The Millionaire Mind

You cannot enjoy life if you are addicted to consumption and the use of credit

For the large majority, “developing a strong work ethic” was an influence. Nearly all of the millionaires rated this experience as influencing them to become economically productive adults.

People who have built up immunity to pain

No matter how gifted you are analytically, you will not become successful unless you publish. And to publish, you must work hard at writing about creative and innovative ideas.

Read Sternberg’s Successful Intelligence. Use it as a template for achieving your goals. Remember what he says. If you love your job and the topics you will write about, you’re very likely to succeed. But you must work hard and use your creative and analytical intellect. Do you know how he has published more than six hundred publications? He wrote six hundred articles. Think a lot about your choice of topics, work hard, do much research, write often. If you do, you will succeed.

To become wealthy one must be disciplined in thought and deed, disciplined enough to search for great economic opportunities.

A person with self-discipline possesses an internal compass, a control and navigational system. Self-discipline means that you make course changes or corrections only when they will be productive in reaching your goals.

The difference in this fellow before and after the night he spent with death all around him was the same except for one factor—he now was committed to becoming disciplined

It is hard to overemphasize the importance of discipline in accounting for variations in economic success. But let me say that if you lack discipline, the chances of your ever accumulating wealth are very, very small. Yes, you can win the lotto. But in most cases, you have a better chance of contracting leprosy!

A disciplined person sets his or her sights on a lofty target, then figures out productive ways to reach the target.