REAL AF with Andy Frisella - How To Think About Money (To Make A Lot Of Money), with Andy Frisella - MFCEO170

00:00:00.000 what is up guys you're listening to the mf ceo project i'm andy i'm your host and i am the 0.94

00:00:11.320 motherfucking ceo guys today is thursday sun thunder thursday thunder this today i think 0.98

00:00:17.880 that's the first time i messed that up in a long time anyway you know what fucking day it is and 0.99

00:00:21.380 we're just going to keep going hey look i've got something that's on my mind that i gotta 0.84

00:00:25.680 fucking talk about today all right i got a comment uh yesterday that from someone basically 0.99

00:00:32.380 chastising me for talking about fucking money all right let me break this shit down to you 1.00

00:00:39.860 motherfuckers in case you just don't understand it yet money is a great fucking thing all right 1.00

00:00:47.020 talking about money is not taboo okay both of those thoughts people who don't talk about money 1.00

00:00:54.860 and people who think money is a bad thing come from people who a have never had any money b will 1.00

00:01:03.860 never have any money and the funny thing is about these fuckers is that if you ask the motherfucker 1.00

00:01:09.280 hey i got an extra 500 bucks do you want it every single one of them will fucking take it okay so 1.00

00:01:16.580 this is something that is very important i'm not just going to rant on it i want you to understand 0.91

00:01:21.980 it because i have to talk to my guys a lot of times about the subject because

00:01:27.160 in society we are taught that money is not a great thing in a lot of ways a lot of people who

00:01:38.040 don't make a lot of money or who don't have a lot of money or who've never been around money

00:01:42.980 they they say negative things about money they have negative beliefs about money they they instill

00:01:48.980 those beliefs in our people okay every school is run by teachers who don't make a lot of money

00:01:56.380 and they tell kids money isn't everything money's not that important money doesn't matter and you know

00:02:02.460 what that just ain't fucking true okay so we have these people who grow up their entire lives hearing 0.89

00:02:09.420 that money is a bad thing and because they hold that belief in their heart no matter how much they 0.64

00:02:16.360 say they want to make money and i'm speaking to you guys because you guys listen to this podcast 0.69

00:02:21.020 probably because you want to make more fucking money okay now you might say i want to make more money 0.93

00:02:30.460 you might say i want to be wealthy you might say i want to be a millionaire or a billionaire 1.00

00:02:34.860 you might say those things but if in your heart you believe because every dumb motherfucker 1.00

00:02:42.480 that you've been around your entire life has told you that money is a bad thing 0.99

00:02:47.000 you will never have money you have got to change your beliefs about money and that's what i want to

00:02:55.480 talk about today you know so first off guys just like i said anytime somebody criticizes you and says 0.98

00:03:02.380 some dumb shit like oh you're too greedy you're too focused on money you're too this you're too that 0.97

00:03:07.480 money doesn't matter to me like there's some kind of fucking noble person ask them if they like an 1.00

00:03:13.720 extra five hundred dollars i guarantee you they'll fucking say fuck yeah okay and this is a case of 0.99

00:03:19.860 people's words and people's actions and what they try to put off and who they try to pretend to be 0.99

00:03:25.120 not coinciding with who they really are in their heart all right so be aware of that when people make 0.87

00:03:32.040 negative remarks to you for being ambitious being hungry trying to kick ass trying to do better for 0.89

00:03:37.460 yourself trying to create a better future for yourself and your family and be an inspiration to everybody 0.54

00:03:42.120 around you by being successful and they say these things to you remember these people are lying to you

00:03:49.620 they are not telling you the truth all right now let me back this up with a couple points

00:03:55.880 and preface this discussion with some ideas okay guys it's not about being money focused it's not

00:04:03.800 about like saying oh money is the most important thing we all hear that saying the root the money is

00:04:10.600 the root of all evil and the truth is that's not even the real quote and the truth of money is that

00:04:16.320 it's not morally wrong or morally right it's morally neutral it could be used for great things it could be

00:04:24.320 used for destructive things okay it's how you use them it's just like a spoon or a fork all right a fork 0.99

00:04:32.440 doesn't make somebody fucking fat it's how you use a motherfucker all right money's the same way and 0.99

00:04:38.400 anybody who says different doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about all right money especially 0.99

00:04:44.280 young people is a huge driving motivator depending on where you are in life early on you know material 0.98

00:04:52.120 things and having a lot of money and having cool shit and and being the guy that has all this cool

00:04:57.400 stuff that could be very motivating you know wanting to to fly around in a private jet or drive an exotic

00:05:03.960 car those things can be very very motivating and there's nothing wrong with having material goals

00:05:10.300 but here's the thing you have to understand guys as somewhere along the line once you find a little bit

00:05:16.380 of money and once you find a little bit of cash flow coming in once you have one or two of those

00:05:21.360 little rewards those things are not going to matter to you like they once did and so you have to find

00:05:26.360 real purpose for why you're trying to be successful if you want it to last that's why you never see these

00:05:31.640 get rich quick dudes who have made a lot of money and they're driving flashy shit and that's all their

00:05:38.180 purpose is is to have more you don't see them doing anything they're not creating anything they lose the 0.93

00:05:43.080 idea of what value they created to make their money in the first place they get lost they get depressed

00:05:48.440 and then you read about them on the fucking internet somehow you know because they lost it or 0.89

00:05:52.200 they killed themselves or they're you know that's the idea where people have you know people who have 1.00

00:05:57.000 money are miserable bullshit only some of the people have money are miserable okay um another thing is 0.98

00:06:04.220 guys is that we live in a society now that is value driven okay and where it used to be whenever 1.00

00:06:13.300 from 1940 to 19 probably the year 2000 about there used to be um a way for companies to scam people

00:06:25.360 and make money okay so think about this your grandparents and your parents grew up in an era

00:06:31.240 where the companies that could that could basically say anything they wanted via radio tv

00:06:37.000 and uh print they could lie they could they could make false promises they could say anything they

00:06:43.420 want and they could sell things and these companies would sell things there was no recourse on the

00:06:49.620 consumer like there is today where you have social media craigslist or i mean angie's list amazon reviews

00:06:57.140 the word of mouth took a long time to travel so you had situations where you know companies could do

00:07:04.160 things that were morally incorrect or morally wrong and they could continue to profit and that's where

00:07:10.140 a lot of this idea of big business taking advantage of the little guy and you know money being evil and

00:07:16.100 this and that comes from from our previous generations now you have to realize that today's

00:07:21.740 today's uh society is so much different than that because every single one of us has a voice we all have a

00:07:29.900 facebook we all have an instagram we all have this way to communicate our voice we have ways to review

00:07:35.960 products we have ways to to uh talk about products and spread word of mouth instantly instead of it

00:07:43.140 taking years and what that means guys is that you can no longer scam people into getting them to buy

00:07:49.360 your product otherwise your company be dead in the water right away all right i hope you i hope this

00:07:53.860 makes sense for you what i'm explaining because what i'm getting to guys is that in today's world

00:07:58.540 whereas your parents or your grandparents might have felt that money was indicative of doing

00:08:03.980 morally wrong things in today's world the amount of money you make is actually a representation of

00:08:09.720 the amount of actual value you provide the right thing of the doing the right thing the being a

00:08:15.300 reputable company the the being somebody who provides real values provides real solutions

00:08:20.460 provides real services that help people okay and if you're not making money you're not doing those

00:08:25.920 things so what's that say about your moral uh your moral standing in society okay the more money you

00:08:34.400 make right now the better job you're doing at solving problems the more money you make right now the

00:08:38.940 more people you're helping the more money you make right now the more value you're providing your

00:08:43.420 community and people like that okay um those are all real concrete points about the way money really is

00:08:54.220 now you know and you guys have to realize that there's not a limited supply of money to be made you

00:09:00.000 know a lot of people have that hang up too they think there's a limited amount you know there's an

00:09:05.040 unlimited amount you know we have uh so many new ways as entrepreneurs to make money that you know

00:09:14.000 virtually anyone and even if you work in a company if you're thinking about about it as your own

00:09:20.540 business you know you guys should all be thinking about what you are as yourself and what you really

00:09:26.400 are is you work for yourself no matter where you work okay you don't work for the company you work

00:09:31.760 for you work for yourself and what that means is that you have to go in you have to do the personal

00:09:35.780 development you have to increase your skills you have to increase your ability to provide value

00:09:39.760 and you have to and by doing those things you increase your value which increases the amount of money

00:09:44.180 that you get fucking paid okay i'm just saying you know you guys i get these these hang-ups from 0.92

00:09:52.520 questions from young entrepreneurs all the time that talk about you know oh i don't know how i feel 0.97

00:09:58.980 about making money well then you aren't gonna fucking make any making money is a great thing guys and if 0.89

00:10:05.080 you're capable of making money and you're not you are actually doing something that's immoral and let me 0.93

00:10:11.300 explain this to you you have a number of people that work that that look up to you in your life and you

00:10:16.760 may not think so but you can influence literally hundreds of thousands of people just through your success

00:10:22.920 and your path okay and i'm not saying that path is dictated by how much money you make it's dictated by

00:10:29.500 how much potential you fulfill for yourself so and what i mean by that is like if you have a guy who's fulfilling

00:10:35.720 his potential and he's making 50 grand a year then he's way more successful than the guy who's making

00:10:41.520 five million a year who's working you know one tenth of his ability all right so it's not about the

00:10:47.400 amount of money it's about the potential the potential you're fulfilling but what that what that re what

00:10:52.840 that parlays into guys is the example that you're setting for the next generation okay you have to

00:10:59.280 understand that what you do and what you earn and how you live and all the other things are going to

00:11:06.080 affect the way that other people live their lives okay they're going to affect the way maybe your kids

00:11:11.820 live they're going to affect the way maybe their future kids live and like if you're 20 years old 0.96

00:11:16.000 and you don't have any fucking kids you should be thinking right now about how you're going to be 0.99

00:11:19.520 when you have kids that should put some fire on your ass most people wait until they have kids and 1.00

00:11:24.080 they're like oh shit that's too late motherfucker you need to be thinking about it now all right 1.00

00:11:29.940 um the point i'm trying to make here guys is that money is an is an awesome thing all right and 0.99

00:11:41.860 anybody who says that it's not doesn't have any will never have any and if you're the kind of person

00:11:48.380 who really wants to make money but you secretly believe that it's not it's not the right thing or

00:11:53.320 there's something wrong with it or there's something uh you know immoral about it you're

00:11:58.200 never going to make it so you have to figure out and understand that your job and this is the way

00:12:04.240 that i think it's easiest for people to disconnect that guilt feeling of like oh of saying i want to

00:12:09.100 make money okay your job in your life is to leave a legacy do you want to leave a legacy of success 0.60

00:12:17.360 of fulfillment of fucking progression of improvement of hard work of inspiration 0.99

00:12:23.020 or do you want to leave a legacy of a regular dude who does regular shit who teaches his kids 1.00

00:12:29.660 and all that shit just to be another cog in the fucking machine because those are your only two 0.99

00:12:33.620 options and if you think about what your legacy is going to be you know it becomes very clear 0.99

00:12:39.660 especially i mean at least for me which path is the morally correct one you know and guys on top 0.98

00:12:47.920 of that let's talk about this you know people like to throw this shit out too well you know money's 0.94

00:12:52.720 not important to me but i like to go make sandwiches at the homeless shelter on you know to to give my 0.99

00:12:58.060 time well hey guess what what's more fucking valuable you giving your time a couple times a year to make 0.97

00:13:03.920 some fucking sandwiches at the homeless shelter or you being so wealthy that you could put up 10 new 0.98

00:13:08.500 homeless shelters what's going to fucking make a bigger difference and you know what you could still 0.99

00:13:13.340 go give your time anytime you want at any any given occasion christmas thanksgiving the time that you 0.96

00:13:19.440 know the people like to post it on the internet and talk about how giving they are as opposed to just

00:13:23.880 doing it all year guess what if you had your own shelters you could go all year you could be a great 0.79

00:13:28.100 person all the time you give all the fucking time you want because you can afford to do whatever the 0.98

00:13:32.620 fuck you want with your time okay now i want to tell us i want to close this podcast with a story and 0.99

00:13:41.960 this is i don't go to go to actual church and you know why i don't go to actual church because of 0.99

00:13:47.060 shit just like what i'm about to tell you all right the last time i was in an actual church 0.96

00:13:51.620 the the the preacher he was lutheran pastor he went on and on and on about how rich people have as big 0.98

00:14:01.100 as have as much chance of getting into heaven as a camel fitting through the head of a needle which is a

00:14:05.960 story they tell in the bible well the bible also says lots of other things like if you're lazy

00:14:11.600 don't expect a harvest uh it talks about the importance of you know earning and and giving

00:14:18.180 back and doing all these things and i had a conversation um with someone about this and then

00:14:25.260 somehow uh he had gone to his priest and told him the story that that i that i uh that i share with

00:14:34.580 him okay and and the loot this lutheran pastor went on and on and on for 45 minutes about how money's

00:14:39.980 evil money's bad and literally in the next breath he was talking about how awesome his brother was

00:14:44.500 and his brother was a gazillionaire if that tells you anything but anyhow i'm sitting in the front pew 0.97

00:14:50.580 i'm wearing a nice suit that was very expensive and i drove to fucking church my rolls royce 0.98

00:14:55.140 and uh i'm sitting there listening to this dude talking about how if you have any kind of money in 0.97

00:15:00.100 your life you're you're going to basically go to hell and and then the funny thing is is the next 0.97

00:15:07.700 thing that happens is what do they do they they pass the little fucking plates around for you to give 0.99

00:15:12.020 money okay so let me let me let me understand this you're not supposed to have any fucking money but 0.96

00:15:20.140 by the way give us money i don't i don't understand i don't understand there and like a lot of people 0.99

00:15:26.580 might sit there and nod their fucking heads and agree with that shit but i just don't because 0.99

00:15:30.260 i'm not a fucking sheep all right money makes the world go round whether you fucking want to admit it 1.00

00:15:35.640 or not all right and you can do good things or you can do bad things with it but i told this story 0.96

00:15:41.000 to my friend who went and talked to his priest about it and his priest has served in the catholic

00:15:47.480 ministry for 50 years uh he was a friend of stan musul big famous cardinal hall of famer here in st

00:15:53.540 louis legend um and this is the quotes these are some of the quotes that that the preacher said or

00:16:01.160 the priest said about money over 50 years experience my experience is that the virtues and the vices are

00:16:09.380 equally distributed amongst the social classes i have known extremely generous holy millionaires that

00:16:16.300 were virtue that were virtuous good and extremely greedy self-centered poor people who are virtuous bad

00:16:22.600 i get paid the same regardless of the income of my parishioners but i would love all of them to be

00:16:29.260 billionaires and i would hope that they would use their resources for good okay that's coming from a

00:16:35.060 dude who's lived in the church all right so when you're out trying to be ambitious and you're trying 0.97

00:16:40.080 to be uh you know hustler or whatever the fuck you guys call yourselves and you got your cousin or your 0.99

00:16:47.880 aunt or your mom or your fucking dad or whoever who says oh dude all you care about is money all you 1.00

00:16:54.560 think about is money is bad you don't need it you know uh you need to worry about other shit the money 0.99

00:17:00.040 dude that's coming from people that don't fucking have any realize that you're never going to find 0.98

00:17:05.300 somebody who made a lot of fucking money that says anything like that because i could tell you right 0.98

00:17:09.420 now when you think about all the good things in the world when you think about like and this is what 1.00

00:17:15.060 these motherfuckers like to throw up well i like to go volunteer my time in africa well who the fuck 0.99

00:17:20.160 do you think pays for those trips people with fucking money well i like to go uh you know i like 1.00

00:17:26.480 to go volunteer my time on missions well who the fuck do you think pays for those trips people who 1.00

00:17:31.640 donated money well i like to help the homeless i'm gonna go hand out this or that well who pays for 1.00

00:17:37.740 the shit that you handed out people with money okay your obligation is to make a lot of fucking 1.00

00:17:45.320 money you have an obligation to your fucking family and if you don't have a family yet you have an 1.00

00:17:49.860 obligation to your future family to be successful to work hard to fulfill your potential and to make a 1.00

00:17:56.220 lot of money because guess what whatever you do is what they're gonna do and you do you want your

00:18:02.020 kids to grow up struggling and looking at you know uh as an example of of mediocrity or do you want

00:18:11.740 your kids to grow up and understand that if they put in effort they put in time they put in work

00:18:16.460 that they're going to be rewarded and that they should actually take the money responsibly and go do good 1.00

00:18:21.660 things okay i'm sick and tired of the fucking money conversation i'm sick and tired of the loser 1.00

00:18:28.680 fucking motherfuckers out there that boohoo and fucking cry and and try to point the finger about 1.00

00:18:35.160 money morality there's nothing more immoral than not fulfilling the potential that you have been 1.00

00:18:43.560 gifted with with this life on this earth nothing there if you're if you're you know if you believe in

00:18:52.040 god and you talk about god the creator do you think god is happier with somebody who sits on their 1.00

00:18:57.360 fucking ass watches the clock it collects a bullshit paycheck or do you think he's happier with the 1.00

00:19:02.960 guy who goes out creates a fucking company feeds literally thousands of fucking people and makes oh 1.00

00:19:10.240 he happens to make a lot of money himself which he donates a lot of it to help other people who do 1.00

00:19:13.820 you think he's happier with who's fulfilling more potential if that were your kids who would you be 0.99

00:19:19.560 more proud of stop listening to dumb motherfuckers about money stop listening if people come on your 1.00

00:19:27.620 page you say shit when you say hey i'm an entrepreneur i'm trying to go hustle i'm trying 1.00

00:19:31.680 oh and they say all you care about is my block the motherfucker you don't need that shit in your life 1.00

00:19:37.240 it's it's an invalid argument it's an argument made by people who don't fucking know any better 1.00

00:19:43.800 and who are who are basically justifying their own place in life which is a place of lack 0.89

00:19:49.280 and if you could literally if you could look at somebody and say i got a thousand dollars in my 0.99

00:19:54.660 hand and they'll say yeah i'll take it then fuck them i'm so fucking tired of this discussion i'm so 1.00

00:20:02.280 tired of of people pointing the finger and saying money is bad you know what motherfucker i want all the 1.00

00:20:08.700 money all of it you know why because i know i could do great shit with it and you should feel 0.99

00:20:16.460 the same about yourself there should be no fucking hesitation in your heart there should be no guilt 0.92

00:20:21.820 there should be no oh i don't know if i want to make a lot of money or i feel weird making a lot of 1.00

00:20:26.900 money motherfucker if you have the money you could do whatever the fuck you want with it 0.99

00:20:30.780 so what difference does it make if you have it and you get to choose wouldn't you want it in a 1.00

00:20:36.880 responsible person's hands like yours that's going to do good shit with it 0.98

00:20:40.140 you know in the past year chris and i have dude we fucking built our high school a baseball field 0.99

00:20:47.940 a football field a fucking weight room okay we've given do literally hundreds of thousands of dollars 0.99

00:20:54.020 to other charities we wouldn't be able to do that if we were fucking broke we wouldn't be able to 0.99

00:21:01.040 provide the all the jobs here in our business if we didn't fucking work hard or if we took the idea 0.99

00:21:06.300 of oh money's not that important we wouldn't it's not about us it's not about driving a fucking 0.99

00:21:10.980 Lamborghini or driving a fucking nice car or going on nice trips that's what broke people tell you 0.98

00:21:16.320 what it's about it's about providing real value to this fucking earth and your obligation to fulfill 1.00

00:21:21.860 that so don't ever come at me with some bullshit about money i'll block your ass in one fucking 1.00

00:21:28.220 second i don't have time for that shit money's a great thing i think so mark cuban says so 1.00

00:21:35.480 and you should fucking think so 1.00

00:21:37.240 you 1.00

REAL AF with Andy Frisella - August 31, 2017

How To Think About Money (To Make A Lot Of Money), with Andy Frisella - MFCEO170

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