What successful people understood before they were successful.

A short thread.

Mentorship isn’t about finding a great mentor.

It’s about becoming a person great mentors WANT to help.
Hiring isn’t about finding good people.

It’s about becoming a person good people want to work for.
Wealth isn’t about extracting value from others.

It’s about adding 10x as much value as you want to receive.
Winning doesn’t mean others lose.

The real winners help 1000 others win with them.
People do business with people they like.

Become a person others like.
You can’t please everyone.

Please the people who are who you want to become.
Business is about momentum.

What you do on day one will look nothing like what you’re doing on day 10,000.
You get ahead by saying yes to everything.

When you get momentum it’s much more about saying no.
A very small amount of your relative effort will generate an outsized amount of your success.

When you take time to zoom out and figure out what that is, you can do much more much faster.
Give up quickly.

Time is more valuable than money.
Being selfish is okay. Everyone is selfish.

Find a way to make sure everyone wins and everyone can be selfish for good reasons.

Selfish + abundance = wins

Selfish + scarcity = losses
1/2 the folks in this world are leaches.

Take take take. Give nothing.

Avoid these people. Do not bring them along on your journey. Do not hire them. They drag everyone down.
Sales is the key to success.

Being able to sell yourself and your ideas is how you win.
Being comfortable being uncomfortable is how you win.

Everything worth doing in this world requires you to get uncomfortable.
Entrepreneurship doesn’t have to be risky.

Opportunity =\= risky
Being a good businessman and having financial success is a small part of the big picture.

The key is finding a way to be a good friend, husband, father at the same time.
Consistency is way more important than efficiency.

Anything worth doing gets really tedious 2 years in. Year 2-5 is the critical period.
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TLDR:

Make yourself into the person who deserves what you want out of this life.

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Don’t have much cash but want to invest in real estate?

Want to get SBA loans and special loan programs so you can buy real estate investments with only 5-10% down?

One word for you:

Don’t.

Here’s why

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Leverage can be a beautiful thing.

Appreciation takes over and all that value you bought with debt grows and you amplify your returns.

But there is another, darker side of debt.


Values drop 5 or 10% and you’re underwater. You have zero equity or negative equity.

Ask the folks who were over-levered in 2007 what happened on 2011?

Real estate is a frothy space right now. Money flying everywhere and values higher than they’ve ever been.

Debt is cheaper and easier to get than ever.

Will it continue?

Probably.

Money could stay cheap for a long time. There is a ton of negative yielding debt abroad and liquidity ready to flood our market at the drop of a hat.

Rates will likely stay low. Gov will probably keep subsidizing these loans. You’ll probably be okay.

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Assalam Alaiki dear Sister in Islam. I hope this meets you well. Hope you are keeping safe in this pandemic. May Allah preserve you and your beloved family. I would like to address the misconception and misinterpretation in your thread. Please peruse the THREAD below.


1. First off, a disclaimer. Should you feel hurt by my words in the course of the thread, then forgive me. It’s from me and not from Islam. And I probably have to improve on my delivery. And I may not quote you verbatim, but the intended meaning would be there. Thank You!

2. Standing on Imam Shafii’s quote: “And I never debated anyone but that I did not mind whether Allah clarified the truth on my tongue or his tongue” or “I never once debated anyone hoping to win the debate; rather I always wished that the truth would come from his side.”

3. Okay, into the meat (my love for meat is showing. Lol) of the thread. Even though you didn’t mention the verse that permitted polygamy, everyone knows the verse you were talking about (Q4:3).


4. Your reasons for the revelation of the verse are strange. The first time I came across such. I had to quickly consult the books on the exegeses or tafsir of the Quran written by renowned specialists!
The entire discussion around Facebook’s disclosures of what happened in 2016 is very frustrating. No exec stopped any investigations, but there were a lot of heated discussions about what to publish and when.


In the spring and summer of 2016, as reported by the Times, activity we traced to GRU was reported to the FBI. This was the standard model of interaction companies used for nation-state attacks against likely US targeted.

In the Spring of 2017, after a deep dive into the Fake News phenomena, the security team wanted to publish an update that covered what we had learned. At this point, we didn’t have any advertising content or the big IRA cluster, but we did know about the GRU model.

This report when through dozens of edits as different equities were represented. I did not have any meetings with Sheryl on the paper, but I can’t speak to whether she was in the loop with my higher-ups.

In the end, the difficult question of attribution was settled by us pointing to the DNI report instead of saying Russia or GRU directly. In my pre-briefs with members of Congress, I made it clear that we believed this action was GRU.