48 Laws of Hustling-" Don't Be A Statistic"

48 LAWS OF

HUSTLING

Don’t be a Statistic

By: Ricky St. Julien II

Copyright © 2014 by Ricky St. Julien, II.

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First print 2017 June

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DEDICATION

I first thank God Almighty for protecting me through all obstacles and helping me to submit to my higher self-consciousness to complete this book.

Special thanks to everyone who supported me on my journey to success including Crystell Publications for assisting me in the revision, production and distribution of 48 Laws of Hustling while I was still incarcerated with a limited amount of resources.

I dedicate this book to the next generation that is expected to become a statistic. Let’s prove them wrong!!!

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

1 LAW ONE

Never get High off Your Own Supply

2 LAW TWO

Never Shit Where You Sleep

3 LAW THREE

Watch how You Talk on The Phone

4 LAW FOUR

The Game is to be Sold not Told

5 LAW FIVE

Business is Between Those who do it

6 LAW SIX

Keep Your Mistress Out Your Business

7 LAW SEVEN

Never Sell Dope out Your Baby Mama’s House

8 LAW EIGHT

Don’t Ride Dirty

9 LAW NINE

Stand Behind Your Product

10 LAW TEN

Don’t Vouch for Anyone but Yourself

11 LAW ELEVEN

Avoid Doing Business With Family

12 LAW TWELVE

Never Outshine The Master

13 LAW THIRTEEN

Don’t Mix Business With Pleasure

14 LAW FOURTEEN

Protect Yourself and Your Investment

15 LAW FIFTEEN

Don’t get Caught (By all Means)

16 LAW SIXTEEN

Never loan out What You Need Right Back

17 LAW SEVENTEEN

Stay Low Key

18 LAW EIGHTEEN

Keep an Alias

19 LAW NINETEEN

Learn To Negotiate

20 LAW TWENTY

Don’t put all of Your Eggs in one Basket

21 LAW TWENTY-ONE

If it Ain’t Broke Don’t fix It

22 LAW TWENTY- TWO

Stay up but Stage Your Fall

23 LAW TWENTY-THREE

Keep Squares in Your Corner, but out Your Circle

24 LAW TWENTY-FOUR

Keep Your Word

25 LAW TWENTY-FIVE

Your Only Friend is The Dollar

26 LAW TWENTY-SIX

Don’t Just Wish. Make a Plan

27 LAW TWENTY-SEVEN

Set Goals and Remake Them

28 LAW TWENTY-EIGHT

Grind Like There’s No Tomorrow

29 LAW TWENTY-NINE

Stay Motivated

30 LAW THIRTY

Know who You are Dealing With

31 LAW THIRTY-ONE

Earn Your Respect

32 LAW THIRTY-TWO

Lead by Example

33 LAW THIRTY-THREE

Be Powerful Through Presence

34 LAW THIRTY-FOUR

Trust Nobody

35 LAW THIRTY-FIVE

Move Around

36 LAW THIRTY-SIX

Don’t Send Your Plug With the Money

37 LAW THIRTY-SEVEN

Don’t Front What You Can’t Cover

38 LAW THIRTY-EIGHT

Don’t Bite The Hand That Feeds You

39 LAW THIRTY-NINE

Chase The Money not The Lifestyle

40 LAW FORTY

Don’t Become Too Isolated

41 LAW FORTY-ONE

Put Up for a Rainy Day

42 LAW FORTY-TWO

Snitches get Stitches

43 LAW FORTY-THREE

Make Your Rules Clear From The Start

44 LAW FORTY-FOUR

Never Forget Where You Come From

45 LAW FORTY-FIVE

Try to Keep Your Hands Clean

46 LAW FORTY-SIX

Know The Law Before You Break It

47 LAW FORTY-SEVEN

Fear is Stronger Than Love

48 LAW FORTY-EIGHT

Turn Your Dirty Money Clean

49 LAW FORTY-NINE (BONUS CHAPTER)

Get a Job!

A Note From The Author

There are well over 1.5 million people behind bars in the United States. This represents the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world. Prison, no longer just a place for criminals it is now a place of Big Pimpin. Good Business, profits and losses and good old American investing.

Communication companies are even gouging prisoners with exorbitant phone calling rates, often six times the normal long distance charge. One of the fastest growing sectors of the prison is private corrections companies. Prison owners are making billions by cutting corners which harm prisoners. Substandard diets, extreme overcrowding, and abuses by poorly trained personnel can often be expected. Prisoners can be forced to work for pennies because they have no rights.

Even the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery, excludes prisoners from its protections. The moral of the story is as with anything, its business. At the end of the day crime really does pay, but not always for the one who commits it. Prisons are not reducing crime, but they are fracturing already vulnerable families and communities.

I wrote this book 48 Laws of Hustling - Don't Be A Statistic to point out many of the mistakes that hustlers make leading to being arrested in hopes that the reader will not fall victim to becoming a prisoner or statistic. I sincerely thank you for purchasing this book and I thank everyone who takes the time out to read, it or share the information enclosed.

Best Wishes,

PROLOGUE

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics and a January, 2014 Huffington Post Black Voices article, One in every three black males born today can expect to go to prison at some point in their life, compared with one in every six Latino males, and one in every 17 white males, IF current incarceration trends continue. As the author of this book I strongly encourage men of minority to break this trend by becoming aware of the 48 Laws of Hustling.

The war on drugs has been waged primarily in communities of color where people of color are more likely to receive higher sentences for the same offenses. One out of nine African American men will be incarcerated between the ages of 20-34. Black males 30-34 have the highest incarceration rate of any race or ethnicity according to an America Community Survey.

The leading cause of incarceration of an African American male is a non-violent drug offense. (Statistics of incarcerated African-American males from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Statistics show that the cost of supporting a prisoner is more costly because that person isn’t productively contributing to the economy. A man who serves ten years of his life in prison will cost society $216,240 just for the cost of his incarceration, but that same man earning an annual salary of $15,000 would, over a 45 year working life, contribute $675,000 to the gross national product. There are more black men in the United States today in prison than there are enrolled in four year colleges. (Data from Statistical Abstract of the United States 1989)

I ask that while reading this book that you receive the information herein with an open-mind. While some subjects and chapters may pertain to you, there is a chance that others will not. No matter what walk of life you come from or the choice of your profession, there is something within the contents of this book that you can apply to your life rather you recognize your source of income as a hustle or not.

You will notice that every chapter begins with a quote from the book of the Bible. Many critics may condemn me for doing that after reading the following context which in no way represents or depicts any form of theology. The 48 Laws of Hustling is not a religious based book or was in no way written to exemplify ANY form of religion. However, I quote the Bible for the purpose of explaining the basic fundamentals of hustling. Fundamentals are the origin and basic doctrine for gain.

The fundamentals for success are the same from biblical times still to this present day and are governed by the laws of the universe serving as a solid foundation with no regards towards any race, religion, sex, color, or creed. Just as much as the Bible is considered the sovereign book for Christians, the 48 Laws of Hustling is the supreme repository of knowledge for hustlers, business men and entrepreneurs with common goals and interest. Contrary to what many may think, it’s not hard to succeed and overcome negative statistics. It’s just hard for some of us to follow these basic fundamentals that you are about to read!

LAW #1

NEVER GET HIGH OFF

YOUR OWN SUPPLY

Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. 1 Peter 5:8

Of course everybody doesn't follow the rules, but the 1st law of this book is just as old as the game of hustling itself. You might recall the scene in the movie, Scarface, when Frank gives Tony Montana the game and tells him not to get high off his own supply. Needless to say, Frank was higher than a giraffe’s pussy as he explained the rules.

Likewise, Tony also began using his own supply during the course of the movie which also led to his downfall along with some pretty action-filled events. I always wondered how the movie would’ve turned out with a sober Tony Montana. Had not Tony been snorting cocaine he probably would have made better decisions and could have avoided going to war with the drug lord Sosa. Sosa told Tony not to ever fuck him. Unfortunately, Tony wasn’t focused because he was using his own supply.

In previous years, I’ve seen many hustlers not only ruin their life, but spend their wheels hustling just to support their drug habit. They initially got in the game to make thousands of dollars and over the years, they looked back at their life only to see that they spent thousands of dollars getting high. At one point during my earlier days of experimenting within the drug industry, I tried to obey Law #1 by substituting what I sold by getting high off of a different drug. For example, when I was selling regular weed, instead of smoking it, I would smoke hydroponic weed. When I sold blow, instead of using it, I took Ecstasy. I felt that as long as I wasn’t using the drug I was selling, I was obeying the rules, focused, and saving money.

In reality,