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Cody Sanchez

Cody Sanchez

Founder and CEO of Contrarian Thinking, NYT bestselling author of Main Street Millionaire, and investor in "Main Street" small businesses.

Sep 18, 2026

22:22
Why is that?
22:24
Well, one, people are always going to dislike you for succeeding at the thing that they were not able to succeed at.
22:32
People will hate you for having less and doing more with it.
22:36
And so if somebody has gone through something incredibly traumatizing like buying a business and failing at it, all they see are other people that will fail too.
22:46
And I'm not sure how that is helpful at all.
22:49
Like, unless we're telling somebody to go dive with great white sharks, in which case they might get eaten, nobody's going to die from trying to start a business or buy a business and it not working out.
23:00
You're going to learn.
27:37
But I guess discipline is never simple.

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