Shark Eyes: The Science Of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles

THERE IS A SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by

anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty. The ownership of money and property comes as a result of doing things in a certain way, and those who do things in this certain way — whether on purpose or accidentally — get rich, while those who do not do things in this certain way — no matter how hard they work or how able they are — remain poor. It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects, and, therefore, any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way will infallibly get rich. That the above statement is true is shown by the following facts: Getting rich is not a matter of environment, for if it were, all the people in certain neighborhoods would become wealthy. The people of one city would all be rich, while those of other towns would all be poor, or all the inhabitants of one state would roll in wealth, while those of an adjoining state would be in poverty. But everywhere we see rich and poor living side by side, in the same environment, and often engaged in the same vocations. When two people are in the same locality and in the same business, and one gets rich while the other remains poor, it shows that getting rich is not primarily a matter of environment. Some environments may be more favorable than others, but when two people in the same business are in the same neighborhood and one gets rich while the other fails, it indicates that getting rich is the result of doing things in a certain way. And further, the ability to do things in this certain way is not due solely to the possession of talent, for many people who have great talent remain poor, while others who have very little talent get rich. Studying the people who have gotten rich, we find that they are an average lot in all respects, having no greater talents and abilities than other people have. It is evident that they do not get rich because they possess talents and abilities that others do not have, but because they happen to do things in a certain way. Getting rich is not the result of saving, or thrift. Many very penurious people are poor, while free spenders often get rich. Nor is getting rich due to doing things which others fail to do, for two people in the same business often do almost exactly the same things, and one gets rich while the other remains poor or becomes bankrupt. From all these things, we must come to the conclusion that getting rich is the result of doing things in a certain way. If getting rich is the result of doing things in a certain way, and if like causes always produce like effects, then any man or woman who can do things in that way can become rich, and the whole matter is brought within the domain of exact science.

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Shark Eyes: Beleive You can by John Mason

Persistence Prevails When All Else Fails

A man who meets a guru on the road asks, "Which way is success? The bearded sage doesn't speak but instead points to a place off in the distance.

The man, thrilled by the prospect of quick and easy success, rushes off in the appropriate direction. Splat!

He limps back, bruised and stunned, assuming he must have misinterpreted the message. He repeats his question to the guru, who again points silently in the same direction.

He obediently walks off once more. This time the splat is deafening, and when he crawls back, he is bloody, broken, and irate. "I asked you which way is success!" he screams at the guru. "I followed the direction you indicated and all I got was splattered! No more of this pointing! Talk!

Only then does the guru speak: "Success is that way. Just a little after the splat."

All of us has experienced "the splat." It's what we do after the splat that makes all the difference. Many times this is what separates high achievers from non-achievers. Whatever you want to accomplish in life will require persistence. Champion racer Rick Mears said it well: "To finish first you must first finish."

Do you want to accomplish something in life? Be like the stone cutter.

Look at the stone cutter, hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow iy will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. - Jacob Riis

All things come to those who persistently go after them. Perseverance is the result of a strong will; stubbornness is the result of a strong won't. Baron de Montesquieu said, "Success often depends on knowing how long it will take to succeed." This is the secret of success: Never let down, and never let up. Consider what proverbs says: "Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings" (22:29 KJV).

• You may be whatever you resolve to be. determine to be something in the world and you will be something. "I cannot" never accomplished anything; "I will try" has wrought wonders. - Joel Hause

Herbert Kaufman adds, "Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an 'also ran'".

Excerpts taken from Believe You Can by John Mason

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Shark Eyes: The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightangale

Have you ever wondered why so many people work so hard and honestly without ever achieving anything in
particular, and why others don’t seem to work hard, yet seem to get everything? They seem to have the “magic touch.” You’ve heard people say, “Everything he touches turns to gold.” Have you ever noticed that a person who becomes successful tends to continue to become more successful? And, on the other hand, have you noticed how someone who’s a failure tends to continue to fail? The difference is GOALS. People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. It’s that simple. Failures, on the other hand, believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces. Think of a ship with the complete voyage mapped out and planned. The captain and crew know exactly where the ship is going and how long it will take — it has a definite goal. And 9,999 times out of 10,000, it will get there. Now let’s take another ship — just like the first — only let’s not put a crew on it, or a captain at the helm. Let’s give it no aiming point, no goal, and no destination. We just start the engines and let it go. I think you’ll agree that if it gets out of the harbor at all, it will either sink or wind up on some deserted beach — a derelict. It can’t go anyplace because it has no destination and no guidance. It’s the same with a human being. However, the human race is fixed, not to prevent the strong from winning, but to prevent the weak from losing. Society today can be likened to a convoy in time of war. The entire society is slowed down to protect its weakest link, just as the naval convoy has to goat the speed that will permit its slowest vessel to remain in formation......

Excerpt taken from The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightangale

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Shark Eyes: Believe You Can by John Mason

Thomas Edison Was Afraid Of The Dark

Yes! Edison was afraid of the dark --- yet he overcame that obstacle in a big way and invented the light bulb. 

• Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is the one solicited from the darkest storm. - Charles Caleb Colton

• The door to opportunity swings on the hinges of adversity. Problems are the price of progress. The obstacles of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. Adversity has advantages. - Alfred D. Souza said,

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin --- REAL LIFE. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, and a debt to be paid. Then, life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. 

Obstacles are merely a call to strengthen, not quit. Ann Gimenez says, "Between you and anything significant will be giants in your path." You cannot bring about change without confrontation. The truth is, if you like things easy, you will have difficulties. If you like problems, you will succeed. The biggest successes are the people who solve the biggest problems. If you have a dream without problems, you don't really have a dream. Have the attitude of Louisa May Alcott: "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

• Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; but they are the instruments of the wise. - Samuel Glover

Excerpts taken from Believe You Can by John Mason

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Shark Eyes: Conversations With Millionaires by Mike Litman & Jason Oman - Set A Goal To Become A Millionaire

“Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it

makes of you to achieve it.”

He said, “Do it for the skills you have to learn and

the person you have to become. Do it for what you’ll

end up knowing about the marketplace, what you’ll

learn about the management of time and working

with people. Do it for the ability of discovering how to

keep your ego in check. For what you have to learn

about being benevolent. Being kind as well as being

strong. What you have to learn about society and

business and government and taxes and becoming

an accomplished person to reach the status of

millionaire.

All that you have learned and all that you’ve

become to reach the status of millionaire is what’s

valuable. Not the million dollars.

If you do it that way, then once you become a

millionaire, you can give all the money away.

Because it’s not the money that’s really important.

What’s important is the person you have become.”

That was one of the best pieces of philosophy I

have ever heard in my life.

Nobody ever shared it with me like that before.

Another thing he said was, “beware of what you

become in pursuit of what you want. Don’t sell out.

Don’t sell out your principles. Don’t compromise your

values. Because you might acquire something by

doing so, but it won’t taste good.”
- Mark Victor Hanson

Excerpt taken from Conversations With Millionaires by Mike Litman and Jason Oman


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Shark Eyes: Conversations With Millionaires by Mike Litman & Jason Oman

Over the years I’ve been asked on many occasions,

“What can I do to make more money and become wealthy?”

This has probably been the most asked question of me

throughout my twenty plus year career.

My three New York Times Best Selling books: Nothing

Down, Creating Wealth, Multiple Streams of Income, and

soon Multiple Streams of Internet Income each go into many

of the specifics to reaching that goal. But, there is something

I always say to the person who asks me that very question.

The answer to the question I mentioned earlier is as

follows. ‘How do you get started on the road to success?’

The answer is, learn from those who have already paved the

path to riches and fortune. Learn from those who have

generated the grand ideas, laid out the vision, assembled a

plan, and fought the adversities that lay ahead of any great

success story. Learn from those who have dropped the

success clues along the way.

In these days of the Internet, information is everywhere.

Getting information is easy. Though getting great

information is tough and often very challenging.

In Conversations with Millionaires, you’ll get life

changing information from some of the most successful

entrepreneurs in America today. All in one book, all at one

time.

This is a book I wish I had 20 years ago when I started

on my own journey to become a millionaire............

- Robert Allen -

NY Times Best-Selling Author of:

Nothing Down, Creating Wealth, and

Multiple Streams of Income

Excerpt taken from the forward of Conversations With Millionaires by Mike Litman and Jason Oman

Forward by Robert Allan

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Shark Eyes: The Science Of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles

Think of the riches the world is coming into instead of the poverty it is growing out of, and bear in

mind that the only way in which you can assist the world in growing rich is by growing rich yourself

through the creative method, not the competitive one.

Give your attention wholly to riches. Do not focus on poverty. Whenever you think or speak of

those who are poor, think and speak of them as those who are becoming rich, as those who are to be

congratulated rather than pitied. Then they and others will catch the inspiration, and begin to search

for the way out.

Because I say that you are to give your whole time and mind and thought to riches, it does not

follow that you are to be sordid or mean.

To become really rich is the noblest aim you can have in life, for it includes everything else.

On the competitive plane, the struggle to get rich is a Godless scramble for power over others, but

when we come into the creative mind, all this is changed. All that is possible in the way of greatness, of

service and lofty endeavor, comes by way of getting rich, because all is made possible by the use of things.

You can aim at nothing so great or noble, I repeat, as to become rich, and you must fix your attention

upon your mental picture of wealth to the exclusion of all that may tend to dim or obscure the vision.

Excerpt taken from The Science Of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles


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