Kubrick was well known for his perfectionism in directing his movies.  He read 500 books on Napoleon for a movie on the French Emperor he never actually got to make.  Most famously, Kubrick often demanded dozens of retakes of scenes from his actors.  In particular, Kubrick’s movie The Shining gave rise to the legend of Kubrick as a megalomaniac perfectionist.  Reportedly, he demanded hundreds of re-takes of scenes.  In The Shining Kubrick had Jack Nicholson do 100 retakes of one scene.  Another scene from the movie took nearly a year to complete.  In Eyes Wide Shut Kubrick had Tom Cruise do so many scene re-takes and made the experience so stressful for the actor that Cruise developed an ulcer.

Kubrick was also known as being very thrifty, even cheap, while making his movies.  He kept the number of people on-set required for filming to a minimum to keep expenses as low as possible.

Kubrick’s thrift and reputation for making box successes bought him the budget he wanted and therefore all the time he needed to make exactly the kind of movies he wanted to make without compromise.  His perfectionism coupled with his thriftiness allowed Kubrick to pick only the very best of the best of takes from scenes.  Consequently, he’s considered one of the greatest directors of all time.

In the same way, a new real estate professional’s most valuable asset is time.  Most full-time newbies don’t have a pension to pay all the bills or come from a single income household.  Many aren’t living with parents anymore either.  So they only have a finite amount of time to start making money in this business or else get forced to find a job with a steady paycheck.  This is probably the biggest reason why the vast majority of new real estate professionals fail at the business in their first 2 years.  They just haven’t budgeted enough time to learn the business, make mistakes, and develop the personal qualities necessary for bringing home a steady income purely through their own efforts.

The reason for this is most people are basically self-indulgent.  It almost seems like it’s an instinct with most people to spend their money as soon as they get it.  They rent homes they can ill afford, lavish themselves in luxuries only their credit cards can pay for, and think nothing of taking expensive vacations whenever their job allows them to.  Such people really limit the amount of time they can afford to make it in this business or any other entrepreneurial venture by the lifestyles they live: always living at or beyond their means.