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“DECIDE to BE GREAT!” – Patrick Bet-David (@patrickbetdavid) – Top 10 Rules


we act like victims it’s the economy to

market the place I live the city the

place I grew up to school I want to

everything is somebody else’s fault

because most of the world doesn’t care

about wanting to fully found the secrets

about business and life and

entrepreneurship they want to be

entertained moral authority is when you

walk into whom everybody listens because

you have moral authority because you

work the hardest in your office because

you’re reading the books cuz you’re

leading the family cuz you’re doing this

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attend and get you believing in you grab

a snack and chew on today’s lessons from

a man who went from fleeing Iran when he

was 10 years old during the Iranian

Revolution to come into an America

starting the PHP agency’ and the value

tainment youtube channel with the goal

to inspire people to achieve their

dreams

he’s Patric by David and here’s my take

alright let’s kick things off with rule

number one stick to the fundamentals see

when I first got started into business I

was all into listening to all these

motivational tapes listen I got a hold

of every single one of them and I

listened to him over and over and over

and over and I was just so motive and I

wanted to motivate everybody motive a

motive ah you know it was all I want to

motivate every single person I come

across and then finally got to polarize

it pad one if all you do is motivate

somebody they walk away excited and they

don’t do anything about it

what are you really motivating people

for for your own self-satisfaction so

people say oh my gosh what a great nice

message you just gave you such an

amazing motivational speaker I cannot

believe you speak that way then it came

to a point where I matured as a person

that I no longer needed the attention

for people to say Pat you’re amazing

don’t get me wrong I love getting

recognition for my kids I love getting

recognition for my wife for my family

for my blood

and from the people I work with on a

daily basis I love that but to get it

for validation eventually got to

porn-wise said I gotta figure out a way

to learn the fundamentals of business

and you know what happened I was

disappointed let me tell you why I was

disappointed when I seek to find out

what are the fundamentals of what these

massively successful people that was 20

to 23 years old you know what it was

they master all the boring stuff that

none of these motivational speakers

talked about on these videos they don’t

you know why because who the hell wants

to know about boring stuff what what

video that talks about boring stuff is

really gonna go viral it’s not gonna go

far watch this video today look how many

views it gets let’s look at the

commentary of this video this is not

gonna be great video that’s gonna go

viral you know why because it’s boring

you’re waiting for a secret you’re

waiting for me to give you some massive

special significant thing that I’m gonna

tell you that’s gonna change your life

this week no no it’s what I what what I

challenge you to do the last week which

is write out your commitments and follow

through with it

can you do that for 60 months

can you do that for 60 months you can

you do it for 60 months because I like

guarantees in life and you know what I

know about guarantees if you stick to

the basic fundamentals and constantly

improve adjust adapt but stick to that

same activity over and over and over and

over and over again for 60 straight

months you’re bound to dominate your

industry and if you do for 10 years the

industry is gonna know about you you do

it for 20 years the world’s definitely

gonna know about you by the way nowadays

you don’t need 20 years you need three

to five years nowadays but you do need

to show up and do the boring thing every

single there was the boring thing show

up on time early in the morning leave

late improve outreach bizdev collaborate

sell communicate challenge drive lead

technology track and accountability

these are boring things you got to do on

a daily basis but it is what it is rule

number two decide to be great do you

think rich people are special you think

people who are very wealthy became very

wealthy because they are just so much

more special than you are it’s one of

the biggest misconceptions in the world

they became rich because at some point

they said I think I can do something

with my life I’m sick of it I figured

out certain talents of mine I don’t like

this thing my life sucks

I want changes and they changed very

simple you can do that as well rule

number 3 my personal favourite compress

timeframes

a 1997 ferrari 301 when 0 to 16 8.1

seconds which today 8.1 seconds is a

lifetime but in 1977 super fast then a

1997 Ferrari 456 1 0 to 60 4.9 seconds

ok that’s almost 25 seconds faster than

a Ferrari now a 2017 488 gtp goes 0 to

60 in 2.9 seconds super fast now if you

look at that trend we went from 8 1

for nine to nine so let me ask you let’s

go to 2037 what do you think a Ferrari

is gonna be doing at 20 37 you think

it’s gonna do is zero to sixteen point

nine seconds can you imagine point nine

seconds you may say there’s no way into

oral here’s point nine seconds ready set

go

you just won 60 that’s point nine

seconds that someone back at eight point

one set four point naught is impossible

someone at four point nine said two

point nine is impossible and then

someone stood out two point nine says

point nine is impossible but what’s the

point with this this is an entrepreneur

channel what point am i trying to make

is this a Ferrari endorsement that I’m

making not at all this two points you

the point is everything in your business

today and the processes that you have

whatever it is from selling from point

of contacts to sales from receiving the

sale to processing the business to

delivering the business to following up

with the client to hiring firing

training whatever process you have

that’s tied to a timeline what can you

do to compress time frames meaning what

can you do to go from doing in a week to

doing it in three days to getting done

in the day what can you do to get it

from 24 hours to 12 hours to 6 hours to

3 hours what is it what areas of your

business can you completely compress

time frames in today take a sheet of

paper make a list ask what can I do to

make the process faster and those say

it’s impossible they get a committee and

ask them to put input what can we do to

make this thing faster once you do make

it faster let me put it to you this way

however fast your business is growing

today it’s not even close to how fast

your business can grow if you figure out

ways to compress time frames in every

aspect of your business that is tied to

process or timing you will be shell

shocked by the results you start getting

with your business

once you’re able to figure out a way to

compress time frames rule number four go

above and beyond in a world of business

there are two different types of context

you’ll make here’s what I mean by it

there’s a types of context you’ll make

that’ll give you referrals that’ll give

you a good sale good opportunity you’ll

be given a good referral maybe we’ll

make 600 bucks on a sale or $300 or $100

or $500 or $800 and it’s cool it was a

good contact you made I did there

from your they’re introducing you

somebody that’s gonna buy from you and

Anna and then there are people you’re

going to meet and make contact with that

could completely change the face of your

business change the face of your bank

account the reaction of the banker when

you go to deposit or check because the

banker looks at you and does a double

take it’s one of these things hi how are

you great I’d like to make a deposit

okay no problem hi mr. Jones it’s a

different look at yet you know why

here’s the look the look is a look of a

person who is super prepared and they

don’t wing it anymore this is what I

mean by when I say two different types

of context you see Kim Wingard with

every contact you made and just kind of

treat it and put it in your account and

follow up and do all that other stuff

then you can meet a person that can

completely change you to a life your

business and that one contact requires

you to do more research

you can’t wing that contact you can’t

copy/paste a message and send it on

Facebook or LinkedIn and make a mistake

and accidentally call somebody Tom that

was mr. Jones and mr. Jones was going to

be your biggest account and mr. Jones is

so impressed by you because you actually

research what mr. Jones does when mr.

Jones likes what mr. Jones is interested

in and what rubs mr. Jones the wrong way

and when you don’t pay attention to

details like there were contacts that

are here and they have a lot more to

offer then 300 of these contacts

combined together you lose and the

reason why you’re lost is because you

try to wing your way to the next level

and contacts at this level are not fools

they expect you to know what you’re

doing they expect you to put that

additional energy into they expect you

to not wind yourself to the level of

doing business with them they are

insulted by your lack of research and

your lack of putting effort into it so

this is my challenge to you this week

whatever you do ask yourself am i

winging it or am I going a little bit

above and beyond am i winking it just

because I’m trying to wink it with my

talent or I’m trying to really do what a

1% or 0.1% we’re doing this

and every time you catch yourself adjust

and ask what would the point one

percenter be doing in this same exact

situation and whatever it is adjust to

that rule number five

stop acting helpless you’ll see a lot of

times people will say but but I don’t

know what to do next I just don’t know I

don’t know what to do how how do I learn

how to do this who’s gonna teach me I

don’t have a mentor I don’t have money I

don’t have this look today we have

access to more resources than we’ve ever

had in our lives how to do anything

blogs blogs YouTube there is so much

access to resources that we don’t need

to act helpless we act like victims but

it’s not my fault she did it’s my mom

you don’t saw my dad my my mom my my

sister was this my brother was as my ex

my boss my it’s just it’s not my fault

it’s the economy to market the place I

live the city the place I grew up to

school I want to everything is somebody

else’s fault rule number six spend time

learning I want you to go on your

YouTube channel and forget about if you

don’t have a YouTube channel go on the

search button above and click on history

and watch the last 20 videos you have

watched on YouTube and this is what I

want you to do categorize the videos on

which ones of them are educational and

which ones are entertainment if 50% or

more of the videos are entertainment

you’re not really fully committed to

want it to become wealthy you’re more

committed to become entertained and it’s

not going to happen go on YouTube and

look the top 1000 videos keep going

until you find the first video that has

to do with a how to you know how many

videos are ahead hundreds if not

thousands because most of the world

doesn’t care about wanting to fully

found the secrets about business and

life and entrepreneurship they want to

be entertained this is why Hollywood

make so much money because they know

most of the world it’s full Aegis

committed to an entertainment that maybe

you go look at your search by the way

you can go on your history also on your

Google and look what works that you

visit and what you do with your time

that you have rule number seven get

feedback I called unhappy customers

happy customers you know my happy

customers do business with you it’s an

easy call

you’re amazing Patrick we love you

you’re so great you always do this for

us you always do that’s where I learned

you’re just such an amazing person I’m

now learning there I don’t need more

people to just keep telling me how

amazing how many people that tell me

these are the three areas that we could

improve it right so I call customers

that weren’t happy I call clients that

weren’t happening I called agents that

weren’t happy I called employees that

weren’t happy and I should tell me what

happened and they gave me so much data

you have no idea how much data they gave

you so much data to the point where I

got obsessed more with those

conversations than the conversations of

people that were fully happy and next

thing you know things kept getting

better and better and better I want you

to call three to five unhappy customers

and here’s what the script sounds like

hey John this is Patrick giving you call

Patrick ooh Patrick wait baby you and I

did business to get about a year and a

half we’re going to decided to go a

different direction oh hey what’s going

on listen I’m busy well what can I help

you with look John this is I’m not

calling to sell you I’m not calling to

get you back into the business I’m not

calling you resale you up sell you

anything like that I just have one thing

one reason why I’m calling you I am

really obsessed with getting better and

you were one of my favorite customers

that I lost and so I just wanted to call

you for you to tell me what was it that

happened for you to make a decision to

go to a different direction what was it

and there’s two things you’re looking

for one you’re asking was it me is it

something I did or the second thing

you’re asking is was it a part of the

product the part of the product is for

you don’t know what adjustments to

making recommendations to make the next

time the part with you it’s permanent

this is an area where you can figure out

a way to improve yourself your game and

they’ll advance you to the next level

rule number eight don’t be too

conservative

sometimes a smart person comes in and

they’ve already been taught of certain

ways or their minds already been built

up in a certain way they are way way too

conservative way way too safe and in the

world of business sometimes it gets ugly

you know sometimes it gets dirty

sometimes there are some risks you got

to take you

got a taking it’s not conventional risk

it’s not conventional thing that I’m

supposed to be doing this no you can’t

lean oh there’s some times that you got

to do some stuff that you can’t read in

any book or any video some value

tainment literally there are certain

things in business that’s like what do I

do in a situation like this I’m working

on a book right now I’m flying over to

New York to talk to a handful of major

publishers because they want me to

publish this book that has to do with

specifically on how to process issues

once we learn how to process issues but

still if you’re too conservative you’re

gonna be toast in the world of business

there’s gonna be times in business that

you have to do certain things that no

one’s gonna think about but smart people

typically just go to to abide the rules

what they follow net loss not lost not

regulations rule it’s a different story

they’re afraid of breaking rules

sometimes conservative people rule

number nine listen to the right people

my parents raised me a lot of my

discipline comes to my father I love my

mom I love my dad I believe David I’m

what was him for the rest of my life but

my parents are not entrepreneurs and

they’re not gonna be able to convince me

how to manage my money manage my

finances they’ve never owned a mutual um

they’ve never owned the stock they’ve

never been millionaires they’ve never

been rich what can they teach me about

becoming successful in my life by the

way for some of you that are so

connected to they’re like oh my gosh

that’s insulting it is not insulting it

is not insulting my kids let me explain

if my kid wants to be a professional

baseball player okay if he takes advice

from me on baseball on how to swing the

ball when he goes to the next level

there is a problem there I didn’t make

it to the major leagues he needs to

listen to his coach I can be a fan and

tell him hey this is what a rod did and

this is what you know ken griffey had a

beautiful swing but I’m just a fan hit

that kid better listen to his baton

coach it was in a major league baseball

the same goes with business your parents

love you your mom and dad are great

believe me everyone’s parents are mostly

great they did their best with you not

everybody has perfect parents but most

people are pretty good parents they’re

not gonna teach you how to become

millionaires unless if they did if they

did take their counsel if they didn’t

scratch their philosophies for business

go on from somebody that I made up and

rule number ten the last one before some

very special bonus clips get moral

authority

moral authority one more time moral

authority what do I mean by moral

authority this is what I’m talking about

moral authority is when you walk into

whom everybody listens cuz you have

moral authority cuz you work the hardest

in your office cuz you reading the books

cuz you’re leading the family cuz you’re

doing this stuff that you tell other

people to do

that’s moral authority moral authorities

why people listen to what you got to say

there’s a lot of people that want to be

heard on social media hey I’m gonna go

out and be a sales trainer I don’t go

out to be a motivational speaker I don’t

go out there and chill around Instagram

all these other things but you need

moral authority there’s only so far you

can go without have a moral authority

moral authority happens when you’re

going out to doing your part within

business you go self first you go show

up first you go finish the book first

you go and prove yourself first you go

change first you gonna lead first you go

do the work first you become veteran

collaborations you become better with

people you go do it first then everybody

follows because when you do focus on

moral authority 20:18 will not only be

an incredible year by 2019

you no longer have to focus on moral

authority because it becomes part of

your DNA and word spreads which means

anybody who does business with you you

get other people with moral authority

that want to do business with you which

is higher quality people believe me

those are the types of people you want

on your team so my challenge to you two

words go get a moral authority

now I’ve got two very special Patrick

David bonus clips around being a good

team leader and playing smart but before

that commitment of the day you just

watched all of this great content you

absorbed a ton of wisdom what are you

going to do now what are you going to

change in your business or in your life

as a result of all the Patrick’s wisdom

leave it down in the comments below I

want to see what you’re committing to

changing thank you guys so much for

watching I believe in you

I hope we continue to believe in

yourself and whatever your one where it

is much love I’ll see you soon and enjoy

your team-building how are you gonna put

a team together how good of a recruit

are you gonna be how good are you at

bringing solid talent operations systems

sales technology compliance how are you

gonna do that how what you’re gonna do

that

team building you will face that

challenge where you’re gonna realize you

can’t do it all and it come down to how

will you build a team when they think

about risk-taking everybody falls

somewhere in this category of

risk-taking right you got somebody that

is so conservative they will never do

anything with their money ever invest

you can’t even convince them to put in

the bank because they don’t even trust a

bank because they believe our beginning

is around the corner you know any people

like that typically it’s our

grandparents and they’re so afraid

because of a lot of bad things that

happen then you have people that are

conservative I believe in bonds I

believe in having some conservative

balanced funds I believe in this I

believe in that everything is just

somewhat conservative and you have

people that are assertive they do

research they study let me look into

this Bitcoin thing what is blockchain

what is cryptocurrency what is this

insurance policy what is this stock what

is this doing house real estate this guy

told me about I’m messing to Austin

should let me look into Austin let me

look into Nashville let me look into

this community

Victorville they’re talking about

California that maybe it’s becoming

bigger because it’s getting closer to

Vegas should I consider putting my money

in door maybe Palmdale well let me look

at this stuff but they’re a server

assertive I’m learning I’m trying to

learn then you have the guys that are

aggressive you know I’m gonna go for

this and I’m gonna go for this and I’m

gonna go for this and I’m gonna go for

this

these guys they can have a big hit

absolutely it could have a big kid but

they can have a big loss as well and I

last but not least this is just

absolutely dumb category this is this is

the people that this is the people that

actually believe they can fly you know

this is this is like what was that one

song Mario by a/r Kelly remember our

Kelly

all right Kelly had a song and it went

something like this by the way this is

this is how he would sing if he was

singing to these types of people when

they invest this is what it would sound

like he would say he believes he can fly

he believes he can touch the sky he

thinks about it every night and day he

spreads his wings and crashes away

because that’s what happens to these

guys in 2009

when a market crashed here’s what took

place ford stock went roughly to add our

matter of fact it was under a dollar

imagine if you could buy that stock on

that if you had some cash set inside

what if you could buy think about if you

could buy 10,000 shares out a buck

that’s ten thousand bucks

nine years later you would have 111 to

$110,000 $110,000 okay

Citigroup one not two nine bucks $74 to

be visiting went down to 13 I’m Warren

it is nice shirt went down to 13 today

hundred three dollars give or take b ave

went down to two fifty thirty two

dollars today that’s 12 X 13 X Amazon

with 34 today it’s 1500 now that’s an

anomaly that’s a different story

Nike was 12 today 66 I’m showing you

these things because this is not a 6%

return the 6% return means it takes 12

years for your money to double we’re not

talking about that kind of stuff but

this happens if you anticipate a

recessions about to come up so having

said that let me show you some companies

that the companies here that have the

most cash take a look at this Walmart’s

got 8 billion in cash today Procter &

Gamble 15 billion Pepsi 17 Amazon 30

coca-cola 27 G 44 alphabet which is

Google 95 Microsoft 133 Apple 261

billion dollars of cash is what they’re

sitting on by the way this is from a

Business Insider article which was

December of 2017 Apple today give or

take they’re at 285 billion dollars

today and I’m not even talking about the

old offshore dollars that they find out

how much some of these companies are

sitting on I’m talking money in America

that they have to report because their

public companies publicly traded

companies right and by the way something

for you to be thinking about Walmart

look at this number this is such an

interesting that it’s a complete

different topic but watch this year

Walmart has eight billion dollars in

cash they get four hundred eighty five

billion dollars in top-line revenue last

year that’s more than Apple and Amazon

combined on their top-line revenue but

they only have eight billion in cash

Amazon has four times more cash than

Walmart why because Walmart’s retail

Walmart’s retail this is why Walmart is

so war

about Amazon Walmart means 2.3 million

employees to function

Amazon only means 341,000 and Apple only

needs 123 thousand and they got two

hundred eighty five billion dollars in

cash the question becomes this for all

these people that say shouldn’t have a

lot of cash

do you think the people in the boardroom

of Apple that say man let’s have a lot

of cash you think they’re dumb

you think Amazon Jeff Bezos is dumb you

think Tim Cook is dumb you think people

who run Microsoft are dumb you think

Bill Gates you think you know Google

guys said gay and all these guys you

think they’re not that smart

you better believe they’re very smart

now why are they stash them so much cash

away today probably because they’re

anticipating recession to come up and

when this recession comes up they’re

hoping a recession comes up because when

the recession comes up some of the

companies that make bad mistakes they

can pick them up on forty cents on a

dollar 20 cents on a dollar and that’s

how they keep getting bigger and bigger

and bigger because they have cash so

what does this mean to you look let’s go

back over here Mario come back with me

over here on this on this risk factor

here I want you to know Mari I’m gonna

go back and come back I don’t I don’t

want I don’t want you to think I am

telling you to be here by the way if you

do want to be extremely wealthy one day

if you do want to be possibly a Decca

millionaire 100 maybe even the B word

you do need to be kind of here you do

you have to take some risk that maybe

have a very big risk but at the same

time I’m not a fan of people who

recommend saying only keep 5% and out of

your million dollars 50 of it keep cash

everything else put in invested I’m not

a fan of that here’s one not a fan of

Mario come back with me over here here’s

one not a fan of if based on what I

showed you this is not a myth I’m not

selling you this this is facts this is

thirty three recessions and since 1854

it’s a fat one every five years is a

fact 2008-2009 oh one ninety how long do

like these are facts these are not myth

these are not ideas these are not well

could a pipe these are purely fact if

you look at this

you be the judge of it based on

where you’re at on that risk side when

do you think the recession is going to

take place you’re gonna say 2025 because

in your mind you want it to go for

another 7 years where the market keeps

going up are you thinking back there

saying hmm I think something’s about to

happen and let you say somes about to

happen

great don’t get scared about it you see

rich people are not scared about it the

people that I’m talking about they’re

not scared about it they’re excited

about it they’re ecstatic about it

they’re sitting on saying oh my gosh

this thing’s been going and delaying for

eight nine years the longer it delays

the worse it could be now this is not me

projecting and saying I can’t wait for

another one to happen believe me I’ve

been going 11 top line revenues quarter

as a company and we’re doing very very

good I’m gonna be also be affected by

this but the message I’m giving to you

is realize cash is still king this is

not in the past it is still king keep

your cash don’t get too aggressive don’t

get too crazy don’t go to the dump site

don’t listen to our Kelly song thinking

you can fly you can’t fly

nobody can fly but sit there and

strategize yourself to say oh my gosh in

the next year two years three years five

years something could happen and when it

does oh my goodness I’m going to

capitalize look somebody said well Pat

this and it’s kind of deceptive I hope

everybody watches this video but they

won’t you know why because cat videos do

better because somebody’s sliding and

hitting their back and other people

laughing at them it just does better

because big butts do better because

six-pack just does better on videos

because pranks do better jokes do better

than a video this is boring this is

money and then people wonder why so few

people are wealthy this isn’t something

new I’m telling you this is not

something I’m telling you Berkshire

Hathaway knows this they buy things on

sale they know this stuff very very

wealthy successful investors fully

embrace this concept the question is are

you going to embrace the concept are you

still going to be way too optimistic

about the fact that

everything’s gonna work out because if

this is right in the last seven years

the longest time we’ve gone without a

recession has been ten years and it’s

only happened one time and we’re at nine

years right now

that’s the recession so we got one more

year until recession comes are you ready

for the most important if you had to

think of one word that’s most important

to you or that sums you Apple so it

would be like a little beacon hey

believe nation if you want to know what

the most important one word is for Tony

Robbins Gary Vaynerchuk

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