No matter how big or small, dreams have a price, and that price is money, responsibility, accountability, and commitment.― M.J. DeMarco, The Millionaire Fastlane. Here are 37 Awesome MJ DeMarco Quotes.
MJ DeMarco Quotes
1. He who thinks the idea owns nothing. He who executes the idea owns everything. ― M.J. DeMarco
2. Money doesn’t change people; it just makes them more of what they already are.― M.J. DeMarco
3. The world’s most successful entrepreneurs didn’t have a blockbuster ideas; they just took existing concepts and made them better, or exposed them to more people.― M.J. DeMarco
4. Freedom has a price, and that price is money. Big dreams, from materialistic Ferraris to altruistic nonprofit foundations, cost money. You can’t travel the world by swimming in the oceans. You have to pay your way, and if you think money is evil, you’ve already lost.
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5. Some of the greatest books in the world go unread, while the mediocre stuff sells millions. The difference lies in marketing, public relations, and just good old-fashioned business know-how.Writing a book is not a business; selling the book is.
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6. Failures that drive you into new directions are often the most productive forces for invention.The heart pacemaker, microwave ovens, penicillin, and vulcanized rubber are all inventions that are the profound results of failures and accidents. Failure cracked the road open, and in that failure, the inventors had the fortitude to recognize it.
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7. Starting a business is a big decision. Treat it with cursory interest, and your business resembles a hobby. And businesses that are run like hobbies pay like hobbies.
― M.J. DeMarco
8. Some of the greatest books in the world go unread, while the mediocre stuff sells millions. The difference lies in marketing, public relations, and just good old-fashioned business know-how.Writing a book is not a business; selling the book is.
― M.J. DeMarco
9. Manufacture is one tiny battle in a larger war. Distribution is where the war is won. A great product is worthless if it doesn’t get into the hands of people, and that requires distribution.
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10. Ninety percent of all new businesses fail because they are based on selfish internal needs, not external market needs.
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MJ DeMarco Quotes
11. If you can’t control every aspect of your company, you’re not driving! And if you can’t drive, you set yourself up for sudden, unexpected crashes.
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12. No one cares about your selfish desires for dreams or money; people only want to know what your business can do for them.
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13. Failure is natural to success. Expect it and learn from it.
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14. The amount of money in your life is merely a reflection to the amount of value you have given to others.
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15. Money isn’t attracted to selfish people. It is attracted to businesses that solve problems. It’s attracted to people who fill needs and add value. Solve needs massively and money massively attracts.
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16. Want to make big bucks? Then start attracting money instead of chasing it. Money is like a mischievous cat; if you chase it around the neighborhood, it eludes you. It hides up a tree,behind the rose bush, or in the garden. However, if you ignore it and focus on what attracts the cat, it comes to you and sits in your lap.
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17. You can’t experience success without failure.
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18. To live unlike everyone else, you have to do what everyone else won’t.
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19. Want to make big bucks? Then start attracting money instead of chasing it. Money is like a mischievous cat; if you chase it around the neighborhood, it eludes you. It hides up a tree,behind the rose bush, or in the garden. However, if you ignore it and focus on what attracts the cat, it comes to you and sits in your lap.
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20. Opportunity drives through your neighborhood frequently, and when it does, you have to grab that bitch.
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MJ DeMarco Quotes
21. Hard work and commitment separates the winners from the losers.
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22. It is easier to live in regret of failure than in regret of never trying.
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23. You have the innate power to become an expert at anything not requiring physical talent.
Anything!
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24. Skills and expertise are waiting just for you. No one drops a book on your lap and gifts knowledge. You have to seek it, process it, and then use it. The acquisition and application of knowledge will make you rich.
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25. If you avoid failure you will also avoid success.
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26. You learn from engagement,from doing, and from getting out and taking repeated action, more so than from any book or professor.
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27. To cease learning at graduation is wealth suicide.
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28. Education, your oil, is a critical component to your wealth road trip. When you continually inject yourself with new education, new skills, and new competencies, new roads open and things run smoothly.
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29. Behind the tangled roots of poorness, you will find a poor valuation of free time, which breeds from bad choices.
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30. Face it. What you know today is not enough to get you where you need to be tomorrow. You must constantly reinvent yourself, and reinvention is education.― M.J. DeMarco
MJ DeMarco Quotes
31. The ultimate wealth is having the free time to live how you want to live.
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32. If the cookies don’t get into the grocery cart, they don’t get home. And if they don’t get home, they don’t get in my mouth. And if they don’t get in my mouth, they don’t transform into belly fat.
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33. Once your time is gone, you’re dead. And when your clock ceases to tick, no amount of cash will save you from the end.
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34. Value your time poorly and you will be poor.
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35. When life sucks, escapes are sought. I don’t need television because I invested my time into a real life worth living, not a fictitious escape that airs every Tuesday night at 8 p.m.
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36. Toxic relationships drain energy and detract from your goals to be extraordinary.
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37. People are like roads—they can either bring opportunity or distress into your life. The quality of these roads solely depends on the quality of the person.
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