The Secret to Entrepreneurial Success: Stop Doing What Poor People Do | Earl Nightingale

successful people are not people without problems they have as a rule just as many problems and largely the same kind as everyone else the difference is that they learn to solve their problems successful living is nothing more than the ability to solve successfully the problems which are as much a part of living as breathing

the degree of our success will be determined by the extent to which we can solve our problems if you can tell me what you want I can tell you how to get it the problem with the great majority of individuals is not with their ability to achieve their goals in life but rather with the failure to understand

two factors vital to successful living the first is to make the decision as to what it is we want enough to give it most of our attention until it's been achieved and to clearly Define it and the second is to fully understand that we have the ability to achieve this goal or we wouldn't want it in the first

place the next vital rule to successful living is to understand that our success is won or lost by our ability to serve others we are interdependent and it's just as impossible to succeed without serving others as it would be to live in our modern world without others serving us our rewards in life will and must always

be an exact proportion to our service it is the misunderstanding of this single law which in my mind is responsible for fully ninety percent of the frustration and discontent we see around us a lot of people don't like this law if they're even aware of it but not liking a law does nothing to change it the

basic laws of nature and economics are unchanging if we're out of step with them we are as Thomas Huxley put it checkmated without haste but without remorse but to those who know and work with the laws he said they are paid with the overflowing sort of generosity with which the strong Delight in strength