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BiggerPockets Money Podcast

12: How to Become an “Overnight” Success in 10 Short Years with David Greene

BiggerPockets Money Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Investing, Business

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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While David Greene is a long-time real estate investor, best-selling author, and one of the top real estate agents in California today, his career started in the most unlikely of places—as a busboy at a restaurant. Learning how hard work and hustle,... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Bigger Pockets Money Show Number 12.

0:03.4

So I think I had that kind of always in the back of my mind that money isn't what like,

0:07.8

it's not all that matters, right?

0:09.4

But not having it will bring a lot of stress and strain into your life that doesn't have to be there if you do.

0:14.2

So I kind of understood that like money isn't evil.

0:17.4

It's also not the goal of life.

0:19.0

It's a vehicle that can get you the goal of life.

0:21.3

I didn't have any clue how to grow it. No one showed me anything. I just had this

0:25.8

drive that I didn't want to be broke. It's time for a new American dream, one that doesn't

0:30.8

involve working in a cubicle for 40 years barely scraping by

0:34.0

Whether you're looking to get your financial house in order invest the money you already have or

0:38.0

Discover new paths for wealth creation. You're in the right place. This show is for anyone who has money or wants more.

0:45.2

This is the Bigger Pocket Money Podcast.

0:48.0

How's it going everybody? I'm Scott Trench and I'm here with my co-host Miss Mindy

0:51.3

how are you doing Mindy?

0:52.3

Scott I am having an excellent day today. How are you doing today?

0:55.0

I'm doing fantastic. This was one of my favorite shows and I know I say that a lot but this one was really one of my favorite shows.

1:01.0

I want to be David when I grew up. I want to be David when I grew up too. He's such an amazing person. He's an investor story is fabulous. He started off in this like kind of dead- job, and instead of looking at it like,

1:14.4

ugh, this job sucks, I hate it, whatever, I'm just going to show up and he's like,

1:18.0

how can I be good at this?

1:19.2

How can I master this job?

1:21.2

And he takes that approach and puts it at everything he does. How can I master this? How can I master that? Oh, you know what? I don't want to master this. Let me go someplace else. And he didn't start off with a ton of money. He started off with a ton of drive and just took that and ran with it.

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