Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field

of person that you must become in order to become a millionaire that is even more important. Then, even if you lose all your money, you can earn it all back again because now you are the kind of person who knows how to make this kind of money.”
Mike Todd, the film producer and husband of Elizabeth Taylor, once lost all his money on a big production and went broke. It was in the newspapers, and many of his friends laughed at him behind his back.
One of them asked him, Mike, how does it feel to be poor?”
Mike Todd replied with these classic words. He said, “I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.”
He then went back to work on his next project, which was successful,
and in a couple of years he was rich again.
Nature Is Neutral
The Law of Cause and Effect, the great law of the universe, says that if you think and act like wealthy people, you soon become one of them. And if you don’t, you won’t.
Nature is neutral. Nature is like the statue of justice, with a blindfold.
Nature plays no favorites. As Goethe said, Nature understands no jesting;
she is always true, always serious, always severe she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. The man incapable of appreciating her she despises and only to the apt, the pure, and the true,
does she resign herself, and reveal her secrets.”
Fortunately, your mind is the one thing in the universe over which you have complete control, and that’s all you need to get started.
Something-for-Something Thinking Versus Something-for-Nothing
Thinking
This is a major difference in the thinking styles of rich people versus poor people. Rich people are always looking for ways to create value, to develop and produce products and services that enrich and enhance the lives and work of other people.

They are always willing to put in before they takeout. They do not believe in easy money or something for nothing. Rich people believe that you have to justly earn and pay for, in terms of toil and treasure, any rewards and riches that you desire.
Poor people lack this fundamental understanding, the direct relationship between what you put in and what you get out. They are always seeking to get something for nothing or for as little as possible. They want success without achievement, riches without labor, money without effort, and fame without talent.
Poor people gamble, buy lottery tickets, come to work at the last possible moment, waste time while they are there, and then leave work at the first possible minute. They lineup by the hundreds and thousands to audition for programs like American Idol, thinking that they can become rich and famous without ever having paid the price necessary to develop the level of talent and ability that enables them to rise above their competitors.
One of the great secrets of becoming wealthy is to always do more than you are paid for. If you do, you will always be paid more than you’re getting today. And there is no other way.
Go the extra mile. Be willing to put in far more than you are taking out.
There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile.

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