Buy Back Your Time Quotes

“The little-known secret to reaching the next stage of your business is spending your time on only the tasks that: (a) you excel at, (b) you truly enjoy, and (c) add the highest value (usually in the form of revenue) to your business.”
― Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

“A Buyback Loop occurs as you continually audit your time to determine the low-value tasks that are sucking your energy. Then you transfer those tasks, optimally, to someone who’s better at them and enjoys them. Lastly, you fill your time with higher-value tasks that light you up and make you more money. Then you start the process over again.”
― Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

“Winners and losers have the same goals,” he writes. “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
― Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

“If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!”
― Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

“If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic! —Michael E. Gerber”
― Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

“same goals,” he writes. “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
― Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

“Wow. I just downloaded twenty years of life experience for $20 and a few hours of my time. How many more of these books can I get my hands on?”
― Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”
― Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

“With transformational leadership, you stop leading by telling someone how to do something and instead tell them what needs to get done. You set the outcomes, and you put the onus of responsibility on them.”
― Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

“Buyback Principle: Don’t hire to grow your business. Hire to buy back your time.”
― Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

“Take out a sheet of paper and list your last ten major decisions, the ones that really shook things up. Look at your list and ask yourself: Were these all necessary, or were they hand grenades? Look for patterns in the decisions that weren’t necessary. Were you rushing? Micromanaging? Penny-pinching? Then, if you see a pattern emerge, write down your current assassin. Bonus: If you really want to have fun with this, you could always print off a picture of a target and write in “The Supervisor” or “The Speed Demon” or whatever assassin you’re currently facing. Then fold up that target and put it in your wallet or purse and carry it around with you.”
― Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

“Audit: What tasks do I hate doing that are easy and inexpensive to offer someone else? Transfer: Who do I have on my team—or who can I hire, even part-time—to take these over? Fill: What tasks should I focus on that I love doing that can immediately bring more money to my company?”
― Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

“You aren’t the best person to solve most problems anyway. Remember, your work is someone else’s play.”
― Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

“To save his own brainpower for where it was most needed, Brad created the 1:3:1 Rule: Before staff were allowed to ask for Brad’s help, they had to verbally define a singular, narrow problem (not bring up dozens of tangential issues). Next, they had to consider and offer three realistic paths to overcoming that problem. Finally, they had to give Brad their single recommendation from the three options.”
― Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

“In larger cases—say that you want a financial report ready—a Definition of Done will need to have three things: Facts: What are the hard metrics that must be accomplished? What measurement in your business must be improved? Feelings: How must you and others feel for this task to be considered complete? Functionality: When this task is finished, what must it enable others to do? So in the case of a financial report, if I were transferring that task to someone else on my team, I might say that my DoD would mean: It’s submitted, by January 1. Fact. I’m confident that the information is going to be accurate. Feelings. That everyone who will access it can easily pull out the data they need. Functionality.”
― Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

“IMPORTANTLY, A PLAYBOOK isn’t going to capture everything, but it will save you time. Just like my rule with everything else—80% done is 100% awesome—a Playbook will ensure that 80 percent or more of a repeated process happens exactly like you want it to, giving you predictable results.”
― Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

“SOMEONE ONCE SAID, “The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” Getting back to what lights you up and makes you money can seem like a pie-in-the-sky wish. But it’s not.”
― Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

“But before I talk about getting you some help with what’s keeping you out of the Production Quadrant, let’s tackle two objections I often hear: “No one does it right.” “I can’t afford it.” Let’s break these limiting beliefs right now. We’ll start with “No one does it right.” I get it—you think you’re best at marketing, sales, coding, website design, ordering, hiring, firing, stocking the shelves, cleaning the floors, the administrative work . . . everything. No one will do it quite right is your mentality. To be honest, likely no one will care as much as you do, because it’s not their company, their money, or, really, their customers. Maybe no one ever will do it quite like you. So here’s what you do. You don’t aim for 100 percent perfection. Instead, shoot for 80 percent. Yes, lower your expectations, because here’s the deal: 80% done by someone else is 100% freaking awesome. You not having to come in on the weekend to get caught up is 100% freaking awesome. You not having to miss your kids’ game or a friend’s birthday party is 100% freaking awesome. You not having to spend half your week doing something you hate for the hundredth time is 100% freaking awesome.”
― Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

“My next stop proved to be pivotal. Not long after my conversation with Brian, I was sent to Portage, a therapeutic facility for teens. There, my transformation continued. I studied and worked hard at the tasks I was given.”
― Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

“Remember”
― Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

“If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic! —Michael E. Gerber[”
― Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire