If you want to be good at money, if you want to be good at anything, if you want to be good at tennis, if you want to be good at stamp collecting, you need to think about it a lot.

The obesity-related costs are 1.7 trillion-dollars a year. When you look at everything from knee replacements to cardiac to cancers that are obesity-related, we're looking at 1.7 trillion-dollars a year. That's 7% of our economy.

The key is not finding your passion but finding your talent and then committing to developing mastery. And if you can develop mastery in anything that has a 90+ percent employment rate... the economic accoutrements, the camaraderie, the prestige, the relevance, just the sheer joy of mastery will make you passionate about whatever it is.

The number one source of retention, the number one lever for retention, people think it's compensation, people think it's culture, its whether or not that person has a friend at work.

I think GLP-1 is bigger than GPT-4.

I'm gonna say the key to my success is rejection. I've had a lot of the marketplace, businesses, capital providers, women have provided a great deal of rejection for me. And my skill is my ability to endure that and move on and not lose my sense of enthusiasm.

I think there are going to be a lot of businesses, whether it's carpet cleaning or gas stations or hanging and selling draperies into small furniture companies, that are owned by boomers that are going to need transition—nice small businesses. And these individuals will need liquidity events, and they're just aging out of the business.

The sexier the business, the lower return on investment.

I'm still very anxious about money ... I like to be very open about money because I think that not talking about money is basically a decorum that is promoted by the incumbents and the wealthy.

'08 to present is probably going to go down as the greatest extended bull market run in history. People don't understand just what an anomaly the last 16 years have been relative to the history of the market.

That would be my advice to people is be humble when you have wins—because a lot of it isn't you—but also forgive yourself because, you know, again, a lot of it isn't you.

Everyone on this podcast, everyone we know, everyone we care about, what they think of us, they're going to be dead in 100 years. In a blink of the history, nothing you say or do or what anyone else thinks of you is going to matter for very long.

The most disruptable business in the world is US healthcare ... 4 out of 5 people aren't happy with it. Cost have outpaced inflation for the last 40 years, meaning it's got the biggest chin in the world. And I think the fists of stone coming for it is artificial intelligence.

We didn't want have an open conversation about the fact that America is obese, 40% of them. The kids, you're more likely to commit suicide. Obesity in children, it's terrible. You're much more likely to be depressed as an adult, not go to college, and become more likely to to kill yourself.

If you're ambitious and you want to have influence or economic security, before you collect dogs and kids, you got to get to a city. Two-thirds of economic growth is going to happen in just 20 cities.

The ability to mourn and move on is key. And the wonderful thing about America is that we don't embrace failure—that's bullshit—but we tolerate it.

I think the key to building a small businesses retention.

The insecurity is real. I still am very fearful of being broke. I don't want to go back there.

Going to work for a big company is vastly underrated. They can abuse their monopoly position ... You will get rich slowly working at Google or it McKinsey.

You are never more prone to a really big mistake then right after a big win.

If you don't have a kitchen cabinet of people that you learn enough about that you can mimic them, you're trying to play a team sport solo; you're on the field alone.

If you aren't trying really hard and taking risks and failing and then knowing when to pull the plug and move on, you're not taking advantage of the American embrace of risk and failure.

This notion, the myth of balance, get over it. If you expect to be influential or economically secure, you're not gonna have a lot of balance for a long period of time.