Don’t Try to Mine Gold When You Can Sell Shovels

Long-term vision is the investor’s best weapon

Matt Ward
Better Marketing
Published in
9 min readJan 31, 2018

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I know that was my mindset. How can I hustle my way to a million bucks? That was the question I asked myself every day and night. Looking back, this was the wrong question to ask. But as Kanye says:

“Money ain’t everything, not having it is.” — Kanye West

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