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Why Some
People Have
Money And
Others Don’t
Brian K Wright
Brian: Welcome, Marshall! Did you envision early programming is done. And my programming for
in your life that you would be where you are right that time forward said, “I am a multi-millionaire
now? whose money has not yet been deposited in my
bank account”.
Marshall: Always! That’s one of the things that
stands as distinction between people that actually Brian: How do you figure out the best and highest
accomplish things and people that do not, is the use of your time?
people that gets stuff done have a burning sense
of certainty. The great inventors, such as Tesla,
Elon Musk, or Edison, have a unique approach. It’s Marshall: It starts with income generating
never “Can I?”, it’s always a “How do I?” activities - IGAs. So as an entrepreneur, if you’re
going to make $1 million in a year and work 40
hours a week, 50 weeks a year, the minimum
When I was very young, we were dirt poor. I have value of your time is $500 an hour. So, if the thing
10 siblings. I grew up in a household with no you’re doing doesn’t earn you $500 an hour, you
running water, no electricity, no phone, sometimes could pay somebody else to do it. If it’s beneath
we had no food. Twice, my family was homeless, your pay grade, you need to start saying no. There
and early on I watched my mother, whom I loved are a lot of activities that people do that are just
very much, raising us as a single parent. I watched wasted time.
her suffer. I watched her cry because she couldn’t
provide for her children, and I swore at the age of
five that whatever was causing my mother to cry Brian: As entrepreneurs, the ability and the
those tears, I would do whatever I needed to do to unwillingness to stop trading our hours for dollars
never see it again. is one thing that millionaires and billionaires
do differently than anybody else. How do else
millionaires and billionaires think differently from
Obviously, the years between the time were born anybody else?
until we are seven years old, the majority of our
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