DON’T MAKE FRIENDS, MAKE MONEY.

Whether your in college, high school, or hell, even middle school, don’t for one second, focus on trying to be the ‘cool kid on the block.’

You’d be amazed, you’d be left in awe, at how a seemingly childish motive, stretches to even a majority of people’s early adult years. And it wastes a fuckton of time. Some don’t EVER get this concept, and their left in a stupid, foolish, uninspired cycle that … you get it.

You can try your very hardest in social settings (parties etc.) to be the one people want to talk to, the one that everyone wants to be around, the one that eyes are always gazing towards, but popularity is not a constant. PEOPLE, have to come to the realization, no matter where you are in life, that PEOPLE will always flake. People, will always dissipate, into practically thin air. A so called ‘friend’ that you might have invested hundreds, or thousands of hours into, leaves. That, “I’ll keep in touch” never occurs. So now what? You’re left with what now seems to be a bad investment. That’s what people are, their an investment.

Now, I’m NOT saying don’t have friends. No one can truly live under a rock. We’re humans, we talk, we interact, that’s how we get shit done. But don’t ever commit more time to others, than you’re committing back to yourself. With 100% certainty, I can tell you, it will bite you back in the ass, if you don’t. It’s literally a fail safe. A life hack. Think about it, if you’re commiting more time to others, that other person is benefiting in life more that YOU. It has to be the stupidest, biggest mistake, in the eyes of an entrepreneur.

This world moves fast, the economy doesn’t give a shit about you. You need to move at such a frightening pace forwards, produce more and more of X’s and Y’s each day, just to make a bigger dent. You NEED to be moving at such a precise and focused measure that the only people your texting, calling, emailing, or meeting with are people that are making or going to make you capital. Only people that are giving you a return in some nature. That’s a good investment.

Don’t make friends, make money. The higher the ratio between the two, the more focused you are on yourself, your career, your vision, your plan, you will begin to see astonishingly robust benefits in your life. You will be excessivley productive, a powerhouse that only commits energy to their vision, a powerhouse nobody wants to mess with. And that dent that gets larger and larger will eventually burst, and you’ll be the one people want to talk to.

“There are two ways a man can be rich in this world, he can have a lot of money, or he can have a lot of friends. But he cannot have both.” — Freddy Heineken