After losing his first fortune, Marx Acosta-Rubio was sharing a bottle of wine with his wife when he asked her, What did she really want out of life? They talked for hours about what truly mattered to them. That’s when he decided to make sure his next fortune was for his family to get everything they really wanted. Marx dropped out of law school to become an entrepreneur and started one of the fastest growing companies in the United States. He’s gone from rags to riches to rags to riches again and learned along the way what real success looks like. Now he shares his wisdom with other entrepreneurs so they don’t fall into the traps and paralysis that keeps them from the life they actually want to be living.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Richard Godge
- David Allen of Getting Things Done
- Armand Hammer
- Peter Daniels
- Steve Jobs
- Jim Rohn
- Bruce Lee
- Tony Robbins
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I am highly dyslexic and I know nothing about finance… I learned to sell… Mind you when I started remember I didn’t like selling because I thought it was a cheesy thing. I was wrong. Selling is persuading just very few people doing right. So, I remember already being a millionaire sitting in my beautiful house and I thought don’t know how to read a financial statement. So I hired this lady to come to my house, I was paying her think $100 an hour to teach me”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A story Book by Richard BachFavourite Quote:
- “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day” Jim Rohn
- Also mentioned
- “Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own” — Bruce Lee
- “Be a student, not a follower” Jim Rohn
Recommended Online Resources:
- Very Amazon – Course For Anyone Looking To Crush It On Amazon
- Twitter – It’s what’s happening. From breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, get the full story with all the live commentary.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“relax, be ambitious but be relaxed, think, get out of the busy trap, reach out to mentors who have not only just done it but you believe can teach you pearls of wisdom to help you. And don’t take it so seriously it’s just money… Put your health first… The minute you stop enjoying something take a break and go what is going on and then ask yourself the question and then figure out how you can change that. It’s not that difficult”…[Listen for More]
More About Marx Acosta-Rubio:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You’re only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and just hope that from that you can get your next job.” Josh Peck
Other Quotes From the Chat with Marx Acosta-Rubio:
- “I try not to be a sycophant but An admirer of many people”
- “don’t listen to people who you are gut tells you he shouldn’t listen to”
- “make sure that you pay yourself first and invest in something that you can’t touch or that you know that is difficult for you to touch. If you want to buy real estate or put it into 401(k). People lose a lot of money because they put it back into the business when the business is struggling”
- “you make some money put a little bit away”
- “define success for you and make sure that you iterate the definition. In other words don’t stay to it if it’s not working change it. And have fun”
- “as long as you are having fun and you are learning it’s all good”
- “you should struggle, struggle well. As Ray Dalio would say it’s challenging but you should want to involve in that challenge, you should want to participate in that difficulty not Imposed by others or imposed by yourself – well this is what I must do this is this is what I want to do”
- “if I do a few simple things every day I will become successful”
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