#731 - Warren Buffett Was Right: The Wrong City Will Beat You Every Time
The Tai Lopez Show
Tai Lopez
4.8 • 6.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Tai Lopez Show, Tai unpacks the power of environment in shaping your long-term success, drawing from a viral tweet about Warren Buffett’s wisdom: “When a good manager meets a bad business, the bad business wins.” Tai expands this into life and wealth—how the wrong city, country, or social circle can quietly sabotage even the most disciplined person.
You’ll learn:
- Why willpower is finite and can’t outlast a toxic environment
- How “flow maxing” can guide the cities you live in, the industries you choose, and the people you date
- When to move into big cities to grow your wealth—and when to get out before ambition consumes you
- The ancient “Lindy” principle for making better life choices
- Why knowing your genetic limits is as important in business as it is in sports
- The danger of never having an “enough” number, from Napoleon to modern billionaires
- How to rotate between environments for money, happiness, and long-term health
If you’ve ever wondered where you should live to make the most money—and when to leave so you can actually enjoy it—this deep dive will change the way you think about your surroundings, your ambition, and your optimal stopping point.
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| 0:00.0 | Warren Buffett was right when he said, when a good manager meets a bad business, the bad |
| 0:04.8 | business wins. In the same way, when a talented person meets the wrong city, the wrong |
| 0:10.1 | city wins. You just can't power through everything. The whole world now is even divided into |
| 0:16.8 | environments that are not only bad for you accidentally, but they're engineered to destroy you |
| 0:22.3 | in the long run. Sometimes when you retreat, you end up winning more than if you continue to fight. |
| 0:28.0 | It's a weird rule. It's kind of like chess. You sacrifice to win. You know, Warren Buffett proved this. |
| 0:32.9 | Everyone said you couldn't become a top investor unless you lived in New York City. And he's like, |
| 0:37.4 | you know, I'm leaving here. I'm doing good enough. And he went to Omaha, Nebraska. And he |
| 0:41.5 | became bigger than pretty much any investor in human history. You're in my garage. Remember, |
| 0:49.3 | you will never outperform your environment. Change cities or countries quicker. |
| 0:56.3 | Welcome to the Tyler Beggio. |
| 0:58.0 | I wanted to go deeper on this. |
| 1:02.6 | I tweeted this the other day and it went super viral like 10 times more than normal. |
| 1:05.7 | And it's something I've talked about on some other episodes, but I wanted to basically explain a little deeper with more nuance and detail. |
| 1:11.9 | And I'll talk about, there's some other things I want to talk about on today's episode. |
| 1:15.0 | But, you know, first thing that I will tell you is that Warren Buffett was right when he said, |
| 1:20.7 | when a good manager meets a bad business, the bad business wins, meaning a great CEO will |
| 1:26.4 | be defeated if he tries to step into a horrible business. |
| 1:30.4 | So there's a thought in the world that, you know, talent can solve everything. |
| 1:34.5 | And if you're really skilled and really self-discipline and good willpower and proficient in |
| 1:39.0 | what you do, that all of a sudden, you know, the environment doesn't matter. |
| 1:42.6 | Anybody, you know, Lee Ayacocca, the famous CEO or, you know, Steve Jobs or, you know, |
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