Interview Quotes

The Drive for Success and Personal Sacrifice

"There's a reason no one makes videos like me. Because no one wants to live the life I live or be in my head. They would be miserable."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:00:23

"Are you happy? I... I'm gonna be honest. So far, more unhappy than happy."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:00:40

"But if my mental health was a priority, I wouldn't be as successful as I am. This is the price you have to pay."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:01:53

"And so with feastables, we're trying to get over a million kids out of child labor. But the ironic part is the more I help people, the more I get."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:01:34

"I mean, there's definitely times where I would cry."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:01:49

"Jimmy, we've really just only met and you are already, to me, a bit of a Rubik's Cube."

— SPEAKER_00 • 00:02:25

"I've interviewed hundreds and hundreds of people, and I've never, ever met someone who has the perspective on life that you have. You are truly unique."

— SPEAKER_00 • 00:02:55

"When I was 11, I just said, I'm going to be a YouTuber. I'm going to die trying. And I meant it."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:03:33

"People hate it, but I'm just the most competitive, stubborn person you'll ever meet. And I just never give up."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:03:45

"It's like, it's very annoying when people try to put why you like doing a certain job or building a certain business into one bucket. Oh, you just do it because of money. What if I do it because I like money and I enjoy it. And it's a way to do this. And it's a way to communicate with people and community and these other things, you know what I mean?"

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:14:20

"If my superpower is anything, it's that I can just obsess endlessly about something and I can just have the same thoughts over and over and over and over again."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:15:11

"I just really love solving consistent, complex, hard problems. I think that's like what gets me out of bed and like the harder the problems, the more exciting it is."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:21:01

"Crohn's disease is when your immune system attacks itself."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:22:06

"I just live life on hard mode, to be honest."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:25:05

"I've been told, yeah, by a doctor I have ADHD."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:26:18

"I think one of my greatest superpowers is my obsession. And I think some people would view that as a weakness, but I just, like, if you just think about solving problems three times more than everyone else, like you're bound to come up with different solutions."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:26:35

"My commitment to you is if you do that, then I'll do everything in my power, me and my team, to make sure that this show is better for you every single week."

— SPEAKER_00 • 00:01:04

"I wrote that, uh, with, with some of my employees when I was probably 22. So there are some things that I'm like, I read, I'm like, oh, wow, I was an idiot."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:29:32

"My first real business of every, every employee milestone we hit. It's my first time hitting that, right?"

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:38:26

"The worst part is, I just have this very once in a, I just very rare opportunity where I have so much attention and so many people watch my content. And, and I wish I had, I just wish I had more experience building businesses."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:38:09

"The more good you do, the more people think you're secretly evil."

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:00:54

"If your ship's very exponential, it's way easier to get 50 million views on one video than it is to get a million views on 50 videos, right? And so, and because it like kind of goes exponentially, and it's like, you know, pretty winner take all on the top videos, like, you just really have to lean into that purple cow effect, if that makes sense."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:19:25

"You got to be very coachable, because whatever I teach you today is going to change, you know, a year or two from now, always learning, always improving, coachable."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:41:44

"Mediocrity. I mean, it's just like, because they're not bad enough when you fire them, but not good. The problem is, like, I mean, and you see it in full effect, great people just love working with great people."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:44:14

"The brain isn't isn't designed for for this, though. No, it's this is what I've come to learn."

— SPEAKER_00 • 01:04:01

"I've probably read mess like comments or tweets, or I've probably in my lifetime read over 5000 messages or comments or something telling me to kill myself."

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:04:34

"The first thing I did was take, you know, start paying my mom, take care of her once I started making money, because she gave everything to like, get me where I am."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:09:27

"But it's like, it was like me and her spoke different languages when I was younger."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:09:48

"But no, I don't think most people would be happy living my life. They would be like, Oh, let's just grab a couple million dollars and be happy."

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:17:15

"But I swear to God, man, like people, it's, it's, it's, uh, there, I could just, uh, I don't know, do these like, uh, $1 versus videos where I compare like a $1 boat to a billion dollar boat and all these other things and not help people. And I would just get way less shit."

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:01:56

"If you tell me I can't, then I just, it's everything in my body just wants to go, fuck you. I obviously can."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:17:44

"The more I help people, the more shit I get, to be honest."

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:59:25

"I mean, cause the thing is, obviously I'm not a robot. There are times where I'm like, fuck, I really want to play the strategy board game. I want to do this thing."

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:15:09

"I want to inspire people to do good. I mean, I can buy a mansion if you really want me to."

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:00:09

"I just want to keep like building a business is like a video game. It's, it's just fun."

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:25:45

"The first thing they would do to up the margins is they just drop the ethical sourcing."

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:27:19

"I don't do anything half-assed. And then you drive to a ton of Walmarts. Don't you?"

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:33:28

"I just want to be the best at it. And that's, it's weird man, because you just look at this chocolate bar and you wouldn't, you'd be like, who the fuck cares? But that's the thing. It's what I've really enjoyed the last two years is I've gone as in depth on this as I have YouTube. And it's been every bit as fun."

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:35:10

"I lost tens of millions of dollars on that show. Yeah. I'm an idiot."

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:45:32

"But the thing is they couldn't because it's money isn't everything like building and managing it is, is, you know, infinitely harder."

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:46:37

"And so my big thing was just making sure this crushed. And you know, now the doors are opening up."

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:49:05

"It was their number one unscripted show of all time. And then, yeah, I mean, it's, I don't think they'd mind me saying it's very, the show's very evergreen."

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:50:26

"I just upload a video and then, and the next day I look at the retention and the CTR. And if we fucked up, I just, you know."

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:53:44

"I'm okay with my people failing. I'm okay with the video being 10 out of 10. Like, as long as we actually took an honest, good, um, try at it."

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:58:19

"I want to say something to you though. I have to give you a lot of credit because so many people like us, like our teams, we have stolen so much from you."

— SPEAKER_00 • 01:59:16

"And you're giving them the roadmap, but also a blueprint and the mentality and the belief that they too don't have to live the life that school or the system has told them they have."

— SPEAKER_00 • 02:00:02

"Would you rather die with a sound body or a sound mind?"

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:58:50

"I would say mine, to be honest."

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:59:05

"You're not a man that seems to have many fears, but that appears to be one of them, a fear that we both share."

— SPEAKER_00 • 01:47:44

"I just don't think about my personal life. I just think about winning and got to build some photos that I found that I loved."

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:23:10

"I probably if I wasn't allowed to say buy Bitcoin, I just wouldn't say anything."

— SPEAKER_02 • 01:24:56