Top 10 Movies for Entrepreneurs

if you would ask my friends were gonna watch movies with me to tell you one

thing

sixty percent of the time I walk out of the movie

I literally get up and walk out a movie I don't know anyone that walks out of

movies more than I do because I don't like to waste my time watching a movie

without a point to it and you can't keep my attention to be watching the movie is

kinda like reading a book for two hours

give me a message move me to tap into my emotions humor anger

laughter you know whatever I want I want to feel the pain i want to feel it right

and so I think the part of the entrepreneur that's got the creative

side were to bring always go and it's got the imagination you're always

thinking thinking thinking things movies helps a lot in tapping into that

imagination at least it does for me and I know a lot of other people that I've

had many many movie nights with people that I was measuring and building and

many many movie nights because we're going to sit there and I remember one

time movie came out is in my top 10 list

no but I think it's my top 100 this i am legend came out if you remember i am

legend a lot of people in all it's a terrible movie

terrible movie and I said what do you mean it's a terrible movie I think the

same 10 people that's a terrible we went to the movies to get us and I want you

to watch you seven different points

this means this that means this this mean i never thought about it as i said

i am a legend is the life of an entrepreneur work if you look at it from

the eyes of an object a life of not only that makes so much sense

so it's also known what point you're trying to get from the books that today

what I'm going to do is I'm going to cover with you top 10 movies for me as

an entrepreneur and why you ought to watch it and I'm going to make my points

for each one of them on why you want to watch it so number 10 for me as a social

network many of you have probably why social networks i may put it a little

bit higher than -

social network or tail tells a very very good story of Mark Zuckerberg who builds

facebook and when you're building facebook what things they went through

you know a college kid 18 years old

if you put your minds together what you're capable of building but it also

talks about the darker side ideas being stolen

somebody takes it away from you

it was somebody else's how do you protect the idea can you ever protect

your ideas someone can take it and make it better than you

what do you do with that do you need NDA's do you need NCS then when they

interviewed Zuckerberg and they said hey what did you think about the movie you

know what is best comeback was said you know the movie shoulders party a lot

more than we work as i remember party that much

I remember working a lot I remember working a lot another thing about the

movie of a social network that's very important Zuckerberg was not the

visionary October was a technician

he was the product guy but he was a visionary then showed up our sean parker

sean parker is the guy that started Napster Sean Parker comes and he says

this is not a million-dollar opportunity

this is a billion-dollar opportunity and Mark didn't see that

and then all of a sense to get this could be a billion opportunity then both

Facebook becomes what it is today being worth 200 200 300 billion dollar conform

billion dollar company and the stock keeps going up the broad Sheryl Sandberg

who figured out a way how to make money for the company on you know fan pages

and advertisement all this other stuff so I think this story there's a lot to

be learned from the story when you watch it as an entrepreneur also gives you a

lot of inspiration know you're not the only one that's going to craziness

number nine is not a movie it's a show it's a series i've never ever in my life

I've never I've never in my life ever watched any show from the beginning to

the end never but I had a friend of my car loss from Ohio is a Cleveland guy

who are him and my dad simultaneously within a minute or two they sent me a

text pad you gotta watch house of cards I'm like listen I'm not gonna watch

shows just watch house of cards i'm not gonna watch house of cards what are you

talking about

just watch house of cards i said okay i'll get to it every time

house of cards that kept coming up with everybody house of cards house across

now watch out watch shows I don't do any of that stuff so it's Saturday tomorrow

at one o'clock at Sunday

on a Saturday the next day i'm supposed to go to Italy

I got a flight to Tuscany I'm taking 40 50 of our friends we're gonna go to

Tuscany and God we rendered a 20,000 square-foot village gonna have a great

time together

okay great so on the way to the village before going to the middle of that night

i said i watch one of so might that contact just watch one episode ten

o'clock and i watch one episode

he watches to with me now at eleven o'clock he goes home

i watch all 13 episodes that night and go to sleep and I went on the flight to

Italy myself slept the entire way there and I think it's 12 or 13 episode

somebody's at 13 episodes are 13 of the first season

it teaches you the darker side of politics on what happens in politics but

there's a part of it that also has to do with business because in business

there's a lot of negotiations there's a lot of things that happens behind closed

doors that you know on the front end everything looks great oh my gosh

so good we're doing so well behind closed doors

I am I am fights all this crazy stuff that happens

power plays that people try to pin you in a corner and they try to do this and

all this other stuff I think there's a lot good to be alone there's a lot of

darker things in india in the house of cards said that doesn't necessarily

happen that dark and business it doesn't get bigger but not necessarily as you're

trying to get two million bucks or two million bucks but I think there's a lot

to be learned from house of cards when you watch it so that's number nine

number eight

Goodfellas let me tell you why I put number 8 as good fellows with Ray Liotta

and the nero and Pesci one of the things about Goodfellas is knowing that you

know sometimes someone could turn on you and don't let you change your values and

principles on what you believe in

stick to your values and principles but

no and study people's trends on how people's trends are will typically trust

trends

a lot of people coming from the papal your son have changed i want to do this

on the most loyal person i'm gonna be with

I trust trends more than I do words is what I do

so if you've got a friend or you got a partner you got somebody that's close

with you that there's trends of too many things that just seems like a little bit

of shyster little bit of a little bit of that this guy could turn on me

you need a little bit of paranoia with that there are certain people like seven

different bad things happen every time to scroll or disguise my back

these are solid trends I don't really worry about anything happening there but

this guy's got way too many trends

sometimes you need a little bit of paranoia with certain people not

everybody but certain people you need to trust your gut and your intuition as

you're building business

that's what Goodfellas tells me number seven is pursuit of happiness pursuit of

happiness is with will smith and his son right and a lot of pursuit of happiness

because pursuit of happiness a great story are Brax to riches you know you

can go up there and wrecks to riches and the one thing I love most

obviously he worked at morgan standing with her Chris Gardner I actually can we

put a picture of Chris Gardner night at one event

uh you know gentleman asked me to host it i think i hosted the event and I

brought up Chris Gardner and it was great introducing them and getting a

chance to speak to him and he ran a story because he's a Morgan standing

with God the things i love about grip the movie pursuit of happiness 'as a

single father who made it happen with no excuses but most importantly is the

efficiency of his time when he was making cold calls i did call calling for

a long time with my business and it was knowing that the most important skill

set you gotta run as an entrepreneur is selling and hustling

if you're not selling and hustling from five thirty in the morning till ten

o'clock 11 o'clock at night

did you gonna you're not it's you just decreasing your chance of making it

there's a certain level of a hustle that the entrepreneurs got to have and he

took it to the highest level and you know the story of what happens with him

and

business all that other stuff and now they do a movie about some pretty

phenomenal story so i reckon pursuit of happiness that touches on a lot of

different things number six is a movie i'll probably watch the most times in my

life because when I was in the Army we probably watch this movie two hundred

times and most people haven't seen this movie and some people will say is Tom

Cruise worst movie of all time and it's called cocktails cocktails to me was

phenomenal i mean i've seen cocktails

I don't know how many times we've come back from boot camp will not boot can we

come back from work from the motor pool we hit the gym Estep at fort campbell

kentucky hundreds airborne division would come back

put on a movie what you want to watch cocktails or roadhouse but typically

cocktails one and we watch cocktails and the great thing about cocktails is

here's a guy was a bartender was a dreamer

ok was a dreamer and events he's always reading books always reading books

always and this other guy who plays so well my gosh she's such a great actor

who is constant look at him there's this one scene where he spied him in jamaica

and the other guy the bartender's partner who takes a girl away from him

is at the bar and he's not with a rich girl which is what both that I wanted to

do and Tom Cruise the character date a girl who he falls in love with but

decides to leave her for another rich because you wanted to marry into a rich

girl but he didn't realize that that girl is richer than any of these other

girls and it's a very very good story of a guy that went from nothing and at the

end he starts his bar i think the cocktails and dreams or something like

that and just a lot of great lines it's a very emotional movie on the fact that

it becoming an entrepreneur is not about being a billionaire

son of a celebrity status it's not about you know having the cars i mean i bought

a Ferrari because i truly love

Enzo's mind I'm a visionary product today my wife and I were seen having

lunch at ph and we're debating over kid their kids name our daughters do today

today baby is due today

she's 40 weeks today my wife any point I can get a text or call and I gotta run

off and go to the hospital with her and we're seeing that we're going through

names for babies and she's telling me how you know this name I want to stay

because at this name

you know that person was this

and that presented this and i'm saying i want this one because this person do

this on a story behind it

I mean I respect and so for what he designed i want to Italy to his

headquarters in a three-time ferrari world champion drop me in the ferrari

458 italia and I 167 miles an hour and rain and a two-lane highway and

maranello and i said i want this thing but entrepreneurship is not about

wanting that thing

it's not just about the Ferrari or fifty thousand dollar watch are living in a

multi-million dollar has 10,000 that's fine but the story of an entrepreneur is

a guy that just says man i want to build my business

I want control I want happiness I want to make money i want to build my own

identity

I want to free this what I want to do and they do it and that's the story of

cocktails

it's a very you don't have to be a billionaire to be identified as an

entrepreneur you could simply run a bar that everybody in the community comes to

friday saturday

there's the same people that come because you do such a great job and you

make one twenty year but it's a restaurant the community knows about

that's what cocktails about love that movie number 5 number 5 is a casino

number five is casino and one of the things about casino is is important when

you watch the casino is knowing you know which bridges to burn and which bridges

not to burn casino is also about knowing that someone who was once your enemy

could now end up being your biggest ally and somebody who was your biggest friend

can now be end up becoming your biggest enemy

it also teaches you how to cross you not to cross it teaches you to know that if

you keep consistency and build a credit in the streets or in business of

delivering and being a leader you will generally be fine if you're the guy that

delivers on your promises and if you don't arm eventually no one trusts you

and you end up being alone hence you know how the movie ends

this is also Pesci movie and it's also De Niro movie see how the movie ends and

the Nero was a guy that was probably the most stand-up guy and he kept building

and somebody else wanted it faster wanted to power all this other stuff

it also talks about

choosing the right spouse choosing the right partner

you need somebody new corner and being a little bit more diligent about that than

just a fun part

sharon stone I think there's a lot of great messages and casino that anybody

can pick up as an entrepreneur number for let me know whenever force

number four is a movie that was a friend of my Steve event and told me to watch

many many years ago and i have heard about the movie but I never watch it's

called The Count of Monte Cristo and some of you may say so my gosh one of my

favorite movies count of Montecristo is a great movie because you know it's a

it's a story of the reason why this connects with me a lot and it resonates

with me a lot because I'm the guy that went from being a couple of my life was

a complete 180

no one believes my friends can't connect with me today because they don't

understand what the hell happened to Patrick David it's very difficult and I

don't try to put them in their face or say anything to them about my success I

don't ever bring up the top of money or any of this stuff that I mean when we

talk we just got how you doing what's happening with family because i made a

complete 180

i went from the guy that parents and stay away from 1.8 all this other stuff

trouble

chasing squirrels chasing girls it's all I wanted to do that was my priority from

morning till night I mean I club that went to bars I ipod good

it was so important to me till 21 22 and then all of a sudden one event that has

a heart attack

I read a book and I just completely flipped

I hit rock bottom girl left me crush my heart

nothing in the bank I'm alone in a corner in a while cry like a little baby

at 21 22

I've been hustling I've been doing everything I lost my identity and I said

I cannot stand this identity

I hate this identity I want to prove a point to myself that I have more to do

my life because I don't know why something in my belly tells me I'm

destined to do some special my life this was 21 22

I felt like this since I was a kid but this was the first time that there was a

purpose behind it and Count of Monte Crisco christos about a person

re-creating themselves is about how you recreate yourself into person that

nobody else recognizes and all of us and you become the guy that everybody

is listen to because your voice has become so big and people choose to want

to follow your voice not force as a dictator choose to want to follow your

voice because of what you're doing to people and how to completely change

yourself

that's what the movie is all about great movie

number four spot number three we get closer number one number three number

three is a movie

BYE MOM men who a lot of this guy's acting

there's a Washington to me as incredible as well as russell crowe to my favorite

guys in the same movie

you probably already know what movie this is American Gangster is purely and

entrepreneurs movie some of you guys may say about every single move your

recommended as a gangster movie or somebody getting killed

but I tell you why American Gangster number three American Gangster is a

story of distribution

American Gangster is a story of mentorship you remember the way the

movie starts

you know a frank lucas his mentor with somebody was shadowing and he wasn't

trying to overpower his mentor

one day his mentor at a furniture store dies and has a heart attack and the

legacy gets passed down to Frank Lucas and Frank made it even bigger

right now yes it was blue magic yes we're talking drugs yes it was something

terrible but take the concept of distribution

here's a mentor somebody you watched every move watch everything he's doing

every single think he's saying every single habit giving away turkey doing

this one are you watching every single thing you're watching your learning

you're seeing a fight that the guy that's a fighter streets respect he's

got street cred people respect to Scott I'm warning from this cat home now it's

my turn now what do you do with that luck is you're going to be arrogant

cocky thinking it's all about yourself and let that get your head

are you really gonna advance the slides in he gets to work and he becomes a

leader

the brothers following the cousins everybody comes and starts working for

him yes high standards

one time he slips with a standard the reason why I ended up costing his entire

business

where's to flash it with cody never wear flashy cuz you always said only the most

loudest person in a room so he goes to wear this flashy cause it's girls

started buying into the nice stuff

he made a mistake he can get his girl to realize it's not about all the nice

stuff only we got a state we got to stay strong got in bone

you got caught and the next thing you know

the rest is history what takes place and russell crowe comes into the questioning

and etc etc you know how this whole thing is nobody expected him to be the

main guy everybody pointed to Armando Santo asante who was the main put

everybody thought that was him but it wasn't it was him a african-american man

running the entire shop is what made it confused because you have to change

there's a scene at the end where they change it up

she's the main guy is the American Gangster at one point you have 275

million dollars of cash sitting around not checking account cash sitting around

talking are 75 million you can put money in banks anymore right

so he took it to a whole different level phenomenal movie i put that number three

spot if you haven't seen it it's a great movie to watch this is what number to

this is the all-time story

I think every entrepreneur has a certain feeling of an underdog on us if you come

from a lineage or your family's been into business and entrepreneurship and

they've done very well most entrepreneurs typically connect with the

underdog story right

no one believes you could do it no one believes you have what it takes no one

believes you have your smart enough no one believes you have a working you see

division you buying - you working are no one sees how are you working to getting

rejected rejected cheque knocked around knocking on losing losing losing losing

fail fail been a boom you got a victory and you know it took me ten thousand

hours to and you know 10 years to be an overnight success that whole story you

hear about well that's what ends up happening

and number two story is rocky number to a movie to me is rocky

preferably for me is rocky for but some like one two three

I mean I like 4i think five was also good with Tommy Morrison six was the

sense this most recent was kinda weird with Creed but you know you watch rocky

for it's a different story than you watch rocky one

rocky one shows when you coming up and you're hungry and you're going to the

pie you want to find a girl as well you find a gentle friend

you gonna fight that no one's expecting you do anything to draw an Iraqi to

comes and a 3 you going

facing someone like mr. T you know mr. t coming in a clubber lang and all this

other stuff he's doing and you know he calls your wife out and you you I'm a

better man a drink if you just fire right in a rocky for comes if you made

it

and now you have so much money so much car so much and then you're afraid of

losing it

you're afraid of losing it's no longer about the game of boxing it's no longer

about the fight is no longer about just what you love to be completely forgot

about the fact that you don't you love the game

now it's all about the money you forgot about the fact that everything you did

was the you know the the the South Park coming no one's expecting he's a fighter

you can knock them out he's got a strong job and in age and I'm afraid what you

afraid of I'm afraid I'm afraid but i can't be afraid you know everyone's

afraid not be

I'm afraid and then that whole scene by the water by that you know by the beach

look at this and he takes training seriously the rival kills his friend

Apollo Creed he comes here to see where his up the staircase and his wife's all

the way at the top and she's looking down and you know someone you know and

understand anything is like you can you want to die and he looks at us like my

life doesn't believe in me and he leaves it gets in a car i think the Black Lotus

I think it's a black lotus and then home

he's driving and there's the scenes of it's just like free membrane his friend

Paolo how we first came up and met these are moments that happened to me and it

happens on how many late-night drives have I had or have you had with you just

like over you doing this thing for from the beginning why and then you're

thinking we had nothing we had nothing going on and all of a sudden

why the hell are you taking it for granted cherish what you build bring

that hunger factor back now what happened

dig deep what is the next thing you're gonna fight for that's Rocky for you

Rocky is any anytime bone some happens right

number one I don't think there's a movie that's going to teach you more about

leadership

entrepreneurship running the shop running a business deal with conflicts

dealing with enemies dealing with competitors than Godfather

I just don't think there's any of it more than that and there's a lot of

stories and you know one is different and two and three and everybody says one

is the best or something like - I don't think too many people say three is the

best but it's typically what is typically I would say first one right

and and you you see what happens who comes into power and he didn't wanted he

fought it so much I don't want to be this I don't want to live this life I

don't want to be this and pull some happens to his dad and he takes it over

and he becomes three becomes any becomes better than his dad and his respect and

his brothers didn't seem as that and add the fat battle with the brothers and you

know the other scene with Andy Garcia coming up and and he becomes three

becomes and I'm just a big fan of andy garcia

it's just a very good movie Godfather is a very good movie you learn a lot of

different lessons and godfathers

you know it's a very very good movie for any entrepreneur to watch so i put that

at the top of my list and it's very hard to beat that movie . they're just a lot

of lessons in a movie

so look these are my 10 I don't know what your 10 / these are my 10 a matter

of fact I have a top 100 list have a top 100 list on my website that goes through

every book and every movie that is my top 100 list and it explains why i think

is my top 100 list and that is on my website Patrick david.com phone

go to that website see what the top 100 are and comment on the bottom

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