- So what was the first book you ever read?
- Man.
The first book on success, - Yeah.
kind of stuff?
- Probably,
well I read Will Durant.
I read a lot of history.
History's good.
It's not success per say, but you can study what worked
in the past.
- That's true.
- So, I read Will Durant, "Story of Civilization."
It's kind of a heavy book.
It's 10,000 page series,
so you can't read it all at once.
I read Tony Robbins's book that,
"Awaken the Giant Within."
That's still a good book.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- That was one of the first ones that got you going.
- Yeah.
And,
Trying to think what other book,
that was the real beginner book.
Because I used to not read that much self-help.
I would just read, like I said, other things.
But I've always read a lot.
Definitely history.
I still read a ton of history.
I probably read half history now.
History's,
people underestimate the power of history,
because you could see things unfold
how they unfold, and the world hasn't changed that much.
Most general directions of the past will repeat.
The saying, "history will repeat,"
there's a lot of truth to that.
So you can study,
general.
I read a lot of war history, too.
Because business is a little bit like war.
So,
- Yeah.
How do you like "The Art of War?"
- Yeah, that's good.
That's good.
I'm reading a story on war right now,
just World War II,
book.
And right before that I read World War I.
You learn a lot, war.
You learn about courage,
you learn about conflict,
you learn about mercy, because there's always some mercy.
Like I was reading
in this story,
this last one,
about these guys came on these Germans that were,
didn't have any weapons and they were like,
couldn't bring themselves to shoot them,
even though the Germans had just slaughtered all their men.
So, you know you learn.
Conflict and pressure brings out the truth in people.
So, you know, war, brings out
Heavy competition in business brings things out,
your weaknesses and stuff like that.
So,
that's my advice.
But for kids,
I think,
I think a combination,
I mean I think,
it depends on what you're trying to do.
If you're trying to make money,
in business,
then there's good news and bad news.
The good news is the economy doesn't care.
Like if you have a website selling something,
or like, say you're selling something on Amazon.
You can be doing that at 14.
The economy, the person buying on Amazon,
pressing the button to buy, whatever,
they don't know how old you are.
As long as you ship them the product,
and it's a good product,
They don't care.
So there's a double-edged sword because,
the double-edged sword is,
if you're young and inexperienced,
they're not going to forgive you.
If something comes to their door
and it's not what they ordered, they're not gonna go,
"Oh, it's a 14 year-old, I spent my hundred bucks,
I'll just waste my money," they're not.
But on the flip side,
with the e-commerce world,
you can make money at 14 because
you deliver the product, then no one cares.
If anything I buy now on Amazon,
I don't care.
No one's racist, because I never even see the people.
No one's sexist, no one's ageist.
Everything that people worry about holding them back
in terms of,
from society,
it disappears in the Internet.
Because no one sees you.
I mean, when was the last time you ordered something
and you researched
what the person who you ordered from, looks like?
You don't, you just buy stuff.
So you got trillions of dollars moving through the Internet.
You may get,
even Bill Gates was,
you know, 17 when he was doing his stuff.
Signing his first contracts.
And he would just change his voice on the phone.
He'd be like, "Ah yes, this is Bill Gates."
And they would figure out, "who is this kid?"
So yeah, the richest man in the world,
for 16 years in a row started out at,
I think he started around 12.
One of the things that I'll say,
for parents watching and anybody,
and this is hard medicine for a lot of people.
Because, most people watching this are over 14 years old.
But,
if you want to look at the statistic most correlated
with predicting who's gonna be successful,
it's the age you start.
And so, you look at basketball,
Kobe Bryant, started playing at six.
Jordan, Michael Jordan, really young.
LeBron, young.
Steph Curry, young.
If you look at business,
who's the wealthiest people in the world,
basically you've got Bill Gates, who started at 12,
you got Warren Buffet, who started at seven.
Jeff Bezos even started somewhat at a young age.
He had a little different story.
He was a orphan, so he had a little
more discombobulated family.
But,
and Warren Buffet had a good dad,
and Charlie Munger, too, his business partner.
So dads can,
like my dad was in prison when I was growing up.
So I didn't, you miss out on that, so,
when I was 14 I didn't make a hundred grand.
When I was 14 I probably made, I think I made $100 a year.
I was almost there.
I was only a thousand times off.
If I had just, my mom,
I was just talking to my mom.
She's visiting.
And I was like, "Mom."
I remember, I got $10 a month.
Kind of a ripoff.
(guys laugh)
If they would have given me $20 a book (mumbles),
I would have made money back there.
I knew how to read.
But I don't know that my mom had enough money
to pay me 20 bucks.
My mom wasn't rich when I was young.
Yeah, so start young.
- So what if someone,
didn't start young?
What do they have to do to like catch up?
- Well there's that old saying,
The best time to plant a tree
is twenty years ago,
or today.
So, but Joel Salatin used to say,
"better late than never."
You know, better late than never.
A lot of people are late,
a lot of people are never.
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