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If there is only one chance of success, a true bussinessperson sees that one percent as the spark to light fire.
Kim Woo-Choong
If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, alll the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
Morita Akio
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.
Chinese Proverb
By Remez Sasson
“When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
- Alexander Graham Bell -
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one, which has been opened for us.”
- Helen Keller -
These two quotes are so true! Read them again, they both say:
Most people are too attached to the past, to what they are familiar with, and therefore, miss opportunities that stand right in front of them.
Doors may close, but there are always other unlimited number of doors – new opportunities. The world is full of opportunities, if we could only see them. The Infinite Power is boundless, and so the possibilities are without number.
Not every plan works out. Sometimes, there are losses and failures. Sometimes, there are problems in relationships. Sometimes, people lose their money or job, or meet other unpleasant things.
We don’t always have control over these events, but we can exercise control over our mind and attitude. When one of these things happens, and we focus our attention on the loss – the closed door, we see only a closed door with the resultant frustration and unhappiness.
If we could only move our sight and attention away from the closed door, we might be surprised to discover new, open doors.
It might not be so easy to move our eyes elsewhere, due to attachment to the old and familiar, and fear of the new and the unknown.
Here are some interesting, and sometimes funny, quotes about money I have collected.
Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.
- Marian Wright Edelman
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
- Ayn Rand
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
- Katherine Whitehorn
I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor: Rich is better.
- Sophie Tucker
If you would like to know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
- Benjamin Franklin
I wish it grew on trees, but it takes hard work to make money.
- Jim Cramer
If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
- Aristotle Onassis
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
- Eric Butterworth
You can find many more quotes and sayings on many subjects at:
www.successconsciousness.com/quotes.htm
By Remez Sasson
It is difficult to stay positive, when you lose your job and lose your money. At such a time, it is so easy to fall prey to negative thinking and imagining more disasters. Yet, it is at this time that positive thinking becomes so important.
If you let your thoughts become negative, if you feel despair, will this help you in any way? Absolutely not! You may say that the world conditions have changed and you can do nothing about it. You may say you are too old, or too inexperienced to get a new job, and that new jobs are sparse and hard to get. All this might be true, but there have always people who became successful even in difficult times.
You limit yourself by your thoughts, ideas and beliefs. Thoughts can be like shackles, tying you to the ground, and they can be like wings, taking you far away. It is your choice. A better life starts in the mind.
You might not be able to change you circumstances and the world around you, but you can change your inner, mental world. You can choose your thoughts, you can refuse to feel pity for yourself and picture problems and disasters, and you can fill your mind with positive thoughts and mental images.
All changes start in the mind, and you therefore need to change the way you think in order to improve your life. If you keep thinking about your current situation, of having no job and no money, you will get more despondent and unhappy and see more problems, because you focus on them, and do nothing to get out of this situation.
By Remez Sasson
After daydreaming about something that you would like to come true, do you destroy this daydream, by telling yourself that is just a daydream and it would never come true? Do you make negative comments about your daydreams and trash them away as being just impractical fantasies?
Daydreams can come true, if you make no negative comments about them and truly desire and believe they can come true. Do not destroy the daydream by denying it the possibility of materializing, even if there is a wide gap between it and your actual life.
Be careful of what you daydream. It might come true if you really believe and desire it. Do not daydream about what you don’t really want to happen, but only about what you truly desire.
- Learn how to make your daydreams come true! -
