Business Snoopy

Warren Buffett said the difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything. I ignored this for 2 years and it nearly destroyed what I was building. I thought more was better. More projects. More platforms. More ideas running at the same time. I was doing 10 things at 60% instead of 2 things at 100%. Every week someone pitched me an opportunity. A new venture. A collaboration. A side project. I said yes to all of it because saying no felt like leaving money on the table. My revenue was spread across 6 income streams. None of them were growing. All of them demanded attention. I was busy every hour of the day and building nothing. Then I found the Buffett quote. And next to it, his partner Charlie Munger saying something even sharper: "The big money is not in the buying or selling, but in the waiting." Waiting means sitting with one thing long enough for compounding to work. You can't compound something you keep abandoning for the next shiny opportunity. I cut 4 of the 6 income streams in one week. Terrifying. Felt like throwing money away. Focused everything on the 2 that had the most potential. Within 3 months those 2 streams generated more than all 6 combined ever did. Every yes is a no to something else. Every new project is attention stolen from the one that was about to break through. The most productive word in business isn't hustle. It's no. Buffett has said no to thousands of deals worth billions. He's worth $130 billion because of the deals he didn't do, not the ones he did.

@NoLimitGains Oh shit

Uhoh. The Bank of Japan is in panic mode.

@elonmusk Congrats!

FSD approved in Denmark

@Du_b_em True

@SmartNotHard1 The smart part is usually the hardest part

Jeff Bezos sent one email to every new Amazon employee before their first day. It contained 3 sentences that most people don't understand until it's too late. The email didn't say welcome. It didn't explain the company culture. It didn't list expectations. It said: "You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon you can't choose two out of three." Most business advice tells you to pick one. Work smart, not hard. Bezos said that's a lie comfortable people tell themselves. Every person I've met who built something real worked all three simultaneously. Long hours. Intense focus. And ruthless prioritization of what actually moves the needle. When I first read this I was grinding 14 hour days and feeling productive. Then I looked honestly at what I was actually doing during those 14 hours. Maybe 3 hours of real output. The rest was busy work disguised as effort. Emails that didn't matter. Tasks that felt urgent but changed nothing. I restructured everything the next day. Fewer hours. Every hour aimed at the one thing that actually generated revenue. No fake productivity. No comfort tasks. My income doubled in 60 days. Not because I worked more. Because I finally understood what Bezos meant. Long means you don't quit early. Hard means you do the painful tasks first. Smart means every hour is pointed at the thing that matters most. Two out of three builds a job. All three builds an empire. That's the sentence they should teach in every business school on earth.

All personnel are accounted for and safe. It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it. Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It’s worth it.

@elonmusk @GadSaad really?

@GadSaad We’re all going to be extremely dumb compared to AI anyway

The Maxim of Impotent Rage: The more successful a man becomes, the greater the density of weak and pathetic men who will be obsessively consumed with him. Highly secure, successful, and confident men are never threatened by other men's accomplishments. But the Sneaky F**kers are driven into unhinged mad hysteria. It is the ultimate form of impotent projection. "Why is this a**hole successful whilst I languish in obscurity with my brilliance yet to be discovered"?" My advice: Stop focusing on the success of others to fuel your cosmic envy-based hate. Build. Create. Innovate. If you become successful, you won't have to obsess about the success of others. Have a great day! Off to the beach.