn't love him if he didn't have ambition
A elegant cityscape showcases the creativity of man at the expense of the singular grandeur
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There's a concept called "piercing the corporate veil" that a lot of you don't understand
But you'll get clapped by it if you're not careful
One of the main reasons to get an LLC is to get limited liability protection. If you run your business thru the LLC, only the assets of
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As always, women are the ultimate test
Imagine yourself on a first date with a beautiful woman.
"What do you do for a living?"
(if you're honest)
"I trade something called 'super meowing cat' on Solana on dexscreener and babe you should just see the money I'm making for our
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If you think your performance depends on 8 hrs of sleep a night, your performance depends on 8 hrs of sleep.
If you think it depends on getting in a workout every morning, then it depends on getting a workout every morning.
If you think it depends on eating the perfect foods,
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Biggest advice I’d give 20 yr olds on this app:
Stop chasing money in your 20s
Chase good friends & mentors instead
“But why can’t I just chase both?”
You actually can’t, as a function of priorities
You will, at critical junctures, be forced to choose
Money as an end in
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A lot of you are addicted to money
And it’s going to destroy your life
But it’s also destroying your ability to make money
Life’s often paradoxical like that
Let it go.
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It’s probably time to admit what we knew intuitively all along:
Going to the gym obsessively to get jacked so girls will like you isn’t working
It’s neutral at very best and will catastrophically backfire at worst
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Finally one for our corner of Twitter
What you got?
(I actually think there's a right answer)
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All the most beautiful women I know are married to guys with utterly normal physiques. All
Why?
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This is hard to explain.
But the ideal image of the thing is never the best version of it.
If you made a soccer player in a lab, he wouldn’t look like Messi. But Messi is the best.
If you sculpted the “perfect” warrior, you’d make him too jacked.
The best movie stars
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You are paralyzed because you have so many options in front of you
And you think that if you walk through one door you’re eliminating all the others
That’s faulty thinking
Stride confidently through one door, and you’ll find that the options are limitless on the other side
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Crazy how the human organism works
You can be stressed, tired, sad
Then go outside and look at a pine tree
Thank God for your existence (God grants power to the grateful)
And then be good for another 8 hours
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For all of you young guys out there looking for a wife:
- find someone you don’t have to babysit in social situations
- find someone whose default is to hold themselves and others (including you) to high standards
- find someone who pushes back against your ideas once in
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I’ve been around lots of rich men. Classy men.
Men with a lot of power
And men who were very genetically gifted.
But all their magnetism combined paled in comparison to a 5’10” 140-pound broke pastor’s son I knew with a rebellious streak, a temper, & a tobacco habit who
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@MattWallace888
Whenever this guy says he's going to release something that will change the world forever, the only thing you know for sure is that it won't change the world forever.
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Alex Hormozi's entire message is just:
- pick something
- start
- work hard until you figure it out
- repeat
And he still gets flak.
A king.
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Some advice for you young guns in search of a wife.
These are some underrated qualities that I didn’t know would be so critical for the long haul.
Find a woman who:
- you don’t have to always be worried about in social settings
- is not insecure around other beautiful women
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You have a statistically 0% chance of being "at your best" when you actually need to be at your best
If you can't do it at your worst, you can't do it.
most men wait to look & feel their best before they can take any action at all. And youre lucky to get that maybe a few hours a week. The way you perceive yourself is too fleeting & unreliable. Youre going places when you can consistently win when you look & feel like shit
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You must realize, sooner or later, that almost no one knows what they’re doing.
Even in the most “prestigious” fields (I’m in law, and you simply wouldn’t believe the landscape)
Once you strip away the titles, the degrees, the experience, the parroted knowledge, and the
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You can learn more about business by spending 1 week studying the cocaine trade running through Antwerp and Rotterdam than you would in a 2 yr MBA program.
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Men say they want a trad wife & a farm out in the middle of nowhere
Bro, you've never even inseminated a cow, cut a chicken's head off, delivered a calf, or eaten a pig you've raised to slaughter
Get outta here.
You were grossed out dissecting a frog in middle school
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Buy 300 acres in Wyoming for $200K
Go in with a couple partners, I don't care
Make sure it has road access; doesn't need any utilities
Market it aggressively as a a glamping retreat with rustic yurts. Oh yeah, and there's also a yoga retreat.
Spend heavily on SEO, sleek
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“Invest in yourself” is great advice, but misapplied
Investing in yourself should be less about reading, classes and mentors
And more about putting yourself through daunting experiences
Going through hell is the ultimate investment
Learning multiplier is off the charts
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I cannot overemphasize how much you can achieve in life simply by dreaming of what you want, and then doggedly going after it.
Often, it's really as simple as it sounds.
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The cruelty of life
Is that you get one chance
At everything
Your kids, that experience, that first love
And then it’s over. The magic can never be replicated. That moment is always gone.
But then again, that’s the beauty too
Unlimited tries would degrade the human
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No Country for Old Men
Whiplash
The Dark Knight
The Prestige
Gladiator
Nightcrawler
The Tree of Life
LOTR
It's a Wonderful Life
Saving Private Ryan
Where'd I miss?
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People are bashing the girls in these kinds of videos
But I would legit consider hiring one of them for my company, no resume needed
If you’re able to scale one of the most brutal hierarchies known to man—the sorority house—and be one of the lead dancers in the sorority’s
The Texas A&M Delta Zetas would like to welcome everyone to the 2024-25 school year.
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If you think you've made it
Pull up Zillow & look up real estate for sale in Aspen
Work hard & stay humble boys
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If you had $1k to your name and had to make $100k in 2 months, and you couldn't do crypto, what would you do?
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Stop announcing that you’re entering your ___________ era and just enter it.
Roman generals returned from war with less fanfare than you require to write an email.
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You don't really want money. You want:
- time
- freedom
- influence
- power
- status
- women
- security
- fun
Money can help you achieve a lot of these things. But you've chased money for so long, you think money itself is the goal.
That's why you constantly post "just
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If you can get into an Ivy League school, or a school on par academically with an Ivy, you should definitely go.
Don't listen to money twitter in this area.
This isn't even debatable.
So basically, go to all the Ivy-league, plus:
Stanford
MIT
Cal Tech
Chicago
Duke
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Left home at 17.
Flew across the country for college. Loaned my way through law school & built a life in Ohio, starting from ground zero.
Worked hard, forged connections, built a killer network.
Worked my way up to a great job. Good pay, health & benefits.
Years flew by.
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Desperation is, above all else, a sign of life
A desperate man is vibrant, dangerous
Even hopeful.
Anguish breeds creativity, and creativity is the mother of hope.
Perhaps you need to place your back more firmly against a wall.
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If your business owns a valuable asset (machines, IP, real estate, etc)
One of the best things you can do is spin the valuable asset into another LLC & then lease the asset back to the operating entity
It's an incredible asset protection measure, because it places the valuable
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You could spend 120 minutes watching 2 episodes of "Love is Blind" this weekend on Netflix with the girl you're not even going to spend the rest of your life with
Or you could:
- form LLC (25 mins)
- get EIN (5 mins)
- open business bank account (25 mins)
- reach out to me
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Almost every post about what it means to be a “man” from 22 year olds on this app are laughable.
Most of the men you regale from past eras fail your arbitrary tests but are far greater men than you.
The historical greats shared almost nothing in common with each other,
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@oritheoracle1
True in many respects.
Most accounts posting pictures of trad women in sundresses holding a goat and 5 kids in a mountain valley didn't actually marry that, and never will actually marry that.
It's a fantasy. Real homesteading is insanely hard.
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If you are making $5k+ a month online (yes, including e-comm, tiktok, youtube, agencies, etc), here's how you probably need to set yourself up to limit your liability:
- Pick a name for your company
- Register your LLC with any state (if you can't choose, pick the state you
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How she looks at you when you effectively execute a corporate tax inversion in Ireland with one of your companies while spinning off a Sub in Hong Kong so you can issue convertible bonds and pay it tax free interest payments via the Parent in Wyoming.
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This is actually incredible advice.
Not much a walk in the sun can't fix.
Let your biology do the work for you.
Sometimes before I walk, I give my subconscious a specific problem to solve & literally tell it to work on it while I walk. Then I don't think about it.
Amazing
Tony Robbins believes that, in a lowered emotional state, we only see the problems, not solutions.
Let’s say you wake up feeling tired and overwhelmed. You sit down to brainstorm strategies to solve your issues, but it comes to naught, and you feel even worse afterward. This is
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There are unbelievably wealthy and powerful people on here with 100 followers.
And broke people with 100,000 giving financial advice & asking you to join their telegram.
Don’t get it twisted.
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If you really need something done
Get on a plane and go talk to him.
Get in a car and drive to meet her.
Face to face will never go out of style.
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It's a lot harder to be interesting than rich
What Money Twitter misses
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If you're a man, your attractiveness & physique matter to women
But very beautiful women probably care less about it than others
Why?
It's not because they don't have eyes (all women, generally, would rate you the same on a 1-10 scale)
I wonder if the key difference is the
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All these agency owners turned crypto bros over night
Was your agency successful or not?
If it wasn’t, why were you pretending it was?
If it was, why are you doing crypto all of a sudden?
It’s what people do, not what people say
And what they do is usually following the
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Fantasizing is the best planning
The root of all genius
And the only rocket fuel you need
It’s been denigrated for years, replaced in pop culture by goal setting & habit formation
But every step falls in line when your fantasy is lucid enough
Dream it & then do it. The
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Action cures fear.
Light it up and let it burn.
Watch the fear melt away.
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I built my law firm from complete scratch
I did it while working a full time job overseeing a team of 15 employees
Teaching as an adjunct professor
And raising 4 daughters
Could have made every excuse in the book (no time, not enough money, too risky, not enough
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@ColinCowherd
@DrHoodieMaddog
This is a good take.
I wish most people, on both sides, would be willing to take a common sense view of the other side. Admit when they are wrong. Move forward together.
This is the way.
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If you don't like where you live, you can move.
If you don't like your job, you can get a new one.
You've built a nice green pasture for yourself, but you've also built the fences.
Sometimes they keep the predators out. Sometimes they keep you in.
It's a breathtaking
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You need to understand something about success in 2024.
If people like you & want to be around you, you will be forgiven of almost anything.
Lack of skill
Lack of expertise
Lack of professionalism
Lack of ability
Subpar produce or service
These are all subsumed under the
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Open up the Notes app on your phone (free)
New note, call it “IG Mom strategy”
Pull up a Utah mommy influencer on IG (don’t care who)
Scroll through profile, clicking on posts
Observe:
- how she presents herself
- how she talks
- how she writes
- what she posts
- how
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I am teaching a business law course at [REDACTED] university this coming fall.
The value these kids are going to be getting at age 19 👀
They think they're going to be learning what an LLC is.
Instead we're going to have a whole unit on tax mitigation strategies & domestic
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If you want to pay less taxes to the government, the answer is not to hide income.
Why don't you actually use the approximately 1 million legal ways to mitigate your tax burden?
- deduct business expenses (meals, entertainment, business use of home, rent, mileage, etc)
- LLC
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If people like you, they will forgive your lack of skill, and you can develop the skill later
If people dislike you, your skill level will not matter, and you won’t be able to recover from the initial dislike
Socially aware, gregarious people are forgiven 70x7.
Skillful
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The scent of how you made your money stays with you
For some, it’s a stench
For others, a perfume
And people can smell it from miles away.
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All these guys are worth billions
You would never consider them cool
Look at em
The only things they have in common:
- they would fail your arbitrary tests of what a “real man” is
- they had dogged determination to accomplish something despite millions of setbacks
- they
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I actually think she brings up a great point.
Most guys are extremely boring. I find it in friendships too.
Not because they have to be, but because they think they must act a certain way to fit in.
In 2024, it's a much better compliment to be called "odd" than "stable."
Her requirement for men … are they too high?
What is the likely outcome here?
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The fox provides for himself
But God provides for the lion
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Your biggest, craziest goal
Is someone else's weekend project.
You can always zoom out & think bigger.
The key is not the actions you take, but the arena you play in.
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Your ultimate purpose might make you miserable
And your biggest vice might make you happy
Be careful what you chase
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Form LLC in any state
Get EIN (free)
Open bank account & get CC
Draft operating agreement
Review your contracts
Get umbrella insurance
Simple. Move on it.
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@ColinCowherd
You literally have been trying to convince people all year that the cowboys have all the ingredients of a Super Bowl champion
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I'm tired of seeing founders give away equity in their company to their graphic designer because they're cash poor
Instead of giving away the farm to a 14 yr old you found on fiverr, why don't you use phantom stock/units?
Phantom stock is basically an incentive compensation
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Everything is given to the man who doesn’t want it
Everything is taken from the man who wants it all
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When Phil Knight became a billionaire and had the houses, the cars, the status & the acclaim
All he wanted to do was go back to 0 and start the journey again
The trials, the tribulations. The ups & downs. All of it.
If you're in the journey right right now, know that a
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37 today.
Life has had its ups & downs, but God has blessed me immensely.
One of the biggest things I’m grateful for is the community I’ve developed on here over the past year. Sincerely.
Thankful for you guys. Many more to come.
🫡🔥
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Marginally better is worse than bad & far worse than the best.
It's when a 56 year-old man who has slaved his whole life upgrades from his Toyota Corolla and buys a Lexus ES. A Toyota in disguise.
The Lexus isn't exactly the problem. It's that you know he wanted an Aston
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Bare minimum for most business owners (yes, including ecom):
- register LLC thru state
- grab EIN from IRS
- open business bank account
- draft operating agreement
- get strong contracts for key partners
- consider insurance
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Most of you are underwhelming in person
Your online persona doesn't match reality.
A lion behind the keys, a kitten in the streets.
Whether it's your wealth, looks, accomplishments, personality, vibe
You oversell & underdeliver.
Your life lacks integrity & it'll eventually
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You can go for a drive in your super car without posting about it
You can buy a Honda Civic & drive it the rest of your life without feeling that you’re a failure
You can play with your kids without taking pictures
You can smoke a cigar with the boys around a fire out back
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Straight up advice if you want your company to blast through the first $100 million:
- stay lean & keep things simple
- don’t buy into the lie that you have to pursue outside funding to achieve growth
- remember: outside investment = outside control
- learn marketing
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Some need to hear this:
You're too focused on building on the skills you think you need to get where you want to go
Instead of focusing on just going
Skills are built in the trenches, not the training grounds
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A lot of the biggest players in the real world have the smallest accounts on here. 100 or 200 followers.
Many are anonymous.
They just like to see what's cooking.
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Tell someone your big, outlandish dreams
You’ll learn a lot about them
If they tell you all the ways they won’t work, you can be sure they’ve done the same to their own
If they gas you up, you know they have big dreams too
Those who are most successful never laugh at your
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Genghis Khan conquered 9 million square miles on horseback without a sleep stack.
I think you can handle drafting a VSL script tomorrow morning (before brunch with the boys) without your magnesium, L-Theanine, and "Good Night Tea."
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The moment in your life that you'll need to be at your best
Has a statistically 0% chance that you'll actually be at your best
If you can't do it at your worst, you can't do it.
Life demands performance at any given time
It cares not for your readiness.
Readiness is a
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A lot of you have a Lambo on the gram & a Rolex on the wrist but no sauce in hand.
I drive a chevy in Ohio and wear hoodies to client meetings but hand out $1 mill tax mitigation strategies
Light it up and let it burn
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Some of the best sales advice you’ll ever hear (from a lawyer)
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For my brothers on here:
I could use some prayers this week. Making some big decisions that I'm a bit uncertain about.
Hoping for the best but acting in faith that things will work out.
Appreciate it in advance.
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Men who constantly police the beliefs of other men to make themselves look safe to women are rarely safe for women.
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Monopoly taught you to invest in assets early on, even if it meant being a little cash poor.
Especially popular assets, like orange & red
To develop assets quickly, because resources fade
To talk to people, trade, and do backroom deals
To be unfazed by prison (a good late
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One of Brute's top 10 lead-ins of all time was when he discussed Jamie Gold, the 2006 WSOP champion.
Gold steamrolled the competition & ended up winning $12 mill, which was the biggest pot ever at the time.
He was an unlikely hero, kind of a bespectacled, bookish type. Not
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@Theofficialtopg
Andrew Tate: “I have been cancelled. Next I will be arrested.”
[Tate is arrested]
NPCs: hahaha Andrew Tate had no idea what he was getting himself into fighting with Greta!
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Levels to this Drake/kendrick saga
Level 1: oooh two famous people are dissing each other, I wanna listen
Level 2: bar-ology bro I’m so good at dissecting each line & everyone catching strays bro, it’s so amazing.
Level 3: nothing is as it seems. It’s a psychological war
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On a long enough time scale
Almost everyone you know will leave
But on a long enough time scale
Everyone you need you will find
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And I’ll clarify: I really kind of respect what he’s doing rn. I’ve enjoyed following the journey
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Dream it.
Now do it.
The only roadmap you need.
You’ll figure out the rest along the way as long as you’re resilient enough.
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Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion+ in 2014.
Why?
Because it had a cool interface?
No. It’s fine.
Because it had world class features?
No. Those are fine.
Because WhatsApp’s monthly fee would impact Facebook’s bottom line?
No. WhatsApp is free.
There’s
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If you're a guy and you're really attractive, you have to play coy & dust yourself up a little. Be good humored. Absolutely no way you can flaunt it or you're toast. An unbelievable turnoff to both sexes.
You basically have to be Brad Pitt.
If you're a woman, you can go either
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