What We Can Learn From The Guy Who Turned Down $135 Billion Dollars and Ownership In Apple

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Tai Lopez

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🗓️ 25 August 2016

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Is it possible to create your own luck? Yes, of course it’s possible. Our favorite celebrities tell us all the time about the 'big break' that turned their career around and propelled them to where they are today. But the thing about creating your own luck is that you have to put in the work. Putting in the work, each and every day, puts you in a position to take advantage of the opportunities once they do come. And inevitably there’s going to be times where you don’t seize the opportunity that’s put in front of you, or even worse, you completely miss it altogether. But if you continue to work each and everyday, if you become more observant of what’s going on around you, you will recognize opportunities that are right infant of everyones face yet nobody else can see.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are you lucky? I believe luck can be cultivated, but I was reading some stories of some unlucky people.
0:07.0	The founder of Atari was offered Maya, Rachel from Norway, Anna visiting from Norway.
0:17.0	Got some Americans here, and we got a New Yorker.
0:23.0	The founder of Atari could have invested $50,000 and owned 30% of Apple,
0:30.0	which is currently worth $450 billion, because that's the valuation on it.
0:35.0	That is insane. I read an article that about another guy. I forget what company was in Google.
0:44.0	Yeah, he could have been, no no, Facebook. He could have invested in Facebook.
0:47.0	Sean Parker said, you want to go meet this guy? He's a college dropout, and the guy goes, oh, there's a social networking app.
0:55.0	Dropout, college student, there's no money in that, and he said he thinks about that every day,
1:00.0	because obviously Facebook, I think, is worth about $200 billion.
1:04.0	Amazon, yeah, that guy could have invested $50,000, one of his lawyers,
1:08.0	the same as Todd, something, and he could have invested $50,000 and owned 5% of Apple,
1:15.0	which is also a Amazon, thank you.
1:18.0	So, now over here, we got Eddie, which is about luck.
1:22.0	So we landed in New York from Norway, and so my man Eddie, we didn't have enough room in the taxi,
1:30.0	so he loads up his bags on the roof of the taxi, sure enough, as we're driving,
1:38.0	falls off, gets run over seven times. That's a Leo, Leo luck, baby.
1:45.0	I don't know, gets mad sometimes.
1:47.0	Not only is your bag fall off, but it gets run over, man, what'd you have in it?
1:51.0	I don't know to my camera stuff.
1:53.0	No, I don't know, like that. What was in it?
1:55.0	This is my clothes.
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