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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.
Robert Collier
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Robert Collier
Age: 64 †
Born: 1885
Born: April 19
Died: 1950
Died: January 1
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People blame their environment, their education, their opportunities, their luck, for their condition. They are wrong. There is one person to blame — and only one — THEMSELVES.
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Your belief that you can do the thing gives your thought forces their power.
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You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
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See things that you want as already yours. Know that they will come to you at need. Then let them come. Don't fret and worry about them. Don't think about your lack of them. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.
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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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The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
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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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Before you put pen to paper, before you ring for your stenographer, decide in your own mind what effect you want to produce on your reader — what feeling you must arouse in him.
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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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Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.
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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.
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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.
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You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.
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