The Best Lesson I Ever Learned – It Made Me A Millionaire
by Dani Johnson
The worst thing about success is a little bit. This is when you begin to think that you’ve got it all together, all figured out, and don’t need any more help. You move from humble, desperate, and teachable all the way to completely stubborn, pig-headed, and unsuccessfully directing others to do what you don’t even know how to do. This is the worst thing about success!
But the best lesson that I ever learned that made me a millionaire is this:
I had a little bit of success in business which earned me an invitation into a board meeting with a man making a half-a-million dollars a month. I was the only woman in the room and all the other participants were within 5 years of my age.
Everyone was chiming in and talking, when I spoke up and said, “You know, I have a great idea!”
The millionaire slams his hand on the desk and completely humiliates me by saying, “You are so stupid!”
Steam came out of my ears and I know I turned a bright red. At this time, I had issues with men due to my upbringing, and I didn’t need much to be set off.
He asks, “How much money do you make?”
“Well, I’m just getting started.”
“Well, how much money do I make?”
“A half-a-million dollars a month!”
“You know what’s wrong with you 97-percenters?” he continued. “You’re so busy sizing yourself up to people like me in order to prove to yourself that you know something. But you’re so stupid. If I listened to your ideas, I’ll go broke just like you. Your ideas are worth ‘broke.’ My ideas are worth a half-a-million dollars a month. Sit down, shut up, and pay attention. Once your stack is as big as mine, then you can talk to me.”
Would you say that statement was mean, cruel, humiliating and wrong for a leader to speak like that to a young person who was just getting started? Would you have been totally offended by such a statement?
I would say that was the best day of my business career because that day, I learned that if I wanted to succeed I needed to learn from successful people. I learned not to try to size myself up to prove that others don’t know squat and that I know more or that I’m worthy to be in their presence.
This was the best lesson I learned, and using it helped me become a millionaire.
Dani Johnson is a relationship marketing expert, author, speaker, trainer and founder of Call to Freedom Int’l. She went from living out of her car with $2.03 to her name to earning her first million in two short years by the age of 23. Dani regularly consults, mentors, and coaches successful home business owners and entrepreneurs on marketing and lead generation solutions, prospecting, closing, business building strategies, leadership development and personal achievement, insider profit strategies, organizational and team development and more.
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