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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

Robert Collier

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Robert Collier
Age: 64 †
Born: 1885
Born: April 19
Died: 1950
Died: January 1
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St. Louis
Missouri
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Riches
Creativity
Poverty
Wealth
Money
Ideas
Mind

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.
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Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.
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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
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Study your reader first - your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate to his needs, then you cannot help but write a good letter.
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One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false.
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The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.
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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
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Achievement is the entirety of little deliberations, rehashed all the live long day.
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The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.
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You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
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All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.
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Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.
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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.
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Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
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Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.
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First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus -then the elements needed for its growth.
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We can do only what we think we can do. We can be only what we think we can be. We can have only what we think we can have. What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend upon what we think.
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As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!
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