175. Q&AF： Treating Yo Self, #LIVEHARD & Employees Fucking Up
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Summary
In this episode of The Realists, we got Q and AF to talk about how they built a billion dollar company in a short amount of time and how they do it by living below their means as hard as they can.
Transcript
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what is up guys it's andy priscilla and this is the show for the realists say goodbye to the
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lies of fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking reality guys today
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we got q and af uh before i get into that though i'd like to remind you uh to pay the fee if you
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like the show if it gives you something of value if it makes you think if it makes you laugh you
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learn something if it makes you better if it's something that you think will make you better in
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the future uh and if it's something that you know you think people need to listen to let them know
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and by the way tell your like-minded friends you know i know a lot of people you know you don't
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necessarily want to post my stuff all the time or whatever um but you know share with people when
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it comes up in conversation shoot out a text link to some of your friends that's how the word gets
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out and we do all word of mouth here this is fucking america if we do good we get treated good if we do
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bad we get treated bad now i apologize for the lack of shows lately but i've been uh actually working
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you know like a lot of these motherfuckers that do all this social media shit uh that's their job
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that's not my job i actually do shit which is pretty much why my q a's and all my information
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is a lot more valuable than most of the other motherfuckers out there so with that being said
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let's do that what's up baby what's up i mean i got an idea so yeah i got christmas trees and
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shit going up got an idea for a christmas card all right just hear me out i dress up as fucking santa
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okay and then we get a picture of you sitting in my lap and we send that shit out to fucking the entire
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you know i dude i like christmas christmas christmas is my shit man
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dude i like christmas too bro i i just think you know some ideas are better than others
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i just keep it at that nonetheless man we uh guys we got q and a f man so i got three questions
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um as always email your questions in to ask andy at andy for seller.com
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um we appreciate you guys that are man we can really trigger some liberals with that i'm over
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here thinking about this oh the wheels are turning now yeah i gotta put on my my s'mores uniform
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bro nothing will make you dress up like jesus i'm a black santa and a fucking s'mores uniform
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nothing will piss them off these motherfuckers man i am so sick of these fucking people bro
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i'm so i'm sorry they're emboldened but it is what it is bro we're the best country in the world
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run by the biggest bunch of fucking morons in the world and that is a fact that is that is a
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fucking that is a fact yes um but we got three questions for you so yeah um again guys we
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appreciate you for emailing these questions in uh keep them coming so with that being said let's go
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ahead and knock out question number one so and you've been in business for 23 years um but in the early
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stages of business right when you and chris was fucking grinding it out how did you balance
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reinvesting cash into the business to make it grow versus you know taking profits making me you know
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giving yourself rewards i live below my means as hard as i could for as long as i could this is a
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very simple thing people inherently know the answer to this question if you need to fucking uh build a
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company you have to make the company the priority and we get sidetracked on this because the the
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instagram culture of entrepreneurship is a false reality and a false picture of what it's actually
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about you know you see all these fucking 19 year old kids running around with their fucking watches
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and their fucking cars acting like fucking idiots and you know when i was that age and and all the way
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until i was in my 30s i was living like i was fucking broke i was reinvesting all of my dollars
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into the company which is why now we have a big fucking company yeah and so many of these people
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already understand the answer you got to live below your means you got to spend way less than
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what the fuck you make you got to live uh as uncomfortable as you'd really want to live
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and sacrifice and that sacrifice is an investment in the company's future and everybody understands
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that there's no secret to that the reason people ask this question is because they want a different
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answer they keep asking the same fucking y'all keep asking the same question because you want a
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different answer the answer is this live like you're broke for 10 fucking years take all the
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money you make and invest it back in your company that's the answer people don't want to do it though
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because their buddy from fucking uh instagram running around with his fucking jays on his least
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ass fucking bmw or hurricane or some fucking bullshit wants to make him seem like he's balling out
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bro half the entrepreneurs in this entrepreneur space are fake ass motherfuckers all they do is talk
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about success they got groups they got success they don't even have companies like bro this is it's
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it's no substance there no it's fucking absurd it's absurd people are willing to go pay people to learn
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from them when they haven't even built a company explain that to me like it's it's ridiculous so it's
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it represents the entire problem with the entire culture of what's going on in this country in the
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first place there's no quick way to do this you motherfuckers like you're not going to be me or
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anybody like me by going out and spending all your money on all this fucking bullshit now you see my
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life where i have all this shit yeah that's because i've built a machine that is capable of producing
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uh income to a point where a very little percentage of my income can pay for this amazing life that's
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what people don't get they look at people like me who live these crazy lives and they think oh man
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they must be spending all their money they must be doing this and this and this and this no we're making
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so much money that we can afford to spend a small percentage to live really big which is where you
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want to be yeah you know i don't give a fuck about what you're doing dude all my friends and shit they
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all did the same shit they all drove fucking denalis and escalades and like you know back when i was
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coming up that was like you know the thing you know they ran around town they're fucking jordans and
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they're nice shit and you know and you want that like i feel like a part of you will should want that
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shit yeah there's nothing wrong with that but when you're spending 70 of your income to put on
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a front for everybody that's the problem and you know like you guys don't understand the power in
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delayed gratification i can go buy a fucking bugatti right now and it doesn't know it's not even drop a
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sweat on my fucking nuts and you know that because you're with me every day yeah you see what i'm saying
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so like these that's the thing like do you want it now do you want to pretend now or do you want
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to be real later that's what it comes down to so you know for all of you out there fucking
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looking at all these people i would examine who you're trying to learn from i'm just being honest
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like i would look at them how many employees do they have what kind of revenue do they do what
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kind of market share do they command what kind of other businesses have they built are they legitimately
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like who they say they are or is a lot of smoke and mirrors there because to me it's very obvious to
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see who the fuck is who and i and i still see all these people sucking nuts to people who haven't
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really done shit and i don't get it i don't get it y'all must be stupid fucks i'm serious it's really
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f man yeah like y'all must be stupid and you deserve to lose your money because you're fucking stupid
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yeah and you go fucking give your money to people who haven't proven themselves who are selling you
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some bullshit course they probably wrote off of my material or somebody else's shit you know what i'm
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saying yeah like it's it's it's it's ridiculous yeah they must listen to the podcast yeah and you
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know what there are good podcasts out there uh that are that are good to learn from but those people
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that you learn from these guys you don't want to be going and listening to the crypto experts that's a
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hack okay you don't go out there and listen to the fucking this or that like dude go out and learn
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some fucking skills from people learn how to operate a company learn how to build a fucking brand
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learn how to manage people learn how to fucking hire and develop people those are skills that last
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a lifetime i somebody could come lightning strike my whole life today and put me back to zero and guess
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what i'd have all the shit back in two years because the skills i have yeah you see what i'm saying
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so dude it's it's just i'm so tired this is why i got out of the entrepreneur space this is why i
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fucking left the whole fucking thing and i started doing uh this show is because i get tired of the
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stupid fucking questions that people inherently know the answer to but aren't willing to they
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instead of like addressing the actual fact of hey i'm gonna have to work really fucking hard to get
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where i want to go instead of addressing that which some people do there's a lot of people that still
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listen to this show that are that buy into that and i'm going to tell you right now that's the hack
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yeah buying into the work for the next 10 years is the fucking hack that's the hack people just don't
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like to hear it you know they'd rather hear from fucking some bozo who says 17 cash flow streams
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motherfucker brody and get me started on yeah okay awesome well question number two here's it here it
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is live way below your fucking means for as long as you fucking can and reinvest all the rest of the
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money into your machine build the most powerful machine that you can aka a company and then when you
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get to a certain point in life where you realize hey i'm doing pretty good then you can start doing
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some shit but like this whole idea of like you know like treat yourself like this shit i see on
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fucking internet you motherfuckers are clowns like treat yourself for what it's like the motherfucker
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wants a cheat meal after three days of being on a fucking diet what did you do yeah get the fuck out
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of here shouldn't even be entrepreneur anyway man honestly most people shouldn't it's it's been
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glorified it's been fucking diluted yeah it's been diluted it's been it's been everybody thinks they
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can just go out and fucking do it and and like bro it's just not the right life for most people
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it's just it's a hard fucking life yeah there's some pluses that you see publicly but what you don't
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see is the rest of the shit that you got to give to get that shit so it you know it's whatever man
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cool all right question number two so this is a 75 hard question um so the person emailed in they said
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so if if you do all the phases of the live hard program the 75 days phase one the 30 day break
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that totals up to 195 days yep what do you do with the remainder of the 170 days do the program and
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you find the fuck out that's it that's that okay do the program and you find the fuck out the program
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is fucking so genius that it inherently does things that that you won't know about until you fucking do
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the program so do the program and find the fuck out you want to find out what you live hard's about
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you want to find out if it's the real deal or some fucking fad i challenge you to do the fucking
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program for one year and then come back and tell me what it does for you that's my answer hey the
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fucking solid answer yeah i can promise you yeah every motherfucker out there that's done the whole
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program and done it the right way knows exactly what the fuck i'm talking about right now yeah so do the
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program or don't but you're going to get beat by people who did
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fucking facts all right question three andy so i have an employee who is extremely loyal
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all right the hardest fucking working employee i have is also the longest employee that i've had
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okay however this employee has recently made a terrible mistake that resulted in a massive financial
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loss how should i handle this it depends if it's an if it's if it's an ethical mistake like it was
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made with the wrong ethics that's a different story than if it was made like innocently okay first of
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all second of all um this is really fucking an easy answer to to to answer okay um if you have an
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employee who's really good who does all these things great and they make a mistake let's say
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you've had them for i don't know they say how long they had them or whatever okay let's just say five
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years reasonable amount of time not forever not short time yeah they're invested okay yeah you have
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somebody like that they come in they make a mistake that costs you 500 grand okay big fucking deal
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yeah it's a big fucking deal and i've had employees cost me more than that legit employees okay uh some
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of my main people okay yeah and and do you not realize like as a business owner that if you fire
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someone for that that the next motherfucker that you bring in line is going to end up making that
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same mistake again and then you're going to have to fucking keep eating that 500 grand over and over
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and over again because you're too stupid to realize that you should use this as a learning point
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and as an insurance policy that that doesn't happen again by driving the lesson home with the
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person who made the mistake so if you're a fucking smart ceo you'll realize that's an investment in
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their education and development if you're a dumb fuck you'll probably fire them and repeat the same
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mistake for the next fucking however long you're in business which probably won't be very long for
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that dumb geez yeah so i would look at it as an investment in that person's development i would drive
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home the lesson with the team which guarantees that the mistake won't be made company-wide hopefully
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again ever yeah and that's how the fuck you get where you're wanting to go how you don't get there
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is by completely fucking annihilating people when they make honest mistakes and they're they're huge
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contributors and wiping them off the face of the fucking earth because you're a dumb fuck and then
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doing it over and over and over again but if it was intentional then absolutely it's different
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yeah if it's a if it's an ethical thing like stealing yeah um that's different you know what
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i'm saying but but if it's just a mistake that's an that's an opportunity to correct regardless of
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the price tag all right and would you apply that i'm sorry just to follow would you apply that even
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if there wasn't a tenured employee like if they're yeah yeah well first of all your your newer employees
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probably aren't in a position to cost you that much money right so like you have to be it has to be a
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key person for them to really make a mistake that's going to cost you like that but yeah if
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it's a new employee you gotta gotta know they're going to make mistakes mistakes are an investment
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in their development education you want high quality employees that know how to handle shit
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as a company owner do you yeah would you yeah i would okay well how you can't get that if you
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fire everyone every time they fuck up yeah okay it does make sense but you'd be surprised how
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stupid some people are yeah and short-sighted and emotional yeah and they don't think logically
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you know people make mistakes bro i made a lot of mistakes that have cost our company
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tens of millions of dollars okay would i fire myself you know i'm saying right no i just learned
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how to not do those things again and guess what next time i i hit i hit you know a straight shot on
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those yeah you know yeah so you've got to be thinking long term dude you know that shit sucks
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like i had i had an employee one time cost me uh you know almost seven hundred thousand dollars
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on a fucking stupid mistake and i didn't know what are you gonna do you know the person felt
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horrible right they felt terrible yeah so so i'm like well did you learn a lesson you're like yeah
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and i'm like you're gonna do that again they're like no i'm like all right there's gotta be like
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fucking like like you know disappointing your dad like the disappointment alone is
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if you if you own a company and you get hung up on shit like that you're gonna have a real hard
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time in business people are gonna fuck shit up and and dude people are gonna fuck up shit for you
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when you like this is when it always happens too it's like right when things start going really
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good you know i'm saying and then someone comes in and be like andy i gotta talk to you
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you know and that's how it always goes but eventually what happens is you get to a point
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where you go through many years of this ball smashing yeah okay and your team gets pretty
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good yeah all right and they stop costing you all your money and then you start making a whole bunch
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of money then they start making a bunch of money right that's how you get good yeah that's fucking
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awesome dude i i love these there's this q a session i love it because your answers are never
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what i think they're going to be you know i'm saying like it's always like i'm like all right
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what would andy think what would andy say on this and this fucking always completely fucking
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it's awesome i love it yeah i don't know if that's good or bad no it's fucking great i fucking love it
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and i'm sure i mean obviously a fucking audience look dude i've been doing this my whole life
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i've been running businesses my whole life yeah i've been running managing people my whole life
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like this shit is it i know it seems complicated but it's really fucking simple yeah you all make it
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harder than it really is like for real it's not that hard yeah that's fucking dope but this is uh
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that's three now so that three that's three go pay the fee guys all right guys i think that was a
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value-packed 20-minute episode all right if you can't learn something from that uh you probably
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shouldn't be in fucking business so share the show
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went from sleeping on the floor now my jewelry box froze fuck a bowl fuck a stove counted millions in
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the cold bad bitch booted swole got her on bankroll can't fold doesn't know headshot case close