Goals!

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What a great time to live! The U.S. has more millionaires than ever before. In 1900, only 5,000 Americans were millionaires; today, a scant century later, the country has five million - almost all self-made. That will double or quadruple in the next 20 years, so perhaps your goal should be to become a self-made millionaire.

This book will lay out, step by step, what you need to do to reach that goal.

Look at author Brian Tracy. He dropped out of high school at 18, worked as a dishwasher, a car washer and a floor washer. He drifted from job to job, sawmills, factories, farms, logging camps, construction. He slept in his car or found cheap flophouses. He moved up the ladder to commission sales, door-to-door, office-to-office, cold calls. He worked all day to make a sale so he could pay the flophouse for a room that night. He was at the bottom.

Then his life changed. What changed it? He wrote down a crazy goal: to make $1,000 a month in commissions. He never looked at the paper again, but just writing that goal turned his whole life around. Within a month, he discovered a new way to close sales. His company’s new owner offered him $1,000 per...