Showing gratitude is probably one of the best things you can do as a leader.

I think it sets the tone for the culture of a team.

I think that thanking people for simple things that they do on a consistent basis goes a long way.

Because if our work is never rewarded, it gets very hard and arduous to do the work.

How do you create an unshakable business? I cross $100 million in net worth by the age of 28.

Now I'm growing Acquisition.com into a billion dollar portfolio.

In this podcast, I share the lessons I've learned in scaling big businesses

and helping our portfolio companies do the same.

Buckle up and let's build.

Today, I'm going to be ranking character traits on a tier list.

The characteristics that I'm going to be ranking are ones that will make you a shi ton of money or just overall make you more successful in life.

The first one I'm going to start with is self-control.

What is self-control? It is the ability to delay gratification and resist urges or adverse behaviors.

The biggest thing that I see, especially in people that are starting business and people that are

new to business, is that they don't have the self-control to say no to the fast cash that they

could make with opportunities that pop up. And I'll give you a

story to kind of help you understand this a little bit more. I have a friend. And that friend

started in business around the same time that Alex and I did. And that friend was very talented.

They had a great skill of not just being a great marketer or a great CEO, but having both of those

together. So it was almost like this person was a

combination of Alex and myself. Over the years, I thought that they would be more successful than

us that many times. But what I saw is that though he had all of these skills, he lacked the character

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