Codie Sanchez, founder of Contrarian Thinking, shares insights on buying businesses, having a contrarian creed, surrounding yourself with successful influences, valuing business assets, strategies for business acquisitions, investing in established businesses, approaching acquisitions with humility, and lessons in business ownership. She emphasizes the importance of ownership and moving away from being average.
Acquiring businesses with a strategic mindset improves success rates in investments and deals.
Overcome fear and ego in decision-making by seeking advice from high-performing individuals and building a strong team.
Understanding profitability and stability in business acquisitions ensures successful ventures and minimizes risks in financial transactions.
Deep dives
Understanding the Value of Asking Questions in Investing
Successful investing involves never losing money, which can be achieved by avoiding information disadvantages. Journalistic skills of asking questions are crucial in navigating investments. Continuously asking thoughtful questions helps in understanding investments better.
Building a Successful Investing Mindset
The importance of overcoming fear, especially fear of acting, is highlighted. Making well-informed decisions and being comfortable with being inquisitive and not knowing everything are key traits of successful investors. Avoiding ego-driven decisions and seeking clarity through questioning are essential for successful investing.
The Significance of Learning from Winners
Being surrounded by high-performing individuals influences personal growth and success. Choosing to associate with top performers enhances one's performance and mindset. Selecting high-performing teams and seeking advice from successful individuals leads to impactful growth and development.
Optimizing Business Acquisition Strategies
When acquiring a business, understanding its profitability and stability is crucial. Focusing on established, stable businesses rather than turnaround ventures increases the chances of success. Utilizing tools like deal calculators and third-party valuations enhance decision-making and minimize risks in business acquisitions.
Learning Through Business Deals
Engaging in business deals and asking the right questions can provide valuable experience without facing the pain firsthand. Through deal reviews and case studies like those in the Contrarian Community, individuals can gain insights from others' mistakes, avoiding significant financial losses. By accumulating knowledge and experience from multiple deals, individuals can develop a deep understanding of business transactions and make informed decisions.
Embracing Ownership and Learning from Others
Embracing ownership and investing in education can prevent costly mistakes in business ventures. Front-loading the pain through thorough learning and due diligence minimizes risks in the long run. Selecting competent operators based on past behaviors and creating systems for thorough hiring processes ensures sustainable business growth and success. The focus on ownership and continuous learning not only leads to personal success but contributes to a broader culture of growth and prosperity.
“If you do not die with ownership, if you die as the average person dies in the US, you will die alone, fat, and broke. Those are just the numbers.” Those are the words of Codie Sanchez, our guest on today’s episode. But her goal is to help you not be average. Her goal is to teach everyone how to buy businesses and make good business deals.
Codie Sanchez is the founder of Contrarian Thinking. After a stint as a journalist and some time on Wall Street, she knew wanted to give everyday people the insider’s info on wealth creation. Today she teaches courses, publishes media, and builds communities doing just that.
Codie shares with us a breadth of tips: Be Captain No, buy boring businesses, have a creed to live by, only get feedback from winners, ask simple questions, frontload pain, hire competent people no matter their industry, and, of course, buy a business.
Buckle up because Codie takes us on a whirlwind tour of how to create wealth.
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We talk about:
Buying businesses with same mindset of buying bonds
Investing in education to avoid investing in pain
Having a creed to live by
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