How You Can Save Money, Build a Business, and Stay Happy | GaryVee NAC Success Resources Keynote 2019

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Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 18.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

I gave this keynote at the NAC Success Resources event in 2019 — and I went deep on the real shit that holds people back. It’s not lack of resources. It’s not bad luck. It’s entitlement, insecurity, and the need to impress others instead of doing what actually makes you happy.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re stuck or not moving fast enough, this episode is a wake-up call. I break down the 5 core pieces of value that I believe will unlock your path to success — and most of them have nothing to do with business tactics and everything to do with mindset.

Whether you’re just starting or scaling, this talk will push you to get brutally honest with yourself and start executing.

👇 We talk about:

Why accountability is the gateway to happiness
How entitlement is sabotaging your growth
What I learned from immigrants about money
The illusion of success on social media
Building businesses around what you love
Why you need to stop buying dumb sh*t 💳
Crushing it on LinkedIn and Instagram with $0
Why losing early builds you up later
The real ROI of patience and long-term execution

🧠 This isn’t just motivation — this is a blueprint. Let’s go.

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0:00.0	Take a step back and understand what you're doing with yourself.
0:04.6	What makes you happy?
0:06.2	Are you trying to be rich because you want to stick it
0:09.0	to your parents or everybody else that said that you couldn't?
0:13.6	Or are you trying to do something
0:15.4	because you actually like it?
0:17.3	Are you trying to be rich because you want to go buy shit
0:20.4	to create a perception that you're happy?
0:23.1	Or do you actually want to be happy?
0:26.8	You got your perspective.
0:31.7	I just want to be happy.
0:32.9	Don't you want to be happy?
0:43.3	So listen, I think there's two core things that I want to think about which is there's a lot of ways I say it, macro, micro, perspective and execution.
0:49.3	When I think about why the 9,000 of you would allocate time
0:55.0	and money to come to an event,
0:57.5	it means that there is a need for offense,
1:01.7	more offense, getting out of defense, offense.
1:05.8	To me, this is about one big conversation,
1:14.6	one big conversation of what are we actually doing here. And so for me, when I think about what are we actually doing here, the first thing that
1:19.2	always comes to mind, and I know some of you have heard this for me, but the fact that the
1:24.4	odds of being a human being are 400 trillion to one is something that I struggle
1:30.3	with not thinking about almost on a daily basis.
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