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Speaker 1: buying low and selling high, which sounds logical, but it's wrong.

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Speaker 1: The people who build real, lasting wealth almost never take profits.

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Speaker 1: And it's not because they forget, it's not because they're greedy,

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Speaker 1: If they never take profits, how do they pay for anything?

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Speaker 1: That's the question. That question is the key to understanding

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Speaker 1: how the system actually works. So let's go Okay, So

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Speaker 1: everyone agrees on one rule of investing, which is the

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Speaker 1: you sell, Because when you exit an asset, three things

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Speaker 1: now shut off. The moment you exit the position, years

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Speaker 1: second is that you trigger taxes, and this is where

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Speaker 1: wealth that's sitting there, still sitting idle. It taxes movement.

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Speaker 1: So the moment that you convert an asset into cash,

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Speaker 1: now you don't just have less money working for you,

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Speaker 1: You see, the system doesn't reward income. It rewards collateral.

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Speaker 1: And that's the most important distinction that you have to understand.

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Speaker 1: I know sounds abstract. So let's break this down. If

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Speaker 1: But that assumption it's already wrong. The wealthy, they do neither.

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Speaker 1: And that's exactly why I'm hosting the Wealth Operating System

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Speaker 1: Everything we've talked about so far works with any appreciating asset.

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