Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth

If you want me to hire you to handle my money, wouldn’t it be more appropriate for you to forward me your financial statements? And if you’re not really rich, don’t bother!”

Rich people understand the order to success is BE, DO, HAVE. Poor and middle-class people believe the order to success is HAVE, DO, BE. Poor and most middle-class people believe “If I have a lot of money, then I could do what I want and I’d be a success.” Rich people understand, “If I become a successful person, I will be able to do what I need to

If you live it, you know it. Otherwise, you heard about it, you read about it, or you talk about it, but you don’t know

“The learners shall inherit the earth while the learned will be beautifully equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.”

you are not your mind. You are much bigger and greater than your mind alone. Your mind is a part of you just as your hand is a part of you.

With power thinking, we understand that everything is neutral, that nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give it, and that we are going to make up a story and give something its meaning.

you will eventually move through the uncomfort zone and succeed. Then you will have a new, expanded comfort zone, which means you will have become a “bigger” person.

Your mind is the greatest soap-opera scriptwriter in history. It makes up incredible stories, usually based in dramas and disasters, of things that never happened and probably never will. Mark Twain said it best: “I’ve had thousands of problems in my life, most of which never actually happened.”

Rich people buy assets, things that will likely go up in value. Poor people buy expenses, things that will definitely go down in value. Rich people collect land. Poor people collect bills.