Don't Be Cute | Ep 255

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, How To

4.9 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Just do it exactly as it is outlined. Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) talks about the one piece of advice every entrepreneur needs to hear. Listen in as Alex reflects on a pivotal concept that was given to him by a mentor.

Welcome to The Game Podcast where we talk about how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, and keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons we have learned along the way to $100M in sales. We've got roll-up-your-sleeves kind of hustle with a little bit of cleverness and a lot of heart.

Timestamps:

(2:22) - Alex dives into the question "What breeds success?"

(4:17) - The reason why "What breeds success" needs to be talked about

(5:57) - The bedrock of successful entrepreneurship

(7:41) - If you're in the process of optimizing something

(10:06) - Sayings that reinforce the right mindset & Alex shares the shortcut to where you want to go

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0:00.0	Mozination real quick, if you are a business owner that has a big old business and wants to get to a much bigger business,
0:06.1	going to $50, $100,000 plus we would love to talk to you.
0:09.5	And if you like that or would like to hear more about it, go to acquisition.com and you can plan anywhere on the page
0:14.3	and talk to one of our team and see if we can help you get there.
0:17.8	A lot of times I feel like we need to be reminded more than we need to be taught.
0:21.0	And this is one of those instances.
0:23.4	Welcome to the game where we talk about how to get more customers, how to make more per customer,
0:27.2	and how to keep them longer and the many failures and lessons we have learned along the way.
0:30.5	Hope you enjoy and subscribe.
0:31.9	What's going on, everyone?
0:33.7	I wanted to bring this video to you downtown coming in hot from Austin.
0:38.8	What I want to talk to you about today is a saying that we have said over and over and over again in our community
0:44.5	and some real world applications to it.
0:47.1	And that saying is don't be cute.
0:51.2	And so the first time I heard this saying was from a serial CEO, he was a mercenary CEO.
0:56.4	So basically that is a CEO who's once a company, like a private equity firm purchases a new company,
1:02.9	they go have this kind of black book of their all-star players, their SWAT team that they drop in
1:07.8	so that they can grow the company.
1:09.3	That's kind of how it works.
1:10.4	And so he's one of these CEOs.
1:12.0	He's one of these guys that's brought into a deal.
1:15.0	They get the company and then he grows it again for the private equity, usually in a three to five
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