Name: Business (and Life) Advice From Dana White
Uploaded: 2023-12-11T14:00:23.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Business (and Life) Advice From Dana White' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-12-11. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Business (and Life) Advice From Dana White' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-12-11. Transcript available.

the thing is with me is i don't give a fuck i don't give a fuck yeah give a
shit what anybody
says or what anybody thinks i have this mindset i know exactly who the fuck i
am i have my
circle of people that i hang around with who know me and know what i'm about
and whatever
and uh anybody else who doesn't like it or doesn't want to be fucking bad okay
you find out who's
with you and who's not when the shit hits the fan yeah you know what i mean i
say this all the time
it happened with me and my my employees during covid right right in covid they're
laying people
off and whatever we didn't fucking lay anybody off didn't you negate some of
your salary or something
what'd you guys do no i said i would but okay i said we're gonna go through
this we're not laying
anybody off we're going through this yeah and um you know every christmas party
i get up on stage
and tell my fucking team how much i love them and how important they are to me
and then the scariest
time in our lifetime uh hits and i'm like hey i love you guys so much i'm gonna
fucking lay you
off some of you have been with me 10 15 20 years i'm one of these guys the
whole fucking ship goes
down together we're not at all we're all fucking sinking me included or we don't
at all you know
and and uh you know that doesn't exist in this world that we live in today
everybody's just so
easy to pull the trigger and let go of some of their people and no it's
something good i need to hear
that too you know i'm just as my business grows i've become more of a boss i
never wanted to be a boss
how do you do this how do you do this without these two i don't right but i all
right yeah and now that
you said how do these two do this without you right you're a fucking team i
think we've realized that
more this year i think but it's become a learning lesson for me as a boss you
know it's like you
think like i need to just hold on but you really need to let go and let others
help you're you're a
team you what you do is when you run a successful fucking business you do it by
building a really
around you yeah you know and uh i have you're lucky you have a lot of great
employees man i got the
best team in the world man i really do 150 un-fucking-believable people when i
said we're
fucking storming the beach we're going definitely dude nobody fucking said no
there is no experience
man when i go to the ufc fights it's like the whether it's the assistants or
your directors or um the guys
who are opening the cage door you look over and there's like some hero years
there's david spade
or there's mel gibson or there's joe burrow it's like you have all of just like
and it just feels
like you're in this fun fucking family that's a little bit mentally unhanced
right i'm not gonna say
that okay no you're not wrong yeah this family's not wrong yeah this family's
had some fucking
domestic disputes all right but they uh but it just dude it feels so much fun
when i leave the event
i miss that i miss the people that you work with just as much as i miss the
action that's awesome
i i love hearing that and and thank you and and you're not the first one to
tell me that everybody
tells me that anybody who interacts with anyone on my team and and everybody
here is is smart
hard working the best at what they do and there's no none of that bullshit you
know at the office
where there's all this backstabbing and fucking all this bullshit those type of
people we get rid of
immediately yeah you you don't last here being that kind of a person this is a
team this is a family
and uh we throw parties here all the time for all of our employees we throw
different types of
parties like parties for the for the employees where they can bring their their
spouse or their wife
or whatever then we throw parties where you can bring your kids because we want
their kids to come
and see the place where their parents work and they want them to feel you know
your parents are gone
at work all the time we want the kids to look at where they go to work as a fun
place as as a place
that's that that's cool oh mom and dad are at work we love going to their work
yeah you know what i
mean start a 37 pound weight class dude you know what i'm saying yeah i mean
that's that's out of
line because that's children fighting but um was it hard for you to learn to be
a boss as your business
crew like what was some of the because man even you just saying this in front
of us man it's important
for us to hear because i i need to do a better job of it you know and some of
that is just stuff i'm
learning as my business has grown in my responsibilities and not feeling like i
need to
really try to do everything myself you know i can be a better uh boss and
employee and and co-worker
a lot of times um it's just powerful you're saying that in front of us delegating
um yeah it's and
respecting people's ability to do stuff sometimes i'm just i was always so used
to doing things myself
growing up 100 you know i get listen i'm still as successful as this thing has
been and all the
stuff that we do i get here every day at nine o'clock and and i'm one of the
last guys to leave
this building every night still um was it hard to learn to be a boss like how
did you like have like
a role model with that or did you well i i had my own business before this but
you know i obviously
wasn't the difference the only difference in in coming to the ufc was you know
the size you know
being a global company and obviously the finance side i mean you know i went
from dealing with
hundreds of thousands of dollars to dealing with hundreds of millions of
dollars so that that's the
difference um but you know finance is not my thing we have a very strong
finance team and you know one
of the things i hated the most in in being in this business was budget meetings
man yeah we used to be in
budget meetings you know when we were getting murdered and we were losing money
we were in budget meetings
for it felt like days and uh that was the only not fun part of the business for
me and uh now where
we are now i only do the fun i only do the that i really love to do yeah and
and i stay completely
focused on which is making sure the production the live and in-house production
is perfect um
finding new talent uh putting on the best fights we can possibly put on and
star building those are those
are the things that i really focus on um so more more marketing i don't with
finances at all
yeah good yeah i mean just because you like to gamble you know and because i do
too man so
you know i i'm on some site now i can't even get my money out of the thing like
jesus dude
have you had trouble do you ever have trouble like i have trouble a lot of
times feeling proud of myself
as something i've had trouble with does has that ever been something you've
dealt with does that make
any sense when i ask you that i'm never proud of myself i i always look at
things like we're not
even close people ask me all the time do you ever look around and say oh wow
look at it nah i'm always
like what's next what's next what's next yeah why do you think that is do you
think because i'm that
way too it's hard for me to feel kind of where i'm at sometimes because i
always have some vision or
something you know that needs to be done yeah do you think that comes because i
notice it's a commonality
amongst some some folks do you think there's any have you able to get in touch
with any of that and
think about that at all i don't give a shit yeah i just keep fucking i just
keep plugging i just keep
plugging man there's just so much more work to be done i just want to do as
much as i can do
yeah until i can't do it anymore yeah
Thank you.