Thou Shall Prosper Quotes

“You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

“If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it all on one turn of pitch and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss: If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!” ... Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!10”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

“Take out a dollar bill and look at it,” he said. “Now pat yourself on your back because you are looking at a certificate of performance.”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

“Step one in the process of increasing your income is to begin wrapping yourself around these two related notions: (1) you are in business, and (2) the occupation of business is moral, noble, and worthy.”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

“for the most part people prosper when they behave decently and honorably toward one another and live among others who conduct themselves similarly.”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

“Thou may not lose one’s temper in an office, especially if thou art the boss. Out of control by you means in control by them—you’ve lost it.”27”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

“Deep within traditional Jewish culture lies the conviction that the only real way to achieve wealth is to attend diligently to the needs of others and to conduct oneself in an honorable and trustworthy fashion.”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

“When you receive payment after supplying the needs of a client, a customer, your boss, or, if you are a member of the clergy, even a congregant, that money is testament to your having pleased another human being.”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

“Your job next year will not resemble your job this year. If it does, either your employer is not thriving or your position in the company is not secure.”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

“Pay and profit tell you that you are supplying a need and filling other people’s wants. They are not the motivation for your work, they are the validation of your work.”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

“Promise less than you deliver”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

“Similarly, in whatever enterprise you find yourself, practice predictability. Never impose your mood swings on your associates and customers. They should never be able to discover how your life is going. This is called being professional.”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

“Similarly, in whatever enterprise you find yourself, practice predictability. Never impose your mood swings on your associates and customers.”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

“Businesses that don’t do something valuable for others do not survive and should not survive. Profit is a way to measure how useful a business is. That doesn’t ever change.”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

“egalitarianism allows them to use the term “sir” in very few instances.”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

“Similarly, in whatever enterprise you find yourself, practice predictability. Never impose your mood swings on your associates and customers. They should never be able to discover how your life is going. This is called being professional. Given two alternatives, most customers and clients would prefer working with someone who does not display an entirely new personality on each occasion. Needless to say, learning to present yourself as a predictable person to your world doesn’t mean developing a parallel insistence on all others doing the same in their interactions with you. Predictability is one of your competitive advantages. It will draw others to you but meanwhile you must remain flexible with others. One mark of a fine person is demanding far more of yourself than you do of others.”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

“at carpentry, better at omelet cooking, and better at writing poetry: (1) learn, (2) understand, and (3) practice. Phase one is learning the techniques. Phase two is understanding those principles that lie behind the techniques. Understanding how those techniques work provides assurance that they will work. Gaining confidence in the ultimate effectiveness of those techniques is important because it helps to provide the motivation to keep going with phase three. Phase three is doggedly and determinedly practicing, not only to become proficient in the technique, but also to become a different”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

“God only allows his Divine Presence to rest on someone who is strong, wealthy, wise, and humble.”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

“money isn’t just physical; it’s a spiritual reality. It’s “spiritual” in that it isn’t about folded pieces of paper, and it isn’t about what those little slips of paper can buy. It is about people and relationships. Money is the buzz; the connection that makes our interpersonal networks rich and fulfilling.”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

“To really succeed in whatever is the business of your choice, you have to come to understand and utterly absorb into your being the fundamentally true idea that your activities in your business are virtuous and moral, provided of course that you conduct your business affairs honestly and honorably. Absorb this lesson into your heart and into your soul, and you will have overcome a major hurdle on your road to financial achievement.”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

“you are a noble person providing for others in a marvelous environment that benevolently rewards you for your consideration.”
― Daniel Lapin, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money