#1: “The whole principle of giving first is not an offer to give first, it is giving first period without expectation of something back”

You don’t offer someone your service. You come with the final result, and you just give it away without expecting anything. You come with a solution in hand.

That’s the strategy that I recently started implementing at my design agency.

Basically, I find the most perspective startups with awful websites on ProductHunt or anywhere else and make the redesign for them.

I don’t write them and say something like, “Your website is bad, I can offer you some redesign service”.

No, I came with a pre-made design that took me several hours to make and show.

When a potential client sees how much I’m willing to risk and how serious I am, then getting the client becomes much much easier.

This strategy works 80% of the time, and even if it doesn’t, I’m still improving my design skills and growing my portfolio.

Literally a win-win situation.

#2: “One of the best morning routines I can recommend to any person on earth is that you wake up decrease the time between you wake up and when you start working”

We all know this morning routine of hyper-successful people, right?

So, forget about it.

If you wanna build a successful startup, be more productive, and get all the tasks going, then you should forget about all these meditations, readings, and cold plunges.

The less time you have between waking up and sitting to work, the more results you’ll see.

Some studies show that by decreasing the time between them to 90 seconds or less, you’ll be able to see some huge performances.

And that’s mostly what the most successful entrepreneurs do. You first work your ass off to build something and get the most important things in the first place.

#3: “You only really love something if you’re good at it, and you only get good at stuff by doing a lot of it”

It means that if you started something new, then you’d probably suck.

And if you suck at something, you wanna get rid of it.

However, you have to suck at something in order to be good.

Only by doing some period task over and over again and getting better at it throughout the time will you finally start enjoying it.

You’ll start to love what you do. It’s just a matter of time and practice.

#4: “Easiest way to get tons of leads for a business, is give away really cool sh*t for free”

Giving something away is the only way to get some traction.

That’s the only way to get someone to leave an email, follow you, track your future products, and so on.

I’ve been using this strategy for a while and got over 500 followers on X in less than a month and around 100 additional email subscribers.

#5: “It’s so easy to get caught in the race of more”

We’re stuck in the cult of productivity nowadays.

Everyone is always thinking about work, everyone is always busy, and everyone wants to work their ass off to get to the pinnacle.

And don’t get me wrong, I love this mentality. I love the mentality of achieving goals and getting higher.

However, it’s so easy to forget about everything in life and just work.

You need to understand what you want from life. Maybe you shouldn’t work after your first million; maybe you should retire instead.

These are the boundaries that only you can set up, and only you can know where to stop.

#6: “The key to exponential growth is doing fewer things, but doing them better and more consistently”

In a world where multitasking is often glorified, Hormozi advises the opposite.

He suggests that specialization and consistency in a few chosen areas can lead to much greater success than spreading oneself too thin.

You don’t need to know geography to be good at programming.

Yeah, you can learn it if it interests you, and it will help you to shape a better understanding of the world. However, it’s just not necessary.

#7: “Don’t be afraid of charging for your worth. Underpricing doesn’t win you respect or clients; it wins you doubts and headaches”

Oh god, you don’t know how many clients I have because of my pricing policy.

We tend to think that the cheaper, the better. Unfortunately, it’s not.

Undervaluing your services or products can lead to negative perceptions. It tells the potential customer that your product might be of low quality and gives more reasons not to buy it.

If you’re good at something, then charge what you think is fair. That’s it.

#8: “Success isn’t owned, it’s rented. And the rent is due every day”

This quote perfectly represents the idea of continuous effort required in entrepreneurship.

Your success is the result of your daily commitment and consistent hard work.

If you fall off the train, then you won’t move any further.

You still might get some benefits from the past, but it’s nothing compared to what you get while truly staying on the train.