Best Tom Vu Informercial Quote

Oh, crap! Options two and ten were partially cut-off.

Option two is, in full: "A lot of your friends will tell you, 'Don't come to the seminar. It's a get-rich-quick plan.' Well, tell them, it is a get-rich-quick plan because life is too short to get rich slow."

Option ten is, in full: "At first I got lots of discouragement from friends and stranger who are loser! You know what these people kept telling me? They kept saying, 'Well Tom Vu, you a crazy nut, here you are, a poor immigrant, poor minority, speak no English, no contact, on and on, and you trying to be rich in America! You crazy, man! Look at people out there! They smarter than you are, they not even rich! Who are you to try?' And you know what? I have to keep telling these people every time, I kept saying, 'You are loser! Get out of my way! I make it somehow!'"

These infomercials are seared into the memory of my childhood. I watched them -- on fuzzy UFH channels, late at night -- and felt like they floated in from another planet.

"I will not tolerate other immigrants."

What are these three little words? "Eat More Fibre"?

The "I will not tolerate other immigrants" line is the one quote I found that I don't actually remember from the infomercials. Sounds like something he would say, tho. BTW, Wiki indicates that, after his informercial career, Vu went on to win 1.3M in poker-tournaments!

my fave is not here--

"WHY ARE YOU POOR? STUPID PEOPLE ARE POOR!"

i think the three words are probably something like buy cheap property or buy foreclosed homes

What are these three little words?

The "Three Little Words" were -- wait for it -- "Don’t Give Up!" Profound!

Also, Vu's sure-fire money making technique has surprising relevance in today's distressed real estate market!

Vu’s main strategy was to “control,” rather than own, real estate. So you would go out looking for distressed properties, (foreclosures and such) and offer to buy these houses at incredible discounts. He claimed to never offer more than 50% of market value, but said it would depend on whether it was a buyer’s or a seller’s market how much your discounted offer would be.

The desperate owner would be happy to just get out of the property without ruining his credit, so he takes your offer happily. In your offer, you write that the agreement is between the seller and you “or assigns”. Then you offer ten bucks as a down payment to make the contract legal (”exchange of consideration”). Your closing date is a couple of months hence. In addition, you tack on a whole pile of whim-and-fancy clauses, such as “this deal is subject to the final inspection and approval of the buyer before closing.”

During the time before closing, you find a buyer to assign your interest in the contract to. Selling the place will be easy, since after all, you got it at a huge discount in the first place. You walk away at closing with a hefty profit. Unlike the vast majority of seminar attendees, I actually tried for a long time to do this in my neck of the woods, British Columbia, Canada. I failed miserably. I encountered the following realities:

1. Even with distressed properties, offering to buy a property that far below market value was a joke (I was trying 80%). I was laughed out of most negotiations…

2. Many of these properties were over financed, and even if they weren’t, there was no desperate bank mandate to unload these non performing assets at all costs. Generally, even in foreclosure sales, the owner or later, the bank, wanted fair market value.

3. Whim-and-fancy clauses were not acceptable to anyone I dealt with.

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but this one is also just great:
This is not a country club! This is my house!

It's that last one that was always my favorite, because it's got what made Vu the best of these guys: there's a truth in what he's saying. The thing is though that it's his truth, not something he can actually give to you at a seminar: he was going to get ahead one way or the other. Even if these friends telling him "you'll never make it!" are figures of rhetorical fancy, he sounds like they're voices he really heard from somewhere. And they kind of made him angry. "Get out of my way! I make it somehow!" --fuckin', get 'em Tom V. I feel you even if you are kinda corrupt and evil.

Tom Vu, a favorite for Donut Bitch and I when creating KUCI promos.

"KUCI -- you deserve to be broke!"

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"Get out of my way! I make it somehow!" --fuckin', get 'em Tom V. I feel you even if you are kinda corrupt and evil.

^^^what I love best about J0hn

Wish I could find an online video/link to Hello the Band's "Town to Town" right now...

Haha. "Look at your friends. They are losers!" Get out of my way, losers!

Best use of a Tom Vu infomercial in a different context:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhoQcxem7qY&feature=PlayList&p=26278D7BE2F99835&index=3

still classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahUSgSyCIqc

It's that last one that was always my favorite, because it's got what made Vu the best of these guys: there's a truth in what he's saying. The thing is though that it's his truth, not something he can actually give to you at a seminar: he was going to get ahead one way or the other. Even if these friends telling him "you'll never make it!" are figures of rhetorical fancy, he sounds like they're voices he really heard from somewhere. And they kind of made him angry. "Get out of my way! I make it somehow!" --fuckin', get 'em Tom V. I feel you even if you are kinda corrupt and evil.

one of my favorite posts of all-time. fuckin' a, get 'em Tom V.