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Self-Discipline and Personal Excellence, Your biggest investment, Ordinary…
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Your biggest investment
Most people don’t realize this. They take their earning ability for granted. But it has taken you your entire life to develop your earning ability.
Every bit of education, experience, and hard work that you have invested in learning your craft and developing your skills has gone into building this asset
Your earning ability is very much like a muscle. It can increase in strength and power year by year as the result of regular exercise.
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An appreciating asset is something that grows in value and cash flow every year as the result of continual investment and improvement
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Make a decision
The starting point of your moving upward and onward toward becoming one of the most competent, most respected, and highest paid people in your field is simple: Make a decision!
You make a decision to take a particular job or start a particular career. You make a decision to invest your money in a particular way. And, especially, you make a decision to be the best in your field.
You have to make a firm, unequivocal decision that you are going to pay any price and go any distance in order to achieve the goals you have set for yourself
From that minute on, you resolve to continue working on yourself and your craft until you reach the top 20 percent—or beyond
Join the top 20 percent
The most interesting discovery in income inequality is that most millionaires, multimillionaires, and billionaires in America are first generation.
there is a high level of income mobility, which means you are able to move from the lower levels of income to the upper levels.
they began to do something different with their time and their lives, and as a result, they put themselves squarely onto the upward escalator of financial success.
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Follow the leaders, not the followers
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Your reference group is made of the people who you feel are “just like me.” Your natural tendency is to adopt the attitudes, styles of dress, opinions, and lifestyles of the people with whom you identify and associate most of the time.