Rabbi Daniel Lapin: “I Eat Because I Am Able to Serve You.”
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Sean Croxton
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🗓️ 17 March 2026
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Rabbi Daniel Lapin shares a powerful perspective on work, purpose, and prosperity. Instead of chasing a job you love, he explains why success comes from serving the needs of others — and learning to love the work that adds value to their lives. Discover how specialization, service, and connection create opportunity, fulfillment, and lasting prosperity.
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Source: Financial Summit '16 - Session 1 and 2 - Rabbi Daniel Lapin
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| 0:00.0 | So what, is this some kind of miracle that somehow all of these people miraculously fell into exactly the kind of the day show. |
| 0:31.8 | I am your host Sean Croxton. |
| 0:33.5 | We got Rabbi Daniel Lapin back on the show today. Today's QOD is this. |
| 0:41.3 | I eat because I am able to serve you. That's what it's all about. We talk about this all the time. |
| 0:48.1 | You've got to be willing to go out there and serve people if you want to be prosperous. |
| 0:57.0 | Lou Holtz talked about it yesterday. If you help enough people get what they want, they'll help you get what you want. |
| 1:01.0 | We've heard that so many times from Zig Zigler. |
| 1:03.0 | One of my favorite quotes I learned in maybe 2008, 2009, from Dr. D. Martini, who probably |
| 1:10.0 | got it from Earl Nightingale, which was this. |
| 1:12.9 | The amount of money you have will always be in direct proportion to the quality and the quantity |
| 1:17.5 | of the service you provide. You have to be willing to go out there and serve people in a remarkable |
| 1:23.7 | way. If you serve a few people in an unremarkable way, you're not going to be eating |
| 1:29.5 | really well. If you serve a lot of people in a remarkable fashion, you can eat whatever you want. |
| 1:37.0 | Easy as that. But you have to be willing to identify the deficiency, the problem that you want to help |
| 1:44.0 | people resolve. The rabbi today is going |
| 1:46.4 | talk about how everybody has a deficiency, meaning everybody has a problem. We all have problems. |
| 1:51.6 | There are no problem-free people. And because we have problems, our brains are constantly scanning |
| 1:56.6 | the environment, looking for someone or something to help us solve our problems. You have to identify |
| 2:04.0 | which problem you want to help people resolve. And then you develop the skill to help people |
| 2:10.0 | resolve it. Now I know the next question. Sean, like how do I develop that skill? Well, |
| 2:16.9 | these days it's really cool because you really don't have to go to school to develop a lot of skills anymore. |
| 2:22.6 | You can do this. |
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