Business strategy and founder lessons
@hormozi
Ten one-line business rules (sell premium to the rich, do it faster, talk to customers, be best or cheapest never middle) delivered as a fast listicle that funnels to a "WIN" keyword for a free scaling roadmap.
1.7M plays · 01 Nov 2026

What they said
- Sell to the rich. They pay better. Sell expensive things to people who value them rather than cheapening yourself for people who don't.
- Look at what everyone else is doing and do it in half the time for twice the price.
- Have higher standards than your customers ("easy to say, hard to do").
- Pay better people better so you don't need as many people; you save money overall.
- Speed is the single unifying principle for winning.
- Every problem in business can be solved by talking to customers more.
- You make more money iterating the same thing a thousand times than making a thousand new things.
- Your biggest competitor is being unknown. Get louder.
- You can be the best or the cheapest, you just can't be in the middle.
- Do so much work it would be unreasonable that you aren't successful. No numbers, studies or examples are given beyond "half the time / twice the price" and "a thousand times".

Try this
- Founders: Use the list as prompts for a real review: who pays best, how fast you ship, how often you talk to customers, and whether you are the best or the cheapest in your category.
- Customers: Schedule a set number of customer calls each week, since rule 6 says most problems get solved by talking to customers.
- Iterate: Improve one product or offer many times before launching a new one.
- Visibility: If you are unknown, publish more consistently before you change your product.
- Pricing: Test a higher price on a smaller, high-value segment. Do not apply "sell to the rich" blindly, as it does not fit every category.
- Creators: A 10-item rule list with a saveable caption and a comment keyword is easy to copy. Add your own examples so it is not generic.

Links
- "Free scaling roadmap" (Acquisition.com quiz, see @kailodebiz for how that funnel works). No URL in caption or speech.

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