Talk Money to Money, Talk Hustle to Everyone else – Don’t get Hustled
As your Hustle increases your mind will change and you will talk about what will be instead of what can be. You will become impatient with people who don’t Hustle. Your day and night will be consumed with either how to improve your Hustle or with a new Hustle. You will start having real money to do real things and you have to change your speech accordingly.
Hustle attracts money both mentally and physically. Mentally you will start to see money making situations in almost anything you do. I know for me I started calculating how much the car wash made, how much the club made off of selling alcohol even how much money I could possibly make off of Suckers for Poetry. Physically Suckers love a Hustler. They will pitch you a million ideas they want you to either partner with them and even buy from them. So your Hustle skills will come in handy to immediately deal with the small time Hustles they are pitching.
People with Real Money will be attracted to you too. As a Hustler themselves in a different capacity they see you as a phenomenon and they want a part of it. Money will try to find a way to take your Hustle and you included and get you to work for them. Money will entice you with words like partnership, franchise, distribution, and marketing. Money just has the money to push your Hustle two steps ahead if not further. As a result you have to talk to Money in Money terms. You have to understand all the legal contracts, legal liability and your ownership rights. Once Money is on the table you have to recognize Money is there to either make money with you or learn to take your Hustle and make money without you.
Bottom Line: Recognize the difference when people are talking money and talking about money. Make sure you don’t mix the two!
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You know I think this is something that needs to be expanded on. Of course I have my own view of the differences. But could you give some bullet points?
For instance: a while ago I was looking to refinance a commercial building I used to own. So I mentioned it to a rich guy I know and he said call “my guy” at Wachovia, here’s his number. That’s Money!
Before talking to him I had the same conversation with another property owner I know. But his response was “try googleing commercial banks” and if you find something let me know. Keep in mind this guy portrays himself as someone who is “blowing up”.
this is why i’m careful about who I talk to. It like when you register your business with the county, all these little hustlers peddling merchant services, security systems and yellow pages show up.
when dealing with money, the conversation has to serious.
@Carl – The point of the post is to make people aware of who they talk money with. If you don’t watch ur mouth someone will plot and take your whole hustle. I’ve come across cats who told their idea to a banker and the banker was on the side trying to make it come into being. I heard cats tell me great ideas that they overheard from someone else.
In ur case U are just talking to one cat who knows and one who doesn’t. Check out the podcast on Monday cuz I talk about this directly.
@ED – Well I think most cats don’t recognize the two and just talk. They don’t realize that cats will move on ur good idea and leave u filing BS lawsuits trying to prove its really urs!
Freeman,
This happens with Blacks in technology all the time. They go to these Silicon Valley VC firms smiling with all their teeth showing, don’t have legal guidance and trying to spill their great idea thinking the Venture Capital will write them out a check like that one ABC show “Shark Tank” or something like that..
But the reality is, most of these VC principals already have $30 million invested in an existing startup that probably flat and rather give the existing startup the “new ideal” rather than invest in a new firm.
You be surprise in 2009 how many “Black tech startup entrepreneurs” come into this game off a turnip truck and give up their ish to these VC firms and turn around seeing someone else promoting their ideal as their own or read an article that some 16 year White whiz kids came up with their ideal in a bedroom or garage.
@Ed – We have to stop trying to get put on by other folk OR we need to stop making deals with the devil. Since the opening of world markets we need to leave the VC’s of the past alone and move on.
I always laugh at the cats with the most education always get swindled. Its like they forgot regular street sense. I said this in a earlier post that the pattern aka the game is the same with all money its just people think its different. Same cats who want to steal from you on the streets will steal from you in the suites! Its just they got us thinking they are good people because they have a office.
I am just floating past to check you out. I have been ghost from blog world for a bit…
In terms of your own writing hustle, you might want to check out some of these sites that pay for content. I have been posting work up to Associated Content and Demand Studios. I don’t know how much this website is pulling in for you. Just a thought…
@Kofi – Welcome back and thanx for the tip. I’m doing this as a PSA so I ain’t sweating making money off of it. I actually hope someone takes it and spreads it. I know you’ve been a ghost for a while but I know this blog topic is aligned with your own angle. Check out the podcasts!