One Question Friday: What’s The Fastest Way You've Had Your Life Changed By Money?

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You've Got. I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money using things that you already have.
Coincidentally, today's podcast is brought to you by Business Made Simple. It's a podcast by Donald Miller, who I'm gonna tell you about in a second, but he has this amazing episode that's all related to this book and the things that I learned in this book. It's called How To Make Money With What You Already Have. It's an incredible episode. It talks about all the stuff that I learned in this book. The host is Donald Miller. I didn't know who Donald Miller was up until recently, but over the last 12 months, this is totally by coincidence. It was all separate people. They said, you have to check out Donald Miller. He's amazing. So I'm happy that he's part of HubSpot's podcast network. You can check it out, Business Made Simple Podcast. It's where he coaches you on how to build your business like an airplane, where the cockpit is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the right engine is your marketing, the left engine is your sales.
You have to check it out. This guy's amazing. It's called Business Made Simple with Donald Miller.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:09)
Hey guys, it's Ezra from Grand Rapids. I was listening to the pod the other day, and I remember you guys saying that getting rich quick is the best way to get rich.
So I'm just wondering what's the fastest way you've had your life changed by money, or what's the fastest way you've seen someone else's life get changed by money? Thanks.

**Sam Parr** (1:28)
All right, we were asked, what's the, this is one question Friday, we were asked, what's the fastest that either of us, Shaan and Sam, have jumped in wealth and how it felt, and or the same question, but for some of the people we know. You want to go first?

**Shaan Puri** (1:44)
No, you go. I think you might have a good story here.

**Sam Parr** (1:47)
I'll talk about a friend first. So I was with a friend that sold his company for close to a billion dollars. And I was with him. I was with him when the money hit the bank. We are at their apartment and immediately like, he's like, all right, I think it happened. We went to the ATM.
He previously had like $300,000 in his bank, which is not a little amount. So he wasn't like destitute at all, but he was 28 And we went to the ATM and there was $90 million in the bank account.
And immediately afterwards, we went to McDonald's and we got a number one each. We each got a Big Mac and we went back to his apartment and watched TV and like, we're like, that's pretty cool, isn't it? And it was really cool. Like it was pretty crazy. The crazy part is not just the 90 million, but if you do the math of 90 million conservatively, if you look at historical average, 90 million at, let's just round up to 100 100 million at 30 becomes 200 at 40, which becomes 450, which becomes 800 at 60, which becomes 1.1 at 70, 1.1 billion. So you can see this, it's not just that they have $90 million. It's like, well, it's a sure fire way more likely than not that you're gonna be a billionaire at some point while you're alive.
That was crazy. So that's one story. Do you have one?

**Shaan Puri** (3:12)
I got a couple. So we've told this one on the pod before. People are sort of familiar, but I'll do a fast version of it, which is Million Dollar Homepage. So Alex Tu, who is a friend, and I think you're friends with him as well, he, I think he was 21 years old, and he was like, I wanna be a millionaire. I want a million dollars.
How do I like do this? And he kind of asked himself this question, which was like, how do I make a million dollars in like the next like month or two, you know, which is not the question most people ask. Nobody will teach you or recommend that you ask this question, but he asked it and guess what? The brain is a question answering machine. And so you ask that question, the brain, if you believe that everything is possible, we'll start to come up with ideas.
And one of the ideas he came up with, this is back in, I don't know, when Million Dollar Homepage happened.