MJ DeMarco Quotes

“A business attached to your time is a job.”

“A business does not make a Fastlane – some businesses are jobs in disguise.”

“A committed Fastlaner has his nose in a book weekly.”

“A job seals your fate into a criminal time trade: five days of life traded for two days of freedom. A job chains you to a set grade of experience. A job takes away your control. A job forces you to work with people you can’t stand. A job forces you to get paid last. A job imposes a dictatorship on your income. These limitations are counter-insurgencies to wealth.”

“A preoccupation to become “highly educated” could be a Trojan horse to your freedom.”

“A successful business isn’t fun and games, especially one that violates the Commandment of Time.”

“All events of wealth are precluded by process, a backstory of trial, risk, hard work, and sacrifice. If you try to skip process, you’ll never experience events.”

“All self-made multimillionaires create their wealth by a carefully orchestrated process.”

“Almost all penta-millionaires made their fortunes in a big lump sum after a period of years.”

“Behind the tangled roots of poorness, you will find a poor valuation of free time, which breeds from bad choices.”

“Beliefs are powerful mechanisms that drive action, whether true or not.”

“Business plans are useless until they are married to execution.”

“Businesses survive. Brands thrive.”

“Businesses that solve needs win. Businesses that provide value win.”

“Change creates millionaires. Those who observe and take advantage of change will be the new millionaires and billionaires.”

“Choice is the most powerful control you have in your life.”

“Competition is everywhere. Just do it and do it better.”

“Compound interest pays my bills. It’s my passive income source. Yet, compound interest is not responsible for my wealth.”

“Consumerism is the leading obstacle to happiness.”

“Debt is the leading cause of strife for the newly married.”

“Debt needs a constant drip of blood, and that blood comes from your gas tank of life: time. And since time is fixed, an increase in indentured time comes from only one source: your free time.”

“Debt that traps you to a job is not good debt.”

“Determination is not a solitary choice but thousands of them. You cannot decide to be determined, it must occur repeatedly, concertedly, and with commitment.”

“Education, your oil, is a critical component to your wealth road trip. When you continually inject yourself with new education, new skills, and new competencies, new roads open and things run smoothly.”

“Everyone always shows up at the end of a boom.”

“Everyone’s freedom is different.”

“Expect a price to be paid. Expect risk and sacrifice. Expect bumps in the road. When you hit the first pothole (and yes, it will happen) know that you are forging the process of your unfolding story.”

“Experience comes from what you do in life, not from what you do in a job. You don’t need a job to get experience.”

“Extraordinary wealth will require you to have extraordinary beliefs.”

“Face it. What you know today is not enough to get you where you need to be tomorrow. You must constantly reinvent yourself, and reinvention is education.”