Dave Bautista is a legend in the world of WWE, and recently shared some great advice he got along the way.
Speaking to School of Hard Knocks in a recent interview, Bautista was asked about his career. While dodging questions about the most amount of money he’s made in a year (it’s at least over $10 million), he was asked about advice. Bautista brought up some of the best advice a mentor, Triple H in this case, ever gave him.
“When I was wrestling I had a mentor named Triple H and there was a couple things he said to me that always stuck with me, and one of the things was when I was first got there, I was so afraid,” said Bautista. “I didn’t want to piss people off, it was a hierarchy thing. And I was so afraid of being disrespectful and pissing somebody off, and one day he said ‘Look man, you want to make money or you want to make friends?’
“He said, ‘This is a business, you got to look at it as a business. You’re a business,’ And so I always thought about myself as my own commodity. I am my brand, and so another thing he said was to just always imagine that everybody’s pointing a gun at your head. He said, ‘It’s up to you how many bullets you give them.'”
Bautista also got some great financial advice from another legend
Bautista also talked about some financial advice he got, and shouted out WWE legend The Undertaker for something he learned.
“Financial advice, the best advice that I ever got, which I always offer to, especially to professional athletes because a lot of professional athletes that grow up not really having much. So when you get all this money dumped on you, you just want to buy everything you can afford. The best advice that I ever got was actually from The Undertaker, another wrestler, he said ‘Always live beneath your means.’ I learned that the hard way. I came out of wrestling, I literally lost everything, my house got foreclosed on. But I had a second opportunity to be successful in the film industry. Now, that money in the bank means more to me than something that I don’t really need. I don’t need a Bugatti, I’d love to have a Bugatti, but I’m not paying $3-$5 million for a car because I don’t need one.”
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