Enzo Bonventre

Man to man

You will make more money obsessing over why your customers leave than why they buy.

When you die, all your problems become other people's problems. But when other people die, most of their problems die with them Which means most of the things you call problems never really mattered to begin with If you can't pass them on, they're probably not worth holding onto.

In 100 years, everyone reading this will be dead. Their problems, worries, and opinions won't matter. Neither will yours. Think of it like a delayed universal blank slate - yours to paint as you see fit.

In a world of infinite AI labor and intelligence, the last valuable thing a human will get paid to do will be to take risk.

Too many BS ideas out there of how to raise young boys. Here are 5 things they need: 1. A present father 2. A strong belief system 3. Standards 4. Friction 5. Fun You’re raising future leaders, CEO’s, fathers, husbands and friends. Lead them intentionally.

You're not getting what you want because you're not attacking the problems you have enough times and enough ways.

"If we're all going to eat, someone has to sell." Ken Griffin saw this on a $10 plaque in an investor's office. Changed his entire view of business. Here's the truth most founders miss: Sales isn't a department. It's a culture. But sales doesn't end at signature. It starts with the first pitch and never stops. Customer experience = every interaction after the deal. The moment customers aren't the center of attention? You're done. If your CEO isn't reading customer complaints daily, you've already lost focus. If your CTO isn't in Zendesk, you're losing. Don't get buried in spreadsheets. Never lose sight of who pays the bills. Never. Stop. Selling.

You don’t have what you want because you’re not as good as you think you are. And you’re not as good as you think you are because you think you worked a lot longer and a lot harder than you really did. The people beating you worked longer than you or harder than you, or both.

Your entire life will be summarized into a 500 to 1500 word eulogy read by someone else. That thing you’re worried about probably doesn’t matter. Since the end is the same no matter what, you might as well make it interesting for yourself and go for it.

People over complicate business. You need two things: Great product + large distribution That’s about it. Everything else distracts from the only things that matter. Make it the best. Get it in front of more people. Repeat until no more people to get in front of.

Your life will change the moment you stop judging people by their intentions and start judging them by their influence. Your friends and acquaintances might say they’re here to help, but if all they do is make your life harder, believe what they do not why they do it.

The thing you're putting off doing is hard. That's it. Not impossible. Just hard. So you might as well start now, because waiting isn't gonna make it any easier.

If you can’t work when you’re alone, you'll never be great. Greatness is built in private. The hours no one sees, the work no one applauds, the days where the only person holding you accountable is you. If you need someone else to clap for you, no one ever will.

✝️JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN’T SEE GOD, DOESN’T MEAN HE’S NOT THERE!!! This story is UNBELIEVABLE!! 🤯 I will use this with my GRAND CHILDREN!

You can get competent at nearly anything in 20 hours. The problem is most people spend a decade delaying the first 20 hours.

The fastest way to get richer is to stop pursuing opportunities with low ceilings. The hard part about this is most people don’t know their opportunity has a ceiling until they see one with a higher ceiling. This ignorance debt is what we lose in years to pay down.

Sales is a lot like poker. You don't play your hand, you play the man in front of you. You don't sell the product, you sell the prospect. If you can learn someone's why, you can sell them almost any how.

Dear son,

You’re behind because you’re in a rush, and you’re in a rush because you feel behind. And you feel behind because you're in a different season than the people you're comparing yourself to. You're not behind. You're just early.