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F.U. Money: Make As Much Money As You Want And Live Your Life As You Damn Well Please!
Are you TIRED of the RAT RACE? Do you wish you had MORE TIME and MORE MONEY? Would you like to NEVER WORK AGAIN?
If you answered “YES!”, then you need to look no further than Dan Lok’s new book F.U. MONEY.
If you have ever thought to
• How come I have to keep coming back over and over to this DEAD-END JOB?
• How can I make enough money so that I can afford to STOP WORKING and START HAVING FUN??
• When will it be MY TURN to live the GOOD LIFE???
Imagine what your life would become if you knew what it really took to make more money than you have ever dreamed possible in your lifetime. For instance, can you imagine that...
• All the money stress in your life suddenly vanishes?
• You get to fire your boss and tell him where to shove it?
• Take holidays whenever you want and for as long as you want?
• You are living in the house of your dreams, driving the car of your dreams, and also have a boat and a cabin and even a plane if you want?
• You can afford to give your children the perfect, healthy, and fun and fulfilling childhood that you always wanted to give them?
In this no-nonsense, no-holds-barred guide, international entrepreneur and self-made multi-millionaire Dan Lok shows you how to live the lifestyle you really want without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.
If you answered “YES!”, then you need to look no further than Dan Lok’s new book F.U. MONEY.
If you have ever thought to
• How come I have to keep coming back over and over to this DEAD-END JOB?
• How can I make enough money so that I can afford to STOP WORKING and START HAVING FUN??
• When will it be MY TURN to live the GOOD LIFE???
Imagine what your life would become if you knew what it really took to make more money than you have ever dreamed possible in your lifetime. For instance, can you imagine that...
• All the money stress in your life suddenly vanishes?
• You get to fire your boss and tell him where to shove it?
• Take holidays whenever you want and for as long as you want?
• You are living in the house of your dreams, driving the car of your dreams, and also have a boat and a cabin and even a plane if you want?
• You can afford to give your children the perfect, healthy, and fun and fulfilling childhood that you always wanted to give them?
In this no-nonsense, no-holds-barred guide, international entrepreneur and self-made multi-millionaire Dan Lok shows you how to live the lifestyle you really want without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.
248 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2009
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March 5, 2019
Fu money = point of true financial liberation
Myths:
• Money can’t buy happiness
• Rich people are assholes
• You can afford to wait
• You have to be lucky
• You have to be a cheapskate
• You have to get rich slow
• You have to work hard to make money
• You have to be perfectly ready
• DIG: daily income goal:
Are we making more money today?
What’s the most efficient use of my time right now?
What’s the payoff of this activity?
What objectives do I want to accomplish?
What must I do to accomplish these objectives?
In what sequence should I complete them?
Nine characteristics of an ideal business:
1. Do what you love
2. Stable, growing long term demand
3. Be portable
4. High profit margin
5. Scalability
6. Low start up cost
7. Requires little or no staff
8. Low overhead
9. Money coming in while you sleep
The 7 golden keys to internet riches:
1. The market comes first
2. Create a simple, easy to navigate website that sells
3. Build a business, not a moneymaker
4. Create multiple income streams in one business, don’t create many diversified businesses
5. Leverage the time and resources of others
6. Use your personality to sell
7. Position your business for automatic growth
Quotes
“Distraction is the only true luxury of poor people. Laser-beam focus is mandatory for success.” 177
“Money buys you time - and time translates to the freedom to pursue happiness and personal growth, the freedom to help others, and the freedom to do whatever you damn well please.” 50
Myths:
• Money can’t buy happiness
• Rich people are assholes
• You can afford to wait
• You have to be lucky
• You have to be a cheapskate
• You have to get rich slow
• You have to work hard to make money
• You have to be perfectly ready
• DIG: daily income goal:
Are we making more money today?
What’s the most efficient use of my time right now?
What’s the payoff of this activity?
What objectives do I want to accomplish?
What must I do to accomplish these objectives?
In what sequence should I complete them?
Nine characteristics of an ideal business:
1. Do what you love
2. Stable, growing long term demand
3. Be portable
4. High profit margin
5. Scalability
6. Low start up cost
7. Requires little or no staff
8. Low overhead
9. Money coming in while you sleep
The 7 golden keys to internet riches:
1. The market comes first
2. Create a simple, easy to navigate website that sells
3. Build a business, not a moneymaker
4. Create multiple income streams in one business, don’t create many diversified businesses
5. Leverage the time and resources of others
6. Use your personality to sell
7. Position your business for automatic growth
Quotes
“Distraction is the only true luxury of poor people. Laser-beam focus is mandatory for success.” 177
“Money buys you time - and time translates to the freedom to pursue happiness and personal growth, the freedom to help others, and the freedom to do whatever you damn well please.” 50
November 9, 2015
One of the worst books I've ever read. Dan is copying another famous (worth reading, unlike him) copywriters and authors.
I'm really sorry for people like Dan because they have sick ego and they are not aware of it at all. He probably wrote this book just to leave some trace in this world not thinking about quality at all.
If someone reads this book after all, just don't get mad because you've lost some precious time reading about his braggings and glorifying his ego.
If you ask me, this book and it's author should be avoided in any case.
I'm really sorry for people like Dan because they have sick ego and they are not aware of it at all. He probably wrote this book just to leave some trace in this world not thinking about quality at all.
If someone reads this book after all, just don't get mad because you've lost some precious time reading about his braggings and glorifying his ego.
If you ask me, this book and it's author should be avoided in any case.
October 20, 2018
من يقرأ الكتاب بدون معرفته للمؤلف ربما يعطي تقييماً ضعيفاً لتكرار الأفكار الواردة في الكتاب
بالنسبة لي لم أقرأ الكتاب إلا بعد أن استمعت لساعات طويلة للقاءاته ومحاضراته وتوجيهاته على قناته على اليوتيوب، بالفعل هذا الرجل كنز، وأثبت جميع الكلام النظري في كتابه في واقعه الذي يعيشه. وأنا أقرأ كل فقرة يكتبها، أو قصة يوردها أظل أربطها بواقعه إذ هو مثل حقيقي لإثبات هذا الكلام النظري.
الجزء الرابع من الكتاب هو الجزء الأهم والذي يحتاج قراءته بتركيز، ويلخص فيه المؤلف خلاصة تجاربه... القفز لقراءة هذا الجزء بدون قراءة الأجزاء السابقة ربما يُشعر القارئ بالتقليل من أهميته، فالأجزاء السابقة تمهيد وتحفيز للعقل للتركيز والتمتع بقراءة هذا الجزء الأخير.
وأسأل الله أن يبارك لي في وقتي وجهدي ورزقي لأحقق ما أريد
بالنسبة لي لم أقرأ الكتاب إلا بعد أن استمعت لساعات طويلة للقاءاته ومحاضراته وتوجيهاته على قناته على اليوتيوب، بالفعل هذا الرجل كنز، وأثبت جميع الكلام النظري في كتابه في واقعه الذي يعيشه. وأنا أقرأ كل فقرة يكتبها، أو قصة يوردها أظل أربطها بواقعه إذ هو مثل حقيقي لإثبات هذا الكلام النظري.
الجزء الرابع من الكتاب هو الجزء الأهم والذي يحتاج قراءته بتركيز، ويلخص فيه المؤلف خلاصة تجاربه... القفز لقراءة هذا الجزء بدون قراءة الأجزاء السابقة ربما يُشعر القارئ بالتقليل من أهميته، فالأجزاء السابقة تمهيد وتحفيز للعقل للتركيز والتمتع بقراءة هذا الجزء الأخير.
وأسأل الله أن يبارك لي في وقتي وجهدي ورزقي لأحقق ما أريد
August 23, 2018
Nothing really new here, and no fresh content or ideas. I'll sum up the entire book here: Make lots of money online so that you can tell people to FU! Sign up for my website (Dan Lok)
April 13, 2019
I like Lok's videos, but this book.... What a shame
But he has some cool advices that he wrote:
"Money is replaceable. Time is NOT. The seconds you used up reading this paragraph are gone forever. You can't get them back."
and 5 pages later "I absolutely hate it when people waste my time. It's worse than stealing money from me." and then repeats the first quote... The same way he does the entire book.
Unfortunately this book is only Dan bragging and a massive ego trip.
A huge funnel to make you buy his courses filled with psychological tricks to make you guilty. If you don't go to my page it only shows that you're not made for this type of stuff.
There's a chapter called Are you being scammed Writes a few words but doesn't say absolutely anything valuable about the tittle.
Please do yourself a favor a read a real book. The are pleeenty of them.
Because in this one is Dan (The Man....) is only "Me me me me me"
I'm prety sure Dan knows his stuff. And on youtube he's able to show it off.
At least I buy it, and take a lot of value of some of his videos. But reading this... thing... made me unsubscribe and keep my distance from this Man. Can't really trust a guy that publishes a book like this, and bought ratings..
But he has some cool advices that he wrote:
"Money is replaceable. Time is NOT. The seconds you used up reading this paragraph are gone forever. You can't get them back."
and 5 pages later "I absolutely hate it when people waste my time. It's worse than stealing money from me." and then repeats the first quote... The same way he does the entire book.
Unfortunately this book is only Dan bragging and a massive ego trip.
A huge funnel to make you buy his courses filled with psychological tricks to make you guilty. If you don't go to my page it only shows that you're not made for this type of stuff.
There's a chapter called Are you being scammed Writes a few words but doesn't say absolutely anything valuable about the tittle.
Please do yourself a favor a read a real book. The are pleeenty of them.
Because in this one is Dan (The Man....) is only "Me me me me me"
I'm prety sure Dan knows his stuff. And on youtube he's able to show it off.
At least I buy it, and take a lot of value of some of his videos. But reading this... thing... made me unsubscribe and keep my distance from this Man. Can't really trust a guy that publishes a book like this, and bought ratings..
April 2, 2020
Mr Dan Lok. Gentleman in red suit.
This book is good for experienced readers, or if you looking for first “economical manual”. It’s easy to read.
I recomend following Mr. Dan:s Instagram feed allso. It’s full of gold.
This book is good for experienced readers, or if you looking for first “economical manual”. It’s easy to read.
I recomend following Mr. Dan:s Instagram feed allso. It’s full of gold.
April 15, 2021
Unfortunately, this book is just a big compilation of advices from various sales and business experts. On social media, Dan Lok is known for plagiarizing content and repackaging them as his own, which makes this book the quintessence to describe Dan Lok as a person. From my experience, this book really amplifies unrealistic dreams of living in pure luxury by encouraging you to write down all the things you ever dreamed of owning on the blank spaces of a few chapters. You and I know exactly that this book will never teach you how to get the things you've written down which is why you should buy his $2000 course on how to get rich.... right..
Another odd factor of this book are the so called "Lokism" quotes that are written on most pages. This "Lokism" is allegedly founded by Dan Lok through his wisdom as if he is some divine creature or a rip off version of Lao Tzu.
Another odd factor of this book are the so called "Lokism" quotes that are written on most pages. This "Lokism" is allegedly founded by Dan Lok through his wisdom as if he is some divine creature or a rip off version of Lao Tzu.
March 4, 2019
Not much teaching about opportunities you can take, mostly in this book consist of backstory and also psychology understanding of business and money, yet this book contains contradictions Have to be improve on points and teach people how to analyze their financial conditions and also options they can take to grow their money. All these points given from Dan isn't really much practical especially ignoring to learn or do if you don't like to do it. Other hand his Youtube channel is more enriching compare to this.
October 26, 2018
Very honest book about the path to become rich! the last last chapter to me was more like a biography, which some of them he mention in YouTube, but a little more in detail. Overall it was a very good book, but you must tolerate the swearing and rough language! The contents are the gold after all!
March 16, 2019
I haven’t read this book and I won’t, but I keep seeing ads for it on YouTube offering it for free which suggests it is terrible. Also, all business books are the same regurgitated nonsense; so, 1 star, burn all copies.
September 2, 2019
He upsells you constantly on high ticket closer nonsense and tries to sell you on some dream that the secret to gaining FU money is spending money you don't have (not in a business setting) because "I don't want to be a cheap bastard"
November 29, 2019
Vague nonsense with Dan tooting his own horn for most of the book.
April 28, 2020
Badly writen but with some good ideas.
April 23, 2019
This is the best book for people who keep jumping from one business to another. This is a must read for any entrepreneur.
FU Money Book Summary : *Spoiler Alert*
Part 1: The F.U. Money Lifestyle
Most people don’t do what they really want to do. They do what someone else wants them to do.
You can’t hit a target you can’t see.
Two proven ways to make your f.u. money:
1. The Slow Way: Build a Big Nest Egg
2. The FAST Way: Automated Income Vehicles
Forget Passive Income
Plain and simple: it doesn’t work.
Money is a medium of value exchange. So when you strive to make money and no longer have to work at the same time, passive income, part of what you’re really hoping for is to get something for free. Know this, in order to get something you first need to give.
The desire for completely passive income is also rooted in the need for completion.
We all think there’s this magical time in the future where we can finally just relax and be happy. But it’s not coming. So cultivate gratitude for every moment, if for no other reason but it’s just another moment you’re alive.
Part 2: The F.U. Money Myths –Eight Myths That Are Keeping You From Making Your F.U. Money.
The Money Myths
These are all the myth what we think rational or watered down half-truths that you were fed as a child by people who didn’t even know what they were talking about. They are:
1) “Money Can’t Buy Happiness”.
Maybe true and yet this idea somehow gets twisted into the idea that you shouldn’t make money at all.
Money buys you time–and time translates to the freedom to pursue happiness and personal growth, the freedom to help others, and the freedom to do whatever you damn well please.
Change doesn’t come without pain.
Money is the root of all good.
2) “Rich People Are Assholes”.
Breed from envy and jealousy.
If you don’t like the rich, you can forget about ever becoming one of us (Them).
Banks don’t get robbed by those of us pulling up in a limousine or Rolls Royce.
If you’re a jerk, more money will just make you a bigger jerk. If you’re a nice person, more money will make you a nicer person.
3) “You Can Afford To Wait”.
Who wants to wait till they’re old to be rich?
Making huge sums of money consistently requires a set off skills.
4) “You Have To Be Lucky To Be Rich”.
Poor and uninspired mentality this is one of the main reason why people fail.
You don’t just get rich. You must earn the right to be rich.
5) “You Have To Be A Cheapskate”.
Not in abundance, in order to get something you first need to give.
It’s easier to make MORE money than it is to spend less.
Focus on generating dollars, not pinching pennies.
Most people save their way to bankruptcy.
I refused to be poor even when I was broke.
6) “You Have To Get Rich Slow”.
Wrong, People get rich fast all the time.
Money is attracted to speed.
Rich people are entrepreneurs who invest.
You can’t be a millionaire with fifty-thousand dollars- a-year habits.
7) “You Have To Work Hard To Make Money”.
Also wrong, for many people money is easy.
Don’t just work hard, work hard at working smart.
Leverage is Maximum productivity with minimum effort.
8) “You Have To Be Perfectly Ready”.
It’s a lie because you never are.
Rich people make themselves do what they don’t know how to do– until they do know how to do it.
Business is the ultimate school of learning.
Ideas aren’t worth shit unless acted upon.
Part 3: The F.U. Money Mindset
The secret to wealth is committing to ONE idea over time.
Don’t take advice from broke people on how to get rich.
It doesn’t matter what the morons say.
Do the opposite of what everyone else does and you will almost always succeed.
You have to be a little “weird “to make your f.u. money.
If your life stinks, it’s your own damn fault.
Every business is a reflection of its owner.
if you can’t find good people to help you, maybe you’re not a good person
There are three kinds of people:
1) People who wait for things to happen
2) People who make things happen
3) People who wonder what the fuck just happened.
You can’t have the glory if you don’t have the guts if you set a goal.
Fortune favours the bold.
The rich do what is hard; that’s why their life is easy. Poor people do what’s easy; that’s why their life is hard.
Self-esteem is the foundation of all success.
Nothing great was ever achieved by timid people.
You can care about other people without caring what they think.
Confidence comes from competence.
You can’t be of ANY value to others until you first value yourself.
The amount of money you make is closely related to your self-image.
Life ain’t fair. Business ain’t fair. People ain’t fair. Get over it!
Hitting your daily income goal is your number one priority every day. Everything else is bullshit.
Nobody is allowed to insult you without your permission. Nobody is allowed to say anything bad about you without your agreement.
You’ll become effective only by being selective.
Poor people get paid AFTER they do the work.
Rich people get paid BEFORE they do the work.
When you don’t need money, it comes to you faster, easier, and quicker than you ever thought possible.
Needy is creepy.
How you use your time ultimately determines how much money you make.
Rich people value time. Poor people value stuff.
It’s better to be really good at one thing than average at a bunch of things.
“Do what you love and the money will follow” is a lie. It should be:
“Learn to love the activities that are capable of producing the largest sum of money – then the money will follow!”
You can sell people on doing business with you on your terms, as long as they know what’s in it for them.
Your number one job each and every day is to do everything you can to drive more revenue and profit into your business.
Distraction is the only true luxury of poor people.
Laser-beam focus is mandatory for success.
Part 4: The F.U. Money Business
Most people don’t want the truth.
They’re just looking for things that sound good.
All wealth schemes have the fatal flaw of taking YOU out of the equation.
Definition of a F.U. Money millionaire: a person with a vision who orchestrates other people time, talents, and money to make his or her vision a reality.
It’s not just HOW MUCH money you make; it’s HOW you make the money.
I am smart enough to know I am NOT THAT smart.
If you spend your entire life working on your weaknesses, at the end of your life, you’ll have a lot of strong weaknesses.
Suck your business dry like a vampire. Take money out all the way. If your business can’t make it without money, then your business probably can’t make it with money.
Life and time are the same things. If you’re wasting your time, you’re wasting your LIFE.
If you don’t toot your own horn, no one will toot it for you.
Every problem is a product.
There is no easier, faster, and more certain way to create massive wealth in record time than the Internet.
One conversation can change your life forever.
If you could get there on your own, you would already be there.
Never, ever get paid based on hours worked.
Make your first sale online before worrying about getting rich.
The ideas you think will work best often fail. The dumb and crazy ideas you threw out there just for the hell of it often produce the biggest results.
Failure is a resource. It helps you find the edge of your capacities.
Your intimate understanding of your market and core businesses the number one ingredient to become rich.
Let other people and “things” make money for you.
Stop throwing good money into profit draining projects. Real commitment is commitment with a formal structure.
FU Money Book Summary : *Spoiler Alert*
Part 1: The F.U. Money Lifestyle
Most people don’t do what they really want to do. They do what someone else wants them to do.
You can’t hit a target you can’t see.
Two proven ways to make your f.u. money:
1. The Slow Way: Build a Big Nest Egg
2. The FAST Way: Automated Income Vehicles
Forget Passive Income
Plain and simple: it doesn’t work.
Money is a medium of value exchange. So when you strive to make money and no longer have to work at the same time, passive income, part of what you’re really hoping for is to get something for free. Know this, in order to get something you first need to give.
The desire for completely passive income is also rooted in the need for completion.
We all think there’s this magical time in the future where we can finally just relax and be happy. But it’s not coming. So cultivate gratitude for every moment, if for no other reason but it’s just another moment you’re alive.
Part 2: The F.U. Money Myths –Eight Myths That Are Keeping You From Making Your F.U. Money.
The Money Myths
These are all the myth what we think rational or watered down half-truths that you were fed as a child by people who didn’t even know what they were talking about. They are:
1) “Money Can’t Buy Happiness”.
Maybe true and yet this idea somehow gets twisted into the idea that you shouldn’t make money at all.
Money buys you time–and time translates to the freedom to pursue happiness and personal growth, the freedom to help others, and the freedom to do whatever you damn well please.
Change doesn’t come without pain.
Money is the root of all good.
2) “Rich People Are Assholes”.
Breed from envy and jealousy.
If you don’t like the rich, you can forget about ever becoming one of us (Them).
Banks don’t get robbed by those of us pulling up in a limousine or Rolls Royce.
If you’re a jerk, more money will just make you a bigger jerk. If you’re a nice person, more money will make you a nicer person.
3) “You Can Afford To Wait”.
Who wants to wait till they’re old to be rich?
Making huge sums of money consistently requires a set off skills.
4) “You Have To Be Lucky To Be Rich”.
Poor and uninspired mentality this is one of the main reason why people fail.
You don’t just get rich. You must earn the right to be rich.
5) “You Have To Be A Cheapskate”.
Not in abundance, in order to get something you first need to give.
It’s easier to make MORE money than it is to spend less.
Focus on generating dollars, not pinching pennies.
Most people save their way to bankruptcy.
I refused to be poor even when I was broke.
6) “You Have To Get Rich Slow”.
Wrong, People get rich fast all the time.
Money is attracted to speed.
Rich people are entrepreneurs who invest.
You can’t be a millionaire with fifty-thousand dollars- a-year habits.
7) “You Have To Work Hard To Make Money”.
Also wrong, for many people money is easy.
Don’t just work hard, work hard at working smart.
Leverage is Maximum productivity with minimum effort.
8) “You Have To Be Perfectly Ready”.
It’s a lie because you never are.
Rich people make themselves do what they don’t know how to do– until they do know how to do it.
Business is the ultimate school of learning.
Ideas aren’t worth shit unless acted upon.
Part 3: The F.U. Money Mindset
The secret to wealth is committing to ONE idea over time.
Don’t take advice from broke people on how to get rich.
It doesn’t matter what the morons say.
Do the opposite of what everyone else does and you will almost always succeed.
You have to be a little “weird “to make your f.u. money.
If your life stinks, it’s your own damn fault.
Every business is a reflection of its owner.
if you can’t find good people to help you, maybe you’re not a good person
There are three kinds of people:
1) People who wait for things to happen
2) People who make things happen
3) People who wonder what the fuck just happened.
You can’t have the glory if you don’t have the guts if you set a goal.
Fortune favours the bold.
The rich do what is hard; that’s why their life is easy. Poor people do what’s easy; that’s why their life is hard.
Self-esteem is the foundation of all success.
Nothing great was ever achieved by timid people.
You can care about other people without caring what they think.
Confidence comes from competence.
You can’t be of ANY value to others until you first value yourself.
The amount of money you make is closely related to your self-image.
Life ain’t fair. Business ain’t fair. People ain’t fair. Get over it!
Hitting your daily income goal is your number one priority every day. Everything else is bullshit.
Nobody is allowed to insult you without your permission. Nobody is allowed to say anything bad about you without your agreement.
You’ll become effective only by being selective.
Poor people get paid AFTER they do the work.
Rich people get paid BEFORE they do the work.
When you don’t need money, it comes to you faster, easier, and quicker than you ever thought possible.
Needy is creepy.
How you use your time ultimately determines how much money you make.
Rich people value time. Poor people value stuff.
It’s better to be really good at one thing than average at a bunch of things.
“Do what you love and the money will follow” is a lie. It should be:
“Learn to love the activities that are capable of producing the largest sum of money – then the money will follow!”
You can sell people on doing business with you on your terms, as long as they know what’s in it for them.
Your number one job each and every day is to do everything you can to drive more revenue and profit into your business.
Distraction is the only true luxury of poor people.
Laser-beam focus is mandatory for success.
Part 4: The F.U. Money Business
Most people don’t want the truth.
They’re just looking for things that sound good.
All wealth schemes have the fatal flaw of taking YOU out of the equation.
Definition of a F.U. Money millionaire: a person with a vision who orchestrates other people time, talents, and money to make his or her vision a reality.
It’s not just HOW MUCH money you make; it’s HOW you make the money.
I am smart enough to know I am NOT THAT smart.
If you spend your entire life working on your weaknesses, at the end of your life, you’ll have a lot of strong weaknesses.
Suck your business dry like a vampire. Take money out all the way. If your business can’t make it without money, then your business probably can’t make it with money.
Life and time are the same things. If you’re wasting your time, you’re wasting your LIFE.
If you don’t toot your own horn, no one will toot it for you.
Every problem is a product.
There is no easier, faster, and more certain way to create massive wealth in record time than the Internet.
One conversation can change your life forever.
If you could get there on your own, you would already be there.
Never, ever get paid based on hours worked.
Make your first sale online before worrying about getting rich.
The ideas you think will work best often fail. The dumb and crazy ideas you threw out there just for the hell of it often produce the biggest results.
Failure is a resource. It helps you find the edge of your capacities.
Your intimate understanding of your market and core businesses the number one ingredient to become rich.
Let other people and “things” make money for you.
Stop throwing good money into profit draining projects. Real commitment is commitment with a formal structure.
May 25, 2020
Exactly the kind of book that gets you nodding in agreement and rethinking many of the concepts you held. I could do this over and over again. I will surely read it again in the near future
October 15, 2024
Doesn’t teach you anything. Just a book to stroke the author’s ego
March 11, 2024
Love this guy. Great book with practical tips and great advice
July 20, 2018
I got a free download of this book from Dan Lok's website.
I really enjoyed his frankness and speaking voice. He is very direct and has a no nonsense approach. At first I thought I wouldn't like him because of that, but he is very personable and there is something in his delivery that makes him likable.
The last 20-30 pages of the book were the best and delivered the most meat. I kept hoping that he would share his personal story in detail with exactly how he started, and he did. If I were editing the book, I'd move at least part of his personal story up front.
I appreciated the principles of internet wealth and his willingness to share books and programs that helped him. I downloaded his Influence book and the Scientific Advertising book he shared and tried to find the internet marketing program he talked about, but didn't see it. I also appreciated all the links to his videos and webinar. I've watched most of the videos and plan to watch the webinar as well.
I'm giving it four stars instead of five for a few reasons. 1. There are so many spelling mistakes in the ebook, and even some places where it feels like a complete sentence got left out. I can't imagine the print edition made it to the shelf life this. One simple proofread could catch most of them. With all the money he is making, paying someone a few hundred dollars to correct these would be worth it. I'd even be happy to do it. It was a real barrier to his credibility and professionalism for me. I had to get to the end of the book where he shared his personal story before I could start overlooking it. 2. While he did share so much of how he did it, I felt there was something missing in the process. Obviously he can't spell everything out, it's not a coaching session, but I still wanted a little more to the 'how' of making money online. Finally 3. I felt in his writing style and his videos that he is very defensive. I saw a FB ad a few days ago where he was getting a lot of hate under the video, so I'm sure it can't be easy to listen to. I didn't think the hate was warranted, there are just haters out there. I'm not sure if the defensiveness is due to things like that, or a sales method or what, but it was a bit of a turn off for me considering I really started to like him while reading the book.
All in all, a good book with lots of good information. I'd recommend and will re-read at some point.
I really enjoyed his frankness and speaking voice. He is very direct and has a no nonsense approach. At first I thought I wouldn't like him because of that, but he is very personable and there is something in his delivery that makes him likable.
The last 20-30 pages of the book were the best and delivered the most meat. I kept hoping that he would share his personal story in detail with exactly how he started, and he did. If I were editing the book, I'd move at least part of his personal story up front.
I appreciated the principles of internet wealth and his willingness to share books and programs that helped him. I downloaded his Influence book and the Scientific Advertising book he shared and tried to find the internet marketing program he talked about, but didn't see it. I also appreciated all the links to his videos and webinar. I've watched most of the videos and plan to watch the webinar as well.
I'm giving it four stars instead of five for a few reasons. 1. There are so many spelling mistakes in the ebook, and even some places where it feels like a complete sentence got left out. I can't imagine the print edition made it to the shelf life this. One simple proofread could catch most of them. With all the money he is making, paying someone a few hundred dollars to correct these would be worth it. I'd even be happy to do it. It was a real barrier to his credibility and professionalism for me. I had to get to the end of the book where he shared his personal story before I could start overlooking it. 2. While he did share so much of how he did it, I felt there was something missing in the process. Obviously he can't spell everything out, it's not a coaching session, but I still wanted a little more to the 'how' of making money online. Finally 3. I felt in his writing style and his videos that he is very defensive. I saw a FB ad a few days ago where he was getting a lot of hate under the video, so I'm sure it can't be easy to listen to. I didn't think the hate was warranted, there are just haters out there. I'm not sure if the defensiveness is due to things like that, or a sales method or what, but it was a bit of a turn off for me considering I really started to like him while reading the book.
All in all, a good book with lots of good information. I'd recommend and will re-read at some point.
March 19, 2020
My mother used to say, money doesn't grow on trees. However, money is made from paper and that actually does ...
Dan Lok's "F.U. Money" is a practical book: It starts to ingrain the right mindset for a life in abundance. Wealth might not only be measured in money, but indeed it's a good pointer. As usual, the numbers tell us everything about our lives.
My biggest F.U. Money insights:
* You don't want money, you want the freedom money can buy
* Don't focus on the money, focus on the value you create for people
* Work on your strengths, outsource your weaknesses
* Income is always more important than spendings
* You can get rich fast, if you know what you are doing. Allow yourself to get rich fast
* Don't be timid! It's okay to make mistakes along the way, in fact expect them
* You don't have to work for any customer – you can fire them if you don't get along. Make your life easier
* You don't have to work hard to make much money
* Set a daily income goal and work on it every day - it's much easier to keep score and achieve success
* Never get paid by the hour, get paid by the result
* Get paid BEFORE you start to work
* Always pay yourself first
* Make yourself into a personal brand with a great story. People don't trust companies, they trust people
* The market always comes first: What do people really want and how can you give it to them?
* Multiple income streams doesn't mean dozens of different businesses, but a variety of businesses in a certain field – one where you have the expertise
Now, there are basically three things you can actually do:
- Just work more, render more services (more value)
- Create products so you can be paid again and again (higher value)
- Build a business to create services or products (highest value = leverage)
Dan Lok's "F.U. Money" is a practical book: It starts to ingrain the right mindset for a life in abundance. Wealth might not only be measured in money, but indeed it's a good pointer. As usual, the numbers tell us everything about our lives.
My biggest F.U. Money insights:
* You don't want money, you want the freedom money can buy
* Don't focus on the money, focus on the value you create for people
* Work on your strengths, outsource your weaknesses
* Income is always more important than spendings
* You can get rich fast, if you know what you are doing. Allow yourself to get rich fast
* Don't be timid! It's okay to make mistakes along the way, in fact expect them
* You don't have to work for any customer – you can fire them if you don't get along. Make your life easier
* You don't have to work hard to make much money
* Set a daily income goal and work on it every day - it's much easier to keep score and achieve success
* Never get paid by the hour, get paid by the result
* Get paid BEFORE you start to work
* Always pay yourself first
* Make yourself into a personal brand with a great story. People don't trust companies, they trust people
* The market always comes first: What do people really want and how can you give it to them?
* Multiple income streams doesn't mean dozens of different businesses, but a variety of businesses in a certain field – one where you have the expertise
Now, there are basically three things you can actually do:
- Just work more, render more services (more value)
- Create products so you can be paid again and again (higher value)
- Build a business to create services or products (highest value = leverage)
November 5, 2018
A classic rags-to-riches story, who doesn't love that?
Listened to the audiobook and it was hilarious to me. Dan Lok came from nothing, produced a life he wanted, and basically doesn't work at all. I think this is what makes his story and message unique. He can do more with his business and make more money if he wants to, but he's basically touching it an hour a week and then going off and doing other things.
To create a personal ATM as such is a dream, that is possible because there's actually people doing it every day. Everyone wants to know what "that thing" is, the million-dollar question. The reality is that no one will go and hold your hand through the whole process; you have to build it, you need mentors, you need a plan, it does exist.
That's what Dan Lok's story boils down to in my mind. He speaks a lot about many different mindset tricks that he uses that work just fine for him; some quite extreme. Such as, acting like you're already rich and buying extravagant things to back yourself up against a wall and force you into a production mode. I would never do that, but I understand his point. It's amazing what can happen when you force something into complete necessity, and this is hard to do without real stakes. Some people have done this, where they buy a multi-million dollar penthouse of their dreams when they only have 100k saved up for a down payment. They then somehow scramble around and force themselves to come up with the remaining 900k for a down payment. It's insanity, but hey, if that's what it takes...?
Again, Dan Lok is unique in his unapologetic approach to business, lifestyle, and mindset. Ridiculous at times, maybe brilliant at others, entertaining as an audiobook, and worth it if you keep an open mind.
Listened to the audiobook and it was hilarious to me. Dan Lok came from nothing, produced a life he wanted, and basically doesn't work at all. I think this is what makes his story and message unique. He can do more with his business and make more money if he wants to, but he's basically touching it an hour a week and then going off and doing other things.
To create a personal ATM as such is a dream, that is possible because there's actually people doing it every day. Everyone wants to know what "that thing" is, the million-dollar question. The reality is that no one will go and hold your hand through the whole process; you have to build it, you need mentors, you need a plan, it does exist.
That's what Dan Lok's story boils down to in my mind. He speaks a lot about many different mindset tricks that he uses that work just fine for him; some quite extreme. Such as, acting like you're already rich and buying extravagant things to back yourself up against a wall and force you into a production mode. I would never do that, but I understand his point. It's amazing what can happen when you force something into complete necessity, and this is hard to do without real stakes. Some people have done this, where they buy a multi-million dollar penthouse of their dreams when they only have 100k saved up for a down payment. They then somehow scramble around and force themselves to come up with the remaining 900k for a down payment. It's insanity, but hey, if that's what it takes...?
Again, Dan Lok is unique in his unapologetic approach to business, lifestyle, and mindset. Ridiculous at times, maybe brilliant at others, entertaining as an audiobook, and worth it if you keep an open mind.
August 7, 2018
Dan's Asian voice is a recipe for turning words into cash. Outsourcing is a key to scale. Love his Daily income goal and how he breaks down the value of time.
Nuggets of Truth:
I'm a high paid slave trading hours for dollars
Health wealth and the time to enjoy it Spanish proverb
If you had to start again would you buy your own business from you?
I prefer cash in one place...my pocket
It's one thing to amke money and it's another to make money and operate on your own terms
People fail because of broken focus
What are you hoping to get from me today?
What would massive action look like?
Start a F.U. money business
You can make money or excuses but you can't make both
Busy growing my business
Every business is a reflection of it's owner
U don't have to get it right you just have to get it going
Dramatically increase your income
If it's going to be it's up to me
You feel justified in your stupidity
I win on 3 levels
Don't eat any capital
You cannot see causes that lie deeper then the
Nuggets of Truth:
I'm a high paid slave trading hours for dollars
Health wealth and the time to enjoy it Spanish proverb
If you had to start again would you buy your own business from you?
I prefer cash in one place...my pocket
It's one thing to amke money and it's another to make money and operate on your own terms
People fail because of broken focus
What are you hoping to get from me today?
What would massive action look like?
Start a F.U. money business
You can make money or excuses but you can't make both
Busy growing my business
Every business is a reflection of it's owner
U don't have to get it right you just have to get it going
Dramatically increase your income
If it's going to be it's up to me
You feel justified in your stupidity
I win on 3 levels
Don't eat any capital
You cannot see causes that lie deeper then the
June 27, 2018
I love the way Dan Lok's voice comes alive from the text in the pages. There is such an honesty about this book and they way it is compiled.
There are some principles that are known as standard in the business world within this book, but there are some gems and nuggets of counter intuitive nuanced principles that flip the status quo on its head. I think these are the things that stand out from this book. Dan Lok really gives a different perspective on the so called "tried and tested through time" principles, really explaining why they don't work and how doing the opposite makes more sense.
It is really a great read for those wishing not just to change themselves, but rather to transform their mindsets, once that is done everything else will follow. I have learned that mindset is the core that transforms everything else in a persons life.
There are some principles that are known as standard in the business world within this book, but there are some gems and nuggets of counter intuitive nuanced principles that flip the status quo on its head. I think these are the things that stand out from this book. Dan Lok really gives a different perspective on the so called "tried and tested through time" principles, really explaining why they don't work and how doing the opposite makes more sense.
It is really a great read for those wishing not just to change themselves, but rather to transform their mindsets, once that is done everything else will follow. I have learned that mindset is the core that transforms everything else in a persons life.
September 3, 2018
The author Dan Lok is the real life successful entrepreneur who had applied the 80/20 principle in his life. It is intriguing as the author speak through his self-experience in the book with a non-descriptive but conversational way. The steps to wealthy in Dan Lok way 1)have at least one high income skill(invest ourselves through books, seminars, workshops) 2)Identify the market (do marketing-research on what people want to buy) 3)operate a scalable business( start with low risk business and less money according to the market ) 4)Use internet as the platform. Dan Lok's upmost rule is LEVERAGE 1)Use other people time 2)Use other people energy 3)Use other people knowledge. The book is mostly contain the mindset of a successful person and the a overview on a good business model.
May 26, 2018
Great book (: rather motivating.. Helped me to breakdown how much my ideal lifestyle money should be annually and I was much less then I expect.. I thought that I'll need like billions and millions but it wasn't (: I think it'd definitely achievable. I look forward to a great life ahead.
August 24, 2018
كتاب جميل، يعطي بعض الأفكار لكيف تفكر لتصبح غني لكنه ليس الأفضل، يمكنك البدء في قراءة هذا الكتاب بسبب بساطة كتابته ويمكنك فهم فكرة الكاتب بسرعة على الرغم من أنك ستجد أن الكاتب يعيد تكرار الأفكار مرارًا وتكرارًا في الكتاب.
February 8, 2021
EDIT: Turns out the guy is a contrepreneur.
I read this when I was recently laid off. Nearly got suckered by it, too.
Lok is an effective writer. "Good" should probably be reserved for both morally upright and technically proficient. But he really can write copy.
About himself.
I read this when I was recently laid off. Nearly got suckered by it, too.
Lok is an effective writer. "Good" should probably be reserved for both morally upright and technically proficient. But he really can write copy.
About himself.
January 29, 2019
It did have some motivating aspects in it and did enjoy it.
However, it is very one-sided and egotistical, which is not necessarily bad or wrong in the context of this book, but it got a bit too much for my taste.
However, it is very one-sided and egotistical, which is not necessarily bad or wrong in the context of this book, but it got a bit too much for my taste.
November 12, 2018
NOW i got your attention...
You must be wondering why there only one star for a great book like this...
Yes, i just aim to get your attention and tell you that this is a good book!
You must be wondering why there only one star for a great book like this...
Yes, i just aim to get your attention and tell you that this is a good book!
January 27, 2020
He knows everything about marketing and how to sell you yet another book with the "money" word in its title
February 16, 2020
Useless. This book has literally no value to anyone and there is not a shred of actionable financial advice. Steer clear
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