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The Playbook With David Meltzer

How to Succeed in Business

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

If you want to achieve it, prioritize it in your life. Commit to a minimum amount of time each day so that your body, mind, and soul are all working in unison. The only limits that exist in our lives are the ones we place on ourselves. If you don't invest in yourself, what are you ever going to invest in? Tweet me @davidmeltzer your favorite takeaway from today's episode and come ask me questions live every Friday at 11:00 am PST / 2:00 pm EST. Text me at (949) 298-2905 or email me at david@dmeltzer.com to join!

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0:00.0

I think about it all the time when I have to make investments.

0:03.2

What am I investing in?

0:05.1

Right, I'm investing in the person.

0:06.8

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook.

0:09.6

My second year of law school, my oldest brother died.

0:12.3

And I went back home and I told my mom, sorry,

0:15.9

that I wanted to quit law school.

0:18.8

Right, because I had been looking and I got offered a job to sell golf clubs in

0:25.7

Tasia, and it was $60,000 a year, plus commission.

0:30.3

That's a lot of money when you're going 100,000 into debt,

0:33.7

inter-recession in the early 90s.

0:36.1

And so I went home and my mom told me another great piece of advice.

0:40.1

She said, I'm not going to let you quit.

0:41.8

She said, I go, well, I'm taking loans.

0:44.3

I can quit.

0:45.1

I don't want to take those loans.

0:46.1

I'll find the money.

0:48.0

I said, I know, you can't find the money.

0:49.4

You can barely pay for what we have.

0:51.4

And I got younger siblings that want to go to Harvard and Penn and Columbia.

0:55.7

So she said, Dave, if you're not going to invest in yourself,

0:59.6

what are you ever going to invest in?

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