The Game with Alex Hormozi

If You Want To Have $100K Saved, Do This | Ep 956

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Mar 26, 2026
A practical roadmap to hitting your first $100K in savings. It dives into cutting living costs, reclaiming wasted hours, and choosing skills people already pay for. It also explores focused learning, using money for leverage, and avoiding lifestyle inflation so cash can actually stack up.
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INSIGHT

Why The First 100K Feels Richest

  • Alex Hormozi says $100,000 in cash felt richer than later eight-figure wins because it removed survival pressure.
  • He links real wealth to not worrying about rent, groceries, bills, or tomorrow, which finally enables long-term thinking.
ADVICE

Cut Expenses Hard To Buy More Runway

  • Cut living costs to the bone so you create cash flow and can reinvest in skills instead of consuming everything you earn.
  • Alex Hormozi recommends no eating out, no new clothes, cheap shared housing, and ideally a paid-off clunker.
ANECDOTE

Alex Hormozi Split A Bedroom To Save Cash

  • Alex Hormozi lived with extreme frugality while starting out, even splitting a bedroom and paying only a few hundred dollars monthly.
  • He jokes that he and his roommate stared at each other each night and says a fan helped drown out noise.
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