[Applause] flippity flap flippity flap I remember my my my my grandfather he either had a roll this big he was the rubber band guy okay and he would have a rubber band around it and he'd keep it in one pocket and he'd be loaded like that he'd either have a wide like this and he'd pull it out in the middle of a movie just to count there Dang Dang Dang Dang Dang Dang d I'm like how much he got man that's a lot of money how much money's right here what do y'all think okay I
got a handful I got about 3/4 of an inch of 20s and the rest is Honeys so look I just want to talk to you about money for a second are you paying attention to it are you looking at it are you counting it have you done the math on it have you looked at how you've been programmed to have it or not have it most people have been programmed not to have it I remember I used to read this little cartoon Richie Rich you probably remember the richy rich a little blond-headed white kid he's
This Tall his Plumbing had gold y'all remember the richy rich dude okay I don't know know what his dad was his dad was rich I don't know what his dad richy Rich did but I know this he had a lot of money and this richy Rich crit had the mentality of never worried about money everywhere he went he saw gold and he saw prosperity and he saw fluence and and he had everything he wanted and then there was me and we didn't have everything we wanted okay and we were worried about money all the time
I mean we had air conditioning heater and food and and schooling and bicycles and and the stuff that that some countries would make me Rich there's there's third world countries out there never kids have never seen a bicycle never had heating never had Plumbing never had a toilet never had uh maybe maybe a steak that things that we take for granted every day never had a cold carton of milk and so in many ways I was brought up lower middle class but to some people I was probably rich richy rich but I didn't know about
those people that didn't have anything when I was growing up I just knew that my mom was terrified about money every second of every day and when I went to high school and in business classes my first business classes is and then went on uh in college to spent five years in college studying accounting and getting a a master's in business not a master's in business I didn't get a master MERS in business I got a business degree I was a master in nothing I remember getting out of college with an accounting degree and could
not balance a checkbook didn't know the difference between an asset and a liability didn't know how to run a profit and loss statement didn't know how to control the top one inch of a profit and loss statement and if You' to ask me what was more important the most important part of a profit and loss statement I would have known what to tell you I knew nothing but I did know one thing I wanted to learn about money and because I was so scared about money because of the way I was brought up the mentality
around my house was because we didn't know how to get new money we had to save save the money that we had save for a rainy day you know a penny a penny saved is a penny earned and uh money doesn't grow on trees but I didn't know where it grew I didn't know how it was manufactured how it was created how could I get some why would I save it how do I earn it how long does it take to multiply knew I knew nothing about money and so for the past 25 years maybe
30 years now I've been studying money how do I get it how do I keep it now what do I do with it I was 33 years old when a man told me he said to me hey Grant you know how to make money now you've learned how to make money you're putting money together your business is working now you have to learn how to get money to make money that's the first time I'd ever heard that how do I get money to make money and I went out and started reading books on money I
read a book about other people's money I read uh books about how Banks make money I read books about how people made money I read about the rockefellas and the margin and the Vanderbilts and all these people that had created these massive massive wealthspring billionaires and the Jay-Z's and today like today we look around you like people are being made into billionaires Mark Zuckerberg at 26 years old is a billionaire like none of this was available when I was growing up now now the potential the possibility for somebody to be extremely wealthy money Works folks
okay and what you don't know about it will work against you and what you do know about it can work against you and I know it worked against me I didn't have money I spent the first once I learned how to make money I I I I literally did not know what to do with it so I started collecting data about money and I started learning from the places where I was comfortable which is your surroundings your environment and in my surroundings you know I was told don't waste money don't play with money save money
put money in the bank get some money bring it to the bank get some money bring it to the bank get some money bring it to the bank go out and work get some money bring it to the bank and that's what I kept doing I'm like wait a minute dude I'm I'm feeding the bank and I was reading this book one day and learned that when I give the money to the bank when I take the money and put it in the bank they take the money convert it to digits I did not know
this and then they pushed it out into the system in linit nine and 10 times I was like whoa they don't even keep the money I give [Music] them [Music] he
