Aug. 6, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| Well, years ago, there was a gentleman who personifies the American dream. | |
| His name is Kevin Thomas. | |
| Everyone can look him up. | |
| His company is called Multi-Clean. | |
| Everyone can look him up. | |
| I think it's multi-cleanok.com. | |
| And Kevin made a profound statement. | |
| He said that if he could have just five employees, that would be success. | |
| You say, well, what does Kevin do? | |
| It's a janitorial service. | |
| You'd say, well, what does a janitorial service do? | |
| He cleans commercial buildings. | |
| And Kevin made that profound statement. | |
| If I could just have five employees, that would be success. | |
| Kevin came and spoke at my last conference. | |
| Somebody put their hand up and they said, well, Kevin, you're having a lot of success. | |
| How many employees do you have now? | |
| He says, just a hair over 350. | |
| Think about that for a second. | |
| So this guy, Kevin Thomas, had a goal to have just five employees. | |
| He thought entrepreneurship wasn't quite for him, that maybe he didn't have the education. | |
| He didn't have the marketing background. | |
| He didn't have the accounting. | |
| He didn't have the skills. | |
| But what he did is he went on over to ThriveTimeshow.com. | |
| That's where I live, ThriveTimeshow.com. | |
| And he went there and said, you know what? | |
| I'm going to fill out the form and I'm going to schedule a call with this crazy guy and we'll just see what happens. | |
| He has 350 employees. | |
| He's one of the most successful people in his town. | |
| And I share that story because everybody out there, you can become successful. | |
| And when you are, money's a magnifier, good and bad, by the way. | |
| So money allows you to be more of who you are. | |
| So if you're a generous person who loves to donate and celebrate and tithe to your local church or community or your outreach, you can give more. | |
| Money allows you to be more, to give more, to be, it allows you to just magnify who you are. | |
| And so if you're watching this show and you're kind of in the mind space where my 37-year-old father was, where he was delivering pizzas at Domino's Pizza, which, again, great company. | |
| We're appreciative for that opportunity. | |
| He was working at Quick Trip gas stations and we appreciate that opportunity too. | |
| He's working the night shift and I have not an ounce of resentment that my father was working the night shift during my years growing up. | |
| I respect him for doing it. | |
| But if you feel like, man, success has passed me by, Kevin was the guy in his early 40s who's having these thoughts and now he's profoundly successful. | |
| Clay Stairs, who's now an Oklahoma state representative, he started his entrepreneurial path when he was 47 years old and now he's super successful. | |
| Bob Healy had terminal cancer and was in his early 60s and now Grillblazer is booming. | |
| I can list off examples all day. |
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