I was so broke I slept in a parking lot. Now I’ve made a fortune selling tacos
A MAN has revealed how he was once so broke he slept in a car park but it pushed him to become a millionaire selling tacos.
A reporter for the YouTube channel School of hard knock stopped multi-millionaires in a luxury shopping district in Texas to ask them for top advice.
The taco company owner admitted that he started his business at a low point when he was broke and that he was “used to sleeping in parking lots.”
Now he sells “Only tacos, tacos are really big,” adding, “We don’t even have big restaurants.”
The man said he started selling tacos at a gas station with his wife and another man.
He added: “Now we have five locations and I have between 85 and 100 employees.
“You just have to push hard and everything will happen automatically.”
He has been a business owner for ten years now and in his best year he earned $10 million (£7,860,300).
The man said he achieved this despite never going to college.
He added: “I didn’t go to university. If you really want to be a businessman, it is not a school to learn your business.
“How are you going to teach me when you’ve never owned a business before.
“You have to get up early, when no matter how much money you have, no matter how much business you have, you still have to work hard.”
On where his motivation came from, he said: “I think when you’re broke, you think differently.
“Because what are you going to lose?
“Like me, I wouldn’t lose anything if I tried anything.
“You know what I mean? I was already in the ground, so what else?
“Whatever you do, you just keep moving forward.”
You have to get up early, when no matter how much money you have, no matter how much business you have, you still have to work hard
Owner of a taco company
Other people the reporter spoke to in the video included a 70-year-old in a Lamborghini who had been a “business owner” in supply chain management for forty years.
The next one was a man in a G-Wagen, which can retail for more than £112,409.
He worked in private equity and said, “Nothing comes easy, nothing comes overnight and be patient.”
He added: “I think everyone these days is looking for a get-rich-quick scheme. You know?
“Just go to school, learn from someone.
“It’s all connected, right?
“Go learn from someone who has done it, but understand that as you learn, you are not going to create what that person has.
“And then take note and do it.”
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