Your first step in taking responsibility is to quit blaming others and quit blaming the world.
An upset is our maker’s way of telling us that we need to learn something. It is a tap on our shoulder saying, ‘Pay attention. You have something important to learn. If you lie, blame, justify, or deny the upset, you waste the upset and will waste a precious gem of wisdom...
Poor people have poor habits.
Believe in yourself, and start today!
Without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.
Financially, with every dollar we get in our hands, we hold the power to choose our future: to be rich, poor, or middle class.
Having no money should not be an excuse to not learn.
Invest first in education. In reality, the only real asset you have is your mind, the most powerful tool we have dominion over.
The sophisticated investor’s first question is: “How fast do I get my money back?
A truly intelligent person welcomes new ideas, for new ideas can add to the synergy of other accumulated ideas.
Money is only an idea. If you want more money, simply change your thinking.
A problem with school is that you often become what you study. So if you study cooking, you become a chef. If you study the law, you become an attorney, and a study of auto mechanics makes you a mechanic. The mistake in becoming what you study is that too many people forget to mind their own business. They spend their lives minding someone else’s business and making that person rich.
Confronting fear, weaknesses, and neediness by choosing our own thoughts is the way out.
Be careful what you learn, because your mind is so powerful that you become what you put in your head.
Soon there will be such a horrifying gap between the rich and the poor that chaos will break out and another great civilization will collapse.
Employees earn and get taxed, and they try to live on what is left. A corporation earns, spends everything it can, and is taxed on anything that is left. It’s one of the biggest legal tax loopholes that the rich use.
It was not until the Industrial Age, that a new demand began growing: the demand for employees. In response, the government took over the task of mass education, adopting the Prussian system, which is what most Western school systems in the world are still modeled after today.
The world is filled with talented poor people. All too often, they’re poor or struggle financially or earn less than they are capable of, not because of what they know, but because of what they do not know. They focus on perfecting their skills at building a better hamburger rather than the skills of selling and delivering the hamburger. Maybe McDonald’s does not make the best hamburger, but they are the best at selling and delivering a basic average burger.
People think that working hard for money and then buying things that make them look rich will make them rich. In most cases it doesn’t. It only makes them more tired. They call it ‘Keeping up with the Joneses.’ And if you notice, the Joneses are exhausted.
There are business and investment opportunities coming that will create bigger fortunes than the automobile did for Henry Ford, oil did for John D. Rockefeller, computers did for Bill Gates, and the Internet did for the young founders of Yahoo, Google, and Facebook.