MJ DeMarco Quotes
Best 59 Unscripted Quotes by MJ DeMarco – Page 1 of 2
Unscripted Quotes
“A bad hand is being born in a third-world country without education, sanitation, or clean water. A bad hand is being born with a debilitating disease like cystic fibrosis or cerebral palsy. The sad fact is most people think they’ve been dealt a bad hand when they’ve been given one of the best hands in the world. If you popped out of Mom in America or another industrialized republic, congratulations; you have pocket kings.”
“Act, assess, adjust.”
“An extraordinary life is won on offense; it is then preserved through defense.”
“Any complaining, whining and dissent is a potential opportunity.”
“Anytime someone gives you money, that person has said: Congratulations, you’ve won the value competition.”
“Before impacting millions, you must impact hundreds.”
“Before you can do what you love, you have to do what you hate.”
“Comparison is future-oriented and focused on what is missing, creating anxiety. Gratitude is present-oriented and focused on what you have, creating peace.”
“Consensus fallacy—the idea that if many people believe something, some position, or some ideology, it must be true.”
“Debt = production - consumption”
“Divert your focus and you’ll get killed by the entrepreneur who isn’t diverted.”
“Each dollar saved is another freedom fighter added to your slave army. Your army also procreates more soldiers. Altogether, your saved soldiers are fighting for your freedom. On the other hand, every dollar spent on the latest fad is one fighter killed.”
“Entrepreneurship is about problem-solving, creating convenience, satisfying desires, and becoming valuable.”
“Everyone wants change, but no one wants to change themselves.”
“Everyone wants the perfect wife but few want to work towards becoming the perfect husband.”
“Extraordinary results demand extraordinary efforts.”
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“I knew I needed a different and quicker path to success. So I decided to quit college to find it.”
“Failure is the sweat of success.”
“Fake Entrepreneurs love entrepreneurship benefits, but they don't love solving problems. Instead, they're looking for a plug-and-play, paint by numbers solutions, ironically created by real entrepreneurs.”
“Feed the crowd and you shall never starve.”
“Freedom has a price, and that price is money. Big dreams, from materialistic Ferraris to altruistic nonprofit foundations, cost money. You can’t travel the world by swimming in the oceans. You have to pay your way, and if you think money is evil, you’ve already lost.”
“Great value precedes great wealth.”
“Has life regressed into paying bills and living for a weekend?”
“If confiscating 100 percent of your economic output constitutes slavery, at which point does it cease to be slavery? 80 percent? 50 percent? 39.6 percent?”
“If financial freedom and autonomy are your goals, your beliefs must align with those goals. If they don’t, you’ll either lie to yourself, or sabotage your effort, causing tension and stress. Both make goals unobtainable.”
“If it was easy, it wouldn’t be worth it.”
“If the devil funded a study reporting that 91 percent of hell’s inhabitants were happy, would you believe it?”
“If you don’t identify where you want to go, the road to get there stays hidden.”
“If you struggle to live on $50,000 a year, you’ll probably struggle to live on $500,000.”
“If you want to live well, produce well. The more production value you thrust into society, the bigger your house, the faster your car, and the juicier your steak. In other words, stop looking to take and start looking to give.”
“If you’re too plumply entertained in hyperrealistic distraction, you’re no threat—no threat to the paradigms and certainly no threat to the meat grinder awaiting. Just sit back, relax, and focus on your movie because this train is leaving.”
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“A follower's concern for their own security can be deadly for others.”
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