Money chases excellence, not vice versa
When you're merely good you chase money, but when you become excellent, money chases you.
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Money Chases the Best, and Active Income Comes Before Passive | Ep. 377
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Jul 14, 2026
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Money chases excellence
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Leila wastes no time establishing the episode's spine: excellence is the engine of wealth, not the other way around [1] — Leila Hormozi "When you are merely good, you chase money. When you become excellent, money chases you. Obsession with your craft — not obsession with a pa…" . She rewinds to her days as a struggling personal trainer, watching colleagues field an endless stream of clients while she scrambled for work. A mentor's advice — 'focus on being the best and forget the rest' — reoriented her thinking entirely. Rather than hunting for clients, she asked herself how to build public, undeniable evidence of her skill [2] — Leila Hormozi "Leila competed in a fitness competition not for vanity, but as a deliberate strategy to build undeniable proof she was the best trainer ava…" 00:38 . Her answer was a fitness competition: a calculated move to demonstrate she didn't just help others lose weight, she had done it herself on the biggest stage she could find. The result was a client flood she couldn't even absorb. The lesson she draws is universal: money is attracted to value, excellence creates value, and the only sustainable path to wealth is to first find a game you're obsessed enough to win at.
Money Chases Excellence, Not the Other Way Around
When you are merely good, you chase money. When you become excellent, money chases you. Obsession with your craft — not obsession with a paycheck — is what actually builds wealth.
Personal trainer fitness competition strategy
Leila competed in a fitness competition to build public evidence of her excellence, which caused clients to flood in.
The Fitness Competition That Proved Her Point
Leila competed in a fitness competition not for vanity, but as a deliberate strategy to build undeniable proof she was the best trainer available. The result: more clients than she could take on.
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