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[@girdley](/creator/twitter/girdley)
"Is it time to resurrect Traditional Men's Clubs Seating area. Quiet. Newspapers. Waiters. Dress code. No electronics. Bar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1978992729746030858) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-17T01:13Z 240.5K followers, 490.7K engagements


"Early in my career I did a stint at a cybersecurity vendor. The result of seeing how the sausage was made I don't have any cameras smart home or smart speakers in our house. If it can be analog we do it. Later in my career I've gotten to know a ton of people. The result There is zero chance I'm letting a humanoid robot in my home near my kitchen full of sharp knives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1983521687212597357) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-29T13:09Z 240.5K followers, 15.6K engagements


"If you're into luxury watches: Why When did you get into them (Please also let me know your age range.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1979958112737276061) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-19T17:09Z 240.5K followers, 39.6K engagements


"About a decade ago I spoke to a pretty successful founder. It was a closed-door thing so the guy was candid. He knew luck played a huge factor in his life-changing outcome. "I was at the right place at the right time near the right people" he said. He knew he wasn't supposed to say it because people wanted to hear it was all because of hard work grit and skill. But while that stuff was necessary fortune plays a massive part in making any fortune"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1981713957086695558) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-24T13:26Z 240.5K followers, 49.4K engagements


"There is a small business equivalent of "Don't fight the Fed." (This phrase basically says investors shouldn't go against what the Federal Reserve wants to do as they manage the cost of money.) Anyway -- The Feds also make policy that can and will affect your small business. Right now they want (a) things to be built in the USA (b) more entrepreneurship (c) capital to be more expensive and (d) the labor market to be tighter. It's not a secret. Just read things like the Big Beautiful Bill or watch the Fed's actions. In the end you can either fight them (and get headwinds) or go with them (and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1983539972545126520) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-29T14:22Z 240.5K followers, 4179 engagements


"@ankurnagpal The irony is we shouldnt be betting on this shit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1983271439152115854) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-28T20:35Z 240.5K followers, XXX engagements


"My life advice is to avoid any job where youre on your laptop in the lodge on a Saturday while your kids are skiing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1983534423426601346) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-29T14:00Z 240.5K followers, 59K engagements


"PRO TIP: When talking to your Canadian friends refer to their country as "Really North Dakota." They love it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1983543466471698762) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-29T14:36Z 240.5K followers, 5090 engagements


"@calleymeans @heychriscurtis @CocaCola Bottlers retailers and Coca Cola Inc (syrup) all need to be included in your figure I think"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1608659830805499906) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2022-12-30T03:02Z 240.4K followers, 5297 engagements


"Ive watched my friends make $1000000s. The secret Investing in ways only business owners can. X unconventional ways they did it:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1656634256716894208) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2023-05-11T12:16Z 240.5K followers, 867.7K engagements


"If youre a starting entrepreneur your first business should cash flow. Then you can go big. A particular type of small business is perfect for this: Nice Life Businesses. Here are my favorite X examples of them:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1692872806239961572) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2023-08-19T12:15Z 240.5K followers, 1.3M engagements


"What company is simultaneously the most profitable and the most hated Ill go first: Oracle software. Everyone buys it. Everyone hates them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1779483493925605525) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2024-04-14T12:15Z 240.5K followers, 257.3K engagements


"Every once in awhile I run into a seemingly high-performing person with a XXX% full voicemail inbox. And it's confusing as hell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1956430703127904509) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-08-15T19:00Z 240.5K followers, 65.1K engagements


"I dont know who needs to hear this but we need to build a ton more houses or we risk Gen Z checking out from life. Just so many young people think its not even worth trying for the American Dream. When the mean house price is over $400k we got a problem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1972738156928946276) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-09-29T19:00Z 240.5K followers, 254.5K engagements


"All middle-aged men should go on annual guys-only trips with friends. It's essential for a healthy balanced life. If you don't go on one organize it yourself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1973361002491289810) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-01T12:15Z 240.5K followers, 89.4K engagements


"A friend went to his CEO to complain about another executive. My friend said "This guy is so difficult to work with. He doesn't listen and I don't respect him." The CEO leaned in and took a deep breath. "Here's the first thing you should know. Feelings like this They are always mutual" he said. As I've watched humans working together over the years the CEO is right. Until proven otherwise assume how you feel about someone else is how they think of you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1980635223588237772) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-21T14:00Z 240.5K followers, 105.6K engagements


"@katieeperry Or hear me out do the greatest meme merger ever: Bed Bath and Beyond Meat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1981052732841566505) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-22T17:39Z 240.4K followers, 1799 engagements


"It's called the "OpCo / PropCo" structure. Your business is the Operating Corporation (the "OpCo"). You buy the real estate via a "Property Corporation" you create. OpCo rents your business real estate from PropCo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1981435485181604276) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-23T19:00Z 240.5K followers, XXX engagements


"Why this way IRS Sec1202/QSBS means that you often want your new OpCo to be a C-Corp if you think you'll someday sell. (QSBS says you as an investor of a C-Corp get the first $10mm or 10x capital gains tax-free at the sale.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1981435498318221511) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-23T19:00Z 240.5K followers, XXX engagements


"Third you limit liability. Let's say you expand to multiple locations. Someone trips and sues you at one location. You get sued and lose. This isolates your other real estate from those plaintiffs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1981435592933322966) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-23T19:00Z 240.5K followers, XXX engagements


"Fourth this can save you on taxes. For some of the federal payroll taxes there is no limit on the amount of payroll that would be subject to taxes if you pay yourself a big bonus. Also if you go to sell your property and it was in c-corp it's subject to double taxation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1981435605122007083) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-23T19:00Z 240.5K followers, XXX engagements


"From creating revolutionary cars like the 240Z to hitting over X% market share in the United States by the 2010s. Today Nissan motor sales are down 40%. It's bleeding cash and investors are concerned it may not survive. This is a video about the rise and fall of Nissan Motors and what we as business owners can learn from this story"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1981753763154264504) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-24T16:04Z 240.5K followers, 5773 engagements


"Businesses must resist the urge to be preachy. After decades of every movie needing "messages" at the expense of story the nuts discourse on socialand the never-ending hot takes in traditional media. Americans are exhausted. People are hungry for escapes from it all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1982249733448949924) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-26T00:55Z 240.5K followers, 7408 engagements


"My hot take on paying off low-rate mortgages: XXXX% of the people talking about this issue so much could 10x any potential savings if they spent that time on a side hustle. The same goes for the never-ending rent vs buy arguments here. People love to organize their nickels when they should be hunting dollar bills"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1982539524745142554) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-26T20:07Z 240.5K followers, 53.7K engagements


"@EllliotttB Working on a tiny development project in a tiny municipality. They brought X people to a plan review. Cost them more in that one hour than our entire project budget"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1983270088271880473) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-28T20:30Z 240.5K followers, XXX engagements


"On our podcast @acquanon we see this often: A retiring person owns a business worth $750k. But they used that business years ago to own real estate worth $5mm today. This is how to set it up. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1981435473164980634) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-23T19:00Z 240.5K followers, 17.7K engagements


"Circuit City went from a single TV store founded in 1949 in Richmond Virginia to an absolute behemoth in the world of electronics and home appliances. By the year 2000 they were operating hundreds of stores doing $XX billion in sales. During the 1980s they were the highest-performing stock in the entire stock market with their stock going up over XX times during that period. But fast forward a few years later in the late 2000s the chain suddenly and quickly declared bankruptcy. Hundreds of stores closed and tens of thousands of people lost their jobs. This video is the story of the rise and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1983143450062016746) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-28T12:06Z 240.5K followers, 44.4K engagements


"@resetbasis @PerrySolem Turkey shoot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/girdley/status/1983588190649745418) [@girdley](/creator/x/girdley) 2025-10-29T17:34Z 240.5K followers, XX engagements