Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field
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| Calculated Risk Taking Rich people are willing to take risks to increase their wealth. But they do not gamble or take chances. They practice a special form of risk avoidance in the pursuit of higher income. They reduce risk that is inherent in anything new or different by gathering more and more information from every possible source. Wealthy people are willing to move out of their comfort zones, to stretch themselves and try something new and different if that’s what is necessary to achieve greater financial rewards. Rich people are continually seeking opportunities where they can apply their intelligence and resources to create wealth in new and different ways. Rich people reduce investment risk by working with experts and by supervising their investments carefully. Once they have made the money, they are determined to hold onto it. Network Continually Rich people network continually. They are always looking for ways to broaden the number of their relationships with people whom they can help and who can help them. But as Baron de Rothschild once said, Make no useless acquaintances.” Rich people do not spend their time with people who are going nowhere with their lives. They seek out the most successful people in their community and their industry and look for ways to spend more time with them. They stay away from negative people, those who criticize, condemn, and complain. If they find themselves with someone who is grumbling about life or work, they politely excuse themselves and go away. Be a Joiner Do what rich people do. Join one or two business associations that are important or helpful for your field. Attend the meetings. Identify the most important committees, and volunteer to sit on one of them. The most important committees in any organization tend to attract the most important people within that industry. When you serve on these committees, you get an opportunity to meet and know these people in a neutral, nonthreatening environment. Ina way, you get to interview with these people and let them seethe kind of person you are by the quality of the contribution you make to your nonprofit organization. Download 0.86 Mb. Share with your friends:
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