Highly productive people are not and the whole get rich quick scheme. This idea that you see 18 year olds and 21 year olds I want to be a millionaire by the time I'm 25 the problem with that approach is it often leads to shortcuts. It often leads to things like you know, selling underwater real estate or penny stocks that turn out to be fraudulent or some sort of scam because that's often the only way to really easily quickly become a multi millionaire by the time you're 25. highly productive people don't do that. Jeff Bezos for years, turned down numerous offers for Amazon bigger companies that wanted to buy him and he could have been a multimillionaire at a very, very young age, never had to work again. Had no headache and just going off to an island. He always said, No, no, no now, now he's the richest man in the world.
It's paid off for him, but it's because he didn't have that short term mentality. Look, I'm not against money and I like money. And I'm not here to say, you know, give away all your riches and live like an acidic monk. That's not my message to you. But the most productive people in the world I find are never motivated exclusively by money. They're motivated by something else, a love for a craft for an art, for something of beauty for some design for some idea, and sometimes it is about helping some segment of the planet or the whole planet, or helping those in need.
It's always about something else. So I would caution you if your goal is simply money. Ask yourself if you can expand it because I've seen it too many time when that leads to shortcuts and it can destroy your reputation. And then you end up with no money because you're either in jail or you've got legal fees, or you have a situation where no one ever wants to work with you again, well, if you're 32, and you're worth $2 million, because you had some get rich quick scheme, but you can never work again because nobody likes you or trust you or respect you. You actually didn't make that much money over the long run. If you've got to make that last the next 70 years, you may have a hard time making it last.
So I'm a big fan of goals. But if it's just money, targeted to what you want to do with that money and why you want to make it ultimately you'll be much more productive.