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Feb28
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That’s a fair question. Most days, I think if I can get home and buy my kids an ice cream treat on the way, I’m rich. Personally, I used to think a million dollars would be enough – enough for a lot of ice cream, anyway – but now I don’t think so. According to Calling All Bulls, there are 8,900,000 millionaires in the U.S. Wow!
In November 2005, MSN Money puplished a poll about how much it took to consider yourself rich, and 11,459 people responded. Here are the results:
3% $100,000 8% $500,000 19% $1,000,000 19% $2,000,000 25% $5,000,000 26% more than $5,000,000
More than half of the respondents thought it takes at least $5,000,000 to be rich. My grandfather said that if you ever get $5,000 in the bank you would be rich.
What is your magic number? Jim Rohn says we should earn all we can (and give away all we can). How much are you going for, and what are you doing to get it? And, the big question, why?
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Feb28
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Every thing must sell. Everything from your storefront, to your logo, to your opening line, to the clothes that you wear, must sell
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The Way to Wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the Way to Market
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Talent alone won’t sustain your career long-term, it takes enormous passion
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Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality
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Feb27
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Rendering more and better service than you are paid to render, doing it all the time and doing it with a pleasing, positive attitude
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It just seems we all ought to be able to come up with something of more substance in our work and in our tastes for entertainment
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In many ways, I was a small thinker, a five-gallon guy rather than a man who owned gas stations
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I get an intersting e-mail every so often from Ted Harris, Transamerica Investment Management, LLC. The newsletter is named Calling All Bulls, and it is four pages of always interesting facts. For example, from the February 2006 edition: Page 1IRAs...
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If we see someone who has what we want, we should emulate them
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Feb25
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I saw a commercial last night for Hershey's Special Dark and I thought, "now that looks good" but I remembered that chocolate is a no-no. Then the girl in the ad said something about "antioxidants" and I thought "now why...
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If you don't know about a potential tax break, you won't take it. Here are the deductions that a lot of taxpayers seem to forget
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Some edibles are especially good at protecting the brain’s delicate nerve cells and blood vessels from the damage that accompanies aging
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These healthy tips are from Kate Dailey at Men's Health. 6. Fight fire without water!Worried those wings will repeat on you tonight? "Sleep on your left side," says Anthony A. Star-poli, M.D., a New York City gastroenterologist and assistant professor of...
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Feb24
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These remarks are taken from Standing For Something by Gordon B. Hinckley. The subtitle is: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts And Homes. Optimism In The Face Of Cynicism A sustained diet of negative point of view has serious repercussions....
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Jim Rohn said that about books. He also said that either you are reading the books that will advance your career or you are not. It’s that simple. The problem with books is they are easy. Easy to get online,...
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Laughter helps you move away from anger and toward a positive closeness to other people, and positive social contact with others is essential for stress management
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Ignorance, erroneous belief, fear, pride and low self-esteem make it hard to ask for what we want
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Read, read, read, work, pray and reread - the alchemists motto, and a pretty good formula for your career
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Feb23
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Listen to Entrepreneur Magazine Sales Show
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Make your goals your own, what you want, not anyone else. Make your goals significant, more, say, than owning every song Roy Orbison released. Make your goals definite, more specific than “financially independent.” Make your goals difficult, so you will...
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“as far as I'm conceived this correction of short writty is the most wonderfoul larf I've ever ready.” John Lennon (about his first book, In His Own Write) Groucho Marx said, “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns...
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There are companies that slop around in the mud and filth, but don’t let it be yours
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Feb22
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Sometimes we get just a little too full of ourselves, and then lose sight of what we’re trying to do
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“A point in every direction is the same as no point at all.” So proclaims the Pointed Man in Harry Nilsson’s The Point. If we don’t have a single point in mind, a goal, an end result, we have no...
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Teamwork is better, being the boss is better, keeping a job is better, getting paid is better
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Control your destiny or somebody else will. Jack Welch We all must endure one of two pains: the pain of self-discipline or the pain of regret. Jim Rohn Either we discipline ourselves to achieve our self-chosen goals and ideals, or...
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Make intelligent decisions to protect your people and assets in an emergency
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Feb21
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What do I need and what do I need it for?
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Selling unsuitable products to men and women who are being trained in hand-to-hand combat and the use of deadly force is just plain stupid
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It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong - Longfellow
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If what you present is more than what you really are, you are likely to fail, and you won’t be happy doing it
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Stop long enough, now and again, to look, to listen, to touch, to taste, to remember
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Feb20
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A female coworker dropped her keys, and I handed them back, as anyone would. She looked me in the eye and said “thank you” like I had just jumped in the raging river to save her puppy. I’m sure one...
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I don’t know who thought that up, but it’s perfect. Too often our actions seem directly opposite of what we intend. In a Chris Browne Hägar cartoon, the boy asks his father: “Am I smart, dad?” Hägar says, “Are you...
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US airlines are losing 3.5 million pieces of luggage every year, the worst they’ve done since 1990. I’m no mathematician, but that’s gotta be close to 10,000 suitcases a day. Ten t-h-o-u-s-a-n-d unhappy customers every day. That means that about...
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John D. Rockefeller said, “I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” One of my favorite cartoons is the Wizard of Id by Johnny...
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Pauline Phillips (aka Abigail Van Buren as “Dear Abby”) once wrote, “If you can’t be beautiful (or handsome), be well groomed, tastefully attired, conscious of your posture, and keep a smile on your face. Be clean in body and mind. If...
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Feb17
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Here's my list: Chocolate. BBQ pizza. Ice cream. Biscuits and gravy. Sticky cinnamon pecan rolls. Braeburn apples. More chocolate. Hey, one out of seven ain’t bad. Here's an even better list (By Leslie Fink, MS, RD, and nutritionist and food editor for...
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We all know we’re supposed to drink plenty of water, eight glasses a day. It’s like that old “apple a day” thing. Everyone says it, not many do it. But drinking a lot of water seems to have a lot...
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In the long run, health overrides all else, and our commitment to maintaining good health is as vital as any endeavor
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Is what I’m doing today providing the best results for my company, for my family, for my future
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Keep visual motivations in front of you to stimulate your desire to achieve
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The bathroom mirror is my favorite place for mottos and quotations. My first was “four point oh or don’t go” back in 1980 when I started college (after finishing high school in 1974 with a 1.9 GPA, which they tell...
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Feb16
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Along with your goals, keep inspirational quotations where you can see them often
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Twenty-five messages into this project, it occurred to me that I’d better set some goals for what I want to accomplish. As I sat down with pen and paper, I was surprised and pleased to find a list of short-...
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Negative thinkers never do great things. Bill Francisco Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve. Gordon B. Hinckley The trouble with being in a rat race is that even if you win, you're still a...
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must must must go immediately when the light turns green, and if you say you will bail out employees who are arrested at work, do it
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Feb15
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I've read both books you mentioned, and can offer praise for both. In fact, I wish they were part of every student's reading list in middle school
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A story in the Washington Post earlier this month, Credit Card Sharks, compared credit card companies to loan sharks, and the loan sharks came out on top. Here are the highlights, and, for the curious, an provocative commentary by Starling Hunter. Loan...
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If you want to be rich, or successful, or happy, or healthy, find out what rich, successful, happy, healthy people do and do the same things.
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As a moral issue, I think the controversy itself is immoral, so I propose two solutions that have not been considered
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Feb14
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I came across DRFT Sports Training while researching Michael Jordan. The goal of DRFT – Dave Ruben Fitness Training – is to “improve the overall performance of athletes,” but this Athlete Note could just as easily be talking about you and your...
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Like you, I’m reading about people caught up in crime or scandal, and wonder how it happens. We all flirt with being less than honest sometimes, or settle for something outside our basic beliefs, and it just builds from there....
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Don't take stupid risks, become stronger, set frequent goals
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If you want to remember, write it down
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Feb13
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Where there is honesty, other virtues will follow
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Anytime anyone steals from the man who signs your paycheck, they are stealing from you
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The pain of discipline or the pain of regret
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Feb10
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"Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them." Stephen Covey "There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love to do,...
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Recognize patterns that lead to success, strive for stability, but recognize that instability will never go away completely
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Bikes are like business: they show where you are weak, they expose you to risk, they go fast or slow, easy or hard, and only work when you do
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Feb 9
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Confrontation conquers fear
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Think and talk about the things you want rather than the things you don’t want
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We love to hold on, even when we know it is holding us back
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Keep focused on the single thing that matters most.
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Feb 8
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I used to think I was stupid. Early in my college career, I turned in a paper – 10 pages on the Puritans – on which I worked very hard. The teacher read it to the class, and said, “this...
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“The only reason to be in business,” says Brian Tracy, “is to create and keep customers.” If you’re considering a tattoo, that would be a good tattoo. No matter what business you’re in, there are things you must do to...
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Our philosophies, as Jim Rohn says, govern our thinking, and of course, thinking controls our actions, and actions determine our success. For long-term success, in business relationships and in personal relationships, our actions must be based on sound principles and...
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The significance of constant self-improvement and of being true to core values.
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