Why Working Hard Will Keep You Broke (Do this instead)

The Martell Method w/ Dan Martell

Dan Martell

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.9 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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The system wants you to believe that hard work equals success, but that’s a lie. The top 1% don’t follow that script. I’m going to tell you the 15 truths I learned on my journey from broke and lost to running a $100M company and living life on my terms. If you want to escape the system, it starts here.

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0:00.0	Here's the secret the system doesn't want you to know.
0:02.8	Working hard will keep you poor.
0:05.4	All your life, you've been told to get good grades, find a reliable job, and save for
0:10.0	retirement.
0:11.0	But the top 1% lived by a completely different set of rules.
0:14.3	Listen, I grew up poor, hated frickin' school, flunked out of the normal system.
0:18.8	Today, I run a $100 million business and get to spend my
0:21.9	time doing whatever I want when I want. And I'm going to share with you 15 truths you need to
0:27.8	know to escape the system and get rich without working hard. Welcome to the Martel method.
0:32.7	I went from rehab at 17 to building a $100 million empire and being a Wall Street Journal bestselling author.
0:39.3	In this podcast, I'll show you exactly how to build a life
0:42.4	and business you don't grow to hate.
0:44.2	And make sure you don't miss anything
0:45.7	by subscribing to my newsletter at Martel Method.com.
0:48.9	Starting with number one, IQ does not determine your net worth.
0:53.0	I can prove it because my whole team out here has a higher IQ than me. We test them all. I'm on the lower score. What matters is EQ emotional intelligence and that's where people get it wrong. Number two, winners lose more than loser. See, school teaches us that losing is bad. It turns out the more you try, the more you learn. As long as you don't stop, then you become the winner. Number three, leverage beats labor every freaking time. See, most bosses say work really hard and you're going to make a lot of money. The wealthiest people I know don't work that hard. What they look for is leverage. They use code, content, collaboration, and capital to get more done with less time.
1:28.1	Number four, good employers care about results, not resumes. I don't care where my team
1:33.0	went to school, what kind of degrees they got. I care about the shit they built. When I think
1:37.6	about my kids, I don't care about their school grades. I care about who they are as people.
1:41.7	What kind of things they accomplish. Rich people focus on getting
1:44.5	things done, not collecting degrees to show other people that they're smart. Number five, model, then
1:50.2	modify. Real artists learn how to steal like artists. When you're in school and you copy from other
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