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"If you cannot sell, you cannot be an entrepreneur. If you cannot sell, you cannot raise money. if the thought of sales terrifies you, get a job at a dept. store and start there. Or get a job with a company like Xerox that requires that you go around to businesses and knock on doors. As your courage increases, you may want to try a company in network marketing or direct sales that is willing to train you."
"Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from."
"The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over his life."
"The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow."
"Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It's a lesson I've had to relearn quite a few times."
"If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people."
"As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich."
"One method of staying ahead of rising asset prices and the declining dollar is to think bigger and come up with better plans. As important as financial and business planning is a plan for personal development and self-improvement. I'm often asked to invest in people's business plans, and one of the reasons I turn many of them down is because a big plan requires a big person who's spent time on personal development. In a lot of cases, a business plan is far bigger than the person with the plan - that is, the dream is bigger than the dreamer."
"Are you really going to let a toilet stand in the way of you and financial independence?"
"The more I risk being rejected, the better my chances are of being accepted."
"One of the hardest things a person who is new to the way of business thinking has to go through is the countless number of people who will say to you: "You can't do that."
"The primary reason I'm in real estate, oil, gold, and silver is because the U.S. dollar has become the peso the world. It's becoming more and more worthless as the U.S. is the world's biggest debtor nation."
"Passion pushes you to learn more, create more and to create better. Best of all, it's contagious."
"A winner is just someone who doesn't give up when they lose."
"When your own mind tells you to quit, you must ignore your negative thoughts and press on."
"The primary reason people seek job security is because that is what they are taught to seek, at home and at school..then with debt loads, they must cling even tighter to a job, or professional security, just to pay the bills."
"Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam."
"Most people spend their lives building financial houses of straws, which are susceptible to wind, fire, rain and big bad wolves."
"I don't know why I am internally a violent person. I don't have the normal nerve endings most people do, which was very good for me as a pilot in Viet Nam. When most people are afraid, I'm actually quite excited about things. The more dangerous something is, the happier I am."
"Right now, the technological world plus God or spirituality is evolving. I think America has become a little bit too corrupt, government's a little too corrupt, too greedy. Many corporations are too greedy. The labor unions are too greedy. That effects charities and religious organizations. I just think it's greed. That's why, in 1985, I had to figure out how to give before I received. The more I focus on giving, for less and less, the more and more I make."