MJ DeMarco Quotes Page 6

“Happiness stems from good health, freedom, and strong interpersonal relationships, not necessarily money.”

“Hard work and commitment separates the winners from the losers.”

“Hard work/Process creates events others see as luck.”

“Help one million people and you will be a millionaire.”

“Hoodwinking expenses does not create wealth. Exploding income and controlling expenses creates wealth.”

“I awoke to the epiphany that I was the driver of my life and my problems were the consequences of my choices.”

“I cannot imagine running a company in which another entity has the power to instantaneously kill your revenue stream.”

“I consider content-based revenue models the most difficult for success because entry barriers have significantly declined and its success is predicated on high traffic.”

“I made many changes, but I didn’t give up on the dream.”

“I spent five years in college just to sit in a 6 X 6 cubicle and cold-call elderly people out of a damn telephone book? Are you freaking kidding me? I could have done this out of middle school, and I didn’t need to spend thousands on a college.”

“If millions seek you, you will be paid millions.”

“If more money were spent on pleasing existing clients rather than trying to find new ones, the average business would survive longer than five years.”

“If the cookies don’t get into the grocery cart, they don’t get home. And if they don’t get home, they don’t get in my mouth. And if they don’t get in my mouth, they don’t transform into belly fat.”

“If the road trip to wealth were easy, wouldn’t everyone be wealthy? Expect a price to be paid. Expect risk and sacrifice. Expect bumps in the road.”

“If you aren’t where you want to be, the problem is your choices. Your circumstances are the symptoms of those choices.”

“If you avoid failure you will also avoid success.”

“If you can’t control every aspect of your company, you’re not driving! And if you can’t drive, you set yourself up for sudden, unexpected crashes.”

“If you can’t immunize yourself from the temptations of instant gratification, you’ll be hard-pressed to find success in either health or wealth. Both demand a lifestyle shift from short-term thinking (instant gratification) to long-term thinking (delayed gratification). This is the only defense to lifestyle servitude.”

“If you don’t control your income, you don’t control your financial plan. If you don’t control your financial plan, you don’t control your freedom.”

“If you don’t know where you are going, how will you know if you get there? If your destination is undefined, undoubtedly you’ll never arrive and you’ll likely end in a place you don’t want to be. Wealth is found with a roadmap, not a dartboard.”

“If you get someone’s attention, half the battle is won.”

“If you have a passive income that exceeds all your needs and lifestyle expenses including taxes, you’re retired.”

“If you have to think about “affordability,” you can’t afford it because affordability carries conditions and consequences.”

“If you reflect on your choices, you make them in an instant, yet their consequences transcend a lifetime, especially ones made early in life.”

“If you retrace poverty’s footprints you will find that poorness starts at the exact same place. choice.”

“If you want extraordinary results, you’re going to need extraordinary thinking.”

“If you want luck, dive!”

“If you want to change your life, change your choices.”

“If you want to make millions, impact millions.”

“If your past defines your existence, it will be impossible for you to become the person you need to become in the future.”