Million Dollar Habits

Your Great Good Fortune 
The most successful people I have met, including millionaires, multi-millionaires 
and even billionaires, always seem to describe their successes in life by saying, 
“Life has been very good to me. I have been so fortunate. I have so many things to 
be grateful for.” 
Virtually every successful person I have met attributes their success to other 
people, to their spouses, their children, their parents, their coworkers, their friends, 
associates and customers. Sir Isaac Newton, who is ranked as one of the ten most 
important people in human history, in the latter years of his life was asked, 
“How 
is it that you, amongst all men, could have made so many great contributions to so 
many sciences?” 

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Newton replied, thinking of all the great scientists who had preceded him and who 
worked for so many years before he came along, 
“If I have accomplished anything 
worthwhile in life, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.” 
 
The Person You Are 
Perhaps the greatest breakthrough thought in my life was the discovery that each of 
us is where we are, and what we are, because of ourselves. We are where we are 
and what we are because of our habitual thoughts and actions. Men and women of 
great character, competence and leadership abilities are those who have worked on 
themselves, usually for many years, to become the kind of people that others look 
up to, respect and admire. They are, in every respect of the word, 
“self-made”
people. 
William James of Harvard once wrote, 
“The greatest revolution of my generation 
is the discovery that individuals, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can 
change the outer aspects of their lives.” 
When you go to work on yourself, and you practice the behaviors that you wish to 
incorporate into your personality and character, you change the inner attitudes of 
your mind. As a result, you change the outer aspects of your life. You take 
complete control of your future. You become the very best person that you can 
imagine becoming. There are no limits.