Sep 21, 2026 · 10 min · 7 segments
the brutal truth behind passive income ~ Alex Hormozi
Alex HormoziHost
of my business, all right? So that's not business sales, that's not anything else, that's $37.9 million in dividends I've taken out in the last 36 months.

And I wanted to lead with that mostly because I thought it would make the video a hell of a lot more interesting.

For those of you who don't know me, my name's Alex Ramosi, I own acquisition.com. Today I wanted to talk to you because I had a really interesting conversation with a couple, that's an entrepreneurial couple, and I caught myself in this tirade, this rant, about passive income and how it's not as cool as people think it is and I wrote down some of the notes after the dinner and I thought I would share it with you because I think that passive income is one of these things that people talk about all the time it's the great a great headline for YouTube videos and clickbait and all this crap and the thing is is that number one 99.9% of people will never have true passive income or passive income in any material amount.
Read the full transcript.
Create an account to read the whole episode, search across every transcript, and follow the shows you care about.

of my business, all right? So that's not business sales, that's not anything else, that's $37.9 million in dividends I've taken out in the last 36 months.

And I wanted to lead with that mostly because I thought it would make the video a hell of a lot more interesting.

For those of you who don't know me, my name's Alex Ramosi, I own acquisition.com. Today I wanted to talk to you because I had a really interesting conversation with a couple, that's an entrepreneurial couple, and I caught myself in this tirade, this rant, about passive income and how it's not as cool as people think it is and I wrote down some of the notes after the dinner and I thought I would share it with you because I think that passive income is one of these things that people talk about all the time it's the great a great headline for YouTube videos and clickbait and all this crap and the thing is is that number one 99.9% of people will never have true passive income or passive income in any material amount.