(This article is part of The Better Andhra’s ‘Read & Grow’ initiative that will be published every Saturday)
#01
Rich people believe “I create my life.”
Poor people believe “Life happens to me.”
#01
Rich people believe “I create my life.”
Poor people believe “Life happens to me.”
- Money is extremely important in the areas in which it works, and extremely unimportant in the areas in which it doesn’t.
- When you are complaining, you become a living, breathing “crap magnet.”
- There is no such thing as a really rich victim!
#02
Rich people play the money game to win.
Poor people play the money game to not lose.
- If your goal is to be comfortable, chances are you’ll never get rich. But if your goal is to be rich, chances are you’ll end up mighty comfortable.
#03
Rich people are committed to being rich.
Poor people want to be rich.
- The number one reason most people don’t get what they want is that they don’t know what they want.
- If you are not fully, totally, and truly committed to creating wealth, chances are you won’t.
#04
Rich people think big.
Poor people think small.
- The Law of Income: You will be paid in direct proportion to the value you deliver according to the marketplace.
#05
Rich people focus on opportunities.
Poor people focus on obstacles.
#06
Rich people admire other rich and successful people.
Poor people resent rich and successful people.
#07
Rich people associate with positive, successful people.
Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people.
#08
Rich people are willing to promote themselves and their value.
Poor people think negatively about selling and promotion.
- Leaders earn a heck of a lot more money than followers!
#09
Rich people are bigger than their problems.
Poor people are smaller than their problems.
- The secret to success is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than any problem.
- If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!
#10
Rich people are excellent receivers.
Poor people are poor receivers.
- If you say you’re worthy, you are. If you say you’re not worthy, you’re not. Either way you will live into your story.
- For every giver there must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver.
- Money will only make you more of what you already are.
- How you do anything is how you do everything.
#11
Rich people choose to get paid based on results.
Poor people choose to get paid based on time.
- There’s nothing wrong with getting a steady paycheck, unless it interferes with your ability to earn what you’re worth. There’s the rub. It usually does.
- Never have a ceiling on your income.
#12
Rich people think “both.”
Poor people think “either/or.”
- Rich people believe “You can have your cake and eat it too.”
- Middle-class people believe “Cake is too rich, so I’ll only have a little piece.”
- Poor people don’t believe they deserve cake, so they order a doughnut, focus on the hole, and wonder why they have “nothing.”
#13
Rich people focus on their net worth.
Poor people focus on their working income.
- The true measure of wealth is net worth, not working income.
- Where attention goes, energy flows and results show.
#14
Rich people manage their money well.
Poor people mismanage their money well.
- Until you show you can handle what you’ve got, you won’t get any more!
- The habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.
- Either you control money, or it will control you.
#15
Rich people have their money work hard for them.
Poor people work hard for their money.
- Rich people see every dollar as a “seed” that can be planted to earn a hundred more dollars, which can then be replanted to earn a thousand more dollars.
#16
Rich people act in spite of fear.
Poor people let fear stop them.
- Action is the “bridge” between the inner world and the outer world.
- A true warrior can “tame the cobra of fear.”
- It is not necessary to try to get rid of fear in order to succeed.
- If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.
- The only time you are actually growing is when you are uncomfortable.
- Training and managing your own mind is the most important skill you could ever own, in terms of both happiness and success.
#17
Rich people constantly learn and grow.
Poor people think they already know.
- You can be right or you can be rich, but you can’t be both.
- Every master was once a disaster.
- To get paid the best, you must be the best.
(Source: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker)