Who Are You Taking Financial Advice From?

Who Are You Taking Financial Advice From?

Who Are You Taking Financial Advice From?

  • Faisal Sami

  • 6 minute read


Who Are You Taking Financial Advice From?

(And Why It Might Be Costing You Millions)


Table of Contents

  1. Introduction: The Problem No One Talks About

  2. Warren Buffett’s Warning to High-Income Professionals

  3. Why Your CPA, CFP, or Estate Attorney May Not Be Qualified to Advise You

  4. The Dangerous Illusion of "Smart" Financial Advice

  5. The Real Reason You’re Still Overpaying in Taxes

  6. What Wealthy Physicians Do Differently

  7. Tax Filing vs Tax Strategy: Know the Difference

  8. The Advice Gap: Experts in Forms vs Experts in Fortune

  9. Why You Need Millionaire Mentors, Not Just Credentialed Ones

  10. The SamiCapital Solution: Advice From Those Who’ve Done It

  11. How to Vet the People Giving You Advice

  12. A Better Financial Strategy for Physicians and Entrepreneurs

  13. Final Thoughts: It’s Time to Upgrade Your Financial Circle

  14. Book Your Strategic Tax & Wealth Session


1. Introduction: The Problem No One Talks About

Let’s cut to the chase.

You're earning high six figures or more as a physician or entrepreneur. You’ve got a team of "professionals"—a CPA, a financial advisor, maybe an estate attorney. You pay them thousands every year and assume they're guiding you toward wealth.

But have you ever stopped to ask yourself:

Are any of them actually wealthy?

Because if they’re not, what are you doing taking business, tax, and investment advice from them?


2. Warren Buffett’s Warning to High-Income Professionals

Warren Buffett once said:

"Wall Street is the only place that people in Rolls-Royces go to get advice from people who take the subway."

Think about that for a second.

Why are the richest, most successful people outsourcing their decision-making to people who haven't achieved anywhere near the financial success they want?

It’s the same story for physicians and entrepreneurs: you're taking advice from form-fillers, not fortune-builders.


3. Why Your CPA, CFP, or Estate Attorney May Not Be Qualified to Advise You

Let’s break it down:

  • Most CPAs are overworked, underpaid, and trained to prepare tax returns—not reduce your tax burden.

  • Most CFPs push retail investments that make them commission—not wealth-building strategies that make you money.

  • Most estate attorneys are document technicians, not strategic planners with generational wealth themselves.

They might be licensed. They might be compliant. But that doesn’t make them qualified to help you build wealth.


4. The Dangerous Illusion of "Smart" Financial Advice

You assume that because your advisor is well-spoken, wears a suit, and talks in tax code, they must know what they’re doing.

But behind the curtain?

Most financial professionals:

  • Don’t own real estate

  • Don’t run a business

  • Don’t know how to navigate a high-net-worth exit

  • Don’t use the advanced tax strategies they pitch

  • Aren’t even personally investing beyond a 401(k)

They’re employees. You’re an entrepreneur. You play different games with different rules.


5. The Real Reason You’re Still Overpaying in Taxes

It’s not because the tax code is unfair.

It’s because your CPA doesn’t know how to use it to your advantage.

The first line of the tax code says it clearly:

"This code is designed to help taxpayers reduce their taxes..."

But only if you use it proactively.

Your CPA’s job is compliance.
Your wealth requires strategy.

And strategy requires experience building wealth—not just filing paperwork.


6. What Wealthy Physicians Do Differently

The physicians who build real wealth don’t just rely on CPAs.

They work with:

  • Strategic tax planners

  • Family office coordinators

  • Entrepreneurial financial quarterbacks

  • Other millionaire physicians who’ve walked the path

They don’t take advice from the same people doing their neighbor’s TurboTax return.

They find mentors who’ve built 7–8-figure portfolios themselves—and replicate their systems.


7. Tax Filing vs Tax Strategy: Know the Difference

Let’s make the distinction clear:

Tax Filing = Historical.

  • Reporting what already happened.

  • Compliance-focused.

  • Often rushed during April madness.

Tax Strategy = Future-focused.

  • Planning before the year ends.

  • Using legal structures to reduce taxes.

  • Building a roadmap for your net worth.

If your CPA is just reacting to your numbers after the fact, you’re already too late.


8. The Advice Gap: Experts in Forms vs Experts in Fortune

Filing forms won’t make you rich.

Charging hourly fees doesn’t create wealth.

That’s why so many “advisors” are great at charging you $500/hour… and still worried about their retirement at 65.

You need guidance from someone who has:

✅ Built and sold a business
✅ Created wealth through tax optimization
✅ Navigated exits and legacy planning
✅ Protected assets through real-world legal structures

Not someone who just learned it from a CE course.


9. Why You Need Millionaire Mentors, Not Just Credentialed Ones

Credentials are great. But results matter more.

If you want to learn how to build a $5M net worth, ask someone who’s done it.

If you want to exit your practice tax-efficiently, talk to someone who’s sold one.

If you want to protect assets across generations, find someone already doing it.

Would you take surgical technique advice from someone who’s never stepped into an OR?

Then why would you take wealth advice from someone who’s never built wealth?


10. The SamiCapital Solution: Advice From Those Who’ve Done It

At SamiCapital, we don’t just provide theory.

We built, scaled, and sold a multi-7-figure medical practice ourselves.

We’ve used the very same strategies we now deliver to clients:

  • Advanced entity structuring

  • Strategic tax planning

  • Real estate investing

  • Asset protection trusts

  • Virtual family office services

  • Multi-generational estate planning

  • Roll-up exits and valuation arbitrage

We’ve walked the walk. Now we help other high-income professionals do the same.


11. How to Vet the People Giving You Advice

Here’s a checklist to apply to every financial or tax advisor you’re working with:

✅ Do they own multiple businesses or properties?
✅ Have they created 7 or 8 figures in personal net worth?
✅ Do they actively use the strategies they’re pitching you?
✅ Can they show you client case studies and before/after results?
✅ Are they incentivized by your success—or their billable hours?

If the answer is “no” to most of these… it’s time to upgrade your team.


12. A Better Financial Strategy for Physicians and Entrepreneurs

If you’re making $500K+, here’s what you need to get serious about:

  • Tax planning that begins in Q1, not April

  • Entity structure that matches your income strategy

  • Asset protection that shields you from lawsuits and probate

  • Strategic investments that go beyond retail funds

  • A dashboard that lets you see all of it in one place

  • Advisors who think like entrepreneurs—not employees

We help our clients build this entire system from Day 1.

And we do it with 100% deductible fees, ROI-focused strategy, and results that can often save you six figures a year.


13. Final Thoughts: It’s Time to Upgrade Your Financial Circle

The biggest mistake high-income professionals make isn’t overspending—it’s listening to the wrong people.

Warren Buffett was right.

You’re driving the Rolls-Royce, but taking advice from people riding the subway.

Enough.

It’s time to take advice from someone who’s been in your shoes and made it out the other side.

Build a better team. Build a better future. It starts with one strategy call.


14. Book Your Strategic Tax & Wealth Session

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✅ We’ll show you how much you're overpaying in taxes
✅ We’ll map out a personalized, tax-deductible wealth-building plan
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