How you doing, sir?

How you doing, sir? I'm doing very good. You're looking sharp, dude. I appreciate it. Yeah, you're coming out very clean, man. It's a nice car over here. Thank you, brother. I appreciate that. My name is actually Eric, and I interview people on business and entrepreneurship. And I want to know, man, what's some advice you can give to people who want to get to your level of success? Learn the stock market early. Like, you gotta learn it early, man. YouTube is like really good. You guys gotta start putting your money into the the real good stocks. I'll give you a few ticker symbols. Individual stocks are risky. Microsoft's even down a train load right now. The index ETFs are the way to go. So, S&P 500 index fund, the best ticker is VOO. Then the NASDAQ 100 index fund, the ticker is QQQ. Then Vanguard, who's the biggest in ETFs, has a value fund called VTV. And the fourth one, Vanguard's got all stock market index called VTI. If you young guys could discipline yourself to put a little bit of money into those four ticker symbols throughout time, you guys are gonna be there in the end. But you gotta discipline yourself to live beneath your means. If you spend every dime you earn, you got no money to invest. You gotta discipline yourself. If you're making 50, you gotta live on 35. You're making 100, you gotta live on 65 throughout your life. If you do that, you will be driving whatever you want. Maybe Gulfstream. It's all about time and compound interest. Oh, it is. Go to Yahoo Finance and look at the one year, five year, and there it says all since the inception of the fund. If you look at the graphs, they're like this. But it takes time to get there, right? It doesn't happen quickly. But you're young, you got a lot of time, man. And I want to know, man, how old were you when you made your first million? Oh, man. I'll be 30. 30. Yeah. Man, you really gave me the financial game. The other one's real estate, right? If young guys can start investing in rental real estate, it's a really good way to go if you can figure out enough money to buy rental property. Watch the Grant Cardone videos, that guy's very good. Even tutorial videos. Watch some of those videos, see if you can get to a point where you can buy some, you know, commercial properties. So those two things, stocks and real estate, I mean that's the way to go. I gotta get I gotta get my meal. Okay. Last question here for you. I want to make this one good. Yeah. What's the biggest challenge you had in your whole entire life? You ever watch World Poker Tour? There's a series on TV about the best gamblers in the world. They're playing Texas Hold'em, right? So you watch the guys around these tables, and the question is when do you push the chips out onto the table? What opportunity are you gonna dig into your life savings and make that investment? Because you gotta be on the lookout for what's an opportunity that I can take advantage of with the resources that I have. And when you watch World Poker Tour, I'm making an analogy, of course, is you watch those guys strategically. What are they doing? They're looking at their cards, they're looking at the dealer cards, they're looking at the expressions and the gestures of the other players. They're gauging when and how am I gonna bet. And that's the hard part for me. When I was young, it's like what am I gonna bet on? Because you have to make a bet, and you gotta make a good one. Because if you lose all your money, you're back to where you are. So you gotta make a bet in your life. You gotta take a risk. If you don't take any risk, you're never gonna get there. Okay, I gotta go this time. No risk, no reward. Now that's a fact. What's your name one more time? Craig. Craig, very nice meeting you, sir. Nice chatting. You have amazing advice, seriously.