Rich people think BIG. Poor people think small.
T. HARV EKERRich people think BIG. Poor people think small.
T. HARV EKERThink of yourself as a container for wealth. If your container is small and your money is big, what’s going to happen? You will lose it. Your container will overflow and the excess money will spill out all over the place. You simply cannot have more money than the container.
T. HARV EKERRich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn’t occur again.
T. HARV EKERI took his suggestion to heart and went from a “know-it-all” to a “learn-it-all.”
T. HARV EKERThe world doesn’t need more people playing small. It’s time to stop hiding out and start stepping out. It’s time to stop needing and start leading. It’s time to start sharing your gifts instead of hoarding them or pretending they don’t exist. It’s time you started playing the game of life in a “big” way.
T. HARV EKERLet go of the emotion and drama you create when you don’t get what you want. Just stay present and handle one situation at a time with an open mind and an open heart.
T. HARV EKERThe biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you’ll only achieve small things.
T. HARV EKERThe first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment.
T. HARV EKERYour programming leads to your thoughts; your thoughts lead to your feelings; your feelings lead to your actions; your actions leads to your results. Therefore, just as is done with a personal computer, by changing your programming, you take the first essential step to changing your results.
T. HARV EKERThey back away from challenges. Ironically, they back themselves into the biggest problem of all … being broke, or close to it.
T. HARV EKERRich 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.”
T. HARV EKERBecoming rich isn’t as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.
T. HARV EKERIf you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
T. HARV EKERNobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!
T. HARV EKERRich 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.
T. HARV EKERI have found that the richest people I know are also the nicest.
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