Audio Summary and Analysis of the 50 Life Changing Books
Winning wisdom for work and life from 50 landmark books
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50 commentaries on 50 classic works: the story of each book's writing, their life-changing ideas, their impact, some representative quotes, the meaning of each book 'in a nutshell', and cross-referencing to similar classics.
Includes 'quick tour of the literature', 'characteristics of successful people' and chronological list of titles.
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Introduction (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2134)
Discipline (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2135)
Summary
1.
Horatio Alger Ragged Dick (1867) (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2136)
2.
Warren Bennis On Becoming A Leader (1989) (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2137)
3.
How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success in Selling (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2547) (1947) by Frank Bettger
4.
The One Minute Manager (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2625) (1981) by Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson
5.
The Americanization of Edward Bok (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2626) (1921) by Edward Bok
6.
The Magic of Believing (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2627) (1948) by Claude M Bristol
7.
Andrew Carnegie Autobiography (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2628) (1920)
8.
Thick Face Black Hear (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2629)t (1992) by Chin-ning Chu
9.
The Richest Man in Babylon (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2630) (1926) by George S Clason
10.
Secrets of the Ages (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2631) (1926) by Robert Collier
11.
Good To Great (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2632) (2001) by Jim Collins
12.
Acres of Diamonds (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2633) (1921) by Russel H Conwell
13.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2634) (1989) Stephen R Covey
14.
Direct From Dell (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2635) (1999) by Michael Dell
15.
My Life and Work (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2636) (1922) by Henry Ford
16.
The Way To Wealth (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2637) (1758) by Benjamin Franklin
17.
The Inner Game of Tennis (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2638) (1974) by Timothy Gallwey
18.
The Eleanor Roosevelt Way (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2639) Robin Gerber Leadership (2003)
19.
How To Be Rich (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2640) (1961) by John Paul Getty
20.
How to Have Power and Confidence In Dealing With People (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2641) (1956) by Les Giblin
21.
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2642) (1647) by Baltasar Gracian
22.
How To Succeed in Business Without Being White (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2643) (1997) by Earl G Graves
23.
Think and Grow Rich (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2644) (1937) by Napoleon Hill
24.
Success With a Positive Mental Attitude (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2671) (1960) by Napoleon Hill & W Clement Stone
25.
The Official Guide to Success (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2673) (1982) by Tom Hopkins
26.
Born To Win (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2645) (1971) by Muriel James & Dorothy Jongeward
27.
Who Moved My Cheese? (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2646) (1998) by Spencer Johnson
28.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2647) (1997 ) by Robert Kiyosaki
29.
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2648) (1998) by David Landes
30.
The Power of Full Engagement (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2649) (2003) by Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz
31.
The Making of an American Capitalist (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2650) (1995) by Roger Lowenstein Buffett
32.
Long Walk To Freedom (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2651) (1994 ) by Nelson Mandela
33.
Pushing To The Front (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2652) (1894) by Orison Swett Marden
34.
The Spirit To Serve (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2653) (1997) by JW Marriott Jnr
35.
Capparell Shackleton's Way (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2654) (2001) by Margot Morrell & Stephanie
36.
Lincoln On Leadership (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2655) (1992) by Donald T Phillips
37.
The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2656) (1962) by Catherine Ponder
38.
Take Time For Your Life (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2658) (1998) by Cheryl Richardson
39.
Unlimited Power (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2659) (1986) by Anthony Robbins
40.
The Magic of Thinking Big (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2660) (1959 ) by David Schwartz
41.
Secret Door to Success (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2661) (1940) by Florence Scovell Shinn
42.
The Millionaire Mind (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2662) (2000) by Thomas J Stanley
43.
Maximum Achievement (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2663) (1993) by Brian Tracy
44.
The Art of War (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2664) (4 th century BCE) by Sun Tzu
45.
Made in America (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2665) (1992) by Sam Walton
46.
The Science of Getting Rich (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2666) (1910) by Wallace Wattles
47.
Straight From the Gut (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2667)(2001) by Jack Welch Jack
48.
Coaching For Performance (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2668) (1992) by John Whitmore
49.
The Luck Factor (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2669) (2003) by Richard Wiseman
50.
See You At The Top (https://smallbizlg.com/forum/index.php?msg=2670) (1975) by Zig Ziglar
About the Author Tom Butler-Bowdon
Tom Butler-Bowdon is now recognised as an expert in personal development literature. His 50 Classics series has been hailed as the definitive guide to "the literature of possibility," and has won numerous awards including the Benjamin Franklin Self-Help Award and Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Award. A graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Sydney, he lives and works in both the UK and Australia. Winning wisdom for work and life from 50 landmark books
Introduction
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introduction2 Discipline
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Horatio Alger Ragged Dick (1867)01 Horatio Alger - Ragged Dick, or Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks.mp3
Despite being rattling good yarns that really can inspire, the common view of Horatio Alger's books is that they are quaint historical pieces with a simplistic message about striving and getting ahead. Yet success can be simple if you have the basic elements of personal character and aspiration, with some luck thrown in.
As Rychard Fink has noted, when Ragged Dick was written Herbert Spencer's writings on "the survival of the fittest" had some influence in America. Yet Alger's idea of success included a strong element of social responsibility or stewardship. You might make money, but ultimately it should be put back into society, as Andrew Carnegie did by funding public libraries. With his willingness to give to those in need, Alger makes Dick an example of compassionate capitalism.
Many of the villains in his books are rich boys who never had to make any effort to improve their character. Alger's main point is that we should strive for success not just to get a fortune, but to gain tenac-ity, discipline, frugality, and optimism qualities that cannot be bought.
Horatio Alger
Born in 1832 in Revere, Massachusetts, at 14 Alger was sent to board-ing school by his father, a strict Unitarian minister, followed by entry to Harvard University at 16. He enjoyed his time there, coming tenth in his class of 62 and becoming proficient in Greek, Latin, French, and Italian.
Forbidden to marry his college sweetheart, the heartbroken Alger defied his father by stating his intention to become a writer. He agreed to go to divinity school, but just before graduation escaped to Paris with some friends and enjoyed its liberal atmosphere. Back in America he was ordained and became a church minister in Massachusetts, but
left for New York at the suggestion of William T. Adams, editor of Student and Schoolmate. The weekly installments of Ragged Dick in this children's monthly were wildly popular, and a hardback version
became a bestseller. Alger was the toast of New York and sat on various boards and committees for improving the lot of street children. He lived for a number of years at the Newsboys Lodging House, and died in 1899.
Alger's other books (over 100) include Strive and Succeed, Struggling Upward, Bound to Rise, and From Canal Boy to President, about the
life of assassinated President James Garfield.
Warren Bennis On Becoming A Leader (1989)02 Warren Bennis - On Becoming a Leader.mp3
Bennis has probably done as much as anyone to shatter the myth of leaders as heroes, born not made. Above all, leadership is a choice and
involves leading ourselves first.
We live in a democracy of leadership, in which everyone can lead in some way. As more people understand what leadership means and are
taught to achieve their potential, it might be expected that competition will increase to ridiculous levels. However, competition is the result of
everyone striving to win at the same thing, whereas personal visions are unique. To become a leader is to claim the power and assurance that come from being a one-off.
This commentary is based on the original edition of On Becoming a Leader. There is a new, updated and expanded edition that you may prefer to acquire.
Frank Bettger : How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success in Selling (1947)
03 Frank Bettger - How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling.mp3
Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson The One Minute Manager (1981)Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson The One Minute Manager .jpg
After decades of weighty tomes on management science and organiza-tional behavior, The One Minute Manager came as a breath of fresh air
for managers. It may seem simplistic, but it was firmly based on the lat-est findings in behavioral psychology. Blanchard and Johnson's genius
was to dress up this knowledge in the more attractive form of a story.
With today's flatter organizational structures and emphasis on work-ing in teams, it could be argued that the book is less relevant. It seems
to express an older, hierarchical and sexist model of the workplace, "the boss and his subordinates." What is more, today we enjoy making the distinction between mere managers and leaders—while the latter inspires, the former simply manages.
Yet true leaders, as the examples above suggest, will find it difficult to get anywhere without some basic people management skills. They will seek to create relaxed workplaces in which people have all the time they need to pursue important goals. This sense of relaxed purpose arises because everyone knows exactly what their role is; there exist both transparency and clarity of purpose.
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Edward Bok The Americanization of Edward Bok (1921)the-americanization-of-edward-bok.jpg
A Dutch immigrant with little education who came to influence a gen-eration through the most prosaic of vehicles, a women's magazine, Bok's is a classic story of migrant success. The closest modern compari-son for his achievements would be Oprah Winfrey, who at a time when daytime television was going further downmarket decided to promote
books and reading. Like Bok, Winfrey did not give people what they wanted, but instead something a little higher. Such people do not just sell products, they are respected and loved.
Bok's early retirement (he was only 56) surprised everybody, but he was determined not to go to the grave working. He felt that this was the
fate of too many American men, and he admitted that he remained "European" in putting quality of life first. While he considered that the greatest thing about his adopted country was its idealism, its failing was favoring quantity over quality. While one part of him always kept an eye on success through numbers, knowledge and art were what inspired him.
Bok's grandmother had given him the simple advice to "make the world a better and more beautiful place because you have been in it."
With his emphasis on increasing the American people's store of know-ledge and culture, Edward Bok certainly met his grandmother's mea-sure of success.
Claude M Bristol The Magic of Believing (1948)The Magic of Believing.jpg
"Gradually I discovered that there is a golden thread that runs through all the teachings and makes them work for those who sincerely accept and apply them, and that thread can be named in a single word—
belief. It is this same element or factor, belief, which causes people to be cured by mental healing, enables others to climb the ladder of success, and gets phenomenal results for all those who accept it."
"Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage
Andrew Carnegie Autobiography (1920)Andrew Carnegie Autobiography.jpeg
"No kind action is ever lost. Even to this day I occasionally meet men. who I had forgotten, who recall some trifling attention I have been able
to pay them, especially when in charge at Washington of government railways and telegraphs during the Civil War, when I could pass people
within the lines—a father helped to reach a wounded or sick son at the front, or enabled to bring home his remains, or some similar service. I am indebted to these trifles for some of the happiest attentions and the most pleasing incidents of my life."
"My advice to young men would be not only to concentrate their whole time and attention on the one business in life in which they engage, but to put every dollar of their capital into it... As for myself
my decision was taken early. I would concentrate upon the manufacture of iron and steel and be master in that."
Chin-ning Chu Thick Face Black Heart (1992)Thick Face Black Heart.jpg
"One of the results of reading this book will be the shattering of your traditional concepts of ruthlessness. Thick Face, Black Heart is not
about ruthlessness. You will learn that by adapting and adopting a form of non-destructive ruthlessness, you will gain the freedom necessary to
achieve effective execution of your life's tasks."
"The first superficial exposure to Thick Face, Black Heart is often shocking and repellent because it can serve the criminal as easily as the saint."
George S Clason The Richest Man in Babylon (1926)TheRichestManInBabylon.jpg
The book's "cures for a lean purse" include not gambling and own-ing your own home (because it reduces the cost of living and increases
your enjoyment of life). Most importantly, it teaches you why you must become someone who draws dividends from investments instead of merely earning money from labor—letting money be your slave rather than vice versa. Even if you are older, it is not too late to make the transition. If you seek your betterment you will be rewarded.
The Richest Man in Babylon belongs to that group of titles within the success literature dealing with saving, investing, and financial pro-priety, in which setting goals, a strong work ethic, and an optimistic
attitude are all important. But how do you reconcile these ideas with those of the more spiritual prosperity authors such as Catherine Ponder
and Wallace Wattles? Both financial knowledge and a strong awareness of abundance are necessary if you are to accrue wealth in a satisfying, sustainable way. Everyone knows that the greedy and miserly, even those who have great wealth, are not happy.
Equally, while "trusting in God as the source of your supply" may bring you unexpected gains, it
pays to increase your knowledge of the earthly world's financial ways and laws. With both faith and knowledge you can create fortunes that will last, and the wisdom you have attained on the journey can be used to help others.
Robert Collier Secrets of the Ages (1926)Robert Collier Secrets of the Ages.jpg
"You are one of the Lords of the Earth, with unlimited potentialities.
Within you is a power which, properly grasped and directed, can lift you out of the rut of mediocrity and place you among the Elect of the Earth—the lawgivers, the writers, the engineers, the great industrialists— the DOERS and the THINKERS. It rests with you only to learn to use this power which is yours—this Mind which can do all things."
"You need not be a slave to hard luck or circumstances all your life. There is a way to get the things you want—a way completely in harmony with the highest aspirations of the human race."
Jim Collins Good To Great (2001)Good To Great.png
"No matter how dramatic the end result, the good-to-great transformations never happened in one fell swoop. There was no single defining action, no grand program, no one killer innovation, no solitary
lucky break, no miracle moment. Rather, the process resembled relentlessly pushing a giant heavy flywheel in one direction, turn upon turn, building momentum until a point of breakthrough, and beyond."
Russel H Conwell Acres of Diamonds (1921)Acres of Diamonds.jpg
"Al Hafed heard all about diamonds that night, and went to bed a poor man. He wanted a whole mine of diamonds. Early next day, he eagerly besought the priest and asked him where diamonds could be found."
"Greatness consists in doing great deeds with little means—in the accomplishment of vast purposes. It consists in the private ranks of life—in helping one's fellows, benefiting one's neighborhood, in blessing one's own city and state."
Whatever you desire is probably close at hand, if you are willing to open your eyes and your mind
Stephen R Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.jpg
"It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is
possible to be busy—very busy—without being very effective."
"In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. We all know it. There are people we trust absolutely because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have the human relations techniques or not, we trust them, and we work successfully with them."
The first step on the road to success is good character. The second isopenness to new perspectives. The third is ensuring that daily action
is shaped by higher aims, with the knowledge that you always reap what you sow.
Michael Dell Direct From Dell (1999)Michael Dell-Direct From Dell.jpg
"Here was a device that so profoundly changed the way people worked—and its cost was coming down. I knew that if you took this tool, previously in the hands of a select few, and made it available to every big business, small business, individual, and student, it could become the most important device of this century."
"Believe in what you are doing. If you've got an idea that's really powerful, you've just got to ignore the people who tell you it won't work, and hire people who embrace your vision."
Henry Ford My Life and Work (1922)henry-ford-my-life-and-work.jpg
"From the beginning I could never work up much interest in the labor of farming. I wanted to have something to do with machinery. My father was not entirely in sympathy with my bent toward mechanics.
He thought I ought to be a farmer. When I left school at seventeen and became an apprentice in the machine shop of the Drydock Engine Works I was all but given up for lost."
"Good will is one of the few really important assets of life. A determined man can win almost anything that he goes after, but unless, in his getting, he gains good will he has not profited much."
Benjamin Franklin The Way To Wealth (1758)Benjamin Franklin-The Way To Wealth.jpg
"Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, have gone with a hungry belly, and half starved their families; silks and satins, scarlet and velvets, as Poor Richard says, put out the kitchen fire. These are not the necessaries of life; they can scarcely be called the conveniences, and yet only because they look pretty, how many want to have them. The
artificial wants of mankind thus become more numerous than the natural."
"You may think perhaps that a little tea, or a little punch now and then, diet a little more costly, clothes a little finer, and a little entertainment now and then, can be no great Matter; but remember what Poor Richard says... beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship... and moreover, fools make Feasts, and wise men eat them."
Diligence and frugality build character as they create wealth.
Timothy Gallwey The Inner Game of Tennis (1974)Timothy Gallwey-The Inner Game of Tennis.jpg
"The player of the inner game comes to value the art of relaxed concentration above all other skills; he discovers a true basis for self-confidence; and he learns that the secret to winning any game lies in
not trying too hard. He aims at the kind of spontaneous performance which occurs only when the mind is calm and seems at one with the body, which finds its own surprising ways to surpass its own limits again and again."
Your body is smarter than you think: trust it to achieve the goals you have set.
The Eleanor Roosevelt Way Robin Gerber Leadership (2003)The Eleanor Roosevelt Way Robin Gerber Leadership.jpg
It is true that I am fundamentally an optimist, that I am congenitally hopeful. I do not believe that good always conquers evil, because I have lived a long time in the world and seen that it is not true... It is
not wishful thinking that makes me a hopeful woman. Over and over, I have seen, under the most improbable circumstances, that man can
remake himself, that he can even remake his world if he cares enough to try."
John Paul Getty How To Be Rich (1961)John Paul Getty How To Be Rich.jpg
"After all, 'richness' is at least as much a matter of character, of philosophy, outlook and attitude, as it is of money. The 'millionaire mentality' is not—and in this day and age, cannot be—merely an accumulative mentality. The able, ambitious man who strives for success must understand that the term 'rich' has infinite shades of meaning. In order to justify himself and his wealth, he must know how
to be rich in virtually every positive sense of the term."
"To be truly rich, regardless of his fortune or lack of it, a man must live by his own values. If those values are not personally meaningful, then no amount of money gained can hide the emptiness of life without
them."
Les Giblin How to Have Power and Confidence In Dealing With People (1956)Les Giblin How to Have Power and Confidence In Dealing With People.jpg
"Various scientific studies have proven that if you learn how to deal with other people, you will have gone about 85 percent of the way down the road to success in any business, occupation, or profession,
and about 99 percent of the way down the road to personal happiness."
"Human relations is the science of dealing with people in such a way that our egos and their egos remain intact. And this is the only method of getting along with people that ever brings any real success or any real satisfaction."
Baltasar Gracian The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)Baltasar Gracian The Art of Worldly Wisdom.jpg
Good fortune has its rules, and to the wise not everything depends upon chance... the real philosopher has only one plan of action: virtue and prudence; for the only good and bad fortune lie in prudence or rashness."
"
65 Elevated taste... You can judge the height of someone's talent by what he aspires to.
Only a great thing can satisfy a great talent."
Earl G Graves How To Succeed in Business Without Being White (1997)Earl G Graves How To Succeed in Business Without Being White.jpg
"Money makes people listen. When you have it, then you have something others want and need. When you don't you become invisible. Your needs become irrelevant. Your success, or lack of it, is your problem. How can we build wealth when we have so many obstacles to opportunity? If you pay attention to the challenges we've talked about, it will be difficult to deny you opportunity. If you read and follow the advice in this book, you will make your own opportunities in spite of the nuisances, hatred, and ignorance you encounter."
Napoleon Hill Think and Grow Rich (1937)Think-and-Grow-Rich-by-Napoleon-Hill.jpg
"We live in a world of over-abundance and everything the heart could desire, with nothing standing between us and our desires, excepting
lack of a definite purpose."
"I had the happy privilege of analyzing both Mr. Edison and Mr. Ford, year by year, over a long period of years, and therefore, the opportunity
to study them at close range, so I speak from actual knowledge when I say that I found no quality save persistence, in either of them, that even remotely suggested the major source of their stupendous achievements."
Muriel James & Dorothy Jongeward Born To Win (1971)Muriel James & Dorothy Jongeward Born To Win.jpg
It takes courage to be a real winner—not a winner in the sense of beating out someone else by always insisting on coming out on top— but a winner at responding to life. It takes courage to experience the
freedom that comes with autonomy, courage to accept intimacy and directly encounter other persons, courage to take a stand in an unpopular cause, courage to choose authenticity over approval and to choose it again and again, courage to accept the responsibility for your own choices, and, indeed, courage to be the unique person you really are."
27. Spencer Johnson Who Moved My Cheese? (1998)Spencer Johnson Who Moved My Cheese.jpg
"He knew he had learned something useful about moving on from his mice friends, Sniff and Scurry. They kept life simple. They didn't overanalyze or overcomplicate things. When the situation changed and the cheese had been moved, they changed and moved with the cheese.
He would remember that." "He realized that the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly."
Robert Kiyosaki Rich Dad, Poor Dad (1997 )Rich-Dad-Poor-Dad.png
"Both men were successful in their careers, working hard all their lives.
Both earned substantial incomes. Yet one struggled financially all his life. The other would become one of the richest men in Hawaii. One died leaving tens of millions of dollars to his family, charities and his
church. The other left bills to be paid."
"Rule one. You must know the difference between an asset and a
liability, and buy assets. If you want to be rich, this is all you need to know."
David Landes The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (1998)David Landes The Wealth and Poverty of Nations.jpg
"Round, complete, apparently serene, ineffably harmonious, the Celestial Empire purred along for hundreds of years more, impervious and imperturbable. But the world was passing it by."
"America's society of smallholders and relatively well-paid workers was a seedbed of democracy and enterprise. Equality bred self-esteem, ambition, a readiness to enter and compete in the marketplace, a spirit of individualism and contentiousness."
"If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference... Yet culture, in the sense of inner values and attitudes that guide a population, frightens scholars."
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Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz The Power of Full Engagement (2003)Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz The Power of Full Engagement.jpg
Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of high performance."
"The number of hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us is not. It is our most precious resource. The more
we take responsibility for the energy we bring to the world, the more empowered and productive we become. The more we blame others or external circumstances, the more negative and compromised our energy is likely to be."
"Without time for recovery, our lives become a blur of doing unbalanced by much opportunity for being."
Roger Lowenstein Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist (1995)The Making of an American Capitalist.jpg
Buffett
"On Wall Street his homespun manner made him a cult figure. Where finance was so forbiddingly complex, Buffett could explain it like a general-store clerk discussing the weather."
"Buffett's genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline and rationality. These were common enough virtues, but they
were rare in the heat of financial passions, and indispensable to anyone who would test his mettle in the stock market. In this sense, Buffett's character and career unfolded as a sort of public tutorial on investing and on American business. Buffett was aware of his role from the very beginning, and he nurtured a curious habit of chronicling his escapades even as he lived them."
Genuinely successful investment requires both courage and character.
Nelson Mandela Long Walk To Freedom (1994 )
Nelson Mandela Long Walk To Freedom.webp
I never thought that a life sentence truly meant life and that I would die behind bars. Perhaps I was denying this prospect because it was too unpleasant to contemplate. But I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man."
"I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed towards the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair."
Orison Swett Marden Pushing To The Front (1894)Orison Swett Marden Pushing To The Front.jpg
"The world does not demand that you be a lawyer, minister, doctor, farmer, scientist, or merchant; it does not dictate what you shall do, but it does require that you be a master in whatever you undertake."
"As the sculptor thinks only of the angel imprisoned in the marble block, so Nature cares only for the man or woman shut up in the human being... Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities."
"The slow penny is surer than the quick dollar. The slow trotter will out-travel the fleet racer. Genius darts, flutters and tires; but perseverance wears and wins."
"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great."
JW Marriott Jnr The Spirit To Serve (1997)JW Marriott Jnr The Spirit To Serve.jpg
"If you're in the service business and your name is above the door, it's important for people to be able to link a face to the name. I want our associates to know that there really is a guy named Marriott who cares about them, even if he can only drop by every so often to personally tell them so."
"For the key to prospering and adapting in the coming decades amidst an ever-escalating rate of change is to first be clear about and resolutely
dedicated to what you stand for and why that should never change. You must then be just as resolutely willing to change absolutely everything else. This rare ability to manage continuity and change is the secret of Marriott's past—and the key to its future." Jim Collins, Foreword..
Hard work, continuous self-improvement, and a sense of building for the future create identity. From identity comes focus, from focus, success.
Margot Morrell & Stephanie Capparell Shackleton's Way (2001)Margot Morrell & Stephanie Capparell Shackleton's Way .jpg
"It was suddenly clear they were going to face an extraordinary challenge just to stay alive. The men had expected to be working in relative comfort in a base camp, or to be doing ship's work. Instead,
they were stranded on a vast, unstable layer of ice that was their only refuge from the depths of the Weddell Sea or, even worse, the jaws of a killer whale or a sea-leopard. And it was –16˚ Fahrenheit."
Donald T Phillips Lincoln On Leadership (1992)Donald T Phillips Lincoln On Leadership.jpg
It was Abraham Lincoln who, during the most difficult period in the nation's history, almost single-handedly preserved the American concept of government. Had he not been the leader that he was, secession in 1860 could have led to further partitioning of the country into an infinite number of smaller, separate pieces, some retaining slavery, some not. He accomplished his task with a naturalness and intuitiveness in leading people that was at least a century ahead of his time."
"[We] here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not
perish from the earth."
Catherine Ponder The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity (1962)Catherine Ponder The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity.jpg
Let us be done with thinking of poverty as a virtue. It is a common vice."
"There is basically one problem in life: congestion. There is basically one solution: circulation. Systematic giving is, therefore, a powerful practice that blesses every phase of our lives, as it keeps us attuned to the wealth of the universe."
Cheryl Richardson Take Time For Your Life (1998)
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I've grappled with the same issues my clients are dealing with. I've worked ridiculous hours, built a successful business, made plenty of mistakes in relationships, and paid little attention to my health. Over the last several years, I've used the process in this book to improve my own life. I know it works."
Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power (1986)Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power.jpg
"The movers and shakers of the world are often professional modelers—people who have mastered the art of learning everything they can by following other people's experience rather than their own."
"Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that
extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action."
David Schwartz The Magic of Thinking Big (1959 )David Schwartz The Magic of Thinking Big.jpg
Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier—certainly no more difficult–—than small ideas and small plans."
Florence Scovell Shinn Secret Door to Success (1940)Florence Scovell Shinn Secret Door to Success.jpg
"Your big opportunity and big success usually slide in, when you least expect it. You have to let go long enough for the great law of attraction to operate. You never saw a worried and anxious magnet. It stands up straight and hasn't a care in the world, because it knows needles can't help jumping to it. The things we rightly desire come to pass when we
have taken the clutch off."
Thomas J Stanley The Millionaire Mind (2000)Thomas J Stanley The Millionaire Mind .jpeg
They live in lovely homes located in fine neighborhoods. Balance is their approach to life. They are financially independent, yet they enjoy
life—they are not 'all work, no play' type of people. Most became millionaires in one generation."
"Some millionaires do feel that their IQ was a factor in their successful achievements, although most others feel just the opposite."
Brian Tracy Maximum Achievement (1993)Brian Tracy Maximum Achievement .jpg
"The way for you to be happy and successful, to get more of the things you really want in life, is to get the combinations to the locks. Instead
of spinning the dials of life hoping for a lucky break, as if you were playing a slot machine, you must instead study and emulate those who
have already done what you want to do and achieved the results you want to achieve."
"The primary cause of success in life is the ability to set and achieve goals. That's why the people who do not have goals are doomed forever to work for those who do. You either work to achieve your own goals or you work to achieve someone else's goals."
Sun Tzu The Art of War (4 th century BCE)Sun Tzu The Art of War (.jpg
In general, the best method for using the military force is to conquer an entire country; to destroy the country is inferior. Ancient warriors who knew how to use the military well defeated the enemy's army, but not by battle. They overpowered the enemy's country, but not by force. The goal was to take things whole. In this way, soldiers were not killed and our lord gained the largest booty. Therefore, a general who wins all his battles by destroying other armies is not the ultimate warrior. The ultimate warrior is one who wins the war by forcing the enemy to surrender without fighting any battles."
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Sam Walton Made in America (1992)Sam Walton Made in America.jpg
It is a story about entrepreneurship, and risk, and hard work, and knowing where you want to go and being willing to do what it takes to get there. It's a story about believing in your idea even when maybe
some other folks don't, and about sticking to your guns. But I think more than anything it proves there's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and the
encouragement and the incentive to do their best."
"I always wanted to be the best retailer in the world, not necessarily the biggest."
Wallace Wattles The Science of Getting Rich (1910)Wallace Wattles The Science of Getting Rich.jpg
Life has advanced so far, and become so complex, that even the most ordinary man or woman requires a great amount of wealth in order to live in a manner that even approaches completeness... To understand the science of getting rich is therefore the most essential of all knowledge."
"Riches secured on the competitive plane are never satisfactory and permanent; they are yours today, and another's tomorrow. Remember, if you are to become rich in a scientific and certain way, you must rise entirely out of the competitive thought. You must never think for a moment that the supply is limited."
Jack Welch Jack: Straight From the Gut (2001)Jack Welch Jack-Straight From the Gut.webp
"There's no straight line to anyone's vision or dream. I'm living proof of that. This is the story of a lucky man, an unscripted, uncorporate type who managed to stumble and still move forward, to survive and even thrive in one of the world's most celebrated corporations. Yet it's also a small-town American success story. I've never stopped being aware of
my roots even as my eyes opened to a world I never knew existed."
"We build great people, who then build great products and services."
John Whitmore Coaching For Performance (1992)John Whitmore Coaching For Performance.jpg
"Coaching is not merely a technique to be wheeled out and rigidly applied in certain prescribed circumstances. It is a way of managing, a way of treating people, a way of thinking, a way of being. Roll on the day when the word coaching disappears from our lexicon altogether, and it just becomes the way we relate to one another at work, and
elsewhere too."
"All instruction, all criticism, every reduction in choice, every manifestation of hierarchy, every act of secrecy subtly lowers people's self-belief. Coaching, trust, openness, respect, authentic praise, freedom
of choice and, of course, success raise it."
"To use coaching successfully we have to adopt a far more optimistic view than usual of the dormant capability of people, all people."
Richard Wiseman The Luck Factor (2003)Richard Wiseman The Luck Factor .jpg
"People are not born lucky. Instead, lucky people are, without realizing it, using four basic principles to create good fortune in their lives.
Understand the principles and you understand luck itself. More importantly, these principles can be used to enhance the amount of good luck that you experience in your life."
Zig Ziglar See You At The Top (1975)Zig Ziglar See You At The Top.jpg
You can have everything in life if you will just help others to get what they want."
Strong values of hard work, spiritual faith, and service will take you a long way.
Success With a Positive Mental Attitude (1960) by Napoleon Hill & W Clement Stone
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You were born to be a champion, and no matter what obstacles and difficulties lie in your way, they are not one-tenth so great as the ones
that have already been overcome at the moment of your conception."
"To achieve anything worthwhile in life, it imperative that you apply PMA, regardless of what other success principles you employ. PMA is the catalyst which makes any combination of success principles work to attain a worthwhile end."
The Official Guide to
Success
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"Winners almost always do what they think is the most productive thing possible at every given moment; losers never do. When you look
at what winners and losers actually do moment by moment, the difference between these two divisions of the human race really is that small. But the results of those small differences keep adding to each other at every given moment until they reach a critical size."
"The most valuable thing you can ever own is your image of yourself as a winner in the great game of life, as a contributor to the betterment
of humankind, as an achiever of worthy goals. Unless you have that image of yourself, nothing worth having will stay with you for long."
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