There Are No Get Rich Quick Schemes
(Get rich quick was in the air)
There are no get-rich-quick schemes
That's just someone else getting rich off you
There are no get-rich-quick schemes
That's just someone else getting rich off you
This goes back to the world being an efficient place
If there's an easy way to get rich
It's already been exploited
There are a lotta people
Who will sеll you ideas and schemes
On how to makе money
But they're just always selling you
Some $ 79.95 course
Or some audiobook
Or some seminar
Which is fine everyone needs to eat
People need to make a living
They might actually have really good tips
But if they're giving you actionable high-quality advice
That acknowledges that it's a difficult journey
And will take a lotta time
Then I think that's realistic
But if they're selling you some get-rich-quick scheme
Whether it's crypto
Or whether it's an online business or seminar
They're just making money off you
That's their get-rich-quick scheme
It's not gonna necessarily work for you
[Chorus]
There are no get-rich-quick schemes
That's just someone else getting rich off you
There are no get-rich-quick schemes
That's just someone else getting rich off you
That's just someone else getting rich off you
There are no get-rich-quick schemes
That's just someone else getting rich off you
So, you read stuff by people who are already very wealthy
And they've clearly made their wealth in other fields
Not by selling the how-to-get-rich line
They have a credibility
And you just trust them
And they're not trying to make money off of you
They are obviously trying to win
Some status and some ego, right?
You always have to have a motivation for doing something
But at least, that is a cleaner reason
Why they're probably not lying
They're probably not fooling you
They're not snowing you
At some level
Every founder has to lie to every employee
Of the company they have
Where they have to convince them
That "it's better for you to work for me
Than it is to do what I did and go work for yourself"
So I've always had a hard time with that
Which is why the only honest way
In my companies, I've recruited entrepreneurs
And I tell them
"You're gonna get to be entrepreneurial in this company
And the day you're ready to go start your own next thing
I'm gonna support you
Never gonna get in the way of you starting a company
But this can be a good place for you to learn
How to build a good team
And build a good culture
How to find product-market fit
To perfect your skills
And meet some amazing people
While you figure out exactly what it is you're gonna do"
Because the positioning, timing, deliberation
Are very important when starting a company
But what I've never been able to do
Is look them in the face and say
"You must be at your desk by 8:00 a.m."
Because I'm not gonna be at my desk by 8:00 a.m
I want my freedom
Or say to them that "you're great at
Being a director today
And you'll be a VP tomorrow"
Putting them into that career path track
Because I don't believe in it myself
[Chorus]
There are no get-rich-quick schemes
That's just someone else getting rich off you
There are no get-rich-quick schemes
That's just someone else getting rich off you
That's just someone else getting rich off you
There are no get-rich-quick schemes
That's just someone else getting rich off you
Anyone who's giving advice on how to get rich
And they're also making money off of it
They should've made their money elsewhere
Like, you don't wanna learn how to be fit
From a fat person
You don't wanna learn how to be happy
From a depressed person
So you don't wanna learn how to be rich from a poor person
But you also don't wanna learn how to be rich
From somebody who makes their money
By telling people how to be rich
It's suspect
[Outro]
Um, they see our ads In the back of, uh, "Hustler" and "Popular Mechanics"
And our, our ads actually say
They can get rich quick
Are you looking to get rich quick?
In class, every day, people
Everyone wants to get rich
Quickly
No, he wants to get rich quick
Sounds like a scheme