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While world-class thinkers understand the importance of saving and investing, they direct their mental energy toward accumulating wealth through serving people and solving problems.
One group is operating from fear, the other, from abundance.
the world class invests wisely, knowing the bulk of their fortune will come from the service they provide.
The masses trade time for money. This creates the belief that making money is a linear process directly connected to time.
The wealthy know big money requires thinking about it in non-linear terms. The great ones are masters at generating money through ideas that solve problems.
Hard work to the wealthy means out-thinking their competitors and leveraging the collective brainpower of their advisors.
The middle class sees hard work as a badge of honor. The world class sees success as a more important badge of honor.
Your Money & Your Brain: How The New Science Of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich by Jason Zweig
While the masses are searching for the answer on the outside, the great ones know building wealth starts on the inside. First you build world-class beliefs around money, then you take action based on those beliefs.
Decide to be proud of your ambition, and ignore people who tell you wanting to be rich is wrong.
World-class thinkers know in a capitalist country they have the right to be rich if they’re willing to create massive value for others.
While the masses are watching television and surfing the web, champions are thinking, working, and dreaming of a better life.
The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways The Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too) by Ken Fisher
The masses believe making money is mysterious. World class-thinkers know money flows from ideas.
Getting rich in a free market economy is simply a matter of trading solutions for money.
“Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.” — Brian Tracy
begin directing all the mental energy you spend worrying about money to building your fortune.
The wealthy aren’t interested in the means, only the end. Solve the problem, get compensated, and repeat the process until you’re rich. End of story. This single-minded focus always pays off sooner or later, at which time the masses will call it luck.
money is earned through thought
The rich know that creative thinking is the highest paid skill in the world. Independent, creative thinking is the most valuable asset anyone can acquire.
The rich eventually figure out that training your mind to find solutions to difficult problems is the real secret to making money.
Living in fear isn’t living; it’s surviving.
Creative critical thinking is the highest form of thought, and is single handedly responsible for all progress in the history of civilization.
upgrade their limiting beliefs about money and redirect their mental energy to new and exciting ideas, they would experience financial abundance.
Identify the biggest problem in your business or industry, that if solved, would earn you a fortune. Then go solve it.
The rich get richer because they know the world is overflowing with wealth disguised as problems that need to be solved.
instead of focusing on spending and saving, focus on how to earn more, invest a percentage, and spend the remainder any way you wish.
You only live once and you can’t take it with you. Why not enjoy it?
The great ones know money is a critical tool that presents options and opportunities.
focus the majority of their attention on money making activities they enjoy.
The rich understand money flows from ideas, and since ideas are limitless, money is limitless.
while the masses are directing their mental energy toward grabbing as much money as they can, the great ones are focused on creating new ideas that have the potential of generating abundant wealth.
“Every person who gets rich by creation opens a way for thousands to follow—and inspires them to do so.” — Wallace Wattles
The middle class is self-destructive, especially when it comes to money. They will always struggle financially unless they are somehow able to break the mold cast in childhood telling them only crooks and lucky people get rich.
The world class has empowering beliefs about money that leads them to effective, daily action that serves as the foundation of their financial success.
talk is cheap, and the only way to get wealthy is...
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Money is just a tool of exchange. Happiness is an emotional experience.
“How would the person I wish to become do the thing I’m about to
Rich people know not being solvent enough to personally afford something is not relevant. The real question is, “Is this worth buying, investing in, or pursuing?”
the world class knows the only safety any service or product provider has lies in her ability to perform. No matter who signs your paycheck, your financial success will always be based on the level of service you provide and how many people you provide it to.
Figuratively speaking, money does grow on trees; and the trees are ideas.
program yourself to believe in the never ending abundance of money.
Money isn’t good or bad. Money is neutral.
People who are fear-based see the world through the eyes of fear and scarcity, which can easily turn them into pessimistic, paranoid people.
Beliefs literally control everything we do unless they are interrupted consciously through free will or upgraded through programming.
fear and scarcity-based thinking leads them to look at everything through the filters of skepticism and cynicism as a protective mechanism.
Set a goal to double the amount of time you spend associating with people who are richer than you.
The most efficient and profitable way is to solve a problem no one else can solve, and sell it. The bigger the problem, the bigger the compensation.
World-class thinkers won’t allow themselves to settle for financial mediocrity when they know the world is overflowing with abundance for anyone strong enough to stake their claim.
it’s not the money that drives them; it’s what the money can do and what it represents.
