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• Now, the world surely doesn’t need another book written by an older man telling how he became a self-made billionaire. In this country, and in this system under which we are blessed to live, it’s relatively easy to make money. So what’s the point of this volume? Partly, it’s that when you get to be my age, there’s only so much golfing, fishing, and...
• In order to accomplish anything, people have to find a way to get beyond the limitations they believe that personal background, conventional wisdom, common practice, or experience has placed on their imaginations. Threshold resistance might stop a customer from entering a hosiery store. But it might also stop a young woman from applying to medical ...
• For everybody, being able to assess and overcome threshold resistance is nothing less than an essential life skill.
• If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, it’s that to succeed, you have to look beyond immediate barriers and see opportunities.
• Successful entrepreneurs and builders possess a sort of serial vision that allows them to look past things as they are to see how they could be better, not just different—and hence more valuable. It means looking at a wheat field in a rural area and seeing a massive shopping center that will serve a large local residential population. It means look...