How To Make Money.... 7 Hacks That Are PROVEN To Work!
Steven Bartlett (host), Guest (guest), Guest (guest), Guest (guest), Guest (guest), Guest (guest), Guest (guest), Narrator, Guest (guest)
In this episode of The Diary of a CEO, featuring Steven Bartlett and Guest, How To Make Money.... 7 Hacks That Are PROVEN To Work! explores seven Proven Money Hacks: From Index Funds To Tax Secrets This compilation episode from The Diary Of A CEO stitches together the most replayed money, investing, and wealth-building insights from multiple high-profile guests.
Seven Proven Money Hacks: From Index Funds To Tax Secrets
This compilation episode from The Diary Of A CEO stitches together the most replayed money, investing, and wealth-building insights from multiple high-profile guests.
It covers simple, practical frameworks for getting started with investing, building an automatic financial system, compounding wealth through index funds, and understanding leverage and deal-making.
The conversation also pulls back the curtain on how the wealthy legally minimize taxes, why buying a primary home is often a lifestyle choice not an investment, and how crypto/blockchain open new global investment avenues.
Throughout, the speakers emphasize mindset: avoiding lifestyle inflation and get‑rich‑quick schemes, embracing boring, automated investing, and making short‑term sacrifices for long‑term financial freedom.
Key Takeaways
Use One Simple Fund And Automate Contributions
For beginners, a low-cost target-date or broad index fund (e. ...
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Structure Your Accounts So Wealth Only Flows One Way
Investing accounts should not be treated like checking accounts. ...
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Compounding Rewards Endurance, Not Genius Stock Picking
The power of compounding comes from time, not chasing the highest annual returns. ...
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Focus Skills Where The Money And Leverage Are
Income jumps come from leverage: labor → teams → media → capital → technology. ...
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Think Like An Owner, Learn The Tax Game Early
The rich primarily make money from owning and selling assets, not from salary, and they aggressively but legally minimize tax. ...
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Treat A House As Lifestyle, Not A Primary Investment
Historically in the US and UK, inflation-adjusted home prices have been roughly flat over very long periods; the explosive gains of the last 20–30 years are the exception, not the rule. ...
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Use Crypto And Blockchain Intelligently, Not As A Lottery Ticket
Blockchain is framed as a ‘source of truth’ and value-transfer infrastructure, not just speculative coins. ...
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Notable Quotes
“Investors treat investing like watching paint dry. That’s how sexy it is.”
— Ramit Sethi
“If I can just earn average returns for an above average period of time, it’s going to put you in the top 5% of investors.”
— Morgan Housel
“The most expensive thing that all of us are paying for is the information that we don’t know.”
— Alex Hormozi (story relayed) / host commentary
“You don’t want to be a super earner. You want to earn enough money to invest so you can become a super owner.”
— Scott Galloway
“If your number one goal is to become wealthy, you have to get serious about it, because where you put your attention is where you get the results.”
— Jaspreet Singh
Questions Answered in This Episode
You showed how a simple index-fund strategy can lead to millions over decades—how should someone in their 30s or 40s who feels ‘late’ adjust contributions to realistically catch up?
This compilation episode from The Diary Of A CEO stitches together the most replayed money, investing, and wealth-building insights from multiple high-profile guests.
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When mapping skills to money, what concrete steps would you take to move from a low-margin client base (like local services) into a high-margin, high-revenue sector such as biotech or finance without existing contacts there?
It covers simple, practical frameworks for getting started with investing, building an automatic financial system, compounding wealth through index funds, and understanding leverage and deal-making.
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The tax strategies described for the ultra-wealthy are legal but clearly tilt the playing field—where do you personally draw the ethical line between smart tax planning and exploiting a broken system?
The conversation also pulls back the curtain on how the wealthy legally minimize taxes, why buying a primary home is often a lifestyle choice not an investment, and how crypto/blockchain open new global investment avenues.
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Given your enthusiasm for both long-term index investing and Ethereum, how would you allocate a portfolio across stocks, crypto, and cash for someone with a 20-year horizon who wants upside but can’t tolerate extreme volatility?
Throughout, the speakers emphasize mindset: avoiding lifestyle inflation and get‑rich‑quick schemes, embracing boring, automated investing, and making short‑term sacrifices for long‑term financial freedom.
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For someone trapped in the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle and also under heavy social pressure to ‘look successful’, what practical scripts or boundaries can they use with friends and partners to protect their financial turnaround without completely isolating themselves?
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Transcript Preview
53% of you are planning to make a New Year's resolution about money, finance, and investing this year, because you want financial freedom and financial security. So, we went through every conversation we've had about money, personal finance, and investing, and we found the most replayed and most shared moments from those conversations for you. Everything from life-changing advice on saving, spending, investing, tax, crypto, buying a house, and having a money mindset.
The most expensive thing that all of us are paying for is the information that we don't know.
So, how do you make the most money humanly possible? It's two things.
Let me tell you a few key basic things about investing and money.
It's gonna lead to amount of success that will literally put you in the top 5% of investors.
And never have to worry about money again.
If you listen to this conversation, we believe your money goals will come true in 2025, so take notes. Quick one before we get back to this episode. Just give me 30 seconds of your time. Two things I wanted to say. The first thing is a huge thank you for listening and tuning into the show week after week. It means the world to all of us, and this really is a dream that we absolutely never had and couldn't have imagined getting to this place. But secondly, it's a dream where we feel like we're only just getting started. And if you enjoy what we do here, please join the 24% of people who watch this channel regularly and have hit that subscribe button. It means more than I can say. And if you hit that subscribe button, here's a promise I'm gonna make to you. I'm gonna do everything in my power to make this show as good as I can now and into the future. We're gonna deliver the guests that you want me to speak to, and we're gonna continue to keep doing all of the things you love about this show. Thank you. Thank you so much. Back to the episode. So, wha- what is the S&P 500 for anybody that doesn't know?
Yeah.
And what are the returns that I'm likely to get from investing in the S&P 500? I really wanna simplify this for people that are at the very start of their investing journey.
Yeah.
You know because, I mean, this is what you spend so much of your time doing that... I just think about my, my team here. So, the Diary of a CEO, there's about 30 people and we started talking about money one day. And it was mind-blowing how nobody in my team's lives had ever had the conversation with them about investing.
Yeah.
We all think of investing as something that rich people after the age of 40 do.
Yeah.
Once you have a million dollars. Um, alt- if you don't have a million dollars, then the on- only other way to invest we're taught is to buy a house.
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