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The James Altucher Show

423 - John Paul DeJoria: Build A Self-Made Personality (How John Went From Homeless to Billionaire)

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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John Paul DeJoria is a self-made billionaire and philanthropist who co-founded the Paul Mitchell hair line.   I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.     Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify   Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Linkedin Instagram ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.4

This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.

0:10.4

Today on the James Altiger Show.

0:15.4

You know, obviously you've achieved great success and great success happens by being

0:20.3

as rational as possible in terms of building, you know, companies with thousands of people

0:24.7

motivating them, leading them, executing on products, you know, selling all over the world.

0:29.0

It requires, you know, great intelligence, great rational behavior, great ability to

0:34.6

understand emotionally the people around you and work with, you know, people you love

0:38.9

and trust and so on.

0:39.9

But also what you're telling me shows, you have this amazing open mind where it seems like

0:46.0

you take it an idea and you instantly start pushing the edges on what you can do with

0:50.4

this idea.

0:51.4

So how do you exercise your creativity?

0:53.6

Because I always feel it's a sort of muscle.

0:56.1

Being on your planet, our planet, being on the planet Earth Earth here, okay.

0:59.4

Are you an alien?

1:00.4

I was human as you are, okay.

1:03.5

There may be some hybrid in there but I don't know about that, okay.

1:06.6

Anyways, being on this planet, we get to experience everything we want, especially being in America

1:11.3

which is a free country.

1:12.8

So you can go from homelessness to billionaire, you go from that person to skinny person,

1:17.2

you don't have anything you really want to do.

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