“Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.”
~ Walt Disney
It’s a brisk, breezy and clear morning here on St. Thomas, clearing out the clouds to provide a perfect photo for the ultra clear message I’m about to deliver from ….
Yesterday morning, I read only 3 paragraphs of “Think and Grow Rich”. The words contained within this short section of Napoleon Hill’s book I feel are profoundly important. The words cannot be summarized, so I will provide them here for you in their entirety, breaking the paragraphs out into sentences, so you can contemplate each and every word. When you read them, think of the story I’ve told you of my own life.
Do you feel that it “takes money to make money”? You are wrong. And if you do believe this, and want to change your life for the better, this post is for you !!
Napoleon Hill writes:
Some people foolishly believe that only money can make money. This is not true !!
Desire, transmuted into it’s monetary equivalent through the principles in this book is the way money is “made”.
Money, of itself, is nothing but inert matter.
It cannot move, think or talk, but it can “hear” when someone who desires it calls it to come!
Intelligent planning is essential in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.
Following are detailed instructions to those who must begin the accumulation of riches by selling personal services.
It should encourage you to know that practically all the great fortunes began either from selling personal services or from the sale of ideas.
When you think about it, what else – except ideas and personal services – can you give in return for riches IF you don’t have products or property ??
POWERFUL STUFF !!!!
This makes me think of a quote by the great Donald Trump …
“There are only two ways in this world which one get’s wealthy: You are either born rich, or you must incur debt.”
Trump began his career at his father’s company,Elizabeth Trump and Son,which focused on middle-class rental housing in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. One of Trump’s first projects, while he was still in college, was the revitalization of the foreclosed Swifton Village apartment complex in Cincinnati, Ohio, which his father had purchased for $5.7 million in 1962. Trump became intimately involved in the project and with a $500,000 investment, turned the 1200-unit complex with a 66 percent vacancy rate to 100 percent occupancy within two years. In 1972 the Trump Organization sold Swifton Village for $6.75 million, more than 10x his initial investment.
In 1971, Trump moved to Manhattan and became involved in larger building projects and utilized attractive architectural design to win public recognition. He made plans to acquire and develop the old Penn Central for $60 million with no money down.
And incur debt he did, declaring bankruptcy some 4 or more times. Reworking and reworking his plans, calling in experts when he had to. Buying and selling real estate until he has become one of the wealthiest men in America.
Since 2011, his net worth has been estimated from $2.9 billion to $7 billion. Remember, Trump began $500,000 in debt. But an idea, desire and a plan he had !
