MADE SOUTH

A family of small, Southern brands where hospitality is at the core of everything we create and do.

[MADE SOUTH @MadeSouth]

Hard to beat either of those cities. Water, food culture, history, Charleston and Savannah are both so great.

If I may, I’d lobby for Franklin, TN. Twenty minutes south of Nashville, tons of history, a charming downtown square, upcoming food/drink culture, plus I’d buy you your first coffee. 👊🏽

[MADE SOUTH @MadeSouth]

Absolute #LEGEND.

[Peg Leg Porker @PegLegPorker]

We don't alway answer @Yelp reviews but when we do, it looks something like this...

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@WrittenByJackie I experience this often. Why do you think that is?

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An absolute treasure trove of solid information here.

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

My notes from Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Munger turned into maxims:

1. Find a simple idea and take it seriously. 

2. Good ideas are rare. When you find one bet heavily. 

3. Humans have been writing down their best ideas for 5,000 years. Read them.

4. Avoiding stupid mistakes is more important than being smart.

5. Don’t work with anyone you don’t admire.

6. Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy.

7. Avoiding a bad habit is easier than breaking a bad habit.

8. Work on your best idea. Don't diversify

9. Incentives rule everything around you. Look for them. 

10. Great businesses are built by going ridiculously far in maximizing or minimizing one or a few things. Think Costco. 

11. Learning is changing behavior. 

12. Do the unpleasant tasks first.

13. Charlie has read hundreds of biographies. Do the same. 

14. Stop multitasking. Concentrate.

15. Many hard problems are solved best when approached backwards.

16. Think of ideas as tools. When a better tool comes along use it.

17. Clip your business and personal expenses. Small leaks sink big ships.

18. Make friends with smart dead people. Adam Smith, Darwin, Cicero, Ben Franklin —whoever interests you. Read their writing. Steal their ideas. They don’t need them anymore.

19. Don't confuse intelligence with invincibility.

20. Bad things will happen to you. It’s inevitable. When they do get up and keep going and remember the next maxim.

21. Self pity has no utility.  

22. Find out what you are best at. Then pound away at it. Forever.

23. Only plays games where you have an edge.

24. Avoid mob rule. Avoid demagogues. Avoid dogma. Avoid bureaucracy.

25. Optimize for independence.

25. Use money to buy freedom.

26. Develop durability.

27. What do you have an *intense* interest in? Do that for money.

28. Self improvement has no end.

[MADE SOUTH @MadeSouth]

I'm looking for three people who have an idea they'd like to quickly turn into a real business. I'm going to walk alongside you for 90 days (October through December) to help you turn your dream into reality. If you're interested, details below.
https://t.co/KKdKFrLf5v

[MADE SOUTH @MadeSouth]

My wife and I visited a tech school with our oldest child today. We all loved it. She’s excited, and we’re excited for her. She knows what she wants to do, and she has a low cost plan to get there. The program takes 14 months, after which she’ll be employed making a solid income as a 20 year old. With ZERO debt.

[Aidan @AidanBrands]

One of the greatest lies told to 20 year olds is that they'll need a flippin degree to make it in life.

[MADE SOUTH @MadeSouth]

Love this.

You have to start by thinking about the kind of lifestyle you want to have. Then think about creating a business that will help you design that lifestyle.

You don’t have to build a $100M company to gain time freedom, lower stress, and a higher quality of life.

[Justin Welsh @thejustinwelsh]

Solopreneurship is not about hacking the system.

It's about re-designing the system.

Flipping the script to create the kind of life you want with no outside approval or forced permission waiting.

[MADE SOUTH @MadeSouth]

10/10 would recommend.

[Pat Walls @thepatwalls]

This is going to sound kinda "woo woo" but...

The best morning routine is NOT ice bath, meditation, exercise, journaling, sunlight viewing, etc etc.

It's... Gratitude.

I feel compelled to tweet about this rn because it's REALLY improved my life.

And I hope it can help at least one person that reads this.

How I do it:

Every morning I count on my hand 5 things I'm grateful for.

That's it.

It literally takes 2 minutes.

I usually do it on the toilet.

It can be dumb stuff like "I'm grateful for the socks I'm wearing right now because they're keeping my feat warm."

Or, it could be more important things like the people in your life.

There are some scientific studies behind gratitude but I didn't read them.

What I do know is that it makes my days 5x better. More positive. More smiley. Less anxiety. Less scarcity mindset.

I also believe it's made me more successful, but that's not the goal with it.

Give it a try!

[MADE SOUTH @MadeSouth]

@thepatwalls Pat, Starter Story interviewed me a few years back about our cocktail mixer brand Eli Mason (https://t.co/PbwXNEXbTJ). It was a fantastic experience and I still have people who email me each week saying they found us on Starter Story. You’re doing great work.

[MADE SOUTH @MadeSouth]

@Chase_Steely

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How they speak to their spouse is also a great indicator.

[Justin Welsh @thejustinwelsh]

After 42 years on this earth I can say with 100% certainty that you shouldn’t do business with people who treat servers poorly.

It’s a sign of how they were raised and what your future relationship will look like.

[MADE SOUTH @MadeSouth]

@writes_eve Love stories like this!

[MADE SOUTH @MadeSouth]

I didn’t get an MBA. I didn’t even graduate college. But I did take some business classes while attempting college. And it wasn’t until many years later running my first small business when a lot of those concepts that were talked about in the classroom finally clicked. I’m not sure any traditional education can stand up to the real world experience of identifying and solving problems that are going to take money out of your pocket.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

Can anyone change my mind that running a small business won't teach you 10x more than an MBA?

[MADE SOUTH @MadeSouth]

“In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.” Proverbs 14:23

So many times I see it in life where someone has an idea or a dream for a small business, a way out of the 9-5 cubicle life that is slowing killing them. And they talk and dream, and dream and talk, and never actually take action.

I think I recognize it well because for many years of my life, this was me. All talk, no action.

Dreaming is awesome. Coming up with new ideas can be so energizing. But at some point, we have to take action. Make a plan, seek counsel, edit the plan, execute the plan. Time for talk is over. Now it’s time to do the work.

[MADE SOUTH @MadeSouth]

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

Plato

[MADE SOUTH @MadeSouth]

Amen and amen!!!

[Oliver Anthony Music @AintGottaDollar]

You weren’t born to just pay bills and die

[MADE SOUTH @MadeSouth]

May God bless Oliver Anthony.

[Jason Howerton @jason_howerton]

STOP what you’re doing and watch @AintGottaDollar’s first message on stage since his viral song…

With all the labels watching. POWERFUL 🙏🙏🙏

[MADE SOUTH @MadeSouth]

This is one of the few things I still enjoy about the Internet, the ability to spread a worthy idea, created by a genuine and raw talent, very quickly.

And shout out to Fudge Rounds.

https://t.co/ZnQdzjWahT

[MADE SOUTH @MadeSouth]

I laughed so hard at @williebosshog telling his story about meeting Bill Clinton! Hear the video episode at https://t.co/nMy7lWH8uB. #BillClinton