Alex Becker Quotes Page 3

“Strength, self-reliance, and American capitalism are an amazing thing.”

“Success favors the bold, aggressive, risk-taking, no-excuse-making sharks.”

“Taking risks is one of the core beliefs you need to adopt. Let me tell you right now: to become rich, you will have to take risks.

Let me repeat that in another way. You must take risks to be successful. These must be smart and thought-out risks.

Haven’t you ever heard of ‘high risk, high reward’? That also equates to low risk, low reward, which is probably the world you’re living in right now.”

“The best way to learn is to experience something yourself. There is no possible way you can accurately predict and prevent every potential problem.

And, even if you could, you wouldn’t be able to truly understand the problem unless you experienced the problem.”

“The biggest lesson I can pass onto you is this: be proactive about throwing yourself into challenging social situations.

On top of that, never shy away from something that makes you feel socially uncomfortable. (Within reason, of course. There is no need to go attend a nudist event just to prove you can.)

Doing uncomfortable things means that you are learning and growing, and this is necessary on your way to wealth and success. That’s it; it’s that simple.”

“The easiest way to get an edge over everyone is not by having the best product but by having the product, brand, and messaging that makes people 'feel' the most.”

“The internet and technology is an amazing thing and we are blessed to live in a time where anyone, anywhere, at any time – with a dream – can do something big with so little.

I’d still be cleaning toilets if it wasn’t for this little computer and the things I’ve created with it.”

“The nervous guy thinks that there is a finite amount of girls in the world, and the calm guy knows that there is an abundance of women in the world.

If a guy believes he is good with women and believes that there is an unlimited amount of women that could like him, he is usually really successful with them.

If a guy believes that he is bad with women and that there is a limited amount of girls that might actually like him, he is usually really unsuccessful with them.

The same belief of abundance applies to money and how easily you can make it.”

“The sad truth is that we all know in the back of our heads that blaming others is a waste of time.

The reason we do this is because it’s easy. It is nice to have a scapegoat instead of looking in the mirror and blaming ourselves.

It’s far simpler to get mad at someone else and blindly hate them than taking a hit to our own ego.

The fact of the matter is, though, that getting emotional and placing blame on others is a waste of time. It doesn’t fix any problem and it doesn’t make the past go away.

The only thing it does is free us from blame, and that might make us feel guilt free, but feeling guilt free does not fix any issue. Accepting blame and fixing the problem does.”

“The sooner you make your mistakes, the sooner you will hit your success.

When you start any business in which you are not experienced, there is going to be a period of time where it just flat-out sucks. Everything will go wrong, and you will make a lot of gut-wrenching mistakes.

These mistakes might knock you down, make you feel stupid, or deter you from continuing, but you have to try your best to fight those negative thoughts.

What you must do is take so much action that you learn from these mistakes and get through them as fast as possible.”

“Time is the only thing you can never generate more of, and every human has the exact same amount of in a day.”

“To be a winner you have to do what it takes to win.

The real world is not going to pull its goalie and let you have a free win with a complimentary participation trophy.

It’s going to swat your ball away and make fun of you.”

“To be as wealthy as you want to be, you must focus on what gets you paid and delegate the rest.”

“To become wealthy, you have to learn how to generate more time by hiring people (and/or building machines), using their time as your own, and using your time to grow the business.

If you look at the most profitable businesses in the world, the owner’s time is usually so separated that he does not even have to be there.

Every successful person I know understands this, and the richest are the ones who abuse it.”

“Today isn’t about today, it won’t affect today, but the way you live today will change everything 5-10 years from now.”

“Unless we are hit with true desperation, pain, anger, fear, sickness, or some other extreme circumstance, we will usually stay in our comfort zone until the day we die.

That is why people stay in situations they aren’t happy with and why middle class people generally stay in the middle class, but why you also see rags to-riches stories quite often nowadays.”

“What if the reason you are average is not the fault of:

Your teachers
Your parents
Your country
Your education
Your background

... and is solely your fault?”

“What you must do is look at your business and pose a series of questions.

1. What part of my business can be automated by a staff or technology?

2. Is there a way to get people with my skill set to work for me and sell their time instead of mine?

3. What skill sets do I lack that are needed to grow this business, and what skill sets do my new employees need to possess?”

“What you need to realize is that as a business owner (in almost all cases), intelligently spending substantial chunks of your earnings to grow your business almost always increases your overall profit.”

“When has playing it safe (a.k.a. doing what everyone else is doing) ever resulted in a remarkable outcome?”

“When you get ahold of people’s emotions, people will unconsciously flock to you, and everyone will want a piece of what you have.

The best employees will want to work for you, the most important people on earth will want to network with you, and consumers will line up for days to spend five times what your competition charges on a product that isn’t even half as good.

At the end of the day, people are ruled by their emotions and just want to feel positive, happy, and accepted by others.”

“When you play the get-rich-slowly game, your choices are instantly limited.

You take vacations when you are allowed to. You have to wake up at a certain time to go to work and do your job. You can’t just randomly take a week off and go on a road trip with your wife and kids.

You do not control your choices; your boss and your job and your responsibilities control your choices.

Worst of all is that you have to make your decisions solely around money.”

“With proper automation and business planning, any time-intensive business can become a time-separated moneymaking machine.

Even if you are already entrenched in a time-intensive business, there are simple ways to separate your time from your income.”

“Work 10 times harder than everyone else to make a life that is 10 times more satisfying than everyone else’s.”

“Wouldn’t you much rather travel in your twenties and thirties (and forties and fifties) instead of waiting until you retire, hoping that you and your spouse are both still healthy and agile enough to do so?

If you have a desire to do something with your life, do it now.

Your future is not promised, and you do not want to be sixty years old wishing that you ‘lived your life’ more at twenty-five instead of saving every penny for a retirement vacation that you never ended up taking.”

“You can’t be great while operating like a little b*tch.

Set big goals and aim high so that even if you miss, you’ve still done something big.”

“You can’t get to the top by focusing on the top – you get there by focusing on the bottom.”

“You don’t get what you want. You get what you do.”

“Your limitations will always hold you back, until you realize they don’t f*cking matter.

Ignore them, do it anyways, and turn the difficulty they caused into a strength that few have.”

“Your mind, what you learn, how hard you work, and everything you do directly controls how much money you make. It is a lot like working out or playing a video game.

When you start, you are likely going to suck at it, get frustrated, and possibly even quit. This is why people consider it too hard and too risky.

Well, it’s not. It just has a steep learning curve, and you are likely to fail at first.”