Excuse me, sir.
Yeah, what's up?
Question for you.
Is this your Rolls Royce?
Yeah.
And what do you do for living out here in Tampa to be able to afford a Rolls Royce?
I am a consultant.
How long have you been a business owner for?
I've been a business owner for 37, no, 39 years.
And can I interview you real quick?
Sure.
I go all over the country just asking business owners advice to new entrepreneurs.
Sure.
What was the most amount of money that you made in a single year?
I'm not going to say.
Over $10 million?
Over, yeah.
It's going to be my current year.
I'm making a few million this year, bro.
Yeah.
Give me a range.
$45.
$45 million.
Most amount of money I've ever made in a single year, $15 million.
Have you ever been broke before?
Oh, God, yeah.
I literally walked into a bank on Saturday and met with the president of the bank on the day he was off and got a loan for 550000 and opened my first business.
Did you come from a lot of money?
No, I grew up on a farm.
In 60 seconds.
How can somebody become a multimillionaire in today's world?
We just landed in one of the wealthiest cities in the entire country, tampa florida.
For those that don't know, tampa florida is home to over 60 000 millionaires and nearly 10 billionaires, and we're going to be going all over the city to the wealthiest areas to ask multi-millionaires and people that have grown some of the biggest companies in the entire city how they became successful and how you can start your path to becoming financially free in today's world.
So, with that being said, let's get this video on the way.
Excuse me, sir.
Question for you.
Yes.
Have you ever owned a business before?
Yes.
What type of company?
Several.
What was your main business?
I was in the TV business.
I was in the restaurant business.
Let me ask you a question.
I started the channel in Austin.
I grew it to 8 million followers.
I go all over the country just asking business owners their best advice to new entrepreneurs.
Could I get one minute of your time real quick?
Real quick.
How long have you been an entrepreneur for?
My whole life.
What's the greatest lesson you learned about entrepreneurship?
A lesson you learned that somebody will not learn.
Take care of your people.
And the worst thing you can have is have a big corporation take over the company and try and homogenize everything.
It doesn't work because they don't care about the staff.
You take care of your people, you're going to be successful.
Is that what happened to you?
Yeah, they bought us out.
I made great money, but In terms of revenue, what was the most amount of money that you made in a single year?
TV stations were doing $30-40 million.
The restaurant was doing $5 million.
Did you ever lose money?
Oh God, yeah.
I had businesses that didn't work.
I always tried to have three sources of income.
Three different businesses in different categories. working to make money.
But a lot of people would say don't diversify.
How do you feel about that?
They're wrong because you don't want to have the old classic.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
I was in the restaurant business.
I was in the farming business and I was in the television business.
Did you come from a lot of money?
No, I grew up on a farm.
Yeah, so what was the turning point to financial freedom?
What did you see that made you want to go out and build a big million dollar business?
Well, my dad was a farmer.
He took a risk every day.
How old are you now?
I'm almost 70.
No, you're not.
Are you actually?
I'll be 70 next year.
Are you serious?
Real quick, real quick, come here.
If you lost everything tomorrow, could you make it all back?
As a multiple eight-figure earner, what was the best financial advice you ever received?
So when you partner with somebody, we call it the call, because any business is going to need cash flow at some point.
If your partners can't make the call, when you say hey, we all need to put in, whatever the amount is, if you can't make that call, they don't need to be your partner.
But you were never afraid to take on debt as a business owner?
Oh, God, no.
Why not?
Because it was a different time.
You can't do it now.
Banks don't do that anymore.
I literally walked into a bank on Saturday and met with the president of the bank on the day he was off and got a loan for 550000 and opened my first business.
Thank you so much for your time, sir.
I appreciate you.
Have a great day, sir.
Thank you.
All right, you guys, my guy study just dropped.
Probably one of my favorite interviews I've ever done.
But guys, it all comes back to people.
Attach yourselves to great people.
And remember, people will take you places that money can't.
Phenomenal interview out here in Tampa.
Let's go get this next one and keep this video rolling.
Come on.
Excuse me, sir.
Question for you.
Have you ever been broke before?
Huh?
Have you ever been broke before?
I've been broke before?
Yeah.
Yeah, man.
I've been broke before.
Yeah?
And what line of business are you in?
I'm in a digital marketing company.
I'm an investor.
Yeah?
Yeah.
I go all over the country just asking successful people how they made it for the younger generation.
Could I interview you for the channel real quick?
That's dope, man.
How long have you been an entrepreneur for?
For about three or four years, man.
Over these four years, what was the most amount of money that you made in a single year?
It's going to be my current year.
I'm making a few million this year, bro.
Give me a range.
$45 million.
As a multiple seven-figure entrepreneur, what is the best financial advice that you ever received?
Leverage debt.
I think a lot of people are looking to get out of debt, which means you just come from being negative to broke.
And then another thing is if you don't learn how to leverage debt, you'll always be working for somebody else who knows how to leverage debt.
Break that down.
How can somebody leverage debt to create wealth?
Let's just say, if we leverage other people's money to be able to buy real estate or to start a business, now we're have the capability and opportunity to start these businesses and investments.
But we can use somebody else's money to start something that cash flows and then pay back off the debt over time.
So why am i looking to pay off debt when i can cash flow off somebody else's money and start the things that i want to start without my own money?
I like that concept.
You know that he's at school, right?
Yeah, you definitely don't learn that in school.
Did you go to college?
I went to college for like 90 days and then i dropped out.
I I'm not that smart man.
I didn't know how to write a 10 to 15 page paper.
I kind of quit after they told me how to write a page paper.
I'm like, ah, it ain't my thing.
How old are you now?
30.
30?
Yeah.
And how old were you when you became a millionaire?
Like 27, 27.
Do you come from a lot of money?
No, I don't.
My father died in a car crash when I was a kid, like one years old.
And my mom, she got taken to jail for a few years as well.
What was the turning point to financial freedom?
One thing that I know is that everybody do is say that stuff is hard.
Starting a business is hard.
Investing is hard.
Like getting your credit together is hard.
Well, it's hard being broke.
It's hard being in the same position year after year after year after year.
So you got to choose what hard you want.
All right, you guys, this video just got off to an amazing start and we're headed to go get our next interview right now.
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I have a channel I grew to 8 million followers called The School of Hard Knocks.
We do 170 million views a month.
Can I interview you for one minute real quick, right over here?
Thank you, my friend.
Who am I here with today?
Dave Bautista.
And what industry did you pursue a career in, for those that don't know?
I'm in entertainment.
I was a professional wrestler before I was an actor.
How long have you been in the entertainment business for?
Shit, man, about 25 years.
Throughout your career, what was the most amount of money that you made in a single year?
Man, I'm not going to say, but to me it's a lot of money, but I don't want to say it.
Over $10 million?
Over, yeah.
That's incredible.
Do you come from a lot of money?
No, I come from, you know, a single.
I was raised by a single mom and you know, at times we couldn't even afford food.
I'm from kind of the worst parts of Washington DC and that's kind of how I grew up until I was well into my 30s.
I didn't make any money until I was well into my 30s.
What was the best advice you ever got from a mentor?
If there's a lesson that a mentor... As far as financial advice?
Anything, life, something that really helped you throughout your career, your life.
Well, I mean...
There's been a few things, especially when I was wrestling, I had a mentor named Triple H And there was a couple of things he said to me that always stuck with me.
And one of the things was, you know, when I first got there, I was so afraid.
Like, I didn't want to piss people off.
It was a hierarchy thing.
And I was so afraid of being disrespectful or pissing somebody off.
And one day he said, look, man, you want to make money?
You want to make friends?
He says, it's a business.
You got to look at it as a business.
You're a business.
You're your own commodity.
And so I always thought about myself as my own commodity.
I am my brand and so another thing he said.
He said just always, imagine that everybody's pointing a gun at your head.
He said it's up to you how many bullets you give them and that kind of stuck with me.
And financial advice, the best advice that i ever got, which i always offer to, especially to like professional athletes, because a lot of professional athletes who grow up you know not really having much, so when you get all this money dumped on you, you just want to buy everything you can afford.
It's not stuff you Need, is just stuff you want.
And the best advice that I ever got was actually from The Undertaker, another wrestler.
But he said it was advice he got from his father.
He said, always live beneath your means.
And I learned that the hard way when I was in wrestling.
I came out of wrestling, I literally lost everything.
I went nothing.
My house got foreclosed on.
But I had a second opportunity to be successful with in the film industry.
And so now it's like you know, like every once in a year I'll buy something that I want, not something I need because I've worked really hard and I know that I can afford it.
But I'm still believe like I will live beneath my means.
I know I can live more lavishly, more luxuriously, but I will live beneath my means because now that money in the bank means more to me than you know, something that I don't really need.
Like I don't need a Bugatti.
I'd love to have a Bugatti. but i'm not paying three five million dollars for a car because i don't i don't need one entertainment's very competitive what did you do to stand out in this industry what did you do differently from 99 of other people in entertainment that made you become the top one percent you know you got to weed through people and there's some there's not you're not going to like everybody in the world but can can you do business with somebody like i can do business people with people i don't necessarily like and i understand that you know this is a machine you know people will use me to make money and i will use people not use people to make money but In the entertainment industry, people will do business with you if you can generate money for them.
And I will do business with them if they can generate money for me.
So it's all a trade-off.
It's got to be about who are you willing to do business with.
And a lot of times, you're not going to like people that you have to do business with.
Thank you, my friend.
I appreciate it.
You got amazing advice.
Guys, we just interviewed an absolute legend, Dave Bautista.
He's one of the greatest WWE wrestlers of all time.
Now he's one of the biggest Hollywood actors and he just gave some amazing advice, especially when he talked about the advice that his mentor, the legend Triple H, gave him.
He said if you go into business, expect it to be liked by everybody and you're trying to please everybody, you are never going to be successful.
Like Grant Cardone told me when I interviewed him, I don't care if they like me or they hate me, as long as they call me.
Great interview with the legend Batista.
Let's go get this next one out here in Tampa.
Come on.
All right, you guys, we just got to our next destination out here in Tampa at Eddie V's, one of the nicest steakhouses in the entire city.
My guy just pulled up in a Rolls Royce.
We got to go see what this man was able to do out here, man.
Excuse me, sir.
Yeah, what's up?
Question for you.
Is this your Rolls Royce?
Yeah, it's mine.
And what do you do for living out here in Tampa to be able to afford a Rolls Royce?
I am a consultant.
I'm a business consultant.
Are you an entrepreneur?
I am definitely an entrepreneur.
How long have you been a business owner for?
I've been a business owner for 37, no, 39 years.
And can I interview you real quick?
Sure.
I go all over the country just asking business owners advice to new entrepreneurs.
Sure.
What was the most amount of money that you made in a single year?
Most amount of money I've ever made in a single year?
$15 million.
$15 million?
Yeah.
Have you ever been broke before?
I was broke for the first part of my life.
Then I made millions of dollars, and then I was broke again, and now we've set it up in such a way that that doesn't happen anymore.
What separates middle class from wealthy people in today's world?
Poor people and middle class people feel like everything's expensive because they pay for everything with money they've exchanged their time for, and they feel like they're paying for everything with their life because they are.
Wealthy, creative entrepreneurs like yourself.
Like myself, we pay for things according to our creativity.
In other words, we create an offer to pay for everything we buy.
So everything costs the same amount.
Do you believe in God?
I more than believe in God.
I trust God.
Yeah, I believe in God and I trust God.
How important has faith been for you throughout your career?
It's the most important thing in my life.
How did you build that relationship and build that trust in God?
Maybe to speak to those people that may not understand the importance of that and how much that's had an impact.
So I received Christ as my Savior when I was 16 years old.
I started reading the Bible when I was 17.
Every success principle that I learned.
The very first thing that I do is I go back and look at Scripture and see if it lines up.
If it does, I'll follow it.
If it doesn't, I ditch it.
You got amazing advice.
Thank you so much for your time.
I really appreciate that.
Good to meet you, young man.
Hard Knocks family, this video was incredible.
My guy Myron, we just saw coming out of the Rolls Royce just dropped a million dollars worth of game for you guys.
But I want you guys to like and subscribe for amazing content we've got coming very, very soon.
As I mentioned before guys, we launched an entrepreneur community, a private entrepreneur community, where you guys can connect directly with the multimillionaires and the billionaires that I interview.
Guys like Myron, if you want to learn directly from them on live calls and ask guys like him questions, how to start and scale a business, how to create wealth in different industries like real estate, how to market, how to sell, the link to join our private entrepreneur community, the School of Mentors, is down below.
I'll see you on the inside of the community, but with that being said, see you in the next video.
