Justin Welsh Quotes

Never destroy your mental and physical health for a company that would terminate you instantly if it meant a few extra cents on their share price.

Find a good company, use your salary as investment capital, and fund your side project until you have solid traction.

Then leave.

The moment you realize nobody cares what you’re doing is the moment you can finally do whatever you want.

A strange observation about wealth:

People who got rich slowly don't need you to know they're rich.

People who got rich quickly need everyone to know.

I'd rather make $2M with 2 meetings a week than $50M with 50.

The longer I'm alive, the more I realize that most people's idea of a good life is someone else's.

It's rarely anything they sat down and designed themselves.

Your expertise is worth more as content than it is as labor.

One of the most difficult feelings to overcome when you work for yourself:

The idea that you should be doing something every minute between 9 and 5.

It literally takes years to realize you can do nothing and be completely fine.

The fastest way to be undervalued by others is to undervalue yourself.

C+ strategy with A+ execution beats an A+ strategy with C+ execution every single time.

Degrees are depreciating assets.

Specific knowledge is an appreciating asset.

Stop trying to master the things everyone knows and start mastering what isn't taught in the classroom.

Staying in shape is the one investment that pays you back in every other area of your life.

One of the simple keys to wealth:

Become amazing at one thing that takes years to learn.

Those skills are the only ones the world pays a premium for.

The average person's entire career plan is to simply react to what happens to them.

Never work with someone who talks poorly about their spouse in private.

An underrated form of wealth is waking up and realizing that nothing about your day was decided by someone else.