A great business hits you in the head with a 2x4 — usually because one input in the equation is free or anomalous.
Go From $10k to $1M in 3 Years With This Strategy | Mohnish Pabrai · Codie Sanchez
Control ownership of a franchise lets the tax code co-fund the purchase — a structural after-tax edge a passive minority stake can't fully capture.
New England Patriots President Jonathan Kraft Expects NFL ROI to Beat Stocks (Sportico, 2024) · Sportico
Take the asset, not the access — the wisdom you'd pay a fortune for proximity to is usually already encoded and cheap.
JAY-Z and Gayle King: Brooklyn's Own · Gayle King / CBS
Acquire a business with real estate for near-zero capital by pairing with a REIT buyer
Acquiring Minds: Phil Miller, $100K store to Pawville (11 locations, PE exit) — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds
Fund multiple acquisitions per year by selling real estate and leasing it back from a REIT
Acquiring Minds: Phil Miller, $100K store to Pawville (11 locations, PE exit) — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds
Progress from knowledge deficit to frontier-level insight to spot deals others miss
Acquiring Minds: Phil Miller, $100K store to Pawville (11 locations, PE exit) — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds
Negotiate acquisition working capital that exceeds your equity injection for a net-positive day-one cash position
Acquiring Minds: Joe Wynn, $600k SDE, 90% seller note — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds
Close SMB deals faster by bypassing the broker and negotiating directly with the seller
Acquiring Minds: Joe Wynn, $600k SDE, 90% seller note — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds
Turn your primary supplier into a recurring source of vetted acquisition targets as boomer owners retire
Acquiring Minds: Joe Wynn, $600k SDE, 90% seller note — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds
Use third-party approval requirements to negotiate aggressively on price and structure when buying a distributorship
Acquiring Minds: Joe Wynn, $600k SDE, 90% seller note — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds
Before any partnership, acquisition, or brand deal, force both sides to name what they actually add — if you can't answer it for them, walk.
LIVE: Casey Neistat Unfiltered on Modern YouTube — The Colin and Samir Show (Press Publish NYC) · The Colin and Samir Show
Convert one-shot deals into repeat games to align incentives and eliminate cheating
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
Build compounding trust so your reputation becomes a deal-flow asset others pay to access
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
Pick industries and partners where repeated trust compounds into wealth nobody can copy.
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
Compound trust and returns by committing to iterated relationships where cooperation wins.
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
Ten linked principles that form the foundation of mastery in modern sales
The Sales Bible: The Ultimate Sales Resource · Jeffrey Gitomer
Win by focusing on customer discrepancies, not on what your competitor is doing
The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja
Convert strategy into four to five precise pre-call actions that make the next meeting count
The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja
Close only business where both sides win—or lose both the deal and your reputation long-term
The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja
Find the insider who wants you to win and build a guidance network around them
The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja
Track every deal at the right level and prevent feast-or-famine income cycles
The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja
Make every problem visible and exploit every asset—before the competitor does
The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja
Every buyer has a personal Win that sits behind the business Result they negotiate for
The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja
Sell only to buyers who perceive a gap—and create the gap for those who don't
The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja
Map every person who can derail or advance your sale into one of four decisive roles
The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja
A complete system for winning complex B2B sales through process, not persuasion
The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja
Small commitments grow their own legs; what you say today becomes who you are tomorrow.
Influence: Science and Practice · Robert B. Cialdini
Measure yield at each funnel stage per channel to find and fix your marketing ROI leaks
Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs · Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah
Anticipate every executive's justification checklist before they raise it
Getting to VITO (The Very Important Top Officer) · Anthony Parinello
Articulate value in all seven dimensions VITO cares about, not just price
Getting to VITO (The Very Important Top Officer) · Anthony Parinello
Map every account by who really approves vs. who merely recommends
Getting to VITO (The Very Important Top Officer) · Anthony Parinello
World-class managers coach to known behaviors and innovate around unknown obstacles to unstick deals
The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation · Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
Assert and maintain momentum throughout the sale — assertively, not aggressively
The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation · Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
Adapt the teaching message to each stakeholder's specific goals, role, and economic context
The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation · Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
The three-part methodology for winning complex B2B sales through constructive tension
The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation · Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
A data-derived taxonomy that reveals which rep type wins complex sales by a landslide
The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation · Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
Close Bitcoin mining deals with oil and gas executives by speaking to their mandate, not Bitcoin ideology
Waste Not, Want Not Using Stranded Energy for Mining + HPC | Bitcoin 2026 — Bitcoin Magazine · Bitcoin Magazine
Find undervalued assets by matching your unique tolerances to others' deal-breakers
21 Harsh Truths About Why You’re Still Lost - Mark Manson — Chris Williamson · Chris Williamson
Evaluate partners and allies by setting minimum standards, not maximum wish lists
21 Harsh Truths About Why You’re Still Lost - Mark Manson — Chris Williamson · Chris Williamson
Defeat powerful institutions by enforcing the existing rules they wrote, not by arguing they should change.
How We Took On an Oil Giant and Won · Melinda Janki
Turn a salary ask into a 90-day evidence campaign before you set foot in the room.
HR Expert: How To Negotiate A Pay Rise · Wayne Clarke
Collect irrefutable proof you are capable before fear convinces you otherwise
From Council Estate to Multimillionaire at 27 Years Old · Timothy Armoo
Pair present sacrifices with small immediate rewards to beat present bias
The Economist's Guide To Getting Rich · Erik Angner
Finance depends on performance and narrative — remove the theater and the market ceases to exist
The Problem With Passive Investing Nobody Talks About · Philip Roscoe
Partnership structures align risk with decision-making; corporate structures dissociate them
The Problem With Passive Investing Nobody Talks About · Philip Roscoe
The mortgage market profits from borrowers who forget to refinance on time
The Mortgage Trap Hitting Millions of Homeowners · Tarun Ramadorai
Distinguish capital that builds value from capital that merely shuffles ownership.
The UK Is The Most Unequal High-Income Country In The World · Paul Collier
Post-war prosperity was built on explicit inclusion — its erosion explains today's political rage
Extreme Wealth Will Destroy Democracy · Martin Wolf
Push past fair and you lose the deal; accept unfair and you lose the return
Deborah Meaden: Money Shouldn't Be Your Goal · Deborah Meaden
Treat your house as quality-of-life storage, not as wealth creation.
The Investing & Crypto Expert: We Only Have 6 Years Until Everything Changes! · Raoul Pal