The Strangest Secret

by Earl Nightingale

We become what we think about.

In the bible you read, in Mark 9:23, “if thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.”

Now it stands to reason that a person who is thinking about a concrete and worthwhile goal is going to reach it because that’s what he is thinking about and we become what we think about. Conversely, the man who has no goal, who doesn’t know where he is going and whose thoughts must therefore be thoughts of confusion and anxiety and fear and worry, becomes what he thinks about. His life becomes one of frustration, fear, anxiety and worry and if he thinks about nothing, he becomes nothing.

Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free: our mind, our soul, our body, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends.

Ours has been called the Phenobarbital Age, the age of ulcers and nervous breakdowns.

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts. He is where he is because that is exactly where he really wants to be, whether he’ll admit that or not.

To be successful in selling -- and remember that each of us succeeds to the extent of his ability to sale -- selling our families on our ideas, selling education in schools, selling our children on the advantages of living the good and honest life, selling our associates and employees on the importance of being exceptional people, to, of course, to the profession of selling itself.

No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others.

The computer has been called a high-speed moron. That is to say that, although the modern computer is among the most sophisticated electronic systems yet devised, it’s still severely limited in its abilities and it falls far short of the human brain.