Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field
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| Starting with Nothing In fact, today, new immigrants to the United States are four times more likely to become millionaires than are native-born Americans who have lost sight of the key to becoming rich Find a need and fill it. Steve Siebold, author of the book How Rich People Think, said, If you want to make a lot of money, find a big problem that a lot of people have, and solve it in anew way.” This is your key to wealth creation as well. And there is no other way to become truly wealthy except by supplying others with what they want and need and are willing to pay for. Develop Rich Habits In the simplest terms, rich people have rich habits, and poor people have poor habits. Mary Kay Ash, an amazing self-made millionaire, used to motivate her distributors by saying, “Don’t get the rabbit habit think mink.” Rich people think mink in every area of their lives. I remember when I was in my thirties, still broke and struggling, working hard and making little progress, I enrolled in an executive MBA program at the local university. One evening, when I arrived for classes, a local well-known entrepreneur, wealthy and successful, pulled into the parking space next tome driving a silver-gray 450 SEL Mercedes-Benz. I got out of my old Volvo and just stood there staring at his car. The driver looked at me, looked at my car, and then looked back at his car. He then smiled, waved, and walked off to class. At that moment, I decided I was going to do whatever was necessary to become wealthy enough to be able to drive a big, beautiful, expensive Mercedes-Benz like that. I looked into the car and saw it had blue leather upholstery, and I made a mental note of that as I walked away. Think Rich From that moment onward, I began to think rich. I began to read two or three hours a day about the habits and behaviors of wealthy people. I got another job and then abetter job. I took on more responsibility and moved up. I worked longer hours, sometimes twelve hours per day, and generated more and more money for my employer, some of which he paid out tome in the form of bonuses and profit sharing. Within thirty-six months, I walked into the Mercedes-Benz dealership, traded in my car, laid my money down, and drove out in a silver-gray 450 SEL Mercedes-Benz with blue leather upholstery. It was one of the great moments of my life. Download 0.86 Mb. Share with your friends:
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