thank you thank you for being here I
have some good news for you more people
are going to make more money in the next
few years that have been made in all of
human history in the year 1900 there
were 5000 millionaires in America in the
year 2000 there were 5 million
millionaires as an increase of 1,000
times now there was a lovely knopf in
2001-2002 in the last two years the
number of millionaires has jumped 33%
its jumped to 8.2 million millionaires
in America and virtually all of them are
self-made which means they started
without without without a pot to you
know what in or a window to throw it out
of and they've made it in one generation
when we look at the wealthiest people in
America today Warren Buffett Michael
Dell of course Bill Gates Paul Allen and
the walton family all first generation
multi billionaires we have a 12 trillion
dollar economy today that is growing at
the rate of five to six hundred billion
dollars a year and all that money is
going through somebody's fingers and
your job is to make sure it goes through
yours and some of it sticks is that a
good goal for today and my job is to
show you how to do it the good news is
that all the answers have been found
self-made millionaires have been studied
exhaustively they've been analyzed
they've been interviewed by the hundreds
of thousands and millions and what we
know is exactly who they are and what
they do and how they think and how they
tick and the decisions they make and the
things that they do and they don't do
and the wonderful thing is is that you
do what other successful people do you
eventually get the same result that they
do now some people say well I started
off without any money and I you know I
don't have any money now well join the
crowd nobody's got any money most people
are broke up into their 40s and 50s so
if you're broke today you're just one of
the gang the only question is do you say
that and the answer is no now when I
started off in in this many years ago I
came from very poor beginnings I did not
graduate from high school I finished in
the half of the class that makes the top
half possible when I left school I had
dropped out of high school I could only
get laboring jobs I was told by the way
if you don't get a good education you
won't do well in life don't get good
grades you won't get a good job don't go
to college you won't do well and so on
and I believe that for a long time until
I found this hundreds of thousands and
millions of people who dropped out of
high school who went on
become millionaires and billionaires as
well the reason I say that to you by the
way is don't let it hold you back don't
let any experience that you've ever had
in your life act as a brake on your
potential because there's hundreds of
thousands of people have had it worse
than you could ever dream up who've gone
on to accomplish wonderful things so I
worked at laboring jobs for several
years I worked in construction I worked
on farms and ranches I work in factories
putting nuts on bolts hour after hour
and one day in a state of frustration I
began asking this question why is it
that some people are more successful
than others
now in the Bible there's the line that
says seek and ye shall find for all who
seek findeth ask and the door will be
open so I began asking other successful
people what are you doing differently
from me and they told me and I did it
and I got better results I got into
sales when I could no longer get a
laboring job like many of you and in
sales I noticed that one of the guys in
my company is making 10 times as much as
anybody else and he was selling the same
product out of the same office at the
same price to the same people under the
same conditions and he was making 10
times as much as anybody else I went and
asked him what are you doing differently
for me and he told me and I did it now
what I discovered which changed my life
and which brought us here today is I
discovered the law of cause and effect
but law of cause and effect sowing and
reaping action and reaction are the
great is the great universal or iron law
of the universe what it says is that
everything happens for a reason
is that there are no causeless effects
is that even if we don't know what is
causing the effect we trace it back it's
the basis of the scientific process of
all medical research of all marketing of
all business is if you can define and
effect that you want you can trace it
back and find somebody who at one time
did not have that effect and then find
out what they did and then do the same
things and you eventually get the same
results we say that success is not an
accident failure is not an accident
success le's tracks so if you just
follow the tracks of other successful
people no matter where you're starting
from you eventually get to the same
place that they get well this this was a
shocker for me because and I learned
later in psychology by the way that one
of the the two most important things
need to have to be happy and healthy is
a sense of control a feeling that we are
in control of our lives that things are
happening for a reason in a sense of
coherence a feeling that things fit
together well when I realized the law of
cause and effect explained everything
I got a WoW so in sales I went to the
top of my sales force I read I learned
attended courses and especially I
applied what I learned in the one I got
into sales management
I again read the books and took the
courses and asked for advice and when I
got into real estate and importation and
development and manufacturing
distribution in a whole series of
businesses over the years the first
thing I did is I asked how does it work
how do people succeed in this field and
then I buried myself and immerse myself
I spent hours and hours and hours
studying and then I did but the most
successful people did interesting point
we say that nature is neutral in other
words nature doesn't care who you are
doesn't care if you're taller shorter
male or female or black or white
educated or uneducated nature doesn't
care all that nature cares is that you
do what successful people do is I'm
making a recipe make sure doesn't care
you follow a recipe if you follow the
recipe exactly you get the dish nature
doesn't care who's doing it and that's
the wonderful thing about our society
it's basically like justice is blind
his nature doesn't care in fact there
are a lot of people who are not as smart
and not as talented as you who are doing
vastly better than you not because
they're better but because they're just
following proven success methods there's
nothing it will make you matter than to
see somebody who's dumber than you who's
making more money than you all right oh
yeah that experience so what we do is we
use proven success methods we just find
out what they are and we do them over
and over again quick point nothing works
the first time okay please understand
that nothing works the first time what
is the average number of times that a
person tries with the new goal before
they give up can you guess well the
average is less than one because most
people give up before they try even once
they say that's a great goal I'd love to
be financially independent and then they
give up they don't even try to say ah
but I couldn't because of this and
because of that and so on and then they
move away to a wonderful place called
Sunday I'll ever heard of someday I'll
some day I'll start saving money some
day I'll get out of debt
some day I'll lose weight some day I'll
start a business someday I'll get
serious about my finances and mow
people live on Sunday I your job and my
job is to vote yourself off the island
right and we start taking control of our
lives
well about Tom some years ago I was
called by a major businessman and he
asked me if I would do a talk for his
800 entrepreneurs that own separate
franchises within his organization on
how to become a self-made millionaire
and I said sure when you're a young
speaker you agree to speak on any
subject sure I'll speak on that subject
and I was just like most people when I
was young I wanted to be a millionaire
by the time I was thirty and when I hit
thirty I put it off to 35 and as I got
to 35 you put it off to 40 and then you
kind of just don't look at it anymore
you forget about it and feel the deck is
stacked against you well I was about 38
39 when he called me up and asked me I
said sure no problem and I said now what
do I know about self-made millionaires
and this is a shocker I didn't know
anything oh I knew that they had more
than a million dollars but that's a real
basic piece of knowledge you know so I
started thinking I think what do I know
about so I began to study them and
that's when I found out that they've
been studied so thoroughly it's we know
everything there is to know about them
they are a source of incredible
fascination and there's 50 years of
research so I began to read the studies
and find out where they came from and
what they did and how they thought and
where they started in the decisions they
made and the kind of people they were
one of the things that I learned by the
way is that becoming a self-made
millionaire is not the important thing
what is really important is the person
you have to become to become a self-made
millionaire you have to become a totally
different human being my friend said one
of my friends says that in order to be
to achieve something you've never
achieved before you have to become
someone you've never been before and
it's a really important insight is the
qualities that you need to develop
equalities on the inside to become a
self-made millionaire are incredible
qualities that make you a vastly better
person not only better in terms of
character determination
discipline decision-making strength and
so on but they make you a far better
person they round out your character in
a far better way so that through the
real payoff of becoming wealth wealthy
is not because you could eat more
because how many more meals can you eat
how many more clothes can you wear
because it's the kind of person that you
become and then the kind of person
people
to associate the kind of life that you
have and so the things that we're going
to talk about now and I know that you're
some of the smartest people in our
country so I'm going to give you these
ideas very quickly like dealing cards
what I found in my research is that
there's a series of qualities that
self-made millionaires have if you have
these qualities your success is
virtually guaranteed and if you don't
have these qualities the qualities are
learn about point number one is that all
business or sales skills are learn about
all financial skills are learn about if
you can drive a car you can learn any
skill if you can drive a car you can
learn this skill now number two is
you're probably only one skill away from
doubling your income right now you're
probably only one skill away from
setting yourself on the road to becoming
a self-made millionaire that turns out
to be the case for almost everyone and
if you don't know what that skill is
maybe over the course of the time we
spend together it'll jump out at you but
whatever it is you've got to find it out
and go to work on it because it is learn
about it's a learn about skill people
say well I don't mean I've never been
very good with money well get over it
fact of the matter is you can learn what
you need to learn to achieve anything
that you want to achieve so the success
secrets of self-made millionaires give
yourself a score of one to ten and if
you are weak on one of these it can be
enough to hold you back if you're strong
on all of these then there's no limit to
what you can accomplish the first is to
dream big dreams dream big dreams
practice what is called back from the
future thinking and project forward
develop a vision of yourself as happy
healthy wealthy thin practice what top
people practice which is what is called
idealization you project forward several
years and needs to imagine that your
life is perfect in every way imagine
that you have no limitations imagine
that you have all the time and all the
money and all the friends and all the
contacts and all the education all the
experience and that you could be or have
or do anything you want in life if you
could what would it be if your life were
perfect in five years what would it look
like how much would you be earning how
much would you be worth what kind of a
family life would you have what kind of
health would you have what kind of car
would you be driving what would your
life be like if you could wave a magic
wand and make it
perfect in every way now what we have
found is this is the starting point of
great riches and it's the starting point
of great success in life is for you to
have a dream or a vision of a wonderful
future here's an exercise that we give
people in our audiences is take a sheet
of paper and make up what is called a
dream list now imagine this is kind of
like a kid's Christmas list and that it
just allows you to just run wild and
just write down everything that you
could think of that you could possibly
want I had a friend who I taught this to
and he got so excited about he bought a
spiral notebook and he began writing and
he go through the newspaper and every
single thing he saw in the newspaper
that was nice he wrote it down his goal
he ended up first time through with
three hundred and thirty goals with the
end of the month he had five hundred
things that he wanted the interesting
thing was that his life exploded he
activated the law of attraction and he
began to attract into his life people
circumstances ideas resources
insights this began to move him toward
the accomplishment of the goals and
began to move the goals toward him
number two is to do what you love to do
whenever you find people who are really
successful in life there are people who
do what they love to do they they love
their work the great rule for success in
life is to find something that you love
to do and then find a way to make a
living doing it now when you find what
you love to do it'll be something that
gives you energy it motivates you it is
thews as you it's probably something
that you are meant to do from the time
you were born and when you asked
self-made millionaires what sort of work
do you do they'll often say I never
worked a day in my life I just do what I
like to do I had a graduate of my course
once who came up to me he said you know
that's interesting he said when I was a
little boy I loved to study airplanes he
said I got an airplane books and I had
airplane models and I had their toy
planes and then and then I got into
competitions with the remote-controlled
planes he said when I grew up and went
to school I studied aeronautical
engineering
he said today's that I'm 30
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