Success doesn’t need to be sexy, fancy, or glamorous. Sometimes, it comes from where we least expect it, and that’s what our guest Bryan Clayton did.
Bryan Clayton has gone from scratch and bootstrapped his businesses to 8 figures. He turned Peach Tree in Tennessee into a $10 million a year business before he was able to sell it, and he started Greenpal shortly after, which has over 200K, active users, all over the country today.
In this episode, we’re talking to Bryan as he shares how he went from landscaper to business owner to multimillionaire. Listen now to hear tons of gold nuggets of wisdom from someone who turned a business that isn’t flashy and glamorous into something that racks 8-figures a year and reaches hundreds of thousands nationwide!
Quotables
“People overestimate what they can do in a year and then underestimate what they can do in ten.”
“Entrepreneurs naturally work on it nights and weekends. Entrepreneurs naturally wake up on Sundays thinking about their business. Entrepreneurs are always trying to make their business better and stronger. It’s like by default you’re wired to love doing it.”
“I think anybody can be an entrepreneur so long as you’re willing to sacrifice and play the long game.”
“You don’t have to have some flashy startup. You can run a traditional business, take the money, and invest it in durable investments over a five to ten period time, you can retire doing that.”
“No matter how simple and non-glamorous your business is, if you run it well and reinvest that money, it begins to snowball.”
“A lot of times, the reinvesting goes to expenses and not investments.”
“Revenue is always the best kind of financing for any kind of business.”
“If the customer is not happy, not coming back, and not continuing to do business with you, something’s wrong.”
“The only way to learn how to fight is to fight. The only way to learn how to build whatever business it is you’re trying to build is to get something into the hands of customers.”
“Nobody’s going to steal a broke business.”
“The reality is that contractors have different problems and as a technology product, you’re not gonna be good at all of those.”
“The fundamentals day in and day out are what gets the compound effect to take over.”
Links
Youtube: Money Ripples with Chris Miles
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJS6bPY8sm53pkjiCSuBKMA
Website: Simple Passive Cashflow
https://simplepassivecashflow.com/
Podcast: Simple Passive Cashflow
https://simplepassivecashflow.com/tag/podcast/
Book: Three Feet From Gold
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Feet-Gold-Obstacles-Opportunities/dp/1455816132
Book: The Richest Man in Babylon
https://www.amazon.com/Richest-Man-Babylon-George-Clason/dp/1505339111
Instagram: Bryan Clayton
https://instagram.com/bryanmclayton