If you had to teach one class entrepreneur, what class would that be?

Well, I think I'd go actually back into the high schools and I teach the most basic

accounting and finance course and talk about the difference between a job and creating wealth.

What are the differences? I think for most elites for me, when I was growing up, I didn't

appreciate that wealth could be created. I thought the mission was to get through high school and

go to university, get a job, earn a salary and try to improve that salary over time and never

understood the difference between what is commonly talked about in school, which is that path versus

being self-employed and creating wealth or even generational wealth for yourself and your family.

And I think there's a huge difference between the two and I really didn't become aware of that

until I was about 35. Is there like a light bulb moment when that happened?

Yeah, I'd done the former program decently well during the Navy when I was 18 and gone, got an

engineering degree and served a dozen years in the Navy and then started a small business when

I left the Navy and it wasn't until five years into that business that I realized I created a

decent company, but a kind of a crappy job. And in fact, I went to a program at that time called

Perthing of Giants. It was a Vern Harnesh Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur, you know, YEO program and

they talked about this very thing and it was epiphany for me at house older than many of the guys

in the room and it suddenly dawned on me that the guys who had made a lot of money in their lives

weren't doing it by earning a wage they had created wealth in their organizations and I went back to

my company ultimately shut it down. This is a very simple task. We have to blast me if I go

public again. I say this. Build a great company that has high competitive advantages, raise money

when you can recognize you're going to get to looted a little bit and hopefully into the day

still on a piece of the company. Probably another lesson from an entrepreneurial perspective which is

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