The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime

by M.J. DeMarco

When I started my entrepreneurial career fresh out of college, I trusted everyone. I bought all kinds of crazy schemes that promised wealth. What happens when you trust everyone? You get burned. You get lazy. You hire criminals. When you trust everyone, you chase business opportunities that violate the Commandment of Control. Others get to dictate your financial road trip. And when that happens, you crash and burn. There is only one person you can blindly trust in this world, and that is YOU. Why so cynical? If you don’t understand now, you will later. When you serve millions, you come in contact with millions. Only then will you understand the truth of the consumer/producer equation. Your eyes will be opened to how many people will go the extra mile to try to screw you. There is no place safe from liars, con artists, and crooks. These people commiserate in the least likely of places: your community church, that harmonic dating website, and at your posh country club. If I lose $10,000 on an investment that I meticulously investigated, I can deal with it. Easy come, easy go. Yet, if I have $10,000 stolen from me because I blindly trusted someone who I let into my vehicle, it’s different. Today I trust no one but give everyone the opportunity to prove trust. There are a lot of good people in this world, and they do outnumber the bad by a wide margin. It just takes a mild effort to find them and keep them in your life. Just be careful who you pick up on the side of the road. ...